IMPRS Principles of Microbial Life OUR TRAINING PROGRAM Events & activities Events & activities Graduate Students Mini Symposium VII - 2026 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Sep 21, 2026 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: Online Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Epitranscriptomic regulation of RNA processing in E. coli during T4 phage infection Doctoral thesis defense Date: Oct 2, 2026 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Helene Elise Keuthen Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Learning from networks: leveraging metabolic models and machine learning to discover microbial metabolic functions and interactions Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Oct 19, 2026 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Dr. Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Research group leader: Multi-omics-based modelling of microbial ecosystems, Heidelberg Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: Microbes-for-Climate (M4C) Contact: m4c@uni-marburg.de [more] Drug metabolism as a lens on gut microbial ecology and microbiota-host interactions Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Oct 19, 2026 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Dr. Michael Zimmermann European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Group Leader & Head of Metabolomics Core Facility, Molecular Systems Biology Unit, Heidelberg Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: Microbes-for-Climate (M4C) Contact: m4c@uni-marburg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium VIII - 2026 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Oct 26, 2026 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Mix-and-match engineered E. coli networks identify prime numbers, vowels and answer math questions Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Nov 2, 2026 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Dr. Sangram Bagh Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Biophysics and Structural Genomics Division, Kolkata, India Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: Microbes-for-Climate (M4C) Contact: m4c@uni-marburg.de [more] tba Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Nov 9, 2026 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Benjamin Lieser Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Research Group Quantitative and Computational Biology, Göttingen Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Seminar room 3 Host: Microbes-for-Climate (M4C) Contact: toerb@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Institute retreat Special Event Start: Nov 11, 2026 End: Nov 13, 2026 Location: Rotenburg an der Fulda [more] tba Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Nov 16, 2026 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: Microbes-for-Climate (M4C) Contact: m4c@uni-marburg.de [more] tba Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Nov 23, 2026 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Christopher Frøhlich Department of Medical Biology, The Arctic Univerity of Norway, Tromsø Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: Dr. Adrian Bunzel Contact: Adrian.Bunzel@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] tba Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Dec 7, 2026 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Nicolas Rouhier Université de Lorraine-UMR, Tree-Microbe Interactions, Vandoeuvre-Lès-Nancy, France Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: Prof. Dr. Roland Lill Contact: lill@staff.uni-marburg.de [more] How bacteria make, shape and arrange magnetic organelles: An update on magnetosome biosynthesis Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Dec 14, 2026 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dirk Schüler Universität Bayreuth, Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: Microbes-for-Climate (M4C) Contact: m4c@uni-marburg.de [more]