IMPRS Principles of Microbial Life OUR TRAINING PROGRAM Events & activities Events & activities 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] Phylogeny estimation using mutation and selection 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] Maturation of iron-sulfur proteins in chloroplasts 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] Graduate Students Mini Symposium I - 2027 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jan 25, 2027 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Archean origins and chimeric assembly of reductive TCA carbon fixation Microbiology Seminar Series Date: Feb 8, 2027 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Maddie Paoletti Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge (MA), USA Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: Dr. Martina Preiner Contact: martina.preiner@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium II - 2027 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Feb 15, 2027 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium III - 2027 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Mar 8, 2027 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium IV - 2027 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Apr 5, 2027 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium V - 2027 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: May 31, 2027 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: Online [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium VI - 2027 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Jul 5, 2027 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more] Graduate Students Mini Symposium VII - 2027 Graduate Students Mini-Symposium Date: Sep 20, 2027 Time: 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology Room: Lecture hall Host: IMPRS Contact: imprs@mpi-marburg.mpg.de [more]