Frisbi seminars are offered in a hybrid format, with both in-person seating in Mondi 2 as well as online streaming, always on Fridays at 15:00 unless mentioned otherwise. All information (including Zoom links) is sent out via regular emails to our mailing list: FriSBi@lists.ist.ac.at.
Please note that the following schedule contains both upcoming and former speakers, sorted by date. Affiliation is given in parentheses; institute name for external speakers, group name(s) (in alphabetical order if multiple) for internal speakers. External speakers are denoted in green.
Season 2025 / 2026
- Sep 12: Berta Verd (Oxford) – The evolution and evolvability of increased vertebral counts
- Sep 19: Gašper Tkačik (Tkačik group) – Biology is so complicated… but what if you find an invariance?
- Oct 3: Olga Afonso (University of Geneva) – How do embryos know their size? Cytoplasmic flows sense cell geometry to scale anaphase
- Oct 17: Krishnan Iyer (ISTA, Tkačik group) – How Morphogens Shape Growth: Linking Cell Cycle Dynamics, Fate Decisions, and Tissue Patterning
- Oct 24: Philippe Dehio (ISTA, Sixt group) – Rigor mortis coming to life (cells): Tuning cell migration and stiffness through metabolism
- Oct 31: Matthias Häring (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) – Robustness in epithelial morphogenesis: from mechanical signalling to cell heterogeneity
- Nov 7: Corentin Briat (FHNW, Switzerland) – Systems and Control Theory in Engineering and the Life Sciences
- Nov 14: Sara Gallini (EPFL/ISREC) – Dissecting mechanisms of tumor suppression by imaging live mice
- Nov 21: Jakub Sedzinski (DanSTEM)