Current schedule

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
  • Nov 7: Corentin Briat (FHNW, Switzerland) – Systems and Control Theory in Engineering and the Life Sciences
  • Nov 21: Jakub Sedzinski (DanSTEM)