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 2024 / 2025

  • Sep 20: Karsten Kruse (University of Geneva) – Junctional force patterning drives organization of the chick auditory epithelium
  • Oct 11: Krishnan Iyer (Tkačik Group) – How cells can use the distributed architecture of their internal processing to track temporally varying, external molecular cues
  • Oct 25: Stephanie Ellis (Max Perutz Labs) – Fighting for function: how cell competition shapes development and growth control of epithelial barriers
  • Nov 8: Caren Norden (Gulbenkian) – The role of nuclear properties for their packing and movement in zebrafish neuroepithelia
  • Nov 22: Ivan Palaia (Šarić Group) – Dividing cells: how actin constricts the membrane
  • Nov 29: Zena Hadjivasiliou (The Francis Crick Institute) – Shaping morphogen gradients: From molecules to tissues and back
  • Dec 6: Nikola Čanigová (Sixt Group) – Adapting cell migration to overcome transitions into dense environments
  • Dec 13: Fabrizio Olmeda (Hannezo Group) – Scaling morphogen gradients: Insights from axolotl limb regeneration
  • Jan 17: Ulrich Schwarz (Uni Heidelberg)
  • Jan 24: Ralf Richter (Uni Leeds)
  • Feb 21: Berta Verd (Oxford)
  • Feb 28: Hervé Turlier (College de France)
  • Mar 7: Alex Mietke (University of Oxford)
  • Apr 25: Takashi Hiiragi (Hubrecht)
  • May 16: Silvia Santos (The Francis Crick Institute)