Bertalanffy Lecture Series at COS

The Bertalanffy Lecture Series was installed with the aim to provide a better understanding of integrative approaches in systems oriented biology both to pupils from Heidelberg and to scientists on campus. The lecture series is a project supported by the Klaus-Tschira Foundation and takes place twice a year.

For previous lectures in this series Alfonso Martinez-Arias (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK), Enrico Coen (Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, UK), Russell Foster (Neuroscience, Brasenose College University of Oxford), Hannah Monyer (Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg/DKFZ), Benjamin Prud'homme (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy), Andreas Trump (DKFZ, Heidelberg), Martin Wikleski (MPI für Ornithologie, "Vogelwarte Raddolfzell"), Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Stowers Institute for Medical Research), Ottoline Leyser (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge), Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan (Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva), Henrik Kaessmann (Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie, Universität Heidelberg), Miguel L. Allende (Center for Genome Regulation, Universidad de Chile) and Kristin Tessmar-Raible (MFPL/Centre for Molecular Biology/ Platform Rhythms of Life, University of Vienna) came to COS Heidelberg.

The 14. Bertalanffy Lecture at COS will start on October 18, 2018, with Dirk Inze (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University)

On Thursday, he will give a lecture for high school students on "PLANT ORGAN SIZE: FROM BASIC RESEARCH TO HIGHER CROP YIELD". On October 19, 2018, he'll talk about "MECHANISM REGULATING THE SIZE OF PLANT ORGANS". Both lectures start at 2 pm in the Ludwig von Bertalanffy Lecture Hall, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230.