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), Kristin Tessmar-Raible (MFPL/Centre(VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University) came to COS Heidelberg. for Molecular Biology/ Platform Rhythms of Life, University of Vienna) and Dirk Inze (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University) came to COS Heidelberg.

The 16th Bertalanffy Lecture at COS will take place on Thursday, November 14th with the topic "The secret life of Junk DNA" in the Hörsaal West der Chemie, Im Neuenheimer Feld 252. On Friday, November 15, Dr. Ramialson, also at HSW Chemie, will talk about "Deciphering cardiac gene regulatory networks in 3D". Both lectures will start at 2 pm.