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Cologne Cell Death Club Series


The monthly seminar series “Cologne-Cell-Death-Club” provides a platform for excellent research in the field of Cell death. The Cologne-Cell-Death-Club is open to all SFB 1403 members and everyone who is interested in cell death research!

The Seminars are announced via the local mailing lists (Life Science Calendar, Molecular Bio Science, CECAD Calendar) where you can obtain information about the venue.

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☀️ SUMMER BREAK UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2026 - We wish you all a sunny and nice summer time ☀️

Upcoming Talks 2026

14.09.2026 at 1:30 pm
Dr. Feng Shao
National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing

Seminar: Pyroptosis & innate immunity: mechanisms & therapeutics potentials
Place: MPI Age Auditorium - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


14.10.2026 at 10:30 am
Dr. Tolga Bozkurt
Imperial College London

Seminar: Decoding Immune Recognition and Pathogen Evasion in Plants
Place: Biozentrum, Room 0.24 - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


05.11.2026 at 2:30 pm
Prof. Peter Czabotar
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville Victoria

Seminar: tba
Place: CECAD lecture hall - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


18.11.2026 at 1:30 pm
Prof. Petr Broz
Unil, University of Lausanne

Seminar: tba
Place: CECAD lecture hall - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists

Previous Seminars 2026

06.05.2026 at 1:30 pm
Prof. Bostjan Kobe
The University of Queensland, Australia

Seminar: TIR domain-mediated signaling by cooperative assembly formation (SCAF) in innate-immunity and cell-death pathways
Place: CoMB Building, Room 4.30 - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


30.03.2026 at 3:00 pm
Prof. Jin Billy Li
The Stanford University

Seminar: Insufficient RNA Editing Underlies Genetic Risk of Autoinflammatory Disease
Place: CECAD lecture hall - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


25.03.2026 at 1:30 pm
Prof. Wenbo Ma
The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich

Seminar: Defense and counter-defense in small RNA-mediated plant immunity 
Place: CoMB Building, Room 4.30 - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists

Previous Seminars

2nd Funding Period

2025

13.11.2025 at 1:00 p.m.
Steven Spoel
University of Edingburgh

Seminar: Ubiquitin chains as physical platforms for cell signalling and immunity.
Place: CoMB Building, Room 4.30 - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


16.10.2025 at 1:15 p.m.
Najoua Lalaoui
Peter Mac Callum Cancer Centre, Melbourne

Seminar: Checkpoints restraining RIP kinases-mediated cell death and inflammation. 
Place: MPI Age Auditorium - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists



06.10.2025 1:15 p.m. 
CCDC x CANTAR Symposium  
with Andreas Strasser, Liming Sun, Sudan He, John Silke and Kim Newton 

Place: MPI Age Auditorium - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


18.09.2025 at 1:15 p.m.
Christian Mayer
Center for Cancer Research - National Cancer Institute, Bethesda

Seminar: To B or not to B: Selection of B cells by apoptosis.
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


10.07.2025 at 3:00 p.m. 
Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti
St. Jude Children´s Research Hospital, Memphis

Seminar: “Molecular mechanisms of innate immunity and inflammation in health and disease”
Place: ONLY VIA ZOOM - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


10.07.2025 at 1:15 p.m. - CANCELLED
Prof. Ping He
University of Michigan

Seminar: tba
Place: CoMB Building, Room 4.30 - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


15.05.2025 at 1:15 p.m.
Dr. Farid El Kasmi
Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen

Seminar: “NLR biology and the relationship of immunity and trafficking.”
Place: CoMB Building, Room 4.30 - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


10.04.2025 at 1:15 p.m.
Dr. Sjoerd van Wijk
Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Seminar: “(Un)common principles in ubiquitination and autophagy: implications for non-self recognition, cell survival and beyond”
Place: MPI Age Auditorium - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


08.04.2024 at 1:15 p.m.
Prof. Francis Chan
Zhejiang University Hangzhou

Seminar: “Cell death in host defense and tissue homeostasis.”
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


20.03.2025 at 11:00 a.m.
Prof. Renier van der Hoorn
University of Oxford

Seminar: “Molecular antagonisms at the plant-pathogen interface.”
Place: CoMB Building, Room 4.30 - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


20.02.2025 at 1:00 p.m.
Nobuhiko Kayagaki
Genentech, San Francisco

Seminar: "The fiery fate of cells: Exploring pyroptosis in disease and inflammation."
Place: MPI Age Auditorium - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


17.02.2025 at 11:00 a.m.
Domagoj Vucic
Genentech, San Francisco

Seminar: “Inflammatory cell death as an instigator of immune diseases.”
Place: MPI Age Auditorium - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists


23.01.2025 at 11:00 a.m.
Seamus Martin
Trinity College Dublin

Seminar: “What doesn't kill you makes you stranger: Chemotherapy-induced premature replicative senescence.”
Place: CIO seminar room 3/4 - More information will send via the seminar mailing lists

2024

04.12.2024 at 1:15 pm
Parul Mehrotra
Indian Institute of Techonlogy, New Delhi

Seminar: Song of the Dead- Understanding the last messages of dying cells
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


14.11.2024 at 1:15 pm
Markus Morrison
University of Stuttgart

Seminar: Suicide signaling and death decisions
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


06.11.2024 at 11:00 am
Stefanie Bader
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia

Seminar: Dead or alive? Unveiling the Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Death and Inflammation in infectious diseases in vivo.
Place: TRIO seminar room 3/4, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


07.10.2024 at 1:15 pm
Hiroyasu Nakano
Toho University, Tokio

Seminar:Live Cell Imaging of Necroptosis and the Release of DAMPs in Vitro and in Vivo.
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglist


16.09.2024 at 1:30 pm
Martin Stegmann
University Ulm

Seminar: Regulation of plant ummunity by endogenenous peptides.
Place: Biozentrum, R 0.024, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglist


12.09.2024 at 1:15 pm
Mads Gyrd-Hansen
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Seminar: Regulation of plant ummunity by endogenenous peptides.
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


04.07.2024 at 1:00 pm
Andreas Villunger
Medical University Innsbruck, Austria

Seminar:The PIDDosome in Cell Cycle and Cell Death Control
Place: CIO seminar room 2/3, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


20.06.2024 at 1:00 pm
James Murphy
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia

Seminar:Tales from the crypt: How RIPK3 kinase unleashes the zombie protein, MLKL, to kill cells by necroptosis
Place: MPI Age, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


06.06.2024 at 1:15 pm
Andreas Linkermann
University Hospital Dresden, Nphrology

Seminar: Understanding ferroptosis sensitivity - from diabetes to sex differences
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


16.05.2024 at 2:15 pm
Cornelia Monzel
Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf

Seminar:CD95 Signal Initiation for Cell Apoptosis Requires Particular Receptor Oligomerization and Molecular Configurations as revealed by Multiparametric Image Spectroscopy
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


11.04.2024 at 2:15 pm
Federica Locci
Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Seminar:How NOT to die: workings of plant TIR proteins in pathogen restriction
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


21.03.2024 at 1pm
Katia Cosentino
Osnabrück University

Seminar:Gasdermin pore formation at the nanoscale
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists

1st Funding Period

2023

12.12.2023 at 1pm
Tom Lüdde
University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD), Düsseldorf, Germany

Seminar:To die or not to die: A sweet spot of death and danger in liver cancer development
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


14.11.2023 at 1pm
Esther Hoste
CRIG, University Gent, Gent, Belgium

Seminar:Stabilization of b-catenin averts dermatitis caused by OTULIN deficiency
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


23.10.2023 at 1pm
Yoshitaka Shirasaki
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo

Seminar:LCI-S and TDCSS: Pioneering Tools Revealing New Frontiers in Cell Death and Immune Response Studies 
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


10.10.2023 at 12 pm
Monica Yabal
Technical University Munich, Institute for Molecular Immunology, Munich, GER

Seminar:Cell death and Innate Immune Regulation in the Gut
Place: Anatmoy, seminar room 3, Joseph-Stelzmann.Str. 9, 50931 Cologne


19.09.2023 at 1pm
Simon Stael
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Seminar:Damage-activated proteolysis is a potential key player in the plant wound response
Place: CoMB Lecture Hall 4.30


06.06.2023 at 3 pm
Hao Wu
Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, USA

Seminar:Inflammasomes at the crossroads of basic science and therapeutic intervention
Place: Online, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


09.05.2023 at 1pm
Xinnian Dong
Duke University, Durham, USA

Seminar:tba
Place: Online, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


24.02.2023 at 11 am
Bostjan Kobe
The University of Queensland, Australia

Seminar: Signaling by cooperative assembly formation (SCAF) by TIR domains in mammalian innate-immunity and cell-death pathways
Place: Biocenter LectureHall 0.024, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


14.02.2023 at 4pm
Mathieu Bertrand
VIBUgent, Ghent, Belgium

Seminar: Cell Death Checkpoints in the TNF Pathway
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall, Hybrid, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


17.01.2023 at 1pm
Kevin Ryan
The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, UK

Seminar:tba
Place: CECAD Lecture Hall, zoom link via SFB Mailing lists

2022

22.11.2022 at 9am
Rebecca Feltham
WEHI, Victoria, Australia

Seminar:New Insights into PROTAC-based Target Validation Strategies
Place: Online seminar, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


25.10.2022 at 1pm
Rene Medema
Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Seminar: tba
Place: Online seminar, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


29.09.2022 at 5:15 pm
Andreas Strasser
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Australia

Title: How does the tumour suppressor p53 instruct cell fate and prevent tumour development
Place: Centrum für Integrierte Onkologie (CIO) - Room EG 007 Seminar room 3+4
Entry restrictions: 
• Access for employees of CECAD/University Hospital/ UoC as well as for students only under 3G conditions
• All people must wear an FFP2 mask during the entire event.


30.09.2022 at 3 pm
Bradlee Heckmann- Canceled
USF Health Neuroscience Institute, Tampa, USA

Seminar: From Rubicon with love, cell death and inflammatory regulation in neurological disease
Place: Centrum für Integrierte Onkologie (CIO) - Room EG 007 Seminar room 3+4
Entry restrictions: 
• Access for employees of CECAD/University Hospital/ UoC as well as for students only under 3G conditions
• All people must wear an FFP2 mask during the entire event.


30.08.2022 at 1pm
Lynn Wong
University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Seminar: To die or not to die: manipulating inhibitors of apoptosis proteins
Place: Online seminar, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglist


24.05.2022 at 1pm
Christina Muñoz Pinedo
Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barceloa, Spain

Seminar: tba
Place: Online seminar, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglist


19.04.2022 at 1pm
Sven Saupe
Université Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Seminar: The study of non-self recognition in fungi identifies cell death pathways with cross-kingdom conservation
Place: Online seminar, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


22.03.2022 at 5pm
Domagoj Vucic
Genentech, San Francisco, USA

Seminar: Drug discovery adventures of a cell death cowboy
Place: Online seminar, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


22.02.2022 
Moritz Nowack
Center For Plant Systems Biology, VIB-UGent, Gent, Belgium

Seminar: Six feet under: Dissecting the molecular control of programmed cell death during plant root development
Place: Online seminar, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists

2020/2021

16.11.2021 canceled
Rene Medema
Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Seminar: tba
Place: Online seminar, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


19.10.2021 at 1pm
Núria Sánchez Coll
Centre For Research in Agricultural Genomics, Barcelona, Spain

Seminar: tba
Place: Online seminar, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


21.09.2021 at 5pm
Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar
University of California, Davis, USA

Seminar: Innate immunity and organellar communication
Place: Online seminar, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglist


29.06.2021 at 1pm
Marion MacFarlane
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Seminar: Molecular Architecture of FADD:Caspase-8 Signalling Complexes – from assembly to co-ordinated control of Life/Death Decisions
Place: Online seminar, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


01.06.2021 at 4pm
Brent Stockwell
The Columbia University, New York, USA

Seminar: Ferroptosis: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Applications
Place: Online seminar


04.05.2021 at 1pm
John Silke
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI), Victoria, Australia

Seminar: Tankyrase-1-mediated ADP-ribosylation is a novel regulator of TNF-induced death
Place: Online seminar


06.04.2021 at 5pm
Vishva Dixit
Genetech, San Francisco, USA

Seminar: title tba
Place: Online seminar, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


09.02.2021 at 1pm
Andrea Ablasser
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Seminar: Sensing DNA as a danger signal through the cGAS-STING pathway
Place: Online seminar, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists


12.01.2021 at 1pm
Pascal Meier
The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK

Seminar: Immunogenic Cell Death
Place: Online seminar, Information send via the Seminar Mailinglists