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.
Next Talk
☀️ 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