The talks aim at providing all attendees with new perspectives on their own research and with insights into current issues of the neighbouring research fields.
Start of CMESS Lecture Series – summer 2022 edition
On Thursday, 3rd of March, this semester’s CMESS Lecture Series starts with a talk by Raquel Peixoto from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia) on “Customized Medicine for Corals”. The summer 2022 edition of the CMESS Lecture Series provides insights into a multitude of our Centre’s research interests covering topics of all four Divisions – and beyond.
The CMESS Lecture Series takes place on Thursdays at noon (any exceptions will be announced accordingly). The presentations are being held on-site in the Hörsaal 2 at the UBB (if possible) or alternatively online via ZOOM. Researchers from outside the CMESS are also cordially invited to attend. For all online events, external guests may request the ZOOM link .
This is the CMESS Lecture Series programme for this summer semester:
- Thursday, 3rd of March 2022, 12 pm (noon), online - Raquel Peixoto (Associate Professor of Marine Science, King Abdulla University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) on: “Customized Medicine for Corals”
- Thursday, 17th of March 2022, 12 pm (noon), online - Carsten Müller (Associate Professor of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) on: "From Plants to Soils - How Soil Carbon Persistence is Regulated at Microscale Interfaces"
- Thursday, 31st of March 2022, 3 pm, online - Seth Rakoff-Nahoum (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA) on: “Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches to Understand the Gut Microbiome”
- Wednesday, 27th of April 2022, 3 pm, on-site (HS 2 UBB) - Frank Maixner (Coordinator of the Institute for Mummy Studies, Eurac Research, Italy) on: “A look into the past: metagenomics analysis of ancient human remains”
- Thursday, 5th of May 2022, 12 pm (noon), online - Matthias C. Rillig (Professor of Plant Ecology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) on: “Multiple global change factors in terrestrial ecosystems”
- Thursday, 12th of May 2022, 12 pm (noon), on-site (HS 2 UBB) - Kirsten Küsel (Professor of Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) on: “What is feeding microbial life in modern groundwater?”
- Thursday, 9th of June 2022, 12 pm (noon), on-site (HS 2 UBB) - Michaela Dippold (Jun.-Professor of the Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany) on: Microbial Storage Compounds
- Thursday, 23rd of June 2022, 4 pm, online - Wei Li (Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) on: Antarctic Research on Methane Production in Oxygenated Waters in Ice Covered Lakes
