Upcoming Scientific Events
EKFZ Lecture
„Leveraging AAV vectorology to address unmet needs in ocular gene therapy“Speaker: Prof. Dr. Stylianos Michalakis, Department of Ophthalmology, LMU Hospital & LMU Munich
Time: Thursday, November 7th 2024, 16:00 h
Location: Lecture hall, MPI-NAT City Campus, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3
Hosts: Dr. Maria Patapia Zafeiriou
Past Scientific Events
MBExC Lecture
„Perseverance versus cognitive flexibility: neuronal glutamate transporters give us a reason not to indulge in either“Speaker: Annalisa Scimemi, PhD, Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Albany, New York, USA
Time: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024, 13:00 h
Location: Lecture hall, MPI-NAT City Campus, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3
Hosts: Prof. Tobias Moser / Dr. Hyojin Kim
Optogenetics Club
„Molecular optogenetics: programming cells and materials with light“Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wilfried Weber, INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken & Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Saarland University, Saarbrücken
Time: Monday, April 29th, 2024, 17:00 h
Location: Lecture hall, MPI-NAT City Campus, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3
Hosts: Prof. Tobias Moser / Dr. Thomas Mager
MBExC Lecture
„Shaping the mitochondrial proteome via signal switches at the import machinery“Speaker: Prof. Dr. Chris Meisinger, Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Freiburg
Time: Thursday, March 21st, 2024, 17:00 h
Location: Library of the Humboldtallee 23, 1st floor
Host: Prof. Dr. Peter Rehling
Growing Up in Academia: The Stories Behind the Official CV
„What Is It to Be a Researcher? How Does One Grow Into Academia?“Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tobias Moser, Director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at the University Medical Center in Göttingen
Time: Monday, January 22nd, 2024, 18:00 h
Location: MPI for Empirical Aesthetics, Grüneburgweg 14, Frankfurt am Main
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Host: Prof. Lucia Melloni, PhD
MBExC Lecture
„Inner ear mechanics: new techniques, new answers, new questions“Speaker: Dr. Marcel van der Heijden (M.L.), Erasmus MC, Rotterdam
Time: Thursday, December 14th 2023, 13:00 h
Location: MPI-NAT City Campus, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3
Hosts: Prof. Tobias Moser / Anna Vavakou, PhD
MBExC Microscopy Club
„Alternative strategies for single molecule localization microscopy“Speaker: Dr. Sandrine Lévêque-Fort, the Institute des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, Université Paris-Saclay
Time: Tuesday, December 12th 2023, 11:00 h
Location: Institut für Nanophotonik (IFNANO), Seminar Room, Hans-Adolf-Krebs-Weg 1
Hosts: Prof. Dr. Jörg Enderlein, MBExC
Guest Lecture
„Synaptic mechanisms underlying temporal precision in two auditory brainstem nuclei“Speaker: Dr. Nikolaos Kladisios, Institute of Zoology, TiHo, Hannover
Time: Tuesday, December 12th 2023, 10:15 h
Location: Lecture hall, MPI-NAT City Campus, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3
Hosts: Sabina Nowakowska / Antoine Huet, PhD
Optogenetics Club
„Top-down control of neocortical threat memory“Speaker: Prof. Dr. Johannes Letzkus, Institute for Physiology I, University of Freiburg
Time: Monday, November 27th 2023, 17:00 h
Location: MPI-NAT City Campus, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3
Hosts: Prof. Tobias Moser / Dr. Thomas Mager
MBExC Lecture
„Positron-Emission-Tomography: Translation. Total-body imaging. Theranostics.“Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Frank M. Bengel, MHH
Time: Friday, November 24th 2023, 13:00 h
Location: MPI-NAT City Campus, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3
Host: Prof. Tobias Moser
MBExC Lecture
„The sensitivity of auditory sense and how we maintain it“Speaker: Jung-Bum Shin, PhD, University of Virginia
Time: Thursday, November 9th 2023, 11:00 h
Location: Small lecture hall at the MPI-NAT City Campus, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3
Host: Prof. Tina Pangrsic
Ribbon Synapses Seminar Series 2021
We would like to announce the upcoming Ribbon Synapses Seminar Series (RSSS) 2021, an online alternative to the long-running series of Ribbon Synapses Symposia (RSS). The RSS are specialized international conferences that have in the past been held in Göttingen, Germany. This year's RSSS is jointly organized by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Collaborative Research Center SFB 889 "Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing". Owing to the pandemic-related travel difficulties it will be held online, aiming for a schedule of ~2-3 talks presented every ~2 weeks.
This seminar series aims to provide an online platform to not only bring together experts in the field, who will present and discuss novel data and provide a detailed overview of the current state of the art of ribbon synapse research, but additionally allow young scientists to present their work in form of a short talk.
Confirmed Speakers: Angela Ballesteros, Katja Bleckmann, Thomas Coate, Ruth Anne Eatock, Henrique von Gersdorf, Elisabeth Glowatzki, Maria Eugenia Gomez-Casati, Daniel Kerschensteiner, Katie Kindt, M. Charles Liberman, Anna Lysakowski, Tobias Moser, Fred Rieke, Maria E Rubio, Jeffrey N. Savas, Brikha R. Shrestha.Time: March 22nd till July 22nd, 2021, one session every 2-3 weeks
Location: Online at www.rsss2021.uni-goettingen.de
Contact: Jakob Neef
SFB 889 Colloquium
„OHC motility measured in vivo: implications for cochlear function“Speaker: Anna Vavakou, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands
Time:Monday, September 27th 2020, 12:00 h
Location: Lecture Hall 81, University Medical Center Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40
Host: Prof. Tobias Moser
SFB 889 Colloquium
„Localization and spatial processing for users of hearing aids and cochlear implants“Speaker: Bernhard Seeber, Technical University of Munich
Time:Friday, January 24th 2020, 16:00 h
Location: Lecture Hall 55, University Medical Center Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40
Host: Prof. Tobias Moser
MBExc Colloquium
„Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord: neural code for analgesia without paraesthesia“Speaker: Boriss Sagalajev, Tallinn, Estonia
Time:Monday, December 16th 2019, 10:00 h
Location: Small Lecture hall (behind the library), Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Herrmann-Rein-Str. 3
Host: Prof. Tobias Moser
SFB 889 Colloquium
„Mapping cochlear circuits using volume electron microscopy“Speaker: Yunfeng Hua, Shanghai Institute of Precision Medicine, Shanghai
Time:Wednesday, November 6th 2019, 16:00 h
Location: Small Lecture hall (behind the library), Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Herrmann-Rein-Str. 3
Host: Prof. Tobias Moser
MBExC Lecture
„Watching SNAREs at work“Speaker: Prof. Dr. Manfred Lindau, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Time:Thursday, October 24th 2019, 13:00 s.t.
Location: Lecture hall, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Herrmann-Rein-Str. 3
Host: Prof. Tobias Moser
SFB 889 Colloquium
„Regulation of inhibitory synaptic vesicle exocytosis in a retinal interneuron“Speaker: Marc A. Meadows, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), Henrique von Gersdorff Lab
Time: Thursday September 5th, 2019, 12:00 h
Location: Small Lecture hall (behind the library), Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Herrmann-Rein-Str. 3
Host: Prof. Tobias Moser
Ribbon Synapses Symposium 2019
We would like to announce the upcoming Ribbon Synapses Symposium (RSS) 2019, a specialized international conference to be held in Göttingen, Germany on September 2nd and 3rd, 2019, right before the EURETINA 2019 congress in Paris. The RSS meeting is jointly organized by the two Collaborative Research Centers SFB 889 "Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing" and SFB 894 "Ca2+ Signaling: Molecular Mechanisms and Integrative Functions" and will be hosted at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.
This meeting aims to not only bring together experts in the field, who will present and discuss novel data and provide a detailed overview of the current state of the art of ribbon synapse research, but additionally provide a platform for young scientists to present their work in form of either an oral presentation and/or a poster.
More details will follow soon! If you would like to receive emails with news and updates about the meeting, please send an email with "subscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject to rss2019-request@lists.uni-goettingen.de.
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Time: Monday, September 2nd till Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
Location: Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, Göttingen
SFB 889 Colloquium
„From cancer to epilepsy: Roles of CI-/K+ co-transporters in seizure onset in the human peritumoral cortex“Speaker: Maxime Lehman, Sorbonne University & Collège de France
Time: Wednesday August 28th, 2019, 13:00 h
Location: Small Lecture hall (behind the library), Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Herrmann-Rein-Str. 3
Host: Prof. Tina Pangršič
SFB 889 Colloquium
"Electric acoustic masking in cochlear implant users”Speaker: Prof. Dr. Waldo Nogueira Vazquez, Auditory Prosthetic Group, German Hearing Center, Medical University Hannover
Time: Tuesday, June 18th 2019, 12:15 h
Location: Lecture Hall 552, University Medical Center Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40
Host: Dr. Marcus Jeschke
SFB 889 Colloquium
"Electrocochleography in clinical practice”Speaker: Dr. José Juan Barajas de Prat, Clínica Barajas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Time: Tuesday, June 25th 2019, 11:15 h
Location: Lecture Hall 55, University Medical Center Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40
Host: Prof. Tobias Moser
SFB 889 Colloquium
„Combined electro-optogenetic stimulation of the murine cochlea“Speaker: Fadhel El May, Boston Lee/Brown Lab, Massachusettes Eye and Ear Infirmary
Time: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019, 12:15
Location: Small lecture Hall, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3
Host: Prof. Tobias Moser
SFB 889 colloquium
"The dopamine D2-autoreceptor response of substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons of CaV1.3KO mice"Speaker: Alexandra Böttcher, Molecular and Translational Neuroscience Ulm University
Time: Tuesday, March 5th 2019, 14:00
Location: small lecture hall (behind the library)
Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine
Hermann-Rein-Str. 3
Host: Prof. Tobias Moser
SFB 889 sensory lecture 
"Gene Delivery for Neurosensory Disorders and beyond"Speaker: Luk Vandenberghe, PhD, Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center, Ocular Genomics Institute, Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, USA
Time: Frisday, October 26th, 2018, 12:15
Location: Lecture Hall, DPZ
Host: Prof. Tobias Moser, Dr. Vladan Rankovic
11th Molecular Biology of Hearing and Deafness Conference 2018
We would like to announce the ‘11th Molecular Biology of Hearing and Deafness Conference’ to be held from May 16th to 19th 2018 in Göttingen, Germany. This international conference serves the exchange of researchers about the latest developments in the field. Here, besides the identification of so-far unknown deafness genes, new methods of exome- / genome-analysis will be presented. Advances in the identification of gene-function-relationships will be discussed as well as the role of specific genes in the molecular physiology of hearing and in age-dependent hearing loss. Speakers will also cover potential strategies for gene therapy and prepare the transfer of the results from basic research into clinical application. The conference is hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Center 889 "Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing".
Time: Wednesday, May 16th to Saturday, May 19th, 2018
Location: Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen
Website and registration: www.mbhd2018.de
Contact: ianoff@gwdg.de
Auditory Neuroscience Minisymposium
“Research on Hearing and Hearing Restoration as well as Auditory Synaptic Neuroscience is rapidly progressing and the fields are intimately connected. In this minisymposium , speakers of the Göttingen Campus from inside and outside the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience will present the latest progress as well as plans, discussing molecular mechanisms of hearing at the inner ear synapses and beyond, as well as the development of optogenetic restoration of hearing using optical cochlear implants. .
Confirmed speakers: Dirk Beutner, Tanvi Butola, Antonino Calapai, Livia de Hoz, Erwin Neher, Chad Grabner, Lina María Jaime Tobón, Cristian Setz, Christian Wrobel
Time: Friday, December 8th 2017, 08:30 - 14:00 h
Location: Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3, 37075 Göttingen
Contact: ianoff@gwdg.de
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SFB 889 colloquium
"The role of cdh23 and pcdh15 in the development of a subpopulation of parvalbumin interneurons in the auditory cortex"Speaker: Dr. Nicolas Michalski, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Time: Monday, November 30th, 2017, 11:00
Location: Seminar room of the department for Otolaryngology, UMG
Host: Prof. Tobias Moser
Ribbon Synapses Symposium 2017
We would like to announce the upcoming Ribbon Synapses Symposium (RSS) 2017, a specialized international conference to be held in Göttingen, Germany on September 11th-12th 2017. The meeting is jointly organized by the two Collaborative Research Centers SFB 889 "Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing" and SFB 894 "Ca2+ Signaling: Molecular Mechanisms and Integrative Functions" and will be hosted at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine. This meeting aims to not only bring together experts in the field, who will present and discuss novel data and provide a detailed overview of the current state of the art of ribbon synapse research, but additionally provide a platform for young scientists to present their work in form of either an oral presentation and/or a poster.
Confirmed Speakers: Jonathan Demb, Jeffrey Diamond, Ruth Anne Eatock, Henrique von Gersdorff, Elisabeth Glowatzki, Cole Graydon, Ruth Heidelberger, Martin Heine, Alexandra Koschak, Hernan Lopez-Schier, Frank Schmitz, Michael Schnee, Stephan Sigrist, Thirumalini Vaithianathan, Margaret Veruki, David Zenisek.
Time: Monday, September 11th till Tuesday, September 12th, 2017
Location: Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3, Göttingen
SFB 889 colloquium
"The importance of the lipid bilayer, in particular PIP2, for the mammalian auditory MET-channel"Speaker: Dr. Thomas Effertz, Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University, USA
Time: Tuesday, December 13th, 2016, 12:15
Location: Seminar room -1.101, Schwann-Schleiden-Forschungszentrum Göttingen, Julia-Lermontowa-Weg 3
Host: Prof. Dr. Tobias Moser
SFB 889 Sensory Lecture
"Neuronal correlates of time perception in echolocating bats"Speaker: Prof. Dr. Manfred Kössl, Institute for Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Time: Tuesday, February 7th, 2017, 12:15
Location: Lecture Hall 552, University Medical Center Göttingen
Host: Prof. Dr. Martin Göpfert
SFB 889 Sensory Lecture
"Neuronal correlates of time perception in echolocating bats"Speaker: Prof. Dr. Manfred Kössl, Institute for Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Time: Tuesday, February 7th, 2017, 12:15
Location: Lecture Hall 552, University Medical Center Göttingen
Host: Prof. Dr. Martin Göpfert
Restorative Therapies for Sensory Disorders Symposium 2017
Speakers: Sliman Bensmaia, Deniz Delkara, Joseph C. Glorioso, Tobias MoserTime: Monday, March 20th, 2017
Location: Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3, Göttingen
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Restoration of Sensory and Motor Function 2016 Symposium
We would like to announce the ‘Restoration of Sensory and Motor Function Symposium 2016’ to be held from May 26th to 27th 2016 in Göttingen, Germany. The idea of this small size (we expect approximately 100 attendees) and highly interactive meeting is to exchange experience among researchers aiming to restore sensory and motor function. Speakers will cover molecular therapies such as virus-mediated regeneration of sensory cells and optogenetic restoration of vision and hearing as well as sensory and motor prosthetics. The conference is organized by the Physics2Medicine consortium of the Göttingen cluster "Physics to Medicine (P2M)" and supported by several DFG-funded collaborative research activities and the Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics and Molecular Biology "GGNB". We encourage participation of young scientists who might contribute by short talks (selected from applications) or posters.[Website and registration]
Speakers: Oskar Aszmann, Ernst Bamberg, Volker Busskamp, Max Ortiz Catalan, Ingeborg Hochmair, Sonja Kleinlogel, Dejan Popovic, Stanisa Raspopovic, Patrick Ruther, José Sahel, Hansjörg Scherberger, Hinrich Staecker, Malte Tiburcy
Time: Wednesday, May 26th to Saturday, May 28th, 2016
Location: Lecture Hall 552, near East Entrance, Universiy Medical Center Göttingen , 37075 Göttingen
Contact: Patricia Räke-Kügler