Weekly PhD Student Seminars
RTG Graduates & Associated present the progress on their PhD Projects in a weekly seminar series.
Date: on Wednesdays
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: Lecture hall Greenhouse Biologicum, Weinbergweg 10
Winter break from 21 December 2023 to 9 January 2024
Find the current schedule here.

// October 2023
RTG Workshop “Introduction to Statistics and R”
presented by Christian Ristok & Stephan Kambach
Date: 04 & 06 October 2023 (Part I); 11 & 13 October 2023 (Part II)
Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Room 5.10, Von-Seckendorff-Platz 1
PhD Defense – “Initiation of root jasmonate biosynthesis”
by Yunjing Ma
Date: 6 October 2023
Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location: Kleiner Hörsaal (KHS) of Biochemistry, Kurt Mothes Straße 3, Weinberg Campus
IPB Seminar – “Xylella fastidiosa’s relationships: the bacterium, the host plants, and the plant microbiome”
presented by Silke Robatzek (Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) Munich, Germany)
Date: 12 October 2023
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: Kurt-Mothes-Saal, IPB Halle, Weinberg 3
organized by IPB Halle: Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry
IPB Seminar – “Flux Control in Phloem Development”
presented by Christian Hardtke (Université de Lausanne, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Department of Plant Molecular Biology)
Date: 19 October 2023
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: Kurt-Mothes-Saal, IPB Halle, Weinberg 3
organized by IPB Halle: Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry
IPB Seminar – “Cysteine-rich receptor-like kinase 2 coordinates abiotic and biotic stress responses”
presented by Michael Wrzaczek (Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Ceske Budejovice Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Date: 26 October 2023
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: Kurt-Mothes-Saal, IPB Halle, Weinberg 3
organized by IPB Halle: Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry
// November 2023
RTG Seminar – “Introduction to Electron Microscopy“
presented by Stephanie Krüger (EM-Service, MLU Halle-Wittenberg)
Date: 1 November 2023
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: Lecture hall at Biology Greenhouse, Weinbergweg 10
RTG Workshop “Next Level Science Communication”
presented by Schiller & Mertens
Date: 8 to 10 November 2023
Time: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm (8 & 9 Nov); 9:00 am to 2:00 pm (10 Nov)
Location: Online (Zoom)
HPSC – “Granules in the chloroplast – Phase separation in plant organellar RNA metabolism“
presented by Christian Schmitz-Linneweber (HU Berlin)
Date: 14 November 2023
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Location: Lecture Hall E.02 (Theodor Lieser Strasse 9, Heide Süd Campus)
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// December 2023
HPSC – “Avoiding mutational meltdown: dealing with damage to organelle DNA in plants and beyond“
presented by Iain Johnston (University of Bergen, Norway)
Date: 5 December 2023
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Location: Lecture Hall E.02 (Theodor Lieser Strasse 9, Heide Süd Campus)
IPB Seminar – “Using the ARFs to understand plant transcription”
presented by Lucia Strader (Duke University)
Date: 15 December 2023
Time: 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Location: Kurt-Mothes-Saal, IPB Halle, Weinberg 3
organized by IPB Halle: Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry
HPSC – t.b.a.
presented by Tonni Grube Andersen (MPI for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne)
Date: 19 December 2023
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Location: Lecture Hall E.02 (Theodor Lieser Strasse 9, Heide Süd Campus)