LIVING SYSTEMS IV Symposium
All current employees of the MPI Biology & FML are welcome to attend. For any questions, please contact the RST
Venue: Max Planck House Lecture Hall
Each talk will be 45 minutes followed by 15 minutes Q&A.
Thursday 5th November 2026
| Time | Session Chair | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 13:25 | Welcome Susana Coelho (Managing Director MPI Biology) | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Ruth Ley | Mysteries of multicellularity: evolutionary biochemistry of plant development Dolf Weijers Wageningen University & Research |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Yen-Ping Hsueh | What pathogen genomes can teach us about evolution and immunity Richard Neher University of Basel |
Friday 6th November 2026
| Time | Session Chair | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 - 9:30 | Susana Coelho | Evolution in Residence: How Bacterial Endosymbionts become Organelles Eva Nowack Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Andrei Lupas | Towards a molecular history of the cell Georg Hochberg Marburg University |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break with refreshments | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Ralf Sommer | Tracing the Deep Origins of Neurons and Nervous Systems: From Cellular Signalling to the Evolution of First Brains Pawel Burkhardt University of Bergen |