Lecture

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Lectures and seminars

Our lecture and seminar series cover a wide range of topics in plant genetics and crop plant research. Formats such as the "Gatersleben Lecture" on overarching topics, the "Vavilov Seminar" on special questions of plant genetic resources, the "Watermann Seminar" on topics of bioinformatics and modelling or the "Cell Biology Seminar" are established formats with lecturers from all over the world. In addition to IPK staff, these formats are also open to guest students from our partner institutions.

Gatersleben Lecture / 13 January 2026

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sarah E. O’Connor (Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)

Title: “Harnessing the Chemistry of Natural Products”

The seminar will start at 14:00 am in the lecture hall plus Video stream via Zoom.

Link: https://ipk-gatersleben-de.zoom-x.de/j/64783767811?pwd=hndGuIynz0tMsTZ3oKnPjTsgHfQDL8.1 (ID: 647 8376…

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Gatersleben Lecture / 10 February 2026

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Malcolm Bennett (University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire, UK)

Title: “Lessons from underground: discovering how roots sense soil stresses”

The seminar will start at 14:00 am in the lecture hall plus Video stream via Zoom.

Link: https://ipk-gatersleben-de.zoom-x.de/j/64783767811?pwd=hndGuIynz0tMsTZ3oKnPjTsgHfQDL8.1 (ID: 647 8376 7811 /…

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Gatersleben Lecture / 3 March 2026

Speaker: Dr. Timothy George (James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK)

Title: “Back to the future: Using ancient barley landraces for a sustainable future”

The seminar will start at 14:00 am in the lecture hall plus Video stream via Zoom.

Link: https://ipk-gatersleben-de.zoom-x.de/j/64783767811?pwd=hndGuIynz0tMsTZ3oKnPjTsgHfQDL8.1 (ID: 647 8376 7811 / Kenncode: 184928)

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Gatersleben Lecture / 21 April 2026

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Schatz (Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD/USA)

Title: “tba”

The seminar will start at 14:00 am in the lecture hall plus Video stream via Zoom.

Link: https://ipk-gatersleben-de.zoom-x.de/j/64783767811?pwd=hndGuIynz0tMsTZ3oKnPjTsgHfQDL8.1 (ID: 647 8376 7811 / Kenncode: 184928)

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Gatersleben Lecture / 12 May 2026

Speaker: Dr. Madelaine Bartlett (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK)

Title: “Using grass diversity to dissect mechanisms of morphological evolution”

The seminar will start at 14:00 am in the lecture hall plus Video stream via Zoom.

Link: https://ipk-gatersleben-de.zoom-x.de/j/64783767811?pwd=hndGuIynz0tMsTZ3oKnPjTsgHfQDL8.1 (ID: 647 8376 7811 / Kenncode: 184928) 

 

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Gatersleben Lecture / 9 June 2026

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Robert (Bob) Schmitz (Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA/USA)

Title: “Deciphering the evolution of cis-regulation in plants at single-cell resolution”

The seminar will start at 14:00 am in the lecture hall plus Video stream via Zoom.

Link: https://ipk-gatersleben-de.zoom-x.de/j/64783767811?pwd=hndGuIynz0tMsTZ3oKnPjTsgHfQDL8.1 (ID: 647 8376…

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Gatersleben Lecture / 18 August 2026

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tim Beissinger (Heritable Agriculture, Mountain View, CA/USA) 

Title: “tba”

The seminar will start at 14:00 am in the lecture hall plus Video stream via Zoom.

Link: https://ipk-gatersleben-de.zoom-x.de/j/64783767811?pwd=hndGuIynz0tMsTZ3oKnPjTsgHfQDL8.1 (ID: 647 8376 7811 / Kenncode: 184928) 

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Gatersleben Lecture / 15 September 2025

Speaker: Prof.Dr. Ian Henderson (University of Cambridge, Department of Plant Sciences, RG Genetic and Epigenetic Inheritance in Plants, Cambridge, UK)

Title: “Genetic and epigenetic structure of plant centromeres”

The seminar will start at 14:00 am in the lecture hall plus Video stream via Zoom.

Link: https://ipk-gatersleben-de.zoom-x.de/j/64783767811?pwd=hndGuIynz0tMsTZ3oKnPjTsgHfQ…

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Gatersleben Lecture / 13 October 2026

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Eric Lam (Department of Plant Biology School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ/USA)

Title: “tba.”

The seminar will start at 14:00 am in the lecture hall plus Video stream via Zoom.

Link: https://ipk-gatersleben-de.zoom-x.de/j/64783767811?pwd=hndGuIynz0tMsTZ3oKnPjTsgHfQDL8.1 (ID: 647 8376 7811 /…

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