CeMiSt Lectures and Talks

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Symposium

An Ocean of Microbial Molecules

Monday January 26th, Building 101, Room S01


Katherine R. Duncan, Senior Lecturer, Microbial Metabolomics & Antibiotic Discovery, Newcastle University, Biosciences Institute (NUBI)

Antibiotics from the abyss – combined ‘omics biodiscovery from the deep-sea



Catherine Bannon, postdoctoral fellow, Metabolische Interaktionen, Max-Planck-Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie

Vitamin Sea: New Insights into Cobalamin in the Ocean



Paul R. Jensen, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego

Decoding the ocean metabolome one compound at a time

Invited talk

The biosynthetic landscape of marine sponge microbiomes

  1. 07. 2025
Detmer Sipkema is Associate Professor Marine Microbial Ecology at Wageningen University. His Marine Microbiology research and education is driven by ambition to understand and exploit symbiotic interactions between marine microorganisms and their hosts. He earned his BSc, MSc and PhD in Bioprocess Engineering at the same university. He performed postdoctoral research at the University of California Berkeley in the Laboratory of Prof. Harvey Blanch and at the CEAB-CSIC (Spain) in the group of Prof. Maria Uriz. In addition, he worked as scientist for the company DSM (The Netherlands).

Invited talk

15 years with Cable Bacteria: from an electrifying discovery in Aarhus Bay to the Center for Electromicrobiology and beyond

  1. 06. 2025
Andreas Schramm, Professor is the Vice Head of Center Section for Microbiology & Center for Electromicrobiology at the Department of Biology, Aarhus University since 2004.
He has a background in microbial nitrogen cycling, microsensor technology, and molecular microbial ecology and a broad interest in aquatic microbial ecology, geomicrobiology, and (symbiotic) interactions of microbes. He studies cable bacteria, after the discovery of electric currents in the seafloor that lead to discovering cable bacteria.

Invited talk

Principles of microbial community design; at the intersection of ecology and engineering

27.11.2024
Dr. Hans C. Bernstein is a Professor of Microalgae and Microbiome Engineering at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. His interdisciplinary expertise spans molecular microbial ecology, synthetic biology, and bioprocess engineering, with a growing focus on advancing sustainable microbial solutions for carbon capture and utilization.
Professor in Microalgae and Microbiome Engineering, UiT The Arctic University of Norway: Tromsø, Norway

Invited talk

Precision approaches for decoding microbial physiology, interactions and chemical responses

26.11.2024
Dr. Lars Behrendt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Organismal Biology at Uppsala University, specializing in environmental toxicology. He has previously held postdoctoral positions at ETH Zürich and MIT, where he developed microfabrication techniques to investigate the interactions between microbes and their environments. To learn more about his work, visit https://behrendtlab.com/.

Invited talk

Building the cell from one end – The polar growth organelle in streptomycetes

09.10.2024
By Professor Klas Flärd from Department of Biology at Lund University.
Klas works to understand how molecules of a cell govern such essential and complex functions like cell division, cell polarity, determination of cell shape, and cell differentiation, with a focus on cell and developmental biology of bacteria. His group works primarily with model organisms of the genus Streptomyces – a large group of Gram-positive soil bacteria that are renowned for their prolific secondary metabolites, including a wide range of antibiotics and other products.

Invited talk

Genomic Sequencing of Individual Microbial Cells and Viral Particles: Unveiling the Hidden Diversity and Dynamics in Environmental Samples

03.09.2024
Dr. Ramunas Stepanauskas’ research has been focused on environmental single-cell genomics technology and infrastructure development, metabolisms of uncultured microorganisms, and the interplay between microbial ecology and evolution in complex microbiomes.
Dr. Ramunas Stepanauskas, Senior Research Scientist, Director of the Single Cell Genomics Center, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.

Symposium

Beyond genetic borders: Decoding the interactions of plasmids, phages, and bacteria

20.06.2023
Three talks on on interactions of plasmids, phages and bacteria presented by:
Alison Buchan, Dr, Carolyn Fite Professor of Microbiology, University of Tennessee
Mathias Middelboe, Professor of Marine Viral Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen
*Paul Fogg, Dr, Sir Henry Dale Senior Research Fellow, University of York, Department of Biology and York Biomedical Research Institute

CeMiSt Lecture

Back to the Roots: search for the ‘missing’ plant microbes  

24.02.2022
CeMiSt lecture by Prof Jos Raaijmakers, head of the Microbial Ecology Department at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and Professor at the Institute of Biology at Leiden University, on the genomic & functional characterization of beneficial microorganisms associated with roots of wild relatives of crop species grown in the center of origin.

Symposium

Listening in on the chemical language of the ocean

14.10.2022
The three talks address different aspects of the ecological roles of natural products or secondary metabolites or specialized metabolites, given by:
 Joseph Pawlik, Frank Hawkins Kenan Professor of Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington
 Paul Jensen, Professor of Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
 Manuel Liebeke, Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology, Bremen

CeMiSt Lecture

Taking a Microscale Look at Host-Microbe Interactions: Visualising Cells and Chemicals in One Picture

01.10.2021
CeMiSt Lecture by Manuel Liebeke, head of the Metabolic Interactions group at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Germany, on Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Fluorescence Microscopy, powerful tools to address the technical challenge of linking metabolite production to symbiont and host cells in mixed communities and study spatial metabolomes of symbioses in situ.

Invited Talk

An Eco-evolutionary Framework for Understanding the Composition and Functioning of Microbes

22.10.2020
CeMiSt invited talk by Professor Jennifer Martiny, University of California, Irvine, on her recent research showing how traits can help predict the response of soil microbiomes to global change treatments, as well as the applicability of this framework to microbiomes in other environments.

CeMISt Lecture

Becoming a bodyguard: The evolution of defensive symbiosis between plant-associated bacteria and a beetle

29.11.2019
CeMiSt Lecture by Laura V. Flórez, Evolutionary Ecology Department, Institute for Organismic and Molecular Evolution, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on symbiotic microorganisms and their effects on key aspects of animal and plant biology, including defense against natural enemies.

Invited talk

Symbioses or associations? Disentangling the dynamic microbiome of marine copepods

28.08.2019
CeMiSt invited talk by Pia Moisander, Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on copepod-associated bacteria and their interactions in the "zoosphere"- the zone surrounding a copepod that is sustaining bacteria, communities alike the plant root-associated rhizosphere where bacteria retain free-living characteristics while living in association with the host.

Invited talk

Microbiology Past and Future A Personal Interpretation

24.05.2019
CeMiSt invited talk by Roberto Kolter, Professor of Microbiology, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School : a general talk on a very personal interpretation on the history of microbiology as a way to build towards presenting his own views on the future of the discipline.

Invited Talk

The marine actinomycete genus Salinispora: a model organism for natural products research and beyondet

10.05.2019
CeMiSt invited talk by Paul R. Jensen, Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California San Diego on marine actinomycete genus Salinispora, which has been recovered from ocean sediments collected around the globe, and which has been proven to be a rich source of natural products with drug potential.

Symposium

Microbiomes, Genomes and Metabolomes

15.03.2018
1st CeMiSt international symposium:
Multi-omics of the soil microbiome by Janet K. Jansson, Chief Scientist, Biology Pacific Northwest, National Laboratory US
 Extreme drug discovery: Obtaining novel pharmacophors from extreme environments by Marcel Jaspars, Professor, University of Aberdeen
* Gene clusters in fungi: Functional and genomic analysis by Claudio Scazzocchio, Visiting Professor, Imperial College London