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Biological
Colloquium

Together with the University of Bonn, we invite scientists from Germany and abroad to the Biological Colloquium. The colloquium serves to present current biological research topics and to exchange ideas with researchers.

The events are open to the public. Students and guests are very welcome.

All events take place on Fridays from 1 pm. Either on site at Poppelsdorf Palace or via Zoom. The Zoom link will be announced by e-mail one week before each hybrid seminar.

Overview of upcoming dates:

  • 17.10.2025

    Marilou Boddé (Institut Pasteur Madagascar): "Genomic diversity of the major malaria vector Anopheles funestus" (invited by A.Suh, LIB)

  • 07.11.2025

    Melike Lakadamyali (University of Pennsylvania) "TBA" Co-organised with the μbial & genetics colloquium, hybrid on zoom and on-site at: HS Institute for Microbiology and Biotechnology (invited by Oliver Gruss/Ulrike Endesfelder)

  • 14.11.2025

    Netta Dorchin (Tel Aviv University): "Tiny flies - huge numbers: Herbivory promotes speciation in the megadiverse gall midges" (invited by E. Stolle, LIB)

  • 21.11.2025

    Francis-André Wollman (CNRS/Sorbonne Paris) "Post-endosymbiotic innovations for chloroplast protein biogenesis", hybrid on zoom and on-site at: HS Institute for Microbiology and Biotechnology (invited by Oliver Caspari)

  • 12.12.2025

    Jendrian Riedel (HSBremen): "Evolution of adhesive toepads in geckos - a model to advance our understanding of the key innovation hypothesis for complex traits" (invited by D. Rödder, LIB)

  • 19.12.2025

    Polina Novikova (MPI-PZ Cologne): "Drawing parallels between plant and animal adaptation to polyploidy" (invited by A. Torgasheva, BIOB)

  • 16.01.2026

    Alexander Edwards (UKassel): "The bee’s knees: a new, non-lethal way to study pollinator networks" (invited by A. Suh, LIB)

  • 23.01.2026

    Melanie Braun (UBonn): "Plastics in agricultural soils" (invited by A. Mayr, BIOB)

  • 30.01.2026

    Alexander Kotrschal (UWageningen): "TBA" (invited by T. Thünken, BIOB)

  • 13.02.2026

    Thomas Döring (UBonn): "Colour perception in herbivorous insects - evolutionary, ecological and applied perspectives" (invited by A. Mayr, BIOB)

  • 20.02.2026

    Wen-Juan Ma (UBrussels): "Beyond the canonical model: evolution of unconventional sex chromosomes and sex-determining genes in anurans" (invited by S. Smith, LIB)

Prof. Dr. Alexander Suh

  • Head of Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)
  • Head of Section Molecular Biodiversity

Phone: +49 228 9122 289
E-Mail: a.suh@leibniz-lib.de

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