McClintock Seminar Series

Seminar series at MPIPZ on the occasion of the ‘International Day of Women and Girls in Science’ on 11 February.

Kirsten Bomblies: A problem of plenty – how one polyploid evolved to perform meiosis with a duplicated genome

Barbara McClintock Lecture

• Date: Feb 11, 2026
• Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Kirsten Bomblies
• Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, ETH Zürich
• Location: MPIPZ
• Host: André Marques

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Melina Schuh: New insights into human eggs and female infertility

Barbara McClintock Lecture

• Date: Feb 19, 2025
• Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Melina Schuh
• Director Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Dept. of Meiosis
• Location: MPIPZ
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Magdalena Marek

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Saskia Hogenhout: Molecular mechanisms that shape the multitrophic interactions of an insect-vectored parasite

Barbara McClintock Lecture

• Date: Feb 7, 2024
• Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Saskia Hogenhout
• John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
• Location: MPIPZ
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Magdalena Marek

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Carolyn Rasmussen: Division plane orientation in plant cells

Barbara McClintock Lecture

• Date: Feb 8, 2023
• Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Carolyn Rasmussen
• University of California
• Location: MPIPZ
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Gender Equlity officer

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Claudia Köhler: Transposable Elements Drive Developmental Innovations and Plant Speciation

Barbara McClintock Lecture

• Date: Feb 11, 2022
• Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: MPIPZ
• Room: Lecture hall
• Host: Gender Equlity officer