Please take note of the symposium where the candidates for the tenure track professorship in Microbial Genetics will present their work and ideas.
February 4th, 2026
Schwann Schleiden Centre, Room -1.101 & -1.102, Julia-Lermontowa-Weg 1, 37077 Göttingen.
The presentations will consist of two elements: a teaching demonstration in German or English (predetermined topic: DNA repair mechanisms, at the level of undergraduate students, 15 minutes), a scientific presentation in English followed by discussion (20 minutes talk + 5 minutes discussion).
- 8:00-8:40 Stephan Wimmi — Teaching demo: “DNA Repair”, Talk: “Spatial-Temporal Function and Regulation of Bacterial Nanomachines”
- 8:40-9:20 Katharina Melkonian — Teaching demo: “DNA Repair”, Talk: “Evolution of molecular plant-microbe interactions (evoMPMI)”
- 9:20-10:00 Fantin Mesny — Teaching demo: “DNA Repair”, Talk: “Host microbiota manipulation: a key process underlying fungal disease establishment”
- 10:00-10:20 Coffee break
- 10:20-11:00 Usha Farey Lingappa — Teaching demo: “DNA Repair”, Talk: “Photosynthetic microbes and the world around them”
- 11:00-11:40 Iris Eisermann — Teaching demo: “DNA Repair”, Talk: “Investigating the role of septins as morphogenetic determinants of fungal pathogenesis”
- 11:40-12:20 Cristina Barragan — Teaching demo: “DNA Repair”, Talk: “Impact of Horizontal Chromosome Transfer on the Function and Evolution of a Major Cereal Pathogen”