Microbiology_Club

Microbiology Club Berlin

Microbiology Club Berlin is a seminar series designed to foster the exchange of expertise within the community of microbiologists in Berlin.

Club members are expected to present their current research project(s), interact actively with speakers and other members, and also act as moderators during the sessions.

The seminars take place three times a year, mainly alternating between the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin Mitte.

See below for a schedule of upcoming events and participating labs.

Schedule of 2026 Microbiology Club Seminars

Date + time	Speaker & Title	Location
Friday Jun 12 13:00-16:00	Lectures 13:00-13:45 Atin Sharma (Associate Editor, Nature Microbiology) “Publishing with Nature Portfolio and insights into the work of an editor” 13:45-14:00 Min Meijer (Erhardt Lab, Institute of Biology, HU Berlin) “Engineering a bacterial secretion platform for the export of recombinant proteins” Poster Session 14:00-15:00 • Huihui Li (Antelmann Lab, FU Berlin) “The co-localizing Zorya II, Druantia III, and ARMADA II defense systems on O-island 172 confer synergistic anti-phage defense in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli” • Julio César (Bastounis Lab, HU Berlin) “Shear stress gradients alter endothelial cell dynamics through transcriptomic reprogramming” • Sarah Voß (Erhardt Lab, HU Berlin) “Membrane dyes as tools to investigate cell envelope integrity in Gram-negative bacteria” • Khairy M. Ali (Rolff Lab, FU Berlin) “Speed Matters: Accelerated pharmacokinetics reduce persisters in Escherichia coli” • Maximilian Lehmann (Erhardt Lab, HU Berlin) “The intracellular role of flagella in the pathogenesis of typhoidal Salmonella” • Bastiaan Cockx (Gorbushina Lab, BAM) “Emergent biofilm properties of photovoltaic inhabiting black fungi” • Madhushruti Borah (Naseri Lab, HU Berlin) “De novo design of a cell-to-cell communication tool for optimized natural product synthesis in yeast” • Eileen Erdmann (Gorbushina Lab, BAM) “An inducible Ac/Ds transposon system for in vivo mutagenesis of the black fungus Knufia petricola” • Sara Salehian (Kloft Lab, FU Berlin) “Experimental and mathematical investigation of levofloxacin resistance in Escherichia coli” Lectures 15:00-15:30 Fabian Cornejo (Turgay Lab, MPUSP) “Multilayered regulation of translation underlies stress adaptation in Bacillus subtilis“ 15:30-15:45 Naomi Kimenyi (Rolff Lab, Institute of Biology, FU Berlin) “Spore quality quantity trade-offs determine life cycle speed but not virulence in Metarhizium brunneum“ 15:45-16:00 Johannes Fuchs (Remus-Emsermann Lab, Institute of Biology, FU Berlin) “The effect of community diversity on bacterial spatial patterns in the phyllosphere“	Freie Universität Berlin Gottlieb-Haberlandt Lecture Hall (ground floor) Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie und Mikrobiologie Königin-Luise-Straße 12–16, 14195 Berlin
Friday Mar. 27 14:00-17:00	Lectures 14:00-14:30 Michael Mülleder (Institute of Biochemistry, Charité) “Introducing the BUA Core Facility Proteomics” 14:30-15:00 Maren Herzog (Rolff Lab, Institute of Biology, FU Berlin) “Antimicrobial resistance evolution: concordance of in vitro and in vivo studies” 15:00-15:40 PhDs interaction group & Postdocs interaction group What are your expectations of the µclub? -Learn new techniques/protocols? -Have lab visits in the participating labs? -Teaching/supervision opportunities in the participating labs? -Networking with peers from the participating labs: how can this be achieved? -Others? 15:40-15:50 PhDs present their conclusion/main message from the discussion 15:50-16:00 Postdocs present their conclusion/main message from the discussion 16:00-16:30 Julien Thebing (Schreiber Lab, Division of Biodeterioration and Reference Organisms, BAM) “Cross-resistance and collateral sensitivity between antibiotics and biocides in Pseudomonas aeruginosa“ 16:30-17:00 Antonia Nowicki (Barbirz Lab, Infection Biology of Microbial Viruses, MSB-HMU) “Glycan-based biofilms in bacteriophage infection regulation“	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Rhoda-Erdmann-Haus (Haus 22) Seminar Room 1023 (ground floor) Institute of Biology

Date + time

Speaker & Title

Location

Friday Jun 12
13:00-16:00

Lectures
13:00-13:45

Atin Sharma (Associate Editor, Nature Microbiology)
“Publishing with Nature Portfolio and insights
into the work of an editor”

13:45-14:00
Min Meijer (Erhardt Lab, Institute of Biology, HU Berlin)
“Engineering a bacterial secretion platform for the export of recombinant proteins”

Poster Session
14:00-15:00

• Huihui Li (Antelmann Lab, FU Berlin) “The co-localizing Zorya II, Druantia III, and ARMADA II defense systems on O-island 172 confer synergistic anti-phage defense in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli”

• Julio César (Bastounis Lab, HU Berlin) “Shear stress gradients alter endothelial cell dynamics through transcriptomic reprogramming”

• Sarah Voß (Erhardt Lab, HU Berlin) “Membrane dyes as tools to investigate cell envelope integrity in Gram-negative bacteria”

• Khairy M. Ali (Rolff Lab, FU Berlin) “Speed Matters: Accelerated pharmacokinetics reduce persisters in Escherichia coli”

• Maximilian Lehmann (Erhardt Lab, HU Berlin) “The intracellular role of flagella in the pathogenesis of typhoidal Salmonella”

• Bastiaan Cockx (Gorbushina Lab, BAM) “Emergent biofilm properties of photovoltaic inhabiting black fungi”

• Madhushruti Borah (Naseri Lab, HU Berlin) “De novo design of a cell-to-cell communication tool for optimized natural product synthesis in yeast”

• Eileen Erdmann (Gorbushina Lab, BAM) “An inducible Ac/Ds transposon system for in vivo mutagenesis of the black fungus Knufia petricola”

• Sara Salehian (Kloft Lab, FU Berlin) “Experimental and mathematical investigation of levofloxacin resistance in Escherichia coli”

Lectures
15:00-15:30
Fabian Cornejo (Turgay Lab, MPUSP)
“Multilayered regulation of translation underlies stress adaptation in Bacillus subtilis“

15:30-15:45
Naomi Kimenyi (Rolff Lab, Institute of Biology, FU Berlin)
“Spore quality quantity trade-offs determine life cycle speed but not virulence in Metarhizium brunneum“

15:45-16:00
Johannes Fuchs (Remus-Emsermann Lab, Institute of Biology, FU Berlin)
“The effect of community diversity on bacterial spatial patterns in the phyllosphere“

Freie Universität Berlin
Gottlieb-Haberlandt Lecture Hall (ground floor)
Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie und Mikrobiologie
Königin-Luise-Straße 12–16, 14195 Berlin

Friday Mar. 27
14:00-17:00

Lectures
14:00-14:30
Michael Mülleder (Institute of Biochemistry, Charité)
“Introducing the BUA Core Facility Proteomics”

14:30-15:00
Maren Herzog (Rolff Lab, Institute of Biology, FU Berlin)
“Antimicrobial resistance evolution: concordance of in vitro and in vivo studies”

15:00-15:40
PhDs interaction group & Postdocs interaction group
What are your expectations of the µclub?
-Learn new techniques/protocols?
-Have lab visits in the participating labs?
-Teaching/supervision opportunities in the participating labs?
-Networking with peers from the participating labs: how can this be achieved?
-Others?

15:40-15:50
PhDs present their conclusion/main message from the discussion

15:50-16:00
Postdocs present their conclusion/main message from the discussion

16:00-16:30
Julien Thebing (Schreiber Lab, Division of Biodeterioration and Reference Organisms, BAM)
“Cross-resistance and collateral sensitivity between antibiotics and biocides in Pseudomonas aeruginosa“

16:30-17:00
Antonia Nowicki (Barbirz Lab, Infection Biology of Microbial Viruses, MSB-HMU)
“Glycan-based biofilms in bacteriophage infection regulation“

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Rhoda-Erdmann-Haus (Haus 22)
Seminar Room 1023 (ground floor)
Institute of Biology

Microbiology Club Berlin currently includes the following Labs:

Lab Head	Institute	Website
Lorenz Adrian	UFZ, Dept. of Environmental Biotechnology	Website
Haike Antelmann	FU Berlin, Molecular Biology	Website
Effie Bastounis	Humboldt University, Microbial Infection Biology	Website
Carsten Beta	Uni Potsdam, Biological Physics Group	Website
Emmanuelle Charpentier	MPUSP	Website
Elke Dittmann	Uni Potsdam, AG Mikrobiologie	Website
Marc Erhardt	Humboldt University, AG Molecular Microbiology	Website
Sofia Forslund	Max-Delbrück Centrum, Integrative Biomedicine	Website
Matthias Gimpel	TU Berlin	Website
Anna Gorbushina	BAM Berlin, Dept of Materials and Environment	Website
Ferdi L. Hellweger	Technical University of Berlin	Website
Regine Hengge	Humboldt University, General Microbiology	Website
Lydia Herzel	FU Berlin, Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry	Website
Klaus Heuner	Robert Koch-Institut, Hochpathogene mikrobielle Erreger	Website
Felix M. Key	Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin	Website
Steffen Lindner	MPIMPB, Systems & Synthetic Metabolism	Website
Vera Meyer	TU Berlin, Applied and molecular microbiology	Website
Gita Naseri	Humboldt University, Microbial SynBio	Website
Timo Niedermeyer	FU Berlin, Dept of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy	Website
Sonja Oberbeckmann	BAM Berlin, Material-Microbiome Interactions Division 4.2	Website
Markus Ralser	Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany	Website
Mitja Remus-Emsermann	FU Berlin, Dept of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy	Website
Jens Rolff	FU Berlin, Institute of Biology/Evolutionary Biology	Website
Frank Schreiber	BAM Berlin, Dept of Materials and Environment	Website
Ulrich Steiner	FU Berlin, Evolutionary Demography	Website
Kürşad Turgay	MPUSP	Website

Registration

To register for the Microbiology Club or for further information, please email: contact@mpusp.mpg.de