Past Events
Playlist for recorded lectures (only internal)
CRC 235 Events:
Molecular Origins of Life Munich 2023 Conference
20-22 June 2023, Online (Website)
EoL Seminar
hosting Hans R. Kricheldorf (University of Hamburg)
10 Feb 2023, Kleinerphysikhörsaal + Online
EoL FORUM
Discussion platform for scientific exchange in OoL
20-24 June 2022, Frauenwörth, Chiemsee
Molecular Origins of Life Munich 2022 Conference
16-17 June 2022, Literaturhaus München (Website)
EoL Seminar
hosting Rout Saroj Kumar (ETH Zurich)
30 March 2022, Online
EoL Seminar
hosting Zoe Todd (U. Washington) and Alexander Ruf (LMU)
09 March 2022, Online
EoL Mini Symposium
hosting Claudia Bonfio (U. Strasbourg), Kerstin Göpfrich (MPI for Medical Research), Stephen Mojzsis (Origins Research Institute, Budapest, U. Vienna, U. Colorado at Boulder), Martina Preiner (Utrecht U., The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research - NIOZ), Leonard Prins (U. Padova), Dora Tang (MPI-CBG)
15 February 2022, Kleinerphysikhörsaal + Online (Poster)
Graduate School Oct 2021 Meeting
hosting Veronica Vaida (University of Colorado Boulder)
Thursday, 28 October 2021, Virtual Meeting (Schedule)
Graduate School Sep 2021 Meeting
hosting Sabine Müller (University of Greifswald)
Thursday, 30 September 2021, Virtual Meeting (Schedule)
Molecular Origins of Life Munich 2021 Conference
25-27 August 2021, Virtual Conference (Website)
Graduate School July 2021 Meeting
hosting Elisa Biondi (FfAMe) and Paul B. Rimmer (U. Cambridge)
Thursday, 22 July 2021, Virtual Meeting (Schedule)
Summer School 2021
from CRC 235 Students for CRC 235 Students
15-17 June 2021, Online (Schedule)
Graduate School April 2021 Meeting
hosting Martha Grover (Georgia Tech)
Thursday, 29 April 2021, Virtual Meeting (Schedule)
Graduate School March 2021 Meeting
hosting Christine Keating (Penn State University)
Thursday, 25 March 2021, Virtual Meeting (Schedule)
2021 Winter Retreat
24-25 February 2021, Virtual Meeting (Schedule)
Graduate School January 2021 Meeting
hosting Bénédicte Menez (Paris Diderot University - IPGP)
Thursday, 14 January 2021, Virtual Meeting (Schedule)
Progress Update and Project Discussion Meeting
Thursday, 19 November 2020, Virtual Meeting (Schedule)
Graduate School October 2020 Meeting
hosting Norikazu Ichihashi (University of Tokyo)
Thursday, 29 October 2020, Virtual Meeting (Schedule)
Graduate School September 2020 Meeting
hosting Laurie Barge (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Wednesday, 30 September 2020, Virtual Meeting (Schedule)
Molecular Origins of Life Munich 2020 Conference
8-10 July 2020, Virtual Conference (Abstract Book)
Graduate School May 2020 Meeting
hosting Audrey Bouvier (University of Bayreuth) - 'Making Earth, a recipe from meteorites'
Tuesday, 12 May 2020, Virtual Meeting (Schedule)
2020 Winter Retreat
hosting Peter V. Coveney (UCL), Chris Greenwell (Durham University), Matthew Pasek (USF), Eoghan Reeves (University of Bergen) and Martin van Kranendonk (University of New South Wales)
17-20 February 2020, Hotel Millanderhof, Brixen, Italy (Schedule)
Graduate School January 2020 Meeting
hosting Julia Bloemer & Wiebke Henning (Deutsches Museum) and Cecilia Scorza (LMU) - 'Designing an exhibition' Case Studies
Wednesday, 15 Jan. 2020, Deutsches Museum (Schedule)
Graduate School December 2019 Meeting (ORIGINS Cluster Science Week)
hosting Stephen Mojzsis (University of Colorado, Boulder) - Late accretion to the inner solar system modulated the emergence of life
Wednesday, 4 Dec. 2019, New Seminar Room 1.1.18ab at MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics (Schedule)
Graduate School November 2019 Meeting
hosting Andrew Griffiths (ESPCI- Paris) - Droplet-Based Microfluidics to Study the Emergence of Darwinian Systems
Thursday, 14 Nov. 2019, Seminar Room N110, Amalienstr. 54, 80799 Munich (Schedule)
CeNS/CRC235 Workshop "Evolving Nanosciences"
23-27 Sep. 2019, Venice International University, San Servolo (Italy) (More)
Graduate School September 2019 Meeting
hosting Irene Chen (UCSB) - Evolution in the RNA World
Tuesday, 10 Sep. 2019, Seminar Room N110, Amalienstr. 54, 80799 Munich (Schedule)
Summer School 2019
hosting Matthew Powner (UCL), Rafal Szabla (Polish Academy of Sciences) and Tommaso Fraccia (ESPCI, Paris)
3-7 June 2019, Jugendherberge Regensburg (Schedule)
Graduate School May 2019 Meeting
hosting Michael Russell (NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory) - Why Does Life Start, What Does It Do, Where Will It Be, and How Might We Find It?
Thursday, 09 May 2019, Seidlvilla-Zenzl-Mühsam-Saal, Nikolaiplatz 1b, 80802 Munich (Schedule)
Graduate School March 2019 Meeting
hosting Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy (The Scripps Research Institute) - Chemistry Leading to the Origins of Life versus the Chemistry of Life - Same, Similar or Different?
Wednesday, 20 March 2019, Seminar Room N110, Amalienstr. 54, 80799 Munich (Schedule)
2019 Winter Retreat
hosting Albert Fahrenbach (University of New South Wales), Joseph Moran (University of Strasbourg) and Judit Sponer (Masaryk University)
18-21 February 2019, Hotel Millanderhof, Brixen, Italy (Schedule)
Graduate School January 2019 Meeting
hosting Tommaso Bellini (University of Milan) - Liquid crystal ordering of nucleic acids: a route for the origin of life?
Thursday, 17 January 2019, Seidlvilla-Turmzimmer, Nikolaiplatz 1b, 80802 Munich (Schedule)
Graduate School November 2018 Meeting
hosting Moritz Kreysing (MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics) - Ribozyme interactions with charged and uncharged polymers
Thursday, 29 November 2018, Seidlvilla-Turmzimmer, Nikolaiplatz 1b, 80802 Munich (Schedule)
Graduate School October 2018 Meeting
hosting Kamesh Narasimhan (Church Lab - Harvard University) - Engineering Synthetic Living Systems with an Orthogonal Central Dogma
Mon, 22 October 2018, H522, Schellingstr. 4, 80799 Munich (Schedule)
Kick-off Meeting
hosting Wolfgang Weigand (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena) - From Prebiotic to Bio-inspired Hydrogen Production
Thu, 19 July 2018, Lengries - Brauneck
Guest Lectures:
Kamesh Narasimhan (Church Lab, Harvard University)
Genetic incorporation of non-standard amino acids in a recoded E.coli and Gedanken experiments on the emergence of minimal biological components
Tue, 09 Oct 2018, 09:30h, Seminar Room Hermann Gaub
Niles Lehman (Portland State University)
Scrambling to Build the RNA World
Mo, 08 Oct 2018, 09:30h, N110 - Seminar Room Rädler Chair
Avinash V. Dass (Centre de Biophysique Molèculaire - CNRS Orleans)
Stochastic Prebiotic Chemistry
Mo, 01 Oct 2018, 09:30h, N110 - Seminar Room Rädler Chair
Douglas LaRowe (University of Southern California)
Limits to Life in the Subsurface
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 09.30h, N110 - Seminar Room Rädler Chair
Shoichi Toyabe (Tohoku University, Japan)
Replication, Error, and Emergence of Life
Tue, 4 Sep 2018 09.30h, N110 - Seminar Room Rädler Chair
Frances Westall (Centre de Biophysique Molèculaire - CNRS Orleans)
Geological scenarios for the emergence of life on Earth and elsewhere in the Solar System and beyond
Tue, 10 July 2018 12.15h, Lunch Talk, Kleiner Physikhörsaal
External Events:
The Physics of the Emergence of Life MIAPP Program
30 Aug - 17 Sep June 2021 in Munich
Public Lecture by EoL Students at Deutsches Museum
Adriana Serrao (LMU - Braun Gr.): "Selection of DNA sequences by phase separation"
10 June 2021, online organized by Deutsches Museum and its Freundeskreis
Public Lecture by EoL Students at Deutsches Museum (in German)
Benedikt Peter (MPI of Biochemistry - Schwille Gr.): "Eis und die Vermehrung von RNA-Protozellen"
Thomas Steiner (TUM - Eisenreich Gr.): "Ursprung des Stoftwechsels"
6 May 2021, online organized by Deutsches Museum and its Freundeskreis (Recorded lecture)
Public Lecture by EoL Students at Deutsches Museum (in German)
Annalena Salditt (LMU - Braun Gr.): "Wie die DNA ihre Zufälligkeit verlor"
Christian Schmitt (Heidelberg University - Jäschke Gr.): "Woher kommt der genetische Code?"
8 April 2021, online organized by Deutsches Museum and its Freundeskreis (Recorded lecture)
Public Lecture by EoL Students at Deutsches Museum (in German)
Joachim Rosenberger (TUM - Gerland Gr.): "Wie die DNA lernte, sich selbst zu replizieren"
Beatriz von der Esch (LMU - Ochsenfeld Gr.): "Die Entstehung der Bausteine berechnen"
4 March 2021, online organized by Deutsches Museum and its Freundeskreis
Public Lecture by EoL Students at Deutsches Museum (in German)
Carsten Donau (TUM - Boekhoven Gr.): "Dynamische Protozellen aus RNA und Proteinen"
Christina Springsklee (LMU - Scheu Gr.): "Vulkane und die Entstehung des Lebens"
4 February 2021, online organized by Deutsches Museum and its Freundeskreis (Recorded lecture)
Breathing Life into Chemistry (MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Plön)
4-7 June 2019, MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Plön (Event Webpage)
An den Wurzeln des Lebens (Max-Planck-Forum)
Fri, 12 October 2018, Max-Planck-Haus am Hofgarten, Osthalle, Hofgartenstr. 8, 80539 Munich (Invitation)
Molecular Origins of Life (CAS Conference 2018)
11 & 12 October 2018, Literaturhaus Munich (Abstract Book)
Transferable Skill Workshops:
How to Overcome Procrastination
by Dr. Martin Greisel
10 May 2023, online
Open Acces Services at LMU
by Vanessa Gabriel M.A. (LMU München Universitätsbibliothek)
30 Nov. 2022, online
Python Workshop
by Prof. Dr. Andreas Kist
17-18 Nov. 2022, Amalienstr. 54, 1st Floor Seminar Room
The Fast Forward Implementation Program
an online workshop on time and project management offered by Mind Matters Ltd.
25 Apr. - 10 Jun. 2022, online
Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Researchers
by Dr. Marco Masia
14-17 Mar. 2022, online
Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
by GMP Academy
07-11 Mar. 2022, online
Career Booster Program
by Dr. Amani Said
07 Feb. - 27 Jun. 2022, online
Access to Nature Masterclasses Online Courses
by Nature Masterclasses
31 Jan. 2022 - 30 Jan. 2023, online
Research Data Training
by Nature Research Academies
18, 24, 26 Nov. 2021, online
The Fast Forward Implementation Program
an online workshop on time and project management offered by Mind Matters Ltd.
04 Oct. - 09 Nov. 2021, online
Applied Statistics in Life Sciences
by Dr. Tobias Straub (LMU Biomedical Center Munich)
20-24 Sep. 2021, online
Mind Matters Resilience Training for Researchers
by Mind Matters Ltd.
30 Aug. - 29 Oct. 2021, online
Career Booster Program
by Dr. Amani Said
31 May - 27 Oct. 2021, online
Webinar: How to identify your Ideal Career Path as a scientist and make a successful career transition
by Dr. Amani Said
20 Ap. 2021, online
The Fast Forward Implementation Program
an online workshop on time and project management offered by Mind Matters Ltd.
19 April - 04 June 2021, online
Effective Visual Communication of Science
by Jernej Zupanc (Seyens)
13-14 Oct. 2020, online
The Fast Forward Implementation Program
an online workshop on time and project management offered by Mind Matters Ltd.
05 Oct. - 27 Nov. 2020, online
Scientific Writing and Publishing
by Nature Masterclasses
04 Oct. 2020 - 04 Oct. 2021, online
Voice Training
by Caroline Frauer & Julia Rupprecht (Sprachraum)
21 Sep.-12 Oct. 2020 (once a week), online
The Fast Forward Implementation Program
an online workshop on time and project management offered by Mind Matters Ltd.
27 April - 12 June 2020, online
LaTeX for beginners
by Caroline Gergen (edv-coaching)
10-11 March 2020, Grosshaderner Str. 9, 82152 Planegg Room N02.008
The Fast Forward Implementation Program
an online workshop on time and project management offered by Mind Matters Ltd.
07 Oct. - 22 Nov. 2019, online
Writing Skills for Scientists
by Carsten Rohr (Sprachraum)
18-19 July 2019, Schellingstr. 4 Room H522 & H207
Team Communication Tools and Conflict Management
by Viola Kraus
3-4 June 2019, Jugendherberge Regensburg (Summer School)
Presenting your research effectively
by Tim Korver (Sprachraum)
18-19 March 2019, Schellingstr. 4 Room HU123