Seminars and Events

Invited speakers present their work

Topics in Plant Biology presented by invited speakers

 

**Interested students, who are not yet registered, please contact Sandra Ryf, sandra.ryf@unibe.ch**

 

Location

Institute of Plant Sciences
Altenbergrain 21, main auditorium

Time

Mondays during the semester at 16:15-17:30 h

Spring Semester 2026

Date

 Speaker / Lecture Title                        

Organiser

16.02.2026

Internal IPS Colloquium
Plant Ecology & Evolution meets Molecular Plant Biology

Prof. Dr. M. Raissig

23.02.2026

Prof. Michela Mariani, University of Nottingham
Echoes of fire and food: palaeoecological insights into Indigenous-curated landscapes of southeastern Australia

Prof. W. Tinner
02.03.2026

Prof. Daniel Wegmann, University of Fribourg
Modern tools for ancient data: using paleogenomics to study the evolutionary history of humans (and some plants)

Prof. C. Schwörer

09.03.2026

Prof. Ken Feeley, University of Miami
Should they stay or should they go? The responses of tropical trees and tropical forests to global warming

Prof. R. Manzanedo

16.03.2026

Dr. Angela Prendin, University of Padova
Beyond the tree rings: A multi-proxy Journey through dendroanatomy

Prof. R. Manzanedo

23.03.2026

Dr. Rémy Merret, IBMP/CNRS Strasbourg
Title - to be defined

Prof. R. Reis
30.03.2026

Prof. Tonni Grube Andersen, Universität Zürich
Title - to be announced

Prof. M. Erb

13.04.2026



20.04.2026

Internal IPS Colloquium
Plant Ecology & Evolution meets Molecular Plant Biology

Prof. Dr. M. Raissig

27.04.2026



04.05.2026

Prof. Meret Huber, University of Mainz
Exploring and exploiting plant specialized metabolism

Prof. M. Erb

11.05.2026

Prof. Katarzyna Marcisz, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Title - to be announced

Prof. W. Tinner / Prof. C. Schwörer

18.05.2026

Prof. Laura Lee, UNC, University of North Carolina, United States
Title - to be announced

Prof. Dr. M. Raissig