Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Award Lecture

Seit Dezember 2004 laden wir regelmäßig renommierte Wissenschaftler*innen ein, in der Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Lecture über ihre neuesten Forschungsergebnisse zu berichten. Seit dem Jahr 2016 wird diese Reihe als Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Award Lecture weitergeführt.

Mit dieser Vortragsreihe würdigen wir herausragende Forscher*innen für ihre wissenschaftlichen Erfolge. Die Auszeichnung ist mit der Verleihung einer Medaille und, seit 2016, mit einem Preisgeld von 10.000 Euro verbunden.

Die interdisziplinäre Vortragsreihe wurde zu Ehren des Physiko-Chemikers Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer (1899-1957) ins Leben gerufen. Als einer der ersten ließ Bonhoeffer die naturwissenschaftliche Interdisziplinarität lebendig werden, indem er physikalisch-chemische Methoden auch zur Lösung biologischer Fragestellungen anwandte.

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Alle Vorträge der Reihe

Katalin Karikó

Developing mRNA for therapy: My journey
Universität Szeged, Ungarn
30. Oktober 2025

Robert G. Griffin

β-Amyloid, Microwaves and the Magic Angle
Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, USA
11. Dezember 2024

Paul Nurse

Controlling the Cell Cycle
The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
30. Oktober 2023

Andreas J. Heinrich

Quantum Spins on Surfaces
Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Institute for Basic Science, Seoul (Republic of Korea)
17. Dezember 2021

Edith Heard

Exploring the dynamic relationship between gene expression and chromosome organisation during X-chromosome inactivation
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
3. Dezember 2019

Kim Nasmyth

Does cohesin mediate sister chromatid cohesion by a mechanism distinct from loading, translocation, and loop extrusion?
University of Oxford, Oxford (UK)
8. November 2017

John Sutherland

Origins of Life Systems Chemistry
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK)
18. September 2017

Jennifer Doudna

CRISPR Systems: Nature’s Toolkit for Genome Editing
University of California, Berkeley (USA)
15. September 2017

Peter Hegemann

Channelrhodopsin and new inhibitory optogenetic approaches
Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
11. Mai 2016

Ältere Vorträge in der Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer-Vortragsreihe

Nick Proudfoot

Defining transcription units across the human genome
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford (UK)
8. Oktober 2015

Gideon Dreyfuss

RNA-Protein (Ribonucleoprotein) Assemblies in Control of Gene Expression
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia (USA)
9. Juli 2015

Mordechai (Moti) Segev

Structure-based sub-wavelength imaging and super-resolution in time, frequency, and quantum systems
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel)
28. Januar 2015

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie

Life at the Single Molecule Level
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge (USA)
8. August 2013

Mikhail Lukin

Exploring new frontiers of optical science: from quantum information to biosensing
Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge (USA)
25. April 2013

Irmgard Sinning

Mechanisms of protein insertion by the SRP and GET systems
Department of Structural Biology, Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH), Heidelberg
21. Juni 2012

John C.H. Spence

X-ray lasers for structural biology and molecular movies
Churchill College, Cambridge (UK)
22. März 2012

Ulrich Schibler

Signaling within the mammalian circadian timing system
Department of Molecular Biology, Universität Genf (Schweiz)
8. September 2011

Anna Marie Pyle

Insights into the evolution of RNA metabolism from studies of group II intron structure and function
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven (USA)
19. Mai 2011

Alexander Levitzki

Targeting the immune system to cancer
Department of Biological Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
24. März 2011

Vahid Sandoghdar

New methods for detection, imaging, and manipulation of nano-objects: going beyond fluorescence labeling and optical tweezing
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Zürich (Schweiz)
14. Oktober 2010

Kai Simons

Dynamic cell membrane organisation: role of lipid rafts
Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden
8. Juli 2010

Jürgen A. Knoblich

Asymmetric cell division and proliferation control in Drosophila and mouse neural stem cells
Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien (Österreich)
25. März 2010

Jens C. Brüning

Genetic analysis of neurocircuits controlling metabolic homeostasis
Department of Mouse Genetics and Metabolism, Institute for Genetics, Universität zu Köln
4. Februar 2010

W. E. Moerner

Single-molecule biophysical imaging, superresolution, and trapping
Stanford University, Stanford (USA)
27. Mai 2009

William T. Wickner

Studying membrane fusion with yeast vacuoles: 5 lipids, 4 SNAREs, 3 chaperones, 2 nucleotides, and a Rab, all dancing in a ring!
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH (USA)
14. Mai 2009

Jörg Wrachtrup

Focusing on spins
3. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart
12. Februar 2009

Masahiro Irie

Photochromic diarylethene molecules and crystals
Department of Chemistry, Rikkyo University, Tokyo (Japan)
9. Oktober 2008

Pietro De Camilli

Endocytic mechanisms at neuronal synapses
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven (USA)
29. April 2008

Alan S. Waggoner

Fluorescent probes for imaging
Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA)
19. Juni 2007

Phillip A. Sharp

RNA regulation and gene expression
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Cancer Research, Cambridge (USA)
23. Mai 2007

Michel Orrit

Single nano-objects in the spotlight
Molecular Nano-Optics and Spins, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
8. Februar 2007

Thomas Elsaesser

Ultrafast structural and vibrational dynamics of water
Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Berlin
21. September 2006

Colin Sheppard

Three-dimensional microscopy
Division of Bioengineering, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
15. Juni 2006

Andreas Engel

Atom structure and dynamics of membrane revealed by microscopy
Biozentrum, Universität Basel, Basel (Schweiz)
9. Februar 2006

Tom A. Rapoport

Molecules and the mechanisms that shape the tubular endoplasmic reticulum
Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA)
22. September 2005

Joan A. Steitz, Thomas A. Steitz

More surprises from studies of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs)
(J.A. Steitz)
Motion in the functioning of macromolecular machines
(T.A. Steitz)
Yale University, New Haven (USA)
19. September 2005

Fotis Kafatos

Malaria and the mosquito: immunogenomics of plasmodium transmission in anopheles
Imperial College London, London (UK)
12. September 2005

Iain Mattaj

Ran GTPase as a spatial regulator of mitosis
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg
2. Juni 2005

Harold A. Scheraga

Ab initio physics-based prediction of protein structure with both all-atom and simplified force fields
Cornell University, Ithaca (USA)
10. Dezember 2004