| Date | Invited speaker | Title |
| 10. Oct | Annika Guse,
Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg | Uncovering the molecular mechanisms of coral-algal symbiosis using Aiptasia as a model system |
9.
Nov | Heather Marlow,
Institut Pasteur, Paris | Transcriptomic programs underlying cell fate determination in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis |
| 16. Nov | Andrew Swan,
University of Windsor, Canada | APC/C-Cort, a meiosis-specific Anaphase Promoting Complex, contributes to sex determination in Drosophila |
| 30. Nov | Benyamin Rosental,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel | Evolutionary origin of the mammalian hematopoietic system found in a colonial chordate |
4.
Dec | Leonid Moroz,
The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida | Genealogy of Neurons: Deciphering Brain Evolution through the Lens of Single-cell genomics |
| Christmas break |
| 1. Feb | Eugen Kerkhoff
University Hospital Regensburg | Actin/myosin functions in exocytic transport processes |
| 15. Feb | Brigitte Galliot,
University of Geneva | Hydra, a model for regeneration and slow aging |
| 22. Feb | Ines Drinnenberg,
Institut Curie, Paris | Histone repertoire changes are associated with changes in genome organisation: Loss of CenH3 in holocentric insects |
| 22. Mar | Arnau Sebe-Pedros,
Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona | Early metazoan cell type diversity and regulation by single-cell RNA-seq analysis |
| 29. Mar | Kristen Koenig,
Harvard University | Cephalopod lens development and the evolution of visual system complexity |
| 12. Apr | Nicole King,
Berkeley | Light regulated morphogenesis in a shape-shifting choanoflagellate |
| 26. Apr | Audrey Dussutour,
University Toulouse | Decision making and learning abilities in non neural organisms, evidence from slime molds. |
| 3. May | Scott Nichols,
University of Denver | Evolution of epithelial organization and dynamics in animals |
| 10. May | Celina Juliano,
UC Davis | Mechanisms of Development and Regeneration in Hydra |
| 24. May | Pauline Schaap,
University Dundee | From environmental sensing to developmental control – evolution of cell communication in the social amoebas. |
| 7. Jun | Sebastian Diecke
Berlin Institute of Health | Stem cells and gene editing for biomedical research and to rescue highly endangered animals |
| 14. Jun | Nadine Vastenhouw,
MPI Dresden | Cancelled |
| 21. Jun | Kerstin Bartscherer,
Hubrecht labs Utrecht | Understanding regeneration - from planarians to spiny mice |
| 28. Jun | Nicolas Rohner,
Stowers Institute, Kansas | Tba |
| | | |
