Trailblazer Lectures

For our lecture series "Trailblazer" we invite eminent scientists to the BMC whose pioneering work opened new research perspectives. Trailblazer Lectures are organized in collaboration with partner programs.

All dates will be announced here. The lectures will also be announced on the Campus Martinsried website: Subscribe to the RSS feed and stay up to date.

Previous lectures

DateSpeaker & title
28. October 2025Giulio Superti-Furga (Vienna and Medical University of Vienna): Membrane transporters as mediators of physiology across cells and ecosystems.
03. December 2024Shelley L. Berger (University of Pennsylvania): Epigenetic and neuropeptide (re)programming of ant behavior
02. October 2024Muzlifah Haniffa (Wellcome Sanger Institute and Newcastle University Biosciences Institute): The Developing Human Immune System
26. February 2024Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (Janelia Research Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute): Imaging subcellular organelle structure, dynamics, and interactions
13. October 2023Xiaowei Zhuang (Harvard University): Spatially resolved single-cell genomics and cell atlas of the brain
27. February 2023Tony Wyss-Coray (Stanford University School of Medicine): Young blood for old brains
11. October 2022Edith Heard (EMBL, Heidelberg): EMBL’s new science programme:
"Molecules to Ecosystems"
7. December 2021Tony Hyman (MPI Dresden): Biomolecular condensates and their
implications for physiology and disease
  1. Prof Giulio Superti-Furga and Prof Michael Kiebler at the BMC Trailblazer Lecture in October 2025.
  2. Shelley Berger and Peter Becker at the Trailblazer Lecture 2024

Prof Giulio Superti-Furga and Prof Michael Kiebler at the BMC Trailblazer Lecture in October 2025.

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Shelley Berger and Peter Becker at the Trailblazer Lecture in December 2024.

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Muzlifah Haniffa (right) and Barbara Schramel (left) at the Trailblazer Lecture on Oktober 2nd, 2024.

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Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (right) und Michael Kiebler (left) at the Trailblazer Lecture on Februar 26th, 2024.

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Xiaowei Zhuang (right) and Peter Becker (left) at the Trailblazer Lecture on Oktober 13th, 2023.

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Peter Becker (left), Tony Wyss-Coray (middle) and Christian Haass (right) at the Trailblazer Lecture Februar 27th, 2023.

Peter Becker (links) und Edith Heard (rechts) beim Trailblazer Lecture am 11. Oktober 2022.

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