Past Events

HITS organizes scientific events throughout the year. Each month, HITS hosts its colloquium series. If you like to receive an invitation, please use this registration form: https://www.h-its.org/registration/

Our research groups offer scientific workshops. Additionally, HITS offers talks and events for the general public in Heidelberg and surroundings.

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Colloquium Richard A. Bonneau: Large Scale Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Protein Functions from integration of Sequence, Structure and Networks

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

By Prof. Dr. Richard A. Bonneau, Professor of Biology and Computer Science; Director, NYU Center for Data Science, New York, USA Vladimir Gligorijevic, P Douglas Renfrew and Richard Bonneau. Due to limitations of existing experimental methods for determining protein functions and the high cost of experiments, the vast majority of proteins across many organisms remain […]

Vortrag Prof. Dr. Andreas von Bubnoff, HITS Journalist in Residence 2019: Auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit – Wissenschaftsjournalismus in Zeiten von post-truth und reproducibility crisis

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

Die Wahrheit, so scheint es, hat es schwer heutzutage: Oxford Dictionaries erklärte "post-truth" zum internationalen Wort des Jahres 2016; Fake News verbreiten sich oft schneller, als sie entlarvt werden können; und der Relotius-Skandal offenbarte Schwachstellen beim Faktencheck im deutschen Journalismus. Auch in der Wissenschaft gibt es Probleme: Wissenschaftliche Studien, etwa zur Ernährung, widersprechen sich allzu […]

Colloquium Nicholas G. Reich: The Computational Science of Real-time Influenza Forecasting

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

By Nicholas G. Reich, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Amherst, USA Seasonal influenza outbreaks cause substantial annual morbidity and mortality worldwide. Accurate forecasts of key features of influenza epidemics, such as the timing and severity of the peak incidence in a given season, can inform […]

COMBINE & de.NBI Tutorial: Modelling and Simulation Tools in Systems Biology

Okinawa Insitute of Science and Technology Graduate University 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa, Japan 904-0495, Okinawa, Japan

This tutorial workshop is a satellite of the 20th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB). Participants will learn how to set up computer models of biological systems (e.g. metabolic or signalling networks) using experimental kinetic data and how to simulate them in different systems biology platforms. Hands-on sessions, lectures and software demonstrations will be included, […]

Workshop: Molecular Stresses

This workshop aims at discussing and devising new and unifying concepts to calculate and understand molecular stresses in complex materials. Such molecular stresses can stem from quantum chemical calculations, atomistic or coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics simulations. They could be inherent to the system, i.e. reflect intrinsic tension or pre-stress, or build up upon applying external mechanical […]

HITS at “Astronomy on Tap”

  "A New Science is Born: Astronomy in the Era of AI" - the pub talk by HITS researcher Antonio D'Isanto from the Astroinformatics (AIN) group. The event is held in O’Reilly’s Irish Pub on Brückenkopfstraße (just across the river from Bismarckplatz). Entrance is free! "Astronomy on Tap" is a series of monthly astronomy events […]

Colloquium Keith A. Crandall: Computational Approaches for Characterizing Microbiome Diversity

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

By Keith A. Crandall, PhD, Professor ob Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Director - Computational Biology Institute, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA   Microbiome characterization has become an integral component to the study of a wide variety of disease and health for a diversity of organisms. Through the collection of […]

HITS at “Astronomy on Tap”

“Can crowdsourcing be replaced by machine learning” – the pub talk by HITS researcher Erica Hopkins from the Astroinformatics (AIN) group. The event is held in O’Reilly’s Irish Pub on Brückenkopfstraße (just across the river from Bismarckplatz). Entrance is free! “Astronomy on Tap” is a series of monthly astronomy events held in Heidelberg. Each event […]

Integrative Modeling of Allosteric Modulation in Pentameric Ligand-Gated Ion Channels

By Erik Lindahl, Stockholms universitet, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm, Sweden Ligand-gated ion channels control the electrical excitation of nerve cells, in particular in the post-synaptic membrane in response to chemical signals mediated by neurotransmitters. These receptors exhibit an amazing diversity in detailed structure and function - some human channels have 15-20 slightly genes, […]