New lecture series: TUM Life Science Talks foster interdisciplinary discourse
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With the TUM Life Science Talks, the TUM School of Life Sciences has launched a series of lectures: Internationally renowned scientists who have made important contributions to the life sciences and related disciplines with their work and who are helping to shape current developments in their respective fields are invited to participate.
In line with the School's One Health concept, the series brings together researchers, staff, and students from all areas of the life sciences – from molecular, plant, and agricultural sciences to nutrition, the environment, forestry, landscape architecture, and health, as well as data-driven methods, image processing, and artificial intelligence. The TUM Life Science Talks thus create a common forum for interdisciplinary dialogue and enable discussions that bring together different scientific perspectives and open up new approaches.
In addition, the TUM Life Science Talks highlight the breadth of subjects, research excellence and openness to interdisciplinary issues at the Weihenstephan campus. A particular focus of the series is to give young scientists and students insights into current scientific developments and to inspire them through direct exchange with leading figures.
The TUM School of Life Sciences looks forward to your participation and interdisciplinary discussion. Die TUM Life Science Talks are held in English – always in the Dean's Office / School Office (address: Freising-Weihenstephan, Alte Akademie 8).
The first TUM Life Science Talks in 2026
At the first TUM Life Science Talk on January 21, Prof. Ryuichiro Nakato from the Laboratory of Computational Genomics at The University of Tokyo spoke on the topic: “Can multi-omics analysis elucidate genome regulatory mechanisms?”
In his lecture, Prof. Nakato addressed the challenges of analyzing ChIP-seq data. He presented the ChromBERT model (doi.org/10.1101/2024. 07.25.605219), which is trained similarly to language models, but instead of words in a sentence, it predicts the next in a series of chromatin states in the genome. He also showed how the integration of multi-omics data can help to better understand genome architecture.
The next TUM Life Science Talk in Weihenstephan will take place on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, at 10:15 a.m. (Alte Akademie 8, Lecture Hall 1). Prof. Dr. Fabian Theis (Chair of Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems) will speak about: “Decoding cellular systems: From observational atlases to generative interventions”.