Prof. Dr. Michelle Power
School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
"One Health in action: The transmission of human- associated pathogens to urban adapted wildlife"
Hosted by Prof. Dr. Britta Lundström-Stadelmann, IPA & Prof. Dr. Carmen Faso, ICB (May 2026)
Prof. Dr. med. Placide Mbala
Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale & Université de Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
"Mpox outbreak, lessons learnt"
Hosted by Prof. Dr. med. Nicola Low, ISPM (May 2026)
Dr. Yingyu Liu
Cell Host & Microbe, Cell Press, Cambridge MA, USA
"Insider tips towards publication"
Hosted by Prof. Dr. Bahtiyar Yilmaz, DBMR (April 2026)
Prof. Dr. med. Berit Lange
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
"Linking adaptive infectious-disease specific cohorts and dynamic modeling to enable public health relevant epidemic predictions"
Hosted by Prof. Dr. med. Nicola Low & Dr. Eva Maria Hodel, ISPM (February 2026)
Prof. Dr. Marcel Salathé
School of Computer and Communication Sciences, School of Life Sciences EPFL, Lausanne
"Development of AI in health"
Hosted by Prof. Dr. med. Stephen Leib, IFIK (December 2025)
Prof. Dr. André Buret
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada
"Enteric infection disrupts gut microbiota: From mechanisms to therapy"
Hosted by Prof. Dr. Carmen Faso, ICB & Prof. Dr. Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg, DBMR (June 2025)
Prof. Dr. med. Parham Sendi
Federal Office for Public Health & Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern
"Infectious Diseases and Public Health: The Duties of the Division of Communicable Diseases at the Federal Office of Public Health"
Hosted by PD Dr. Caroline Schlaufer, KPM (June 2025)
Prof. Dr. Kei Sato
Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
"Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and beyond"
Hosted by Prof. Dr. Volker Thiel, IVI (April 2024)
Prof. Dr. Massimo Palmarini
Director of Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow, UK
"Genetic barriers to avian influenza viruses cross-species transmission"
Hosted by Prof. Dr. Volker Thiel, IVI (November 2023)
Dr. Felix Gille
Digital Society Initiative, Universität Zürich
"What Is Public Trust in the Health System? Insights into Health Data Use"
Hosted by Dr. Caroline Schlaufer, KPM (October 2023)
Dr. Peter Beyer
Deputy Executive Director, Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP)
"Some thoughts on the antibiotic R&D landscape and related policy discussions"
Hosted by Prof. Dr. Rudolf Blankart, KPM (September 2023)
Prof. Dr. Richard Neher
Biozentrum, University of Basel
"Adaptation and immune escape of SARS-CoV-2"
Hosted by PD Dr. Christian Althaus, ISPM (June 2023)
Prof. Dr. Pascale Vonaesch
Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne
"Microbiome, Nutrition and Health"
Hosted by Prof. Dr. Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg, DBMR (May 2023)
Dr. Sabine Bavamian
Chief Scientific Officer, Swiss Biobanking Platform
"Swiss Biobanking Platform: Strategy to support Quality, Visibility and Interoperability of biobanks"
Hosted by Dr. Aline Dousse-Bussard, IFIK (April 2023)
