Invited seminars / talks
2022 Plenary lectures: Gordon Research Conference on The Molecular Basis of Microbial One Carbon Metabolism, Southbridge, MA | The Carbon Recycling Network Conference, Nottingham, UK | 13th International Conference on Extremophiles, Loutraki, Greece
2021 Plenary lecture: Workshop on Biological Carbon Capture, Vienna, Austria | Webinar Extremophiles | FEMS Microbiology Ecology Webinar on Acetogenic Bacteria | The 22nd Severo Ochoa Lecture, Madrid, Spain | Seminars: University of Tübingen, Germany | University of Stockholm, Sweden | SBRC Seminar Series, Nottingham, UK
2020 Plenary lecture, C1 Net Conference - Chemicals from C1 Gas, Nottingham, UK | Seminar, University of Chicago
2019 Plenary lectures: Workshop on Gas in biotechnology, Vienna, Austria | Workshop on Biological Solutions for the Global CO2 Challenge, Karlsruhe, Germany | The 12th International Workshop on the Biology of Acinetobacter | Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology, Mainz, Germany | C1 Net Conference 4- Chemicals from C1 gas, Nottingham, UK | Seminar, University of Gießen
2018 Plenary lectures: 6th International Workshop on Deep Sea Microbiology, Busan, Korea | Clostridium XV Conference, Freising, Germany | Seminar, University of Dresden, Germany
2017 Plenary lecture, C1 Net Conference 3 - Chemicals from C1 Gas, Nottingham, UK | Seminars: University of Dresden, Germany | University of Karlsruhe, Germany
2016 Plenary lecture, The Lars G. Ljungdahl Lecture, Athens, GA
2015 Seminar, Quingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Quingdao, P.R. China | Plenary lecture, Microenergy workshop, Sandbjerg Castle, Denmark | Plenary lecture, Fall meeting of the Koninklijke Nederlands Vereniging voor Microbiologie, Section General and Molecular Microbiology, Utrecht, Netherlands | Seminar, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal | Seminar, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, USA | Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA | Plenary lecture, 3nd international workshop on “The last frontier of life: Extremophiles”, Pyeongchang, South Korea | Plenary lecture, 6th FEMS Microbiology Congress, Maastricht, Netherlands | Plenary lecture, C1net partnering meeting, University of Nottingham, UK | Seminar, Leibniz Institute DSMZ, Braunschweig, Germany
2014 Plenary lecture, Gordon Research Conference “Molecular basis of microbial one-carbon metabolism”, South Hadley, MA, USA | Plenary lecture, European Bioenergetics Conference, Lisbon, Portugal | Seminar, Tufts University, Boston, USA | Seminar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2013 Seminar, University of Freiburg, Germany | Plenary lecture, Annual Meeting of the Mexican Society for Biochemistry (section Bioenergetics and Biomembranes), Queretaro, Mexico | Seminar, Du Pont, “New Horizons in Biotechnology“, Wilmington, USA | Plenary lecture, Gordon Research Conference “Bioenergetics“, Andover, USA | Plenary lecture, International conference “Molecular Biology of Archaea”, Marburg, Germany | Plenary lecture, 2nd international workshop on “The last frontier of life: Extremophiles”, Jeju, South Korea
2012 Plenary lecture, Osmosensing and Osmoregulation in Prokaryotes, Osnabrück, Germany | Seminar, University of Bayreuth, Germany | Plenary lecture, Gordon Research Conference “Molecular basis of microbial growth on C1 compounds“, Lewiston, USA | Plenary lecture, 9th International Congress on “Extremophiles 2012”, Sevilla, Spain | Seminar, Genencor, Palo Alto, USA | Plenary lecture, International conference “Microbial life under extreme energy limitation”, Aarhus, Denmark | Seminar, University of Würzburg, Germany | Seminar, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany
2011 Seminar, University of Oklahoma, USA | Seminar, Harvard University, USA | Seminar, Microbial ecology, University of Konstanz, Germany | Plenary lecture, Wiegel Symposium: Extremophiles: the key to Bioenergy? “Acetogens: biofuel production and energy conservation”, Athens, USA | Plenary lecture, International conference “Thermophiles 2011”, Big Sky, Montana, USA | Seminar, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA | Seminar, University of Göttingen, Germany | Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
2010 Seminar, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany | Seminar, University of Regensburg, Germany | Plenary lecture, International conference “Extremophiles 2010”, Ponta Delgada, Portugal | Plenary lecture, Gordon Research Conference “Molecular basis of microbial one-carbon metabolism”, Lewiston, USA | Seminar, University of Rostock, Germany | Plenary lecture, International conference “Halophiles 2010”, Beijing, P.R. China | Plenary lecture, International conference FASEB “Transport ATPases: From molecules to maladie”, Snowmass Village, USA
2009 Gordon Research Conference “Archaea: Ecology, Metabolism & Molecular Biology”, Waterville Valley, USA | Seminar, Harvard University, USA | Seminar, Tufts University, Boston, USA | Seminar, University of Osnabrück, Germany | Seminar, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany
2008 Seminar, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany | Seminar, Polytechnische Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Seminar, Coskata Inc., Warrenville, USA | Plenary lecture, Gordon Research Conference “Molecular basis of microbial one-carbon metabolism”, Lewiston, USA
2007 Seminar, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn, Germany | Plenary lecture, International conference “Halophiles 2007”, Colchester, UK |Seminar, University of Osnabrück, Germany | Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany | Seminar, University of Cologne, Germany | Plenary lecture, Conference “Incredible anaerobes: from physiology to genomics to fuels”, Athens, USA
2006 Seminar, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany | Seminar, Science Park, Barcelona, Spain | Plenary lecture, European Bioenergetics Conference, Moscow, Russia | Seminar, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA | Seminar, Grinell College, Grinell, USA
2005 Seminar, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany | Plenary lecture, Gordon Research Conference “Cellular Osmoregulation”, Salve Regina, USA | Seminar, Tufts University, Boston, USA | Plenary lecture, International conference FASEB “Transport ATPases: Genomics, Mechanisms, and Relevance to diseases“, Saxtons River, USA | Seminar, Boston College, Boston, USA | Plenary lecture, Gordon Research Conference “Bioenergetics”, Biddeford, USA | Plenary lecture, Gordon Research Conference “Archaea”, Oxford, Great Britain
2004 International conference “Halophiles 2004”, Ljubljana, Slovenia |Plenary lecture, Gordon Research Conference “Molecular basis of microbial one-carbon metabolism”, South Hadley, USA | Seminar, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal | Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany |Seminar, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA | Seminar, State University of New York, Syracuse, USA
2003 Seminar, University of Bayreuth, Germany | Seminar, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
2002 Plenary lecture, International congress “Extremophiles 2002”, Naples, Italy |Seminar, University of Hamburg, Germany
2001 Seminar, University of Regensburg, Germany | Seminar, University of Ulm, Germany
2000 Plenary lecture, Gordon Research Conference “Molecular basis of microbial one-carbon metabolism”, New London, USA
1999 Seminar, Kuzelovych lecture, University of Bratislava, Slovak Republic |Seminar, Technical University of Munich, Germany
1998 Plenary lecture, Gordon Research Conference “Molecular basis of microbial one-carbon metabolism”, Henniker, USA | Plenary lecture, 2nd International Workshop on ATP synthase and V-ATPase, Osnabrück, Germany
1997 Seminar, University of Osnabrück, Germany | Seminar, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Seminar, University of Lübeck, Germany
1996 German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam, Germany | Seminar, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany | Seminar, University of Bremen, Germany | Seminar, LMU Munich, Germany | Seminar, University of Leipzig, Germany
1995 Seminar, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany | Seminar, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany | Seminar, University of Lübeck, Germany
1994 Plenary lecture, 8th European Bioenergetic Conference, Valencia, Spain
1993 Workshop on structure-function of ion-translocating complexes, Freiburg, Germany | Plenary lecture, Gordon Research Conference “Methanogenesis”, Plymouth, USA
1989 Plenary lecture, 6th International Symposium “Microbial growth on C1 compounds”, Göttingen, Germany
1988 Seminar, August-Kirchenstein-Institute for Microbiology, Riga, Latvia, UdSSR | Seminar, University of Bayreuth, Germany