The CrickConnect team are delighted to be able to invite community members to join us for the institute's regular Crick Lecture.

Crick Lectures provide a broad insight into biomedical research from leading scientists. Not to be missed, the one-hour lectures are the event of the week for the Crick community to come together. The lectures aim to be accessible to scientists across different disciplines, while also offering something for the specialist.

We're delighted to invite Prof. Dr. Markus Ralser, visiting Group Leader at the Crick and Director of the Institute of Biochemistry at Charité University Medicine Berlin, to give this week's Crick lecture, title to be confirmed. 

There will also be an opportunity to catch up with colleagues and friends over refreshments after the Lecture from 17:00. If you are able to join us in person at the Crick please let us know at connect@crick.ac.uk so we can arrange access.

Markus Ralser

Markus is now a visiting group leader at the Crick.In 2018 he became Einstein Professor of Biochemistry, and is a Head of Biochemistry at the Charitè University Medicine (the joint medical faculty of Humboldt and Free state Universities in Berlin, Germany). Previously, he was the recipient of a Wellcome Trust Research career development fellowship and a Wellcome-Beit prize, at the Department of Biochemistry and the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge.

Born in South Tyrol (Italy), he studied Genetics and Molecular Biology In Salzburg , and completed a PhD in Neurodegenerative disorders at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. After being trained in mass spectrometry at VU Amsterdam, he started a Junior group at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics which moved to the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2011.

The Ralser lab is known for fundamental discoveries that have improved our understanding on how cells can coordinate hundreds of biochemical reactions assembled in the metabolic network. These show that metabolism is much more flexible and integrated into physiology of cells as it was expected only a few years ago. In particular, results obtained in the Ralser lab have provided fundamental insights on how central carbon metabolism could have evolved in early life forms (driving the structure of modern metabolism), how reactions can co-occur within a cell despite competing chemistries, and how yeast and cancer cells reconfigure metabolism to be protected against oxidative stress.