Mittelerde Meeting 2026

Keynote Speakers

We are proud to announce the invited speakers listed below.

Sebastian Böcker

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Böcker

Chair of Bioinformatics Jena
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Friedrich Schiller University Jena


Small molecule machine learning: All models are wrong

Anna Poetsch

Dr. Anna Poetsch

Biomedical Genomics
Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC)
Dresden University of Technology


DNA Language Models to Understand the Biology of Genomes

Janet Kelso

Dr. Janet Kelso

Computational Ancient Genomics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig


Archaic Genomes: insights into human history and biology

Edda Klipp

Prof. Dr. Edda Klipp

Theoretical Biophysics
HU Berlin
Leipzig


Thermodynamically Explicit (TDE) Kinetics

Organizers

Dr. Mehdi Davari

IPB Halle

Prof. Dr. Andreas Dräger

MLU Halle

PD Dr. Jan Grau

MLU Halle

Prof. Dr. Ivo Große

MLU Halle

PD Dr. Steffen Neumann

IPB Halle

Dr. Thomas Schmutzer

MLU Halle

Dr. Zasha Weinberg

MLU Halle

Contact

Organized by

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg IPB Logo

Supported by

Analytik-Jena Logo DiP SNP2Prot Singleron prefrontal cortex JTC de.NBI Digital Science