TRA Life and Health for you

We promote and fund projects and events that support our goals.
Suggestions, ideas and initiatives are always welcome!

"Talks Life and Health" (TLaH) Announcement System for Talks

TLaH is a web-based system that can be displayed on large screens, e.g. in the entrance areas of your institutes. In addition, there is a list overview and a calendar that can also be accessed via the Internet. The idea is to make all the fantastic lectures we offer here in Bonn known beyond the boundaries of your own institute or network. Would you like to announce a lecture in Bonn via our system? Please send an e-mail with the information.

List of talks

Example TLaH announcement system © Uni Bonn

Funding opportunities and events

Workshops

TRA Life and Health Workshop Call

Do you have an idea for a new, cross-cutting research topic at the University of Bonn?
We aim to foster ideas for new trans- and interdisciplinary research topics by supporting one-day kick-off workshops. This will ideally lead to new ideas, initiatives, concepts for new cross-TRA activities with potential for external funding in the long-term. Topics should be broad and have the potential for spanning multiple PIs or even connecting existing research consortia.

Combining expertise from different fields and faculties, the new idea should bring together researchers from the University of Bonn and possibly also from external partners from academia, industry or society.

TRA Life and Health will support the workshop by funding travel and accommodation for one external speaker as well as light workshop catering (max. 1000 € total costs). The workshop should be open to the TRA-community (upon registration) and take place in 2026.

Workshops 2026_2.pdf

Great Data - Great Science

The 2026 TRA Workshop on Data Management and Data Science Across Disciplines will take place on 6. October 2026 at the Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn (Ahrstr. 45, 53175 Bonn).

The programme addresses a broad range of topics, including:

Data science methods and cross-disciplinary workflows
Research data management infrastructures and support services in Bonn and beyond
Data management in large-scale projects and Clusters of Excellence
High Performance Computing (HPC) and data-intensive research
Commercialization, knowledge transfer, and research-based entrepreneurship
Open Science and the future of accessible and reusable research

The workshop is open to researchers and staff of Bonn University and affiliated institutions. We also encourage Ph.D. students to participate.

We encourage all participants to bring a poster about challenges and solutions to research data management and data science in their particular field of science.

Past Events

NEXUS @ Poppelsdorf
From Cells to Biodiversity

A TRA Symposium to celebrate the arrival of the LIB Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research at the Poppelsdorf Campus

Event details: July 14, 14:00-18:00, red seminar room of the Margarethe Koenig Synapse. The event will include short talks by TRA/LIMES and LIB researchers, a tour of the new LIB lab and biobanking infrastructures, and a mixer.
Confirmed speakers
TRA Life and Health: Elena Reckzeh, Andreas Schlitzer, Jonathan Schmid-Burgk, Jan Hasenauer, Michael Pankratz, Silvana Hassel (AG Mayer)

LIB: Alexander Suh, Niki Vontzou, Julia Schwarzer, Anna Torgasheva, Lars Podsiadlowski

Symposium aim: Showcase the respective expertise and infrastructures at Uni Bonn, LIMES and LIB, with a particular focus on creating new synergies between researchers working on cell culture, single-cell omics, cytogenetics, live-cell imaging, and organoids.

Target audience: Biomedical researchers interested in both model and non-model organisms, biodiversity researchers interested in applying biomedical approaches to their study organism.

Please register until 06.07.2026.

Announcement Workshop Multi-Purpose Design Principles

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Seminar series "Emerging Technologies"

In order to keep pace with scientific developments, it is essential to identify, develop and establish new relevant technologies. The new seminar series “Emerging Technologies”, organized by the Bonn Technology Campus with the support of TRA Life and Health, invites speakers who have developed new technologies that are of interest to the Core Facilities and researchers in Bonn.

Start: April 29, 2025

Information and registration

“Sustainability for Life, Health and Planet” – Networking Event TRA Life and Health and TRA Sustainable Futures

Great science starts with unexpected encounters!

But do we really want to wait for that? We would like to facilitate the exchange of scientists between TRA Life and Health and TRA Sustainable Futures at the University of Bonn by providing a creative space to find out about the interesting research outside your own comfort zone.

We therefore invite a limited number of open-minded scientists to an exclusive event at the Museum Koenig and the Impulse – House for Intellectual Innovation and Creativity to meet the science and the people from Biology, Medicine, Nutrition Research and Sustainability Research in Bonn. They may be exactly what is needed to complement your research and start something innovative that would not be possible or even thinkable before.

Join us on Oct 7, 2025 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Scientific organizers: Wolfram Barfuss, Ina Danquah (TRA Sustainable Futures), Nicolas Gompel, Dagmar Wachten (TRA Life and Health)
Administrative organizers: Meike Brömer (TRA Life and Health), Hanna Zimmermann (TRA Sustainable Futures)

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any questions: life-and-health@uni-bonn.de.

Looking forward to an exciting networking event with you!

Register:

Registration is closed.

Bonn Organoid Club

Bonn Organoid Symposium 12.03.2026

For the second time, the Bonn Organoid Club, in collaboration with TRA Life and Health, is organizing a one-day symposium with six invited speakers who develop and use 3D and organoid models for various tissues and research questions. The program will be complemented by short talks and poster presentations by participants.

2nd Bonn Organoid Day

Join us for our second Bonn Organoid Day to connect with the Bonn Organoid Community. Participate with a short talk or flash talk, contribute to our image competition and relax and network with drinks and BBQ. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Bonn Organoid Symposium 2024

Join us on November 6 for the “Bonn Organoid Symposium 2024“!

With seven invited speakers, short talks and a poster session, we expect a full day of presentations, discussions and networking opportunities around organoids and other 3D culturing systems in multiple application cases.

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