Winter Seminar 2025/26
Fellows’ Project Presentations
LIFE fellows will discuss their project with their co-fellows in more depth than is usually possible at the academies. They will discuss burning questions of their projects with LIFE alumni co-chairing the sessions.
The sessions will take place on Thursdays, 16:00 – 17:30 hrs at the MPIB.
30 Oct 2025, Small Conference Room
Caroline Poppa: Publication Bias in the Social Sciences
Co-Chairs (online participation):Julia Rohrer, Rui Mata
13 Nov 2025, Large Conference Room
Theo Koustakas: Choir Singing Induced Brain Plasticity
Co-Chairs: Elisabeth Wenger, Yana Fandakova
20 Nov 2025, Small Conference Room
Olivia Metzner: From Words to Data: Classifying Teachers' Autonomy-Supportive Messages in the Classroom Using a Large Language Model
Co-Chairs: Lena Keller, Elisa Oppermann
4 Dec 2025, Room 299
Lydia Brundisch: Developmental Emergence of Spatial Memory: Linking Entorhinal Grid Codes, Hippocampal Maturation, and Spatial Navigation in Childhood
Co-Chairs: Yee Lee Shing, Wenke Möhring
cancelled
11 Dec 2025, Small Conference Room
Marie Schmidt: Developmental Changes in Children’s Personal Life Events
Co-Chairs (online participation): Yee Lee Shing, Yana Fandakova, Garvin Brod
18 Dec 2025, Small Conference Room
Deniz Främke: Developmental Origins of Polygenic and Epigenetic Indices of Cognition and Educational Attainment
Co-Chairs (online participation): Paige Harden, Evan Giangrande
8 Jan 2026, Small Conference Room - 14:00 hrs
Sepideh Zarandooz: Exploring Saliva DNA Methylation as a Biomarker for Social Determinants of Health Across Lifespan and Generations
Co-Chairs (online participation): Sara Zocher ?, Julia M. Rohrer, Julia Freund ?, Meghan H. Puglia
15 Jan 2026, r. 299
Anja Stanojlovic: Parsing Nature and Nurture: A Twin Study of Environmental Effects on Brain and Mental Health
Co-Chairs (online participation): Elliot Tucker-Drob, Christopher R. Beam
22 Jan 2026, Small Conference Room
Leonie Hagitte: Monte Carlo Simulation for Comparing MNLFA and SEM trees
Co-Chairs: Jannik Orzek, Mario Lawes
29 Jan 2026, Small Conference Room
Agata Patycek: Bidirectional Interactions Between Age-Related Changes in the Autonomic Nervous System and Brain Structure and Function
Co-Chairs: Maike Kleemeyer, Agnieszka Burzynska, Martin Dahl