| Date | Topic | Name | Article |
| 11.10.2012 | Organizational Matters | | |
| 18.10.2012 | — | (many are in Rio) | — |
| 25.11.2012 | — | (many are not back from Rio) | — |
| 01.11.2012 | — | (Allerheiligen) | — |
| 08.11.2012 | WABI 2012 | Simone Zaccharia | Compeau: A Simplied View of DCJ-Indel Distance |
| 15.11.2012 | Encode 2012 | Jens Stoye | The accessible chromatin landscape of the human genome |
| 22.11.2012 | Encode 2012 | Annelyse Thévenin | The accessible chromatin landscape of the human genome |
| 29.11.2012 | | Eyla Willing | GEODUAL: Fun with Geometric Duality |
| 06.12.2012 | Recomb-CG 2012 | Daniel Doerr | On pairwise distances and median score of three genomes under DCJ |
| 13.12.2012 | Encode 2012 | Linda Sundermann | Architecture of the human regulatory network derived from ENCODE data |
| 20.12.2012 | Trees in Bielefeld | everybody | — |
| 03.01.2013 | | | |
| 10.01.2013 | Encode 2012 | Pina Krell | |
| 17.01.2013 | | (too much snow) | |
| 24.01.2013 | | Katharina Jahn | |
| 31.01.2013 | WABI 2012 | Roland Wittler | From de Bruijn Graphs to Rectangle Graphs for Genome Assembly |