Invited speakers regularly present their research within the Jena Bioscience Seminar Series. For speakers who are not based in or around Jena, Jena Bioscience covers all travel and accommodation costs*, including a "Nachsitzung" in the Scala restaurant situated 120 m above city ground level.
| Speaker | Year | Institution |
| Felix Nussbaumer | 2023 | Innotope |
| Claudio Mussolino | 2019 | University of Freiburg - Medical Center |
| Ralf Ehricht | 2019 | Leibniz IPHT Jena |
| Carsten Zeilinger | 2019 | Leibniz University Hannover |
| Dirk Hoffmeister | 2018 | University of Jena |
| Marcelo de Bello Cioffi | 2018 | University of São Carlos |
| Carlo Unverzagt | 2018 | University of Bayreuth |
| Christian Becker | 2018 | University of Vienna |
| Andrea Rentmeister | 2018 | University of Münster |
| Chris Meier | 2017 | University of Hamburg |
| Ronald Micura | 2016 | University of Innsbruck |
| Stefan Raunser | 2016 | Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund |
| Richard Wombacher | 2016 | University of Heidelberg |
| Gert Bange | 2016 | Loewe-Zentrum Marburg |
| Ines Neundorf | 2015 | University of Köln |
| Michael Glocker | 2015 | Proteome Center Rostock |
| Valentin Gordeliy | 2015 | IBS Grenoble/Forschungszentrum Jülich/RWTH Aachen |
| Olegario Muniz | 2015 | Cuban Academy of Sciences |
| Andreas Marx | 2014 | University of Konstanz |
| Hermann Kraft | 2014 | RKS Ingenieure |
| Oliver Werz | 2013 | University of Jena |
| Thomas Carell | 2013 | University of Munich |
| Christian Hertweck | 2013 | Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena |
| Hans Agricola | 2012 | University of Jena |
| Henning Mootz | 2012 | University of Münster |
| Hans-Dieter Arndt | 2012 | University of Jena |
| Peter Hemmerich | 2012 | Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena |
| Thomas Pfannschmidt | 2012 | University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble |
| Michael Börsch | 2011 | University Hospital Jena |
| Dirk Schwarzer | 2011 | University of Tübingen |
| Torsten Schöneberg | 2010 | University of Leipzig |
| Gustav Jirikowski, Reimar Krieg | 2010 | University Hospital Jena |
| Klaus Benndorf | 2010 | University Hospital Jena |
| Michal Hocek | 2010 | Joint Lab of IOBC and Charles University Prague |
| Frank Große | 2010 | Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena |
| Christoph Biskup | 2010 | University of Jena |
| Stefan Lorkowski | 2010 | University of Jena |
| Stefan Heinemann | 2009 | University of Jena |
| Erika Kothe | 2009 | University of Jena |
| Dagmar Fischer | 2009 | University of Jena |
| Thorsten Heinzel | 2009 | University of Jena |
| Tobias Beck | 2009 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich |
| Gabriele Diekert | 2009 | University of Jena |
| Christina Schumann | 2009 | University of Applied Sciences Jena |
| Frank-Dietmar Böhmer | 2009 | University of Jena |
| Zoltan Konthur | 2009 | Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin |
| Roger Goody | 2008 | Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund |
| Kirill Alexandrov | 2008 | University of Queensland, Brisbane |
| Olegario Muniz | 2008 | Cuban Academy of Sciences |
| Manuel Than | 2008 | Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena |
| Hans-Achim Wagenknecht | 2008 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
| Frank Bordusa | 2007 | University of Halle-Wittenberg |
| Sven Rau | 2007 | University of Ulm |
| Stefan Spange | 2007 | Technical University Chemnitz |
| Rainer Beckert | 2007 | University of Jena |
| Jochen Süß | 2007 | Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Jena |
| John Corrie | 2005 | National Institute for Medical Research, London |
| Dave Bayley | 2005 | Camaxiom / University of Cambridge |
| Frauke Melchior | 2005 | University of Heidelberg |
| Kirill Alexandrov | 2004 | The University of Queensland, Brisbane |
| Mark Hoser | 2004 | Geneform Technologies Ltd. |
* For overseas visitors, up to a maximum of US$ 1000.