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Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 8:30 - 9:30
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In connection with the meeting of the MIMS-UCMR Board in Umeå we will organise a Mini-Symposium.

Room: Triple Helix, University Liaison Building, Level 3

Chairperson:
Anna Arnqvist, Department of Medical Chemistry and Biophysics
Niklas Arnberg, Department of Clinical Microbiology

Programme:

08.30-08.50 
Anna Linusson, Group leader, Department of Chemistry, UmU
Discovery of selective inhibitors targeting acetylcholinesterase 1 from disease-transmitting mosquitoes

08.50-09.10 
Mikael Rhen, Karolinska Institute. UCMR/MIMS Guest professor
Alternative approaches for studying salmonellosis

09.10-09.30  
Nelson Gekara, MIMS Group Leader, Molecular Biology, UmU
Role of DNA repair proteins in Innate Immune Regulation

09.30–09.50
Anna Överby, MIMS Group Leader, Clinical Microbiology, UmU
Tick-borne encephalitis virus and the antiviral interferon system  

9.50–10.10    Coffe

10.10-10.30  
Vasili Hauryliuk, MIMS Group Leader, Molecular Biology, UmU
The role of ribosome-associated stress factors in antibiotic tolerance and resistance

10.30–10.50 
Andrea Puhar, MIMS Group Leader, Molecular Biology, UmU
Regulation of inflammation by the danger signal ATP in the gut

10.50–11.10
Magnus Wolf-Watz, Group leader, Department of Chemistry, UmU
Protein dynamics in T3SS mediated effector secretion

11.10- 11.30
Jörgen Johansson, MIMS Group Leader, Molecular Biology, UmU
Disarming bacterial pathogens

 

Interested people are welcome to listen to the symposium. Due to limitation of time and space we will organise light lunch for the participating speakers, board members and members of the MIMS/UCMR management only, outside of the lecture room, after the symposium.

Contact persons:
for the scientific programme: Åke Forsberg
for the organisation: Eva-Maria Diehl