Events under 'Seminar'

Seminar at the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine/Epidemiology Global Health

Title:
Research on Zika, Malaria and Other Vector-borne Diseases at The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)

Speaker:
Madeleine Thomson
Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University, US.
 

Place: Room 135, Family Medicine/ Epidemiology Global Health, Building 9A, NUS

Host: Joacim Rocklöv, Public Health and Clinical Medicine
 
Bios:
Madeleine Thomson is a Senior Research Scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society and Senior Scholar at the Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences – at Columbia University. She is also the Director of the IRI/PAHO-WHO Collaborating Centre (US 306) for Early Warning Systems for Malaria and Other Climate Sensitive Diseases.

She trained originally as a field entomologist and has spent much of her career engaged in operational research in support of large-scale health interventions, mostly in Africa. Her research focuses on the development of new data, methodologies and tools for improving climate sensitive health interventions Her focus has been on vector-borne diseases (e.g. malaria, onchocerciasis, visceral lieshmaniasis etc.) but in recent years has expanded to include air and water-borne infections as well as broader health challenges associated with food security and disasters. She is a founding member of the Meningitis Environmental Risk Information Technologies (MERIT) research consortium and the Vice-President of a non-profit 501(3)c, the Health and Climate Foundation. She is currently engaged by the Wellcome Trust as “Special Adviser – Environment, Nutrition & Health”.

She is particularly interested in improving institutional and human capacity for incorporating climate information into health planning. To help achieve the latter she is working to create a “health and climate” disciplinary interface and a “climate smart” public health community through the ‘Climate Information for Public Health Action (CIPHA)’ initiative. She is and has been PI and Co-PI on projects funded by NASA, NIH, USAID, NOAA, Google.org, the International Federation of the Red Cross, the UK Department for International Development, the UK Meningitis Research Foundation, the UK Medical Research Council, The World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control, the European Union, amongst others.  She has a master’s in applied pest management from Imperial College London (1985) and a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool based on her field work on the ecology and identification of the Simulium damnosum vectors of Onchocerciasis volvulus in Sierra Leone (1989). She joined the IRI in May 2002.
Source: http://iri.columbia.edu/contact/staff-directory/madeleine-thomson/
 
Welcome!
Joacim Rocklöv

National and International Seminar Series 2017

Speaker:
Vicent Pelechano
Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology
Karolinska Institute

Title:
Genome-wide study of gene expression: From transcriptional complexity to ribosome dynamics

Host: Tracy Nissan, Molecular Biology

Lecture room E04, målpunkt R,  building NUS 6A-L, Biomedicinhuset

Webpage: Vicent Pelechano

Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start

National and International Seminar Series 2017

Speaker:
Marc Lecuit
Institut Pasteur, France
 

Title:
New insights in the pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes

Host: Andrea Puhar

How to find Betula

Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start

National and International Seminar Series 2017

Speaker:
Olof Lagerlöf
Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
 

Title:
Metabolic regulation of neuronal circuits that control feeding behavior

Host: Tommy Olsson

Webpage: Olof Lagerlöf

Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start

Place: lecture hall E04, målpunkt R, building NUS 6A-L, Biomedicinhuset;

National and International Seminar Series 2017

Speaker:
Jessica Quintin
Department of Mycology
Institut Pasteur, France
 

Title:
Monocyte memory to Beta-Glucans and beyond

Host: Pedro Lopes, Clinical Microbiology

How to find Betula

Webpage Jessica Quintin

Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start

NOTE PLACE!

National and International Seminar Series 2017

Speaker:
Luis Ferreira Moita
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Title:
Role of DNA damage responses in disease tolerance

Host: Nelson Gekara, MIMS Department of Molecular Biology

Note: Place: Lecture hall E04, Målpunkt R, NUS

Webpage Luis Ferreira Moita

Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start

National and International Seminar Series 2017

NOTE ROOM: Betula, bldg 6 M

Speaker:

Hanna Sidjabat
University of Queensland, Australia

Title:

In the emergence of Superbugs: will Probiotics be the alternative solution to antibiotics?

Host:

Anders Sjöstedt, Clinical Microbiology

Note: Coffee will be served outside of Betula at 13.30 already. Welcome!

Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series

Daniel Öhlund

Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine
Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University

Title:

Deciphering the complexity of the tumor-stroma in pancreatic cancer

Host: Andrei Chabes

Place: Lilla Hörsalen KBE301, KBC building

National and International Seminar Series 2017

Speaker:

Gert Bange
University of Marburg, Germany

Title:
Are you stressed? The molecular complexity of (p)ppGpp signaling

Room: Betula, Bldg 6M, NUS (NOTE the new room)

Host: Vasili Hauryliuk

Note: 30 Minutes before the Seminar, at 13.30, will be a mingle and coffee served!

The seminar starts at 14.00

Welcome!

National and International Seminar Series 2017

Speaker:
Siegfried Weiss
Molecular Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Braunschweig, Germany
 

Title:
Salmonella to fight cancer – turning a foe into a friend
 

Host: Nelson Gekara, Molecular Biology
Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start

Room: Betula

How to find Betula

Webpage: Siegfried Weiss

National International Seminar Series 2017

Speaker:
Gary H. Karpen
UC Berkeley, USA

Title:
Biophysics meets chromatin: is heterochromatin just a phase?

Host: Jan Larsson

Room: Lecture hall A5, Målpunkt R NUS

Meet already at 13.30 outside of the Lecture room for coffee and Mingle, the seminar will start at 14:00

National and International Seminar Series 2017
Speaker:
Andres Merits
Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Estonia

Title:
Replicative and non-replicative functions of alphavirus replicase

Host: Magnus Evander, Clinical Microbiology

Room: Lecture hall A5  Målpunkt R, NUS (Note change!)

Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start

National and International Seminar Series 2017

Speaker:
Juan Hermoso
CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Title:
Renew or Die: A structural look into the peptidoglycan remodeling and antibiotics resistance in Bacterial Pathogens

Host: Felipe Cava, MIMS

Room: Lecture hall E04, Målpunkt R, NUS

Note: before the seminar, at 13.30 will be mingle with coffee
The talk will start at 14.00

MIMS /UCMR and Molecular Biology Extra Seminar

Speaker:

Erik Holmqvist
Uppsala University

Title:
Global maps of ProQ-RNA interactions in Salmonella and Escherichia coli and a new ProQ function in controlling mRNA stability at the 3’ end

Holmqvist Lab:
http://www.icm.uu.se/microbiology/holmqvist-lab/

Host Vasili Hauryliuk, MIMS Group Leader

Friday 8 September 14.00, Lecture room A5, Målpunkt R, NUS
National and International Seminar Series 2017/2017

Speaker:
Kartik Chandran
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA

Title:
Unraveling and inhibiting the cell entry mechanisms of filoviruses and hantaviruses

Host: Mattias Forsell

Note Coffee/Tea is served from 13:30 outside of the lecture room

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National and International Seminar Series 2017/2018

Speaker
Dung Fang Lee
University of Texas Health Science Centre, TX, USA

Title:
Dissecting cancer etiology in a dish

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Place: Betula, Building 6M (close the Medical Library)

NOTE: Before the seminar, from 13.30-14.00, coffee/tea will be served! Welcome!

This National and International Seminar Series is organised by Andrea Puhar, MIMS and Molecular Biology, and Mattias Forsell
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MIMS Extra Seminar

Speaker
Ann-Beth Jonsson
Department of Molecular Biosciences, Stockholm University

Title:
Interaction and competition between bacterial species at epithelial surfaces

Host: Sun Nyunt Wai

Place: Seminar room Thymine, Department of Molecular Biology, Bldg 6K/L

National and International Seminar Series 2017/2018

Speaker
Andy Wullaert
VIB-Gent University, Belgium

Title:
Inflammasomes regulating intestinal immunity during steady state and infection

Host: Nelson Gekara

Place: Lecture hall A5, Målpunkt R

NOTE: Before the seminar, from 13.30-14.00, coffee/tea will be served! Welcome!

This National and International Seminar Series is organised by Andrea Puhar, MIMS and Molecular Biology, and Mattias Forsell
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MIMS Extra Seminar

Speaker:
Aftab Nadeem
Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Dept of Microbiology,
Immunology and Glycobiology (MIG), BMC, Lund University, Lund

Title:
Cellular targets involved in HAMLET induced tumor cell death: molecular insights and therapeutic potential

Host: Bernt Eric Uhlin

Place: Old Library, Molecular Biology, NUS, Bldg 6K/L

National and International Seminar Series 2017/2018

Speaker
Kristian Pietras
Lunds Universitet

Title:
Microenvironmental control of the malignant phenotype

Host: Daniel Öhlund

Place: Lecture hall A5, Målpunkt R

NOTE: Before the seminar, from 13.30-14.00, coffee/tea will be served! Welcome!

This National and International Seminar Series is organised by Andrea Puhar, MIMS and Molecular Biology, and Mattias Forsell
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