MIMS Extra Seminar
Speaker:
Raphael Valdivia
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University School of Medicine, Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Title:
The genetic basis for mucin utilization and host colonization by the beneficial gut microbe Akkermansia muciniphila
Host: Barbara Sixt, MIMS group leader
Room: Lecture room Major Groove, Dept Molecular Biology, Building 6L, NUS
More information about Raphael Valdivia:
https://mgm.duke.edu/faculty-and-research/primary-faculty/raphael-valdivia-phd/
MIMS Extra Seminar
Speaker:
Eva Gluenz
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Title:
High-throughput phenotyping of Leishmania knockout mutants in vitro and in vivo
Host: Oliver Billker, director MIMS, professor, department of Molecular Biology
Room: Major Groove, Department of Molecular Biology, building 6L, NUS
National and International Seminar Series 2019
Speaker:
Jan Potempa
University of Louisville, USA and University of Krakow, Poland
Porphyromonas gingivalis’ role in periodontitis: secretion of virulence factors and links to systemic disease
Lecture room: Betula, NUS
Host: David A. Cisneros, Molecular Biology
Note: te/coffee and cookies served 30 mins before the talk
MIMS/UCMR Extra Seminar
Speaker:
Orsolya Barabas
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Title:
Jumping genes: molecular strategies for antibiotic resistance spreading
Host: Maria Fällman/Oliver Billker
Room: Major Groove, Dept Molecular Biology, bldg 6L, NUS
The National and International Seminar Series (NISS seminar)
Speaker:
Roland Seifert
Hannover Medical School, Germany
Title:
Signaling via the non-canonical cyclic nuceotides cCMP and cUMP
Host: Nikola Zlatkov Kolev
Coffee/tea/cookies is served 30 min before start.
Place: Betula, bldg 6 M, NUS
National and International Seminar Series
Speaker:
Victor Sourjik
Max Planck Inst for Terrestrial Microbiology
Marburg, Germany
Title:
Benefits and costs of bacterial motility
Room:
Hörsal D, Unod T9, NUS
Host:
Felipe Cava, MIMS/Molecular Biology
Caffee/tea/cookies served 30 min before start
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National and International Seminar Series
Speaker:
Johannes Linxweiler
Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes
Homburg, Germany
Title:
Of mice and men - new preclinical models in prostate cancer research
Room:
Hörsal Betula, building 6M, NUS
Host:
Andreas Josefsson
Caffee/tea/cookies served 30 min before start
National and International Seminar Series
Speaker:
Lennart Svensson
Linköping University
Title:
Rotavirus Disease Mechanisms: Gut-Nerve and Brain Cross-Talk
Room:
Hörsal D, Unod T9, NUS
Host:
Niklas Arnberg, MIMS/Clinical Microbiology
Caffee/tea/cookies served 30 min before start
National and International Seminar Series
Speaker:
Charlotte Rolny
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Title:
mRNA translational control regulates Tumor-Associate Macrophage phenotypes
Room:
Hörsal D, Unod T9, NUS
Host:
Teresa Frisan, Molecular Biology
Caffee/tea/cookies served 30 min before start
National and International Seminar Series
Speaker:
Massimo Squatrito
CNIO
Madrid, Spain
Title:
Somatic genome editing for precision tumor modelling
Room:
Betula, building 6M, NUS
Host:
Silvia Remeseiro, WCMM
Caffee/tea/cookies served 30 min before start
Pascale Cossart
Pasteur Institute, France
Title of the talk: “Infection Biology in the era of microbiomes: the Listeria paradigm”
Venue: via ZOOM
Bio of the speaker:
Pascale Cossart, after studying chemistry in Lille (France) obtained a master degree at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Back in France, she obtained her PhD in Paris in the Institut Pasteur where she has headed the « Bacteria-Cell Interactions »unit , also an Inserm and an INRA unit, until recently. After studying DNA-protein interactions, in E. coli, she started in 1986, to study the molecular and cellular basis of infections by intracellular bacteria taking as a model the bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. Pascale Cossart pioneered the field of Cellular Microbiology. Her research has led to new concepts in infection biology but also in fundamental microbiology (in particular RNA biology), in cell biology and also in epigenetics. Her contributions have been recognized by a number of awards, including the Robert Koch Prize (2007), the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2008), the Balzan Prize(2013), the Heinrich Wieland prize (2018), and the NAS Selman Waksman Award (2021). She is a member of the French Academy of Science (2002), a foreign member of the American National Academy of Science (NAS) (2009), of the German Leopoldina (2001), of the Royal Society (2010) and the National Academy of Medecine (NAM) (2014). Since January 2016, she is Secrétaire Perpétuel at the French Academy of Sciences.
Scott Hultgren
Washington University, USA
Title of the talk: “UTI Complexity at the Bacterial-Host Interface: Blueprint for Antibiotic-sparing Therapeutics”
Venue: via ZOOM
Bio of the speaker:
Scott Hultgren, Helen Lehbrink Stoever Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Director of the Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research at Washington University in St. Louis, received his Ph.D. at Northwestern University, and postdoctoral training with Staffan Normark at Umeå, Sweden. He was elected to the National Academies of Sciences (2011) Medicine (2017) and Inventors (2020); and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received Washington University Distinguished Investigator and 2nd Century Awards, the Eli Lilly award, St. Louis Science Academy’s Fellows Award, a Nobel Fellowship, an NIH Merit grant, an honorary Doctor of Philosophy at Umeå University, a Shipley Lecturership at Harvard University and been named a College Luminary by Indiana University. He has also chaired a Gordon Conference on Microbial Attachment and co-chaired the national “Moving into the Future: New Dimensions and Strategies for Women’s Health Research” conference sponsored by ORWH/NIH and Washington University.
Urs Greber
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Title of the talk: “Adenovirus Cell-to-Cell Infection Variability”
Host PI: Niklas Arnberg
Venue: via ZOOM; register here: https://www.umu.se/en/ucmr/events/dgss-registration/
Feng Shao
National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China
Title of the talk: “Pyroptosis in antibacterial & antitumor immunity”
Host PI: Yaowen Wu
Venue: via ZOOM; please register here: https://www.umu.se/en/ucmr/events/dgss-registration/
Michail Lionakis, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, NIH, USA
Title of the talk: “Host defense against fungi: From the bench to the bedside”
Host PI: Constantin Urban
Via Zoom, register here: https://umu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_g0iwiwU5RcegSLdIGzzzGw
May 9th, 2022, 11:00-12:00 Venue: via Zoom
Vassilis Gorgoulis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Title of the talk: “Escape from oncogene-induced senescence”
Host PI: Teresa Frisan
Please register here to get access to the seminar: Registration