Events under 'General'

"Water and proteins"
by Bertil Halle, Biophysical Chemistry, University Lund

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC
Host: Jürgen Schleucher

Welcome to Wednesday's Lunch Seminar

"REGULATORY FRAMEWORK"
 by Karin Sewerin

Place: Sal Älgen, Uminova Science Park
Lunch coupon for the restaurant Örnen will be handed out at 11.00-11.45

Registration deadline: Tuesday, 17 May
http://ubi.se/seminars.aspx?ref=II66HVVVTTYYYJ7MMBJJ

Inaugural Symposium of Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden (CBCS)
with participation of the Laboratory for Chemical Biology Umeå (LCBU), one of the three partners in the consortium.
May 19^th 2011, 9.00-16.30
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Gustaf Retzius Auditorium.
Keynote Address: Stuart Schreiber, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

 Programme (www.cbcs.se/PCB2011)
 The Laboratory for Chemical Biology Umeå (LCBU)

Seminarium om upphovsrätt och nyttjanderätt
organiserad för prefekter, lärare och andra som jobbar med undervisning

av Chatarina Larsson, Universitetsjurist Umeå
Lokal: KB3A9 KBC, Lilla hörsalen

Strömmade eller inspelade föreläsningar, undervisningsmaterial som ska spridas digitalt i distanskurser m.m. - vad gäller för nyttjande av undervisningsmaterialet och den producerade produkten?

Student: Changchun Chen, Molecular Biology
Faculty Opponent: Eric Phizicki, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, USA

Place: Major Groove, Molecular Biology, Bldg. 6L

"How to select the right target - immunotherapeutic strategies against multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus"
by Dr. Knut Ohlsen, University of Wuerzburg
Lecture hall, Betula, Blgd. 6M
Host: Lena Meyer/Anders Sjöstedt, CliMi

"Different levels of proteomics as illustrated by examples from plant studies"
by Peter Roepstroff University of Southern Denmark, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Place: KB3A9 KBC, Lilla Hörsalen
Host: Wolfgang Schröder/Gunnar Wingsle

The seminar will start with an update of the proteomic platform at KBC (10 min).

Place: Uracil, Department of Molecular Biology, floor 1, building 6L-129

Program:
11.30 Lisa Ivarsson, Isconova AB, Uppsala
Evaluation of Matrix M™ versus Freund's Complete adjuvant (FCA) in the production of monoclonal antibodies against small and large antigens

12.00 Karin Öhman, Fujirebio Diagnostics AB
Binding kinetics of antibodies to small cell lung cancer (SCLC) antigens by QCM technology

12.30 Sofia Forsberg, Molecular Geriatrics, Rudbeck laboratory, Uppsala
Evaluation of immunotherapy in a mouse model for Parkinson's disease and other Lewy bodies diseases
          

09.00 - 12.00 Scientific Presentations
Speakers: Scott Hultgren, Matthew Chapman, Richard Lundmark, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jörgen Johansson, Nelson Gekara, Constantin Urban, Anna Överby

13.30 - 15.00 Opening Ceremony

15.00 - 17.00 Poster Session

"Genes, lifestyle/environmental factors and their interactions in multiple sclerosis"
by Prof. Tomas Olsson, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Karolinska Hospital
Lecture hall, Betula, Blgd. 6M
Host: Jonathan Gilthorpe, UCMM

Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series

"Translational caries research; genetic versus life style dependent types of the disease“
by Nicklas Strömberg, Dept. of Odontology/ Cariology, Umeå University

Place: KB3A9 Lilla Hörsalen, KBC
Host: Thomas Borén

UPSC and Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar

“Structural insights into the mechanism of G protein coupled receptor activation”

by Brian Kobilka,
Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Medicine, Beckman Center, Stanford University, CA, U.S.A.

Place: KB3A9, Lilla Hörsalen, KBC
Hosts: Petter Gustafsson and Stefan Björklund

Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar

“Amyloid heart involvement: insights from clinical observations and animal models”
by Giampaolo Merlini,
Director of the Center for Research and Treatment of Systemic Amyloidosis, and of the Biotechnology Research Laboratories, Scientific Institute Policlinico San Matteo, University of Pavia, Italy

Place: KB3B1, Stora Hörsalen, KBC
Host: Göran Larsson

Clinical Microbiology/Clinical Bacteriology
Thesis Defence

Linda Tancred, Clinical Microbiology/Clinical Bacteriology

Title:
Mechanisms of the intracellular survival of Francisella tularensis

Opponent:
Jean Celli, Laboratory of intracellular parasites, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID/NIH, Hamilton, MT, U.S.A.

Place: E04, bldg. 6E, NUS

Specially invited UPSC Research Seminar

Speaker:
Jens Nielsen
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Chalmers University of Technology

Title:
Yeast as a Platform Cell Factory for the Production of Fuels and Chemicals

Place: KBF 30, KBC

Department of Molecular Biology

Thesis Defence
Sreenivasa Rao Oruganti

Title:
Regulation of activation of NF-kB by calmoludin in T-lumphocytes

Opponent: Professor Eva Severinsson, Stockholms universitet.

Supervisor: Thomas Grundström, Instiutionen för molekylärbiologi.

Major Groove, bldg 6K

Department of Molecular Biology:
Thesis Defence

Linus Plym Forshell
Title:
Assessment of therapeutic targets in experimental models of Myc-induced lymphoma

Opponent: Lars-Gunnar Larsson, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

Place: Major Groove, NUS, bldg 6L

Thesis Defence

Tacha Zi Plym Forshell, Molecular Biology
"Examining the role of metabolism in my-driven Tumorigenesis"

Place: Major Groove, Bldg. 6L, NUS

Opponent: Mattias Belting, University of Lund

Supervisor: Jonas Nilsson

The "National and International" Seminar Series, Fall 2011

Speaker: Anna Krook, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute

Title: "Regulation of skeletal muscle insulin resistance"

Place: Lecture hall, Betula, Bldg. 6M

Host: Tommy Olsson, UKBF

UPSC Cutting Edge Seminar

Natasha Raikhel
University of California Riverside, USA

Title:

Dissecting the endomembrane network via chemical genomics

Place: KB3A9, Lilla Hörsalen

Host: Rishi Bhalerao