Events under 'General'

Thesis Defence

Ayad Amer, Department of Molecular Biology

"Controlling Substrate Export by the Ysc-Yop type III Secretion System of Yersinia"

Place: Major Groove, bldg. 6M/L, Department of Molecular Biology, NUS-area

Opponent: Professor David Gally, the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK

Supervisor: Matthew S. Francis

This seminar has been postponed! More information will follow soon!

Extra Seminar - Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics

Thomas A. Kunkel, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, Honorary Doctor at the Medical Faculty Umeå University

"Ribonucleotides in DNA: Origins, Repair and Consequences"

Place: Stora hörsalen KB3B1, KBC

Host: Erik Johansson

The "National and International" Seminar Series, spring 2013

Ana Pombo, The Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

"Modeling large-scale organization of chromatin: a tale of the HoxB locus architecture in ES cells"

Place: lecture hall Betula, bldg. 6M, NUS-area

Host: Margarida Figueiredo, Molecular Biology

Thesis Defence

Junyang Wang, Department of Physics

"Dicke narrowing and speed-dependent effects in dispersion signals - Influence on assessment of concentration and spectral parameters by noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectrometry"

Place: Naturvetarhuset, room N420

Opponent: Professor Livio Gianfrani, Department of Enviromental Sciences, Second University of Naples, Italy

Supervisor: Ove Axner

Thesis Defence

Patrik Engström, Department of Molecular Biology

"Chemical genetics disclose the importance of heme and clucose metabolism in Chlamydia trachomatis pathogeneis"

Place: room A5,  NUS - Norrlands universitetssjukhus

Opponent: Professor Ted Hackstadt, NIH, Rocky mountain laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, USA

Supervisor: Sven Bergström

Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series, spring 2013

Sheena Radford, The Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, UK

"Protein folding, misfolding and disease"

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9, KBC

Host: Ludmilla Morozova-Roche

MIMS/UCMR Extra Seminar

Ted Hackstadt, Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, NIAID, NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories Hamilton, USA

"Subversion of the Eukaryotic Cell by Secreted Chlamydia trachomatis effectors: Roles for Src-family Kinases?"

Place: room Thymine, Department of Molecular Biology, bldg. 6K, NUS-area

Host: Sven Bergström, Molecular Biology

Extra Seminar - Department of Chemistry

Samuel Miller, University of Washington, Washington, USA

"c-di-GMP and bacterial cellular diversity"

Place: KB3B1 Stora hörsalen, KBC

Host: Mikael Elofsson

Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series, spring 2013

Johan Elf, Dept. for Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

"Probing intracellular kinetics at the level of single molecules"

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC

Host: Bernt Eric Uhlin, Department of Molecular Biology

Extra Seminar - Department of Molecular Biology

Prof. Roland Benz, Rudolf-Virchow-Center, DFG-Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

"Mechanisms of bacterial toxin transport through membranes: Results of lipid bilayer experiments with anthrax protective antigen (PA) and lethal factor (LF)"

Place: room Thymine, Department of Molecular Biology, bldg. 6K, NUS-area

Host: Sven Bergström

Veronika Sjöberg, Clinical Microbiology

"Immune responses in small intestinal mucosa of pediatric celiac disease patients - impact of the two environmental factors, resident microbiota and oats"

Place: NUS-area, bldg. 6E, rooml E04

Opponent: Katri Kaukinen, professor, University of Tampere

Supervisor: Marie-Louise Hammarström

Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series, spring 2013

Ralf Langen, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

"How proteins bend membranes"

Place: KB3A9, Lilla hörsalen, KBC

Host: Björn Morén

Department of Chemistry - Seminar

Iksoo Chang, Center for Proteom Biophysics, Dept. of New Biology, DGIST, Korea

“Atom-level insight on regulatory function of pH-driven histidine switch uncovered in NAC proteins‘ transcription domain”

Place: KB3A9 Lilla hörsalen, KBC

Host: Kwangho Nam

Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series, spring 2013

James Broach, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

"Adapting to stress: lessons from a model organism"

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC

Host: Stefan Björklund

Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series, autumn 2013

Steven Caplan, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

Title to be announced

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC

Host: Maite Vidal-Quadras

Thesis Defence

Åsa Nylander, Department of Odontology

"Structural and functional studies of streptococcal surface adhesins"

Place: NUS-area 1D - Tandläkarhögskolan, floor 9, room D

Opponent: Maria Selmer, Department of Molecular Biology, Uppsala University

Supervisor: Karina Persson

Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series, autumn 2013

Øyvind Halskau, Dept. of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Norway

"Relevance of the protein, fatty acid and lipid component in early stages of HAMLET-like cell death"

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC

Host: Ludmilla Morozova-Roche