The "National and International" Seminar Series, spring 2013

You are welcome to attend a symposium addressing recent advances and future perspectives in Diabetes research. The program includes speakers from the ”Strategic research program for Diabetes at Karolinska Institutet” and an internationally invited speaker, Dr. James Johnson, Vancouver, Canada, and will cover aspects of Islet Cell Biology, Peripheral Mechanisms Controlling Insulin Action and Energy Homeostasis, Macro- and Micro-Vascular Complications, and Clinical Diabetology.

Programme

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

Contact: Helena Edlund, 090-785 4429, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Admission and registration:
The symposium is part of the National and International Seminar Series for the Depts. of Molecular Biology, Medical Biosciences, Clinical Microbiology, UCMM and UKBF. Attendees from other departments are also most welcome to register. Please E-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you will attend with the title ’Diabetes’ in the subject line of the email (No later than May 17th). Morning and afternoon coffee will be provided, free of charge, for all registered attendees.

Thesis Defence

Christoffer Bengtsson, Department of Chemistry

"Synthesis of Substituted Ring-Fused 2-Pyridones and Applications in Chemical Biology"

Place: Stora hörsalen, KB3B1,  KBC-huset

Opponent: Professor Paul Helquist,  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Notre Dame University, Indiana, USA.

Supervisor: Fredrik Almqvist

Extra Seminar - Department of Molecular Biology

Caroline Jegerschöld, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

"Nanodiscs - an introduction to their use and some specific examples on
both transmembrane proteins and a membrane associated protein"

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

Host: Linda Sandblad