Department of Molecular Biology
Extra Seminar
Speaker
Sadaf Kalsum
Linköping University
Incorporating different phenotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in drug screening assay
Host: Christer Larsson
Place: Old Library, Department of Molecular Biology, bldg 6K/L NUS
Abstract:
Sadaf Kalsum is a graduate student in the lab of Maria Lerm, Linköping University. This week she is at the Chemistry department here in Umeå to get support with fractionation and identification of antimycobacterial substances in plant extracts. She will also have time to give a talk to share her latest research and findings in TB drug discovery and her drug-screening strategy with us. I believe this can be interesting both for microbiologists and chemists with a passion for drug discovery.
The research in the Maria Lerm lab focus on macrophage responses to mycobacteria. Sadaf will tell us about her research on hyper-virulent bacteria and the macrophage response involving DNA released as "macrophage extracellular traps", METs. Christer Larsson does not know how similar the METs are to the NETs of Constantin Urban, but I'm sure that question will come up in the discussion after the presentation.
Department of Chemistry
Speakers:
Maria Sunnerhagen
Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM)
Linköping University
Title:
"Integrated structural mapping of transiently occupied states in transcriptional regulation."
Michael Kovermann
Department of Chemistry
University of Constance
Title:
"Protein folding beyond two states"
Host: Magnus Wolf-Watz
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB.E3.01, KBC
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