National and International Seminar Series Fall 2011:

Speaker:
Thomas Werner
 University of Wisconsin

Title:
Modern paintings on ancient wingscapes: Generation of a novel wing color
pattern by the Wingless morphogen

Place: Lecture Hall Betula, Bldg. 6 M, NUS

Department of Clinical Microbiology/Clinical Bacteriology
Extra Seminar:

Speaker:
Jean Celli
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, USA

Title:
Playing with fire: the intracellular cycle of  Brucella abortus in macrophages

Location:
Major Groove, Depts of Clinical Microbiology, Molecular Biology building 6L NUS

 

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

National and International Seminar Series Fall 2011:

Speaker:
Joel Eissenberg
Edward A. Doisy Research Center, Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Title:
Genetic analysis of an RNA Polymerase II elongation factor
pattern by the Wingless morphogen

Place: Lecture Hall Betula, Bldg. 6 M, NUS

MIMS/UCMR seminar:

Speaker:
Professor Søren Molin

Department of Systems Biology
Technical University of Denmark
Copenhagen

Title:
Adaptive evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in airways of cystic fibrosis patients


(Host: Bernt Eric Uhlin)

Place: the lecture room “Thymine”, Department of Molecular Biology
building 6L/K, NUS Campus

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

National and International Seminar Series Fall 2011:

Speaker:
Andras Simon
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute

Title:
Reversible suppression of neurogenesis in the adult vertebrate brain


Place: Lecture Hall Betula, Bldg. 6 M, NUS

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 Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series fall 2011

Ceu Figueiredo, IPATIMUP and Medical Faculty of Porto, Portugal
"Clinical relevance of Helicobacter pylori genotyping"

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9, KBC

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

The second meeting of the Nordic Molecular Medicine Network (NMMN)

Place: Allergiatalo and FIMM, Helsinki

Programme:
http://www.fimm.fi/en/events/nmmn_annual_meeting/

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series fall 2011

Mary Cowman
Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Title:
Macromolecular crowding by Hyaluronan in the extracellular matrix


Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9, KBC

Hosts: Linus Malm/Göran Larsson

The second meeting of the Nordic Molecular Medicine Network (NMMN)

Place: Allergiatalo and FIMM, Helsinki

Programme:
http://www.fimm.fi/en/events/nmmn_annual_meeting/

National and International Seminar Series Fall 2011:

Speaker:
Michael Williams
University of Aberdeen

Title:
Rho-family GTPases in the Drosophila cellular immune reponse


Place: Lecture Hall Betula, Bldg. 6 M, NUS