The "National and International" Seminar Series, spring 2013

Mikael Elofsson, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University

"Disarming pathogens with small organic molecules: Inhibitors of type III section in Gram-negative bacteria"

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

Host: Stefan Nilsson, Medical Bioscience

EXTRA MIMS Seminar

Roshani Payoe, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

"Molecular Studies on the RelA-Mediated (p)ppGpp Synthesis Mechanism"

Place: Minor Groove, Bldg 6L/M Department of Molecular Biology, NUS-area

Host: Åke Forsberg, Department of Molecular Biology


Speaker:
Roshani Payoe
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Title:
Molecular Studies on the RelA-Mediated (p)ppGpp Synthesis Mechanism

Host: Åke Forsberg
Place: Minor Groove, Bldg 6L/M Department of Molecular Biology

Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series, spring 2013

Christian Griesinger, Max Planck Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany

"Functional fuzzyness of globular and non-globular proteins: application for neuroprotection"

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9, KBC

Host: Magnus Wolf-Watz, Chemistry

Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series, spring 2013

NEW SPEAKER! Ran Zhang , State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

"Industrial production of human milk proteins from genetically-engineered dairy cattle"

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC

Host: Thomas Borén

Thesis Defence

Annelie Olofsson, Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics

"Helicobacter pylori outer membrane vesicles and the host-pathogen interaction"

Place: room KB3B1, KBC

Opponent: Prof. Mikael Rhen, Karolinska institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Supervisor: Anna Arnqvist

Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series, spring 2013

Lars-Anders Carlson, [EMBO & HFSP Fellow] Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

"In Vitro Reconstitution of ESCRT Complex Assembly at HIV-1 Budding Sites"

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC

Host: Bernt Eric Uhlin, Department of Molecular Biology

Welcome to the Inauguration of the Umeå Core Facility Electron Microscopy

The Umeå Core Facility Electron Microscopy is inviting to a symposium where you can learn more about the possibilities of the recently installed new equipment.

More information and registration at: www.kbc.umu.se
Registration deadline: 18 May

Place: Stora hörsalen KB3B1, KBC

Extra Seminar - Department of Chemistry

Paul Helquist, University of Notre Dame, USA

"Getting hotter on the trail to a treatment for a rare inherited disease"

Place: KB3A9 Lilla hörsalen, KBC

Host: Fredrik Almqvist

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

Extra Seminar - associated with The Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics' Seminar Series, spring 2013

Professor David Gally, Division of Infection and Immunity, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

"New moronic behaviour and Stx appeal"

Abstract:

The seminar will introduce the different pathotypes of E. coli and focus on infections associated with Shiga toxin (Stx) producing E. coli (STEC). The talk will cover published information on the potential advantages that Stx may provide for E. coli colonising the main reservoir host (ruminants) and then will discuss our recent research examining how both protein and sRNA regulators present on integrated bacteriophages can alter host strain phenotype or ‘behaviour’.  Overall, the talk covers how the horizontal acquisition of different phage-encoded ‘morons’¹ (‘More’ DNA or more ‘ome’) is driving the evolution of Stx-encoding E. coli strains in cattle with serious consequences for humans as an incidental host.

¹Juhala et al (2000) Genomic sequences of bacteriophages HK97 and HK022: pervasive genetic mosaicism in the lambdoid bacteriophages. J Mol Biol 299:27-51.

Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC

Host: Matthew Francis, Department of Molecular Biology 

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