6 October 13.00-16.30
Lecture hall Betula, Biomedical Building, NUS
Contact: Åke Forsberg, Professor, UCMR, MIMS and Department of Molecular Biologym This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme:
6 October 13.00-16.30
Lecture hall Betula, Biomedical Building, NUS
Contact: Åke Forsberg, Professor, UCMR, MIMS and Department of Molecular Biologym This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme:
Welcome to the Minisymposium 2016 at Umeå Centr for Microbial Research. The symposium is open to all interested people!
13.00-14.30
Chairpersons: Felipe Cava, MIMS/Molecular Biology and Madeleine Ramstedt, UCMR/Chemistry
13.00-13.15
Irfan Ahmad UCMR postdoc, Group Bernt Eric Uhlin, MIMS/UCMR, Molecular Biology
Regulation of bacterial physiology and pathogenesis by c-di-GMP signalling
13.15-13.30
Paulina Wanrooij, Postdoc, Group Andrei Chabes, MIMS/UCMR, Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
The effect of altered dNTP pools on mitochondrial DNA
13.30-13.45:
Dmitry Ignatov, UCMR postdoc, Group Jörgen Johansson, MIMS/UCMR, Molecular biology
Search for targets of Listeria monocytogenes small RNA Rli38
13.45-14.00:
Emil Johansson, PhD student, Group Mikael Elofsson, UCMR, Chemistry
Design and synthesis of novel sialic acid conjugates that block host cell attachment by sialic acid recognizing viruses
14.00-14.15
Victoriia Murina, Postdoc, Group Vasili Hauriliuk, Gemma Atkinson MIMS/UCMR, Molecular Biology
Antibiotic resistance mediated by ribosome-associated ABCF ATPases
14.15–15.30
Akbar Espaillat, PhD student, Group Felipe Cava, MIMS/UCMR, Molecular Biology
Chemometric Analysis of Bacterial Peptidoglycan Reveals Atypical Modifications That Empower the Cell Wall against Predatory Enzymes and Fly Innate Immunity
15.30-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-16.30
Chairpersons: Magnus Andersson, UCMR/Physics and Andrea Puhar, MIMS/Molecular Biology
15.00-15.15
Zhen Zhang, UCMR Postdoc, Group Sun Nyunt Wai, MIMS/UCMR, Molecular Biology
Bacterial toxin production and its modulation of host cell fate
15.15-15.30
Mikkel Quam, Postdoc, Group Joacim Rocklöf, UCMR/Epidemiology and Public Health
The emergence of dengue in naive areas
15.30-15.45
Saskia Erttmann, Postdoc, Group Nelson Gekara, MIMS/UCMR, Molecular Biology
Role of DNA damage response protein ATM in innate immunity
15.45-16.00
David Cisneros, Postdoc, Group Bernt Eric Uhlin, MIMS/UCMR, Molecular Biology,
Cohesin-mediated chromatin structure regulation in mammalian cells
16.00-16.15
Tim Stangner, Postdoc, Group Magnus Andersson, UCMR, Physics
Determining the Specificity of Monoclonal Antibody HPT-101 to Tau-Peptides with Optical Tweezers
16.15-16.30
Roberto Navais, Postdoctoral fellow, Group Maria Fällman, MIMS/UCMR, Molecular biology
Seeking genes involved in transcriptional reprogramming of Yersinia for persistence
National and International Seminar Series 2016
Speaker:
Sonja Best
Innate Immunity and Pathogenesis Unit Laboratory of Virology
NIH, Hamilton, MT, USA
Title:
Restriction of flavivirusreplication by TRIM proteins: from rodents to an unexpected function for human TRIM5
Host: Anna Överby
MIMS/UCMR Extra seminar within the Seminar Series at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
Speaker:
Andreas Diepold
University of Oxford
Title:
Inside the machine - studying the Type III Secretion System in live bacteria
Host: Åke Forsberg
Place: Lilla hörsalen KB3A9, KBC building
National and International Seminar Series 2016
Speaker:
Nigel Mongan
Title:
Epigenetic determinants of aggressive prostate cancer
Host: Jenny Persson, Dept for Molecular Biology
National and International Seminar Series
Speaker:
Mia Philipsson
University of Uppsala
Title:
Leukocytes in angiogenesis and blood flow regulation
Host: Ulf Ahlgren, UCMM
Room: Betula, Bldg 6 M, NUS
Welcome to the UCMR Mini-symposium "Structural dynamics of biological membranes"!
27 October 14:00-16:00
Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9 (new nr. KB.E3.01)
Organisers: Madeleine Ramstedt and Thereza Soares, UCMR and Department of Chemistry
Speakers: Thereza Soares, Michelle Cascella, Jens Preben Morth
UCMR Mini-symposium
Programme
14:00 – 14:30
"Atomistic Simulations of Bacterial Outer Membrane Models"
Thereza Soares
professor, currently guest professor at UCMR and Department of Chemistry
Department of Fundamental Chemistry, University of Pernambuco, Brazil
14:30 – 15:00
"Multi-scale Modelling of Biological Systems Using Coarse-Grained and Hybrid Particle-Field Approaches"
Michele Cascella
professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, Norway
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 – 16:00
"The magnesium transporter A, is dependent on cardiolipin and selectively sensitive to free magnesium"
Jens Preben Morth
Associate Professor, Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), University of Oslo, Norway