Month

Thu. 6 Oct, 2016

Welcome to the UCMR Minisymposium 2016!

Thu. 6 Oct, 2016 13:00 - 16:30

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
 

Fri. 7 Oct, 2016

Nat and Internat Seminar Series - Sonja Best: Restriction of flavivirusreplication by TRIM proteins: from rodents to an unexpected function for human TRIM5

Fri. 7 Oct, 2016 15:00 - 16:00

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

Tue. 11 Oct, 2016

Seminar - Diepold: Inside the machine - studying the Type III Secretion System in live bacteria

Tue. 11 Oct, 2016 15:15 - 16:15

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

Fri. 14 Oct, 2016

Nat and Internat Seminar Nigel Mongan: Epigenetic determinants of aggressive prostate cancer

Fri. 14 Oct, 2016 15:00 - 16:00

National and International Seminar Series 2016

Speaker:
Nigel Mongan

Title:
Epigenetic determinants of aggressive prostate cancer

Host: Jenny Persson, Dept for Molecular Biology

Fri. 21 Oct, 2016

Nat and Internat Seminar Series - Mia Philipsson: Leukocytes in angiogenesis and blood flow regulation

Fri. 21 Oct, 2016 15:00 - 16:00

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

Thu. 27 Oct, 2016

UCMR Mini-symposium Structural dynamics of biological membranes, 27 October 2016

Thu. 27 Oct, 2016 14:00 - 16:00

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 

abstract

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

abstract

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

abstract

Please register to the coffee break