National and International Seminar Series 2017

Speaker:
Guillaume Filion
CRG Barcelona, Spain
 
Title:
DNA repair and emergent genome organization
 
Host: Aman Zare

Place: A05 at NUS (not Betula!)

Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start

Mini-symposium organised by Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine.

Detailed programme here

Talks by invited candidates for the tenure track positions:

Nicholas Taylor
Biozentrum, Basel University, Switzerland
Revealing the triggering mechanism of the bacteriophage T4 nanosyringe by near-atomic resolution cryo-electron microscopy

Eija Pirinen
Research Program for Molecular Neurology, University of Helsinki, Finland
The role of NAD+-dependent enzymes, sirtuins and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases, in the regulation of mitochondrial function

Changchun Chen
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK
Interleukin-17 acts like a neuromodulator of sensory responses

Ronnie Berntsson
Dept of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Sweden
From membrane transporters and bacterial neurotoxins to conjugation via T4SS

Gisa Gerold
TWINCORE, Institute for Experimental Virology, Hannover, Germany
Virology meets proteomics: Virus entry factor discovery and beyond

Marc Erhardt
Helmholz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
Molecular mechanisms of bacterial motility during Salmonella pathogenesis

Juha Saarikangas
Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
How aging generates cellular diversity through asymmetrically inherited protein assemblies

Edwin Oh
Duke University Medical School, Duke University, Durham, USA
Modeling a role for cilia in development and disease

Place: NUS 27, Kvinna-barn-onkologi-huset, Bergasalen, NUS , Södra entren

Alena Aliashkevich,
Department of Molecularbiology, is presenting her halvtime seminar with the

Title:

Identification and mode of action of novel cell wall modifying metabolites.

Principal supervisor: Felipe Cava.

Place: Major Groove, Bldg 6A-L Biomedicinhuset

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

Structural Biology Minisymposium

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

National and International Seminar Series 2017

Speaker:
Vicent Pelechano
Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology
Karolinska Institute

Title:
Genome-wide study of gene expression: From transcriptional complexity to ribosome dynamics

Host: Tracy Nissan, Molecular Biology

Lecture room E04, målpunkt R,  building NUS 6A-L, Biomedicinhuset

Webpage: Vicent Pelechano

Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start

Welcome to the minisymposium "Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology"

Where: Room E04 (next to “Blodcentralen”), building 6M

When: 14th February, 13.00-17.00

Programme for download

13.00                  Welcome

INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY

13.01-13.15:    Rift Valley Fever Epidemiology - Magnus Evander

13.15-13.30:    Herpes and Alzheimer – Insights and Hypotheses - Hugo Lövheim

13.30-13.45:    Sindbis – An Upcomer? - Åsa Gylfe

13.45-14.00:    The Spanish Flu - Urban Kumlin

14.00-14.15:    A Reverse Ecology Approach to Understand Tularemia Outbreaks - Anders Johansson

14.15-14.30:    Influenza & Social Networks - Martin Rosvall

DOCTORAL STUDENT/POSTDOC PITCH SESSION

14.30-15.30:    Doctoral Students/Postdocs (2-4 min per presenter)¹

Coffee/tea will be available

INFECTIOUS DISEASE ECOLOGY

15.30-15.45:    Ecology of the Puumala virus - Frauke Ecke

15.45-16.00:    Modelling Invasion and Abundance of Dengue and Zika Vectors - Jing Helmersson

16.00-16.15:    Evolution of Infectious Diseases in Seasonal Environments - Åke Brännström

16.15-16.30:    Water-borne Disease and Water Treatment - Andreas Tornevi

16.30-16.45:    Early Warning Systems for Infectious Outbreaks - Joacim Rocklöv

16.45-17.00      Summing up and informal discussion

¹Roberta Kwok. Communication: Two minutes to impress. Nature, 494, 137-138 (2013). doi:10.1038/nj7435-137a

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