CANCELLED!
The National and International Seminar Series - Autumn 2018
Speaker:
Lilach Sheiner
University of Glasgow, UK
Title:
How to keep your endosymbiont under control - biogenesis of plastid and mitochondria in the apicomplexan eukaryotic parasites
Host:
Oliver Billker, MIMS
Place:
Biomedicine Building, Lecture hall E04
Map to the Lecture hall
Note: Coffee/tea is served outside the lecture hall at 1:30 pm
Website of Dr. Lilach Sheiner at University of Glasgow
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Department of Clinical Mirobiology - UCMR - MIMS
Thesis Defence
Pedro Lopes
Department of Clinical Microbiology
Title: Candida albicans adaption to host microenvironments drives immune evasion
Faculty opponent: Professor Allistair Brown, Aberdeen Fungal Group, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, UK.
Principal supervisor: Constantin Urban
Place: Major Groove
National and International Seminar Series Fall 2018
Speaker:
Grégory Boël
Université Paris Diderot, France
Title:
The ABC-F ribosomal factors participate in bacterial adaptation to environmental stress
Host: Victoriia Murina, Molecular Biology/ MIMS
Biomedicine Building, Lecture hall E04
Map to the Lecture hall
Note: Coffee/Tea is served outside lecture hall from 13:30
The 1st Annual CryoNet Symposium will be organised in Copenhagen and take place at Victor Haderup Auditorium, Panum, building 20.
Scandinavian researchers, students and technical staff are welcome to discuss latest advances in Cryo-electron microscopy.
The Network invited leading experts in the field to share their knowledge and ideas.
Abstract deadline: Abstracts will be selected for short talks and/or poster presentation. Send your abstract (max 300 words) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than August 31 2018.
Pricing: Regular fee 750 DKK (100 Euro) This includes coffee, refreshments, lunch on both days and conference dinner on Monday evening.
Registration and payment with credit/debit card here via EasySignup.
The maximum number of attendees are 150.
More information:
http://www.cpr.ku.dk/calendar/2018/1st-annual-cryonet-symposium/
Organizers: Gunnar von Heijne, Stockholm University; Poul Nissen, Aarhus University, Bernt Eric Uhlin, Umeå University; Guillermo Montoya, University of Copenhagen
More information about CryoNet:
http://www.mims.umu.se/news-events/1858-two-nordic-foundations-support-a-network-in-a-nobel-prize-winning-technology.html
The 1st Annual CryoNet Symposium will be organised in Copenhagen and take place at Victor Haderup Auditorium, Panum, building 20.
Scandinavian researchers, students and technical staff are welcome to discuss latest advances in Cryo-electron microscopy.
The Network invited leading experts in the field to share their knowledge and ideas.
Abstract deadline: Abstracts will be selected for short talks and/or poster presentation. Send your abstract (max 300 words) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than August 31 2018.
Pricing: Regular fee 750 DKK (100 Euro) This includes coffee, refreshments, lunch on both days and conference dinner on Monday evening.
Registration and payment with credit/debit card here via EasySignup.
The maximum number of attendees are 150.
More information:
http://www.cpr.ku.dk/calendar/2018/1st-annual-cryonet-symposium/
Organizers: Gunnar von Heijne, Stockholm University; Poul Nissen, Aarhus University, Bernt Eric Uhlin, Umeå University; Guillermo Montoya, University of Copenhagen
More information about CryoNet:
http://www.mims.umu.se/news-events/1858-two-nordic-foundations-support-a-network-in-a-nobel-prize-winning-technology.html
Thesis Defence
Department of Clinical Microbiology
Md. Koushikul Islam
Department of Clinical Microbiology
Title:
Identification and evaluation of antiviral compounds targeting Rift Valley fever virus.
Faculty oppponent:
Johan Neyts, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
Supervisor:
Clas Ahlm
Place Hörsal: 933 B9
Extra seminar - Department of Clinical Microbiology
Speaker:
Johan Neyts
Professor of Virology, President International Society for Antiviral Research, Rega Institute for Medical Research
University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
Title:
The Plasmid Launched Live-Attenuated Virus (PLLAV) vaccine platform technology; highly thermostable vaccines for epidemic preparedness.
Host: Clas Ahlm, Clinical Microbiology
Room: Tbd
The National and International Seminar Series - Autumn 2018
Speaker:
Yaowen Wu
Department of Chemistry, Umeå University
Title:
Probing autophagy by novel chemical and chemo-optogenetic approaches
Host: Andrea Puhar, Dept Molecular Biology & MIMS
Place: Biomedical Building, Lecture E04
Note! Coffee/tea is served outside lecture hall at 1.30 pm
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National and International Seminar Series Fall 2018
Speaker:
José Bengoechea
Queen's University, Belfast, UK
Title:
Multidrug resistant pathogens: myth, reality or the next cell biologists
Host: Andrea Puhar, Dept Molecular Biology and MIMS
Place: Lecture Hall Betula, below the Medical Library
http://hitta.db.umu.se/hitta/js/map/smartphone.html?id=433
Note! Cofee/tea is served outside the lecture hall at 13:30
Website of Professor José Bengoechea
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Seminar at the Department of Chemistry
Speaker:
Nawal Serradji
Maître de conférences, Laboratoire ITODYS
Université Paris Diderot, Paris
Title:
Design and synthesis of C. trachomatis inhibitors
Place: KB.E3.01 Lilla Hörsalen KBC
Hosts: Åsa Gylfe and Mikael Elofsson
National and International Seminar Series - Autumn 2018
Speaker:
Clément Carré
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Title:
tRFs and sncRNA pathways in the control of transposable elements and neuronal disorders
Host:
Francesca Aguiló, WCMM
Place: Lecture hall E04, Biomedicine Building
http://hitta.db.umu.se/hitta/js/map/smartphone.html?id=425
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Website of Dr. Clément Carré
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Welcome to another exiting MIMS - Mini-Symposium with invited external speakers!
Tuesday, 30 October 2018, 9:00 - 12:00
Venue: Lecture hall E04, Biomedicine Building, Norrland University Hospital, Unod R1 (map for download here)
9:00
Microenvironment in the homeostasis of epithelial transition zones: the hot spots of infection and cancer
Cindrilla Chumduri
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, and Department of
Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
9:30
Dissecting gene regulatory networks: A case of T helper cells
Johan Henriksson
EMBL-EBI and Gene expression genomics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
10:00 Coffee break
10:30
Dissection of the type I toxin/antitoxin system TisB/IstRI in Escherichia coli
Cédric Romilly
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (ICM), Uppsala University, Sweden
11:00
Dietary modulation of the gut microbiota affects mucosal barrier function
Björn Ole Schröder
Institute of Medicine - Wallenberg Laboratory, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
11:30
Persistence and resistance strategies by Gram-positive bacteria in severe necrotizing skin and soft tissue infections
Nikolai Siemens
Center for Functional Genomics of Microbes, Department of Molecular Genetics and Infection Biology, University of Greifswald, Germany
12:00 End of the symposium
Contact: Oliver Billker, Director MIMS, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.