The National and International Seminar Series Autum 2019
Friday 4th of October 14:00
Speaker:
Richard Wyatt
The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Title:
HIV-1 Env trimer immunogens, down the rabbit hole and other unlikely events
Room: Betula, building 6M, NUS
Host: Mattias Forsell, Clinical Microbiology
Note! Coffee/Tea and cookies served 30 mins before start
Thesis Defence - Department of Molecular Biology
Ala Javadi
Title:
Filament assembly and structural studies of intermediate filament like protein, FilP, in Streptomyces coelicolor.
Faculty opponent: Professor Martin Thanbichler, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.
Principal supervisor: Linda Sandblad, Team leader MIMS, Director of UCEM
Room:
Stora focus rummet (large seminar room) KBF301, KBC building
Date and Time: 10-11 October 2019
Biomedicum Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen, Stockholm
The 2nd CryoNet Annual Symposium will highlight the latest discoveries in protein-nucleic acid complexes along with a view to the future of cryo-EM. Alongside presentations on important biological results will be exciting methodological advances emphasizing that cryo-EM is still in a major growth phase.
Students and postdocs are encouraged to apply to give talks and poster presentations
CryoNet is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Novo Nordisk Foundation
Invited Speakers:
Preliminary programme and registration on the webpage of SciLifeLab
The National and International Seminar Series Autum 2019
Friday 11th of October 14:00
Speaker:
Didier Mazel
Institut Pasteur, France
Title:
Synthetic toxin-intein combinations as novel genetic weapons for specific killing of pathogenic bacteria
Room: Betula, NUS, bldg 6 M
Host: Ignacio Mir Sanchis, WCMM
Note! Coffee/Tea and cookies served 30 mins before start
Extra Invited Speaker Seminar - NISS joint seminar
Boris Striepen
Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Department of Pathobiology
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Title:
Biology of Cryptosporidium, a leading global cause of diarrhea in children
Room: Betula, building 6M, NUS
Host: Oliver Billker, Director MIMS
Boris Striepen's website: http://www.striepenlab.org
Date and venue: 14-15th of October 2019, Aronsborg (Bålsta) at Aronsborgs Konferenshotell in Bålsta (between Stockholm and Uppsala).
The NIB/SFM/NDPIA 2019 meeting is co-organized by the National Network for Infection Biology (NIB) coordinated by The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), the Swedish Society for Microbiology (SFM) and the National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics (NDPIA). The meeting will take place at Aronsborgs Konferenshotell between Stockholm and Uppsala. It will gather researchers from different areas of infection biology/infection medicine and microbiology.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Short talks selected from abstracts The selection of the twenty short from submitted abstracts is ongoing and there will also be poster sessions, including poster presentations.
Organizing Committee:
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MIMS Extra Seminar
Speaker:
Raphael Valdivia
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University School of Medicine, Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Title:
The genetic basis for mucin utilization and host colonization by the beneficial gut microbe Akkermansia muciniphila
Host: Barbara Sixt, MIMS group leader
Room: Lecture room Major Groove, Dept Molecular Biology, Building 6L, NUS
More information about Raphael Valdivia:
https://mgm.duke.edu/faculty-and-research/primary-faculty/raphael-valdivia-phd/
MIMS Extra Seminar
Speaker:
Eva Gluenz
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Title:
High-throughput phenotyping of Leishmania knockout mutants in vitro and in vivo
Host: Oliver Billker, director MIMS, professor, department of Molecular Biology
Room: Major Groove, Department of Molecular Biology, building 6L, NUS
National and International Seminar Series 2019
Speaker:
Jan Potempa
University of Louisville, USA and University of Krakow, Poland
Porphyromonas gingivalis’ role in periodontitis: secretion of virulence factors and links to systemic disease
Lecture room: Betula, NUS
Host: David A. Cisneros, Molecular Biology
Note: te/coffee and cookies served 30 mins before the talk
MIMS/UCMR Extra Seminar
Speaker:
Orsolya Barabas
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Title:
Jumping genes: molecular strategies for antibiotic resistance spreading
Host: Maria Fällman/Oliver Billker
Room: Major Groove, Dept Molecular Biology, bldg 6L, NUS
The National and International Seminar Series (NISS seminar)
Speaker:
Roland Seifert
Hannover Medical School, Germany
Title:
Signaling via the non-canonical cyclic nuceotides cCMP and cUMP
Host: Nikola Zlatkov Kolev
Coffee/tea/cookies is served 30 min before start.
Place: Betula, bldg 6 M, NUS