MIMS mini-symposium Research presentations by candidates invited for interviews after application for MIMS Group Leader positions
Venue: Lecture hall E04, building 6 E, Node R, Level -1, University hospital area NUS
09.00-09.25 Mechanisms of Hsp70 Allostery: Interdomain Energetic Tug-of-War Creates the Allosterically Active State in Hsp70 Molecular Chaperones Anastasia Zhuravleva Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; USA
09.25-09.50 Hepatitis C virus-mediated modulation of host immunity Erwin Brenndörfer, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
09.50-10.15 Biofilm extracellular polysaccharides are novel signalling molecules Yasuhiko Irie, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
10.15-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-11.10 Contributions of bacterial physiology to antimicrobial survival Klas I. Udekwu, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
11.10-11.35 Chemical genetics, a small molecule approach to biology Christian Hedberg, Department of Chemical Biology, Max?Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
11.35-12.00 Structure and function of Cu(I)-transporting P-type ATPases Pontus Gourdon, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University
MIMS extra seminar: 13.00-13.30 on Friday 25th of January, 2013. Research presentation by one of the candidates invited for interviews after application for MIMS Group Leader positions.
Venue: Lecture hall Minor Groove, Dept of Molecular Biology
Speaker: Vasili Hauryliuk Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Estonia
Title: Characterization of the bacterial stringent response: From basic mechanisms to biotechnological applications