Programmable RNA complex could speed genome editing in the lab

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Created: Monday, 02 July 2012 09:45
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and MIMS group leader, and her collaborator Jennifer Doudna, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified a targeted method of slicing DNA that they say can be easily customized for a variety of applications in the lab.

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Protein scientist awarded from Nordeas Norrland Foundation

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Created: Monday, 18 June 2012 09:30

Elisabeth Sauer Eriksson, Professor of Structual Biology at the Department of Chemistry and a UCMR groupleader, gets Nordeas prize for life science research. She is an international successful scientist within the field of X-ray crystallographic studies of protein structures. The prize amount is 100000 SEK and the award will be handed out on Saturday, 20 October, at the Academic Autumn Ceremony at Umeå University.

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10th International Adenovirus Meeting

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Created: Tuesday, 12 June 2012 10:30

10th International Adenovirus Meeting 13-17 June 2012 Print E-mail
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13th - 17th June 2012
Umeå University
Lindellhallen, Samhällsvetarhuset
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New EU course webportal

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Created: Thursday, 07 June 2012 12:25
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A new EU course webportal for biomedical postgraduate courses is now available at www.on.course.eu

on-course® claims to be "the most comprehensive biomedical and medicines research and development postgraduate course portal in Europe" and is powered by EMTRAIN, the European Medicines Research Training Network. The EMTRAIN project is funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Joint Undertaking, a large-scale public-private partnership between the European Union and the pharmaceutical industry association EFPIA. The EMTRAIN partners from UCMR and MIMS are the Laboratories for Chemical Biology Umeå (LCBU).

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Fernström prize to DNA scientist

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Created: Friday, 01 June 2012 13:37

Andrei Chabes, group leader and docent at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics is getting the Eric K. Fernström prize 2012 for “younger, promising and successful scientists”. The prize committee at the Faculty of Medicine, Umeå University, decided to award him for “his distinguished and creative scientific work about how DNA building blocks regulate important processes in cells”.

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Cutting Edge Biophysics - 1.5 ECTS

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Created: Thursday, 22 March 2012 14:00
Course date: 7-9 September 2012

Course venue: Tällberg, close to Leksand, Dalarna

Registration deadline: 1 August 2012

This course is organized in conjunction with the Symposium of the Swedish Society for Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology SFBBM, (http://www.sfbbm.se/symposium) and mainly for PhD students and postdocs.

In order to attend the 1.5 ECTS course you also need to register for this Swedish/Danish biophysics meeting 9-12 September 2012 in Tällberg.

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Seminar John Overington, EMBL Hinxton

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Created: Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:45
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EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine (FIMM - MIMS - NCMM) joint Special Seminar at the Biomedicum in Helsinki.
Video transfer of the talk to Umeå and Oslo simultanously.
Speaker: John Overington, EMBL Outstation-Hinxton
Title: A data mining synthesis approach to the discovery of impersonalised, robust and safe therapies 

31 May 2012, 10:30, Major Groove, bldg 6L Molecular Biology

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UCMR Mini-Symposium

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Created: Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:30

Tuesday, 29 May 2012, 8.30 - 11.45, Lecture hall KB3A9, Lilla hörsalen, KBC

Research projects and networks at the Laboratories for Chemical Biology Umeå (LCBU) and X-ray crystallography research within UCMR research groups.
The symposium is open to everyone and no registration is required.

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22 scientists and teachers will be awarded with 25.4 million SEK at the 191st feast of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science on 31 of March

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Created: Thursday, 22 March 2012 12:00
Amongst the awardees is Andrei Chabes, docent and UCMR group leader, who will share the 700 000 SEK endowed HAGBERGS PRIS 2012 with Dr. fil. Lynn Kamerlin from Uppsala University.

Dr. Chabes was selected for “his creative scientific work about how DNA building blocks regulate important processes in cells”.

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