Welcome to the UCMR Minisymposium 2016!
6 October 13.00-16.30
Lecture hall Betula, Biomedical Building, NUS
Contact: Åke Forsberg, Professor, UCMR, MIMS and Department of Molecular Biology, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
13.00-14.30 |
Chairpersons: Felipe Cava, MIMS/Molecular Biology and Madeleine Ramstedt, UCMR/Chemistry |
13.00-13.15 | Irfan Ahmad, UCMR postdoc, Group Bernt Eric Uhlin, MIMS/UCMR, Molecular Biology Regulation of bacterial physiology and pathogenesis by c-di-GMP signalling |
13.15-13.30 | Paulina Wanrooij, Postdoc, Group Andrei Chabes, MIMS/UCMR, Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics The effect of altered dNTP pools on mitochondrial DNA |
13.30-13.45 | Dmitry Ignatov, UCMR postdoc, Group Jörgen Johansson, MIMS/UCMR, Molecular biology Search for targets of Listeria monocytogenes small RNA Rli38 |
13.45-14.00 |
Emil Johansson, PhD student, Group Mikael Elofsson, UCMR, Chemistry |
14.00-14.15 | Victoriia Murina, Postdoc, Group Vasili Hauriliuk, Gemma Atkinson MIMS/UCMR, Molecular Biology Antibiotic resistance mediated by ribosome-associated ABCF ATPases |
14.15–15.30 | Akbar Espaillat, PhD student, Group Felipe Cava, MIMS/UCMR, Molecular Biology Chemometric Analysis of Bacterial Peptidoglycan Reveals Atypical Modifications That Empower the Cell Wall against Predatory Enzymes and Fly Innate Immunity |
15.30-15.00 | Coffee break |
15.00-16.30 |
Chairpersons: Magnus Andersson, UCMR/Physics and Andrea Puhar, MIMS/Molecular Biology |
15.00-15.15 | Zhen Zhang, UCMR Postdoc, Group Sun Nyunt Wai, MIMS/UCMR, Molecular Biology Bacterial toxin production and its modulation of host cell fate |
15.15-15.30 | Mikkel Quam, Postdoc, Group Joacim Rocklöv, UCMR/Epidemiology and Public Health The emergence of dengue in naive areas |
15.30-15.45 | Saskia Erttmann, Postdoc, Group Nelson Gekara, MIMS/UCMR, Molecular Biology Role of DNA damage response protein ATM in innate immunity |
15.45-16.00 | David Cisneros, Postdoc, Group Bernt Eric Uhlin, MIMS/UCMR, Molecular Biology, Cohesin-mediated chromatin structure regulation in mammalian cells |
16.00-16.15 | Tim Stangner, Postdoc, Group Magnus Andersson, UCMR, Physics Determining the Specificity of Monoclonal Antibody HPT-101 to Tau-Peptides with Optical Tweezers |
16.15-16.30 | Roberto Navais, Postdoctoral fellow, Group Maria Fällman, MIMS/UCMR, Molecular biology Seeking genes involved in transcriptional reprogramming of Yersinia for persistence |