Welcome to the UCMR Day 2017!

UCMR DAY 2017All scientists and staff members within UCMR (Umeå Centre for Microbial Research) research groups, collaboration partners and researchers with an interest in microbial research and/or infection biology are invited to a day of inspiring research presentations and an excellent opportunity for networking and initiation of multidisciplinary collaborations.

Get an update on research within UCMR and core facilities, National infrastructures co-funded by UCMR programmes!

This year’s invited speakers include new faculty recruited to Department of Physics, the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) and medical faculty. We have also invited the two new Antibiotics centres at Uppsala University (Uppsala Antibiotics Center) and University of Gothenburg (Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research, CARe). In this session on-going research within UCMR to develop new antimicrobials against Chlamydia, TB, Candida and viruses will also be presented.

Welcome!

Venue: Minor Groove and Major Groove, Department of Molecular Biology, Building 6L

UCMR day 12th of January 2017 – Final Programme

pdfUCMR_DAY_Programme_Participants_Posters.pdf

UCMR day 12th of January 2017 – Programme

8.30 – 9.00
Registration and Poster mounting
Session 1:
Chairpersons Åke Forsberg, UCMR/MIMS scientific secretary and Maria Fällman*, Deputy director MIMS

9.00 - 9.20
UCMR/MIMS news - Postdoctoral programmes, infrastructure support, national doctoral programme
Bernt Eric Uhlin, UCMR/MIMS Director

9.20 - 9.40
Organoids as a model system for pancreatic cancer
Daniel Öhlund, Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Fellow – WCMM, Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University

9.40 – 10.00
Targeting Lipid Kinases for cancer therapy
Jenny Persson, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University

10.00 – 10.20
Generation of attosecond pulses and their application for photography of electron motion
Laszlo Veisz, Department of Physics, Umea University

10.20 – 10.50
Coffee break and poster viewing
   
Session II:
Chairpersons: Constantin Urban, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University and Thereza Soares, UCMR Visiting Professor, Department Chemistry, Umeå University

10.50 - 11.10
Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research, CARe
Per Sunnerhagen, CARe Therapeutics, Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg

11.10 - 11.30
Uppsala Antibiotics Center (UAC)
Linus Sandegren, UAC management team, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University

11.30 - 11.50
Virus host interaction and development of sialic acid based attachment inhibitors
Mikael Elofsson, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University

 11.50 - 12.10
New approaches against infection: Targeting PrfA-mediated regulation of virulence regulation in Listeria monocytogenes
Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University

12.10 – 13.10
Lunch and poster viewing
   
Session III:
Chairpersons: Per Sunnerhagen, Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg and Madeleine Ramstedt, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University

13.10 – 13.30
Using 2-pyridone amide to treat and understand Chlamydia biology and pathogenesis
Sven Bergström, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University

13.30 – 13.50
New approaches against life-threatening mycoses
Constantin Urban, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University

13.50 – 14.05
Virulence inhibition of mycobacteria – a new strategy to make them all die
Christer Larsson, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University

14.05 – 14.20
Molecular epidemiology and antibiotic resistance features of Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates from Sweden
Nabil Karah, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University

14.20 – 14.40
Computational simulations of Polymyxin-B binding to resistant and susceptible LPS chemotypes
Thereza A. Soares, UCMR Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University

14.40– 14.55
Structural and functional characterization of Gram+ T4SS adhesion components
Andreas Schmitt, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University

14.55- 15.25
Coffee break
   
Session IV:
Chairpersons Linus Sandegren, , Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University and Karina Persson, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University

15.25 – 15.45

Structural and mechanistic studies of (+)ssRNA virus replication complexes
Lars-Anders Carlson, Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Fellow - WCMM, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University

15.45 – 16.00

Molecular mechanisms of A. actinomycetemcomitans host cell interaction
Jan Oscarsson, Department of Odontology, Umeå University

16.00 – 16.15
Induction of antimicrobial peptides as a novel host directed strategy against multidrug resistant bacteria
Peter Bergman, MIMS Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge

16.15 – 16.30
The B cell response to Puumala virus infection leads to the elicitation of broadly neutralizing anti-hantavirus antibodies in a subset of individuals
Priscilla Kerkman, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University

16.30 – 16.45
Streptomyces antibiotics block nematode mating behavior regulated by ciliated sensory neurons that secrete extracellular vesicles
Simon Tuck, Umeå Center for Molecular Medicine - UCMM, Umeå University

16.45 – 17.00
Lipid metabolism as a novel antibiotic target in Chlamydia
Sergio A. Mojica, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University

17.00 – 17.15
Interactions between two common skin commensals: Propionibacterium acnes and granulosum
Hélène Omer, Department of Medical Biosciences/Pathology, Umeå University

17.15 –
Poster session, mingle, snacks and buffe
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