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
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
Young Scientist Day 2019 – CRISPR-Cas and Gene Therapy
You can be one of the chosen few who get to discuss your research with this year’s winner of the Scheele Award, Emmanuelle Charpentier and other scientists in the field of gene editing.
Young Scientist Day, hosted by the Swedish Pharmaceutical Society, will take place at Apotekarsocieteten on 27 November , as a satellite event to the Scheele Symposium. Take this unique opportunity to get to discuss your research in-depth with Professor Charpentier who generously shares her knowledge and experience. Admitted applicants will be able to present their scientific research and ask all the questions they want answered while networking with other scientist in the areas of CRISPR-Cas and Gene Therapy.
Programme and more information about the application and registration on the website of the Swedish Pharmaceutical Society, Apotekersocieteten:
https://www.apotekarsocieteten.se/produkt/young-scientist-day-2019/
(deadline for application: latest 29 September 2019)
Welcome to the UCMR Day 2020, Thursday 23 January 2020!
All scientists and staff members within UCMR, collaboration partners and researchers with an interest in life sciences are invited to a day of inspiring research presentations and an excellent opportunity for networking and initiation of multidisciplinary collaborations. The program will include international invited speakers, presentation for submitted abstract, in a truly bottom up approach, networking in form of round table discussions on topics relevant for life sciences and/or “speed date” to foster even better interactions within the UCMR umbrella.
To update the UMCR community on your latest research and to increase and diversify the collaborative frameworks, the research groups are kindly invited to fill in a very simple (and not time consuming) PowerPoint presentation, found in the registration form.
Date: 23 January
Venue: Aula Nordica, Umeå University
Programme and more details about the event will soon be found here:
http://www.ucmr.umu.se/about-ucmr/news.html
For questions concerning the organisation of the UCMR Day, please contact the organising committee:
Teresa Frisan, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Yaowen Wu, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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1st Umeå Interdisciplinary Symposium on Hypoxic Biology
25 May 8:45-16:45, online via Zoom
The concentration of oxygen is one of the most important variables in many physiological and pathological processes. Do you care about oxygen levels in your experiments? Probably you should, and now you can at UHRF.
UHRF (Umeå Hypoxia Research Facility) is a new facility created to support research projects that require controlled oxygen conditions. We are co-financed by the Kempe Foundation and the Umeå Center for Microbial Research (UCMR) and you can find us at the Department of Molecular Biology.
To introduce UHRF, we have organized an exciting virtual symposium to highlight the fundamental role of hypoxia in microbial ecology and infection, fungal biology, plant science, cancer, neurobiology and virology research. This first interdisciplinary symposium on hypoxic biology in Umeå is a joint initiative of UHRF (https://www.umu.se/en/uhrf) and UCMR (https://www.ucmr.umu.se/).
The invited speakers include: Michael Jetten (Microbial ecology; Radboud University, The Netherlands), Emilio Bueno (Infection biology; University of Umeå, Sweden), Francesco Licausi (Plant biology; University of Oxford, UK), Emily Flashman (Plant biology; University of Oxford, UK) Jonathan Gilthorpe (Neurobiology; University of Umeå, Sweden), Randall Johnson (Tumor biology; Karolinska institutet, Sweden), Jane McKeating (Virology; University of Oxford, UK), Robert A. Cramer (Fungal biology; Geisel School of Medicine, USA), Constantin Urban (Fungal biology; University of Umeå, Sweden), Björn Schröder (Gut microbiome; University of Umeå, Sweden), Andreas Baumler (Gut microbiome; UCDAVIS, USA).
Program:
https://www.umu.se/globalassets/centralwebb/forskningswebb/infrastruktur/uhrf/uhrf-symposium-programme-1.pdf
Register now at:
https://www.umu.se/en/research/infrastructure/umea-hypoxic-research-facility/uhrf-courses-and-events/
Infections due to certain viruses, bacteria, and parasites are strong risk factors for the development of specific cancers. Approximately 20% of cancers worldwide are attributed to infections. Conversely, a subset of pathogens preferentially lyse tumor cells, leading to tumor regression and improved anti-tumor immunity. In addition, the intestinal microbiota influences our response to anti-cancer therapy. The Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR) Infection and Cancer Symposium aims to present and discuss these aspects of the complex relation between microbes and cancer.
International experts will present concepts on principles by which viruses and bacteria subvert the cellular micro-environment to cause cancer. Speakers will address a) mechanisms of malignant transformation by DNA and RNA viruses, b) mechanisms by which chronic and latent bacterial infections contribute to cancer initiation and progression, c) key issues related to pro-carcinogenic viruses/bacteria and immune defense, and d) how these processes can be prevented by prophylactic vaccination. Participants will have an opportunity to present their research during poster and, if selected, oral presentations and to meet other researchers within the field.
To see the speaker program and to register at no cost for the virtual symposium, go to www.ucmrinca2021.se.
Registration deadline: 20 August (without poster presentation).
Visit the homepage of the Symposium for more information, programme and registration details: http://www.cryonet2021.se/
The 4th Annual CryoNET Symposium will through a panel of distinguished speakers highlight the latest discoveries facilitated by cryo-EM research and new directions that are emerging. The symposium will be fully accessible as an online meeting but we will provide viewing and presentation options in Umeå to the extent that the guidelines at the time allow (more info to follow). Students and postdocs are encouraged to apply to give talks.
Visit the homepage of the Symposium for more information, programme and registration details:https://ndpia.se/events/9th-national-infection-biology-swedish-microbiology-meeting/
Registration is free of charge, but mandatory to get access to the meeting platform.
The 9th National Infection Biology/Swedish Microbiology Meeting will be a virtual meeting that aims to provide a broad vision on current state-of-the-art microbiology techniques and research in Sweden. Keynote speakers are Swedish researchers working within the sub-disciplines of bacteriology, virology, parasitology, host response, clinical infection biology, environmental microbiology, zoonotics, and new methods. To involve junior researchers, additional talks will be selected from the submitted poster abstracts. Poster presentations will be organized as digital poster walks that allow participants to present and discuss their work with other participants.
The Workshop in Translational Science aims at creating awareness among the participants about what are the necessary steps for translating their research findings, with the end goal of stimulating collaborations between industry and preclinical research. This workshop combines talks by inspirational speakers with group discussions and a panel discussion. The target audience for this workshop are researchers in the early stages of their careers active in Life Science, but we welcome anyone who has an interest in getting new inspirations.
Where: Onsite in Lilla Hörsalen, KBC, and online. The onsite attendancy is limited to 70 persons.
Deadline for registration Dec 8! Please register here: Registration
Where: ONLINE
More information and registration on the conference webpage www.ucmrday2022.se.
Deadline for submission of abstracts December 12th!
Deadline for registration January 18th!
May 9th, 2022, 11:00-12:00 Venue: via Zoom
Vassilis Gorgoulis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Title of the talk: “Escape from oncogene-induced senescence”
Host PI: Teresa Frisan
Please register here to get access to the seminar: Registration