Seminar at the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine/Epidemiology Global Health
Title:
Research on Zika, Malaria and Other Vector-borne Diseases at The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)
Speaker:
Madeleine Thomson
Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University, US.
Place: Room 135, Family Medicine/ Epidemiology Global Health, Building 9A, NUS
Host: Joacim Rocklöv, Public Health and Clinical Medicine
Bios:
Madeleine Thomson is a Senior Research Scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society and Senior Scholar at the Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences – at Columbia University. She is also the Director of the IRI/PAHO-WHO Collaborating Centre (US 306) for Early Warning Systems for Malaria and Other Climate Sensitive Diseases.
She trained originally as a field entomologist and has spent much of her career engaged in operational research in support of large-scale health interventions, mostly in Africa. Her research focuses on the development of new data, methodologies and tools for improving climate sensitive health interventions Her focus has been on vector-borne diseases (e.g. malaria, onchocerciasis, visceral lieshmaniasis etc.) but in recent years has expanded to include air and water-borne infections as well as broader health challenges associated with food security and disasters. She is a founding member of the Meningitis Environmental Risk Information Technologies (MERIT) research consortium and the Vice-President of a non-profit 501(3)c, the Health and Climate Foundation. She is currently engaged by the Wellcome Trust as “Special Adviser – Environment, Nutrition & Health”.
She is particularly interested in improving institutional and human capacity for incorporating climate information into health planning. To help achieve the latter she is working to create a “health and climate” disciplinary interface and a “climate smart” public health community through the ‘Climate Information for Public Health Action (CIPHA)’ initiative. She is and has been PI and Co-PI on projects funded by NASA, NIH, USAID, NOAA, Google.org, the International Federation of the Red Cross, the UK Department for International Development, the UK Meningitis Research Foundation, the UK Medical Research Council, The World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control, the European Union, amongst others. She has a master’s in applied pest management from Imperial College London (1985) and a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool based on her field work on the ecology and identification of the Simulium damnosum vectors of Onchocerciasis volvulus in Sierra Leone (1989). She joined the IRI in May 2002.
Source: http://iri.columbia.edu/contact/staff-directory/madeleine-thomson/
Welcome!
Joacim Rocklöv
National and International Seminar Series 2017
Speaker:
Vicent Pelechano
Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology
Karolinska Institute
Title:
Genome-wide study of gene expression: From transcriptional complexity to ribosome dynamics
Host: Tracy Nissan, Molecular Biology
Lecture room E04, målpunkt R, building NUS 6A-L, Biomedicinhuset
Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start
National and International Seminar Series 2017
Speaker:
Marc Lecuit
Institut Pasteur, France
Title:
New insights in the pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes
Host: Andrea Puhar
Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start
National and International Seminar Series 2017
Speaker:
Olof Lagerlöf
Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Title:
Metabolic regulation of neuronal circuits that control feeding behavior
Host: Tommy Olsson
Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start
Place: lecture hall E04, målpunkt R, building NUS 6A-L, Biomedicinhuset;
National and International Seminar Series 2017
Speaker:
Jessica Quintin
Department of Mycology
Institut Pasteur, France
Title:
Monocyte memory to Beta-Glucans and beyond
Host: Pedro Lopes, Clinical Microbiology
Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start
NOTE PLACE!
National and International Seminar Series 2017
Speaker:
Luis Ferreira Moita
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Title:
Role of DNA damage responses in disease tolerance
Host: Nelson Gekara, MIMS Department of Molecular Biology
Note: Place: Lecture hall E04, Målpunkt R, NUS
Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start
National and International Seminar Series 2017
NOTE ROOM: Betula, bldg 6 M
Speaker:
Hanna Sidjabat
University of Queensland, Australia
Title:
In the emergence of Superbugs: will Probiotics be the alternative solution to antibiotics?
Host:
Anders Sjöstedt, Clinical Microbiology
Note: Coffee will be served outside of Betula at 13.30 already. Welcome!
Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series
Daniel Öhlund
Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine
Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University
Title:
Deciphering the complexity of the tumor-stroma in pancreatic cancer
Host: Andrei Chabes
Place: Lilla Hörsalen KBE301, KBC building
National and International Seminar Series 2017
Speaker:
Gert Bange
University of Marburg, Germany
Title:
Are you stressed? The molecular complexity of (p)ppGpp signaling
Room: Betula, Bldg 6M, NUS (NOTE the new room)
Host: Vasili Hauryliuk
Note: 30 Minutes before the Seminar, at 13.30, will be a mingle and coffee served!
The seminar starts at 14.00
Welcome!
National and International Seminar Series 2017
Speaker:
Siegfried Weiss
Molecular Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Braunschweig, Germany
Title:
Salmonella to fight cancer – turning a foe into a friend
Host: Nelson Gekara, Molecular Biology
Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start
Room: Betula
National International Seminar Series 2017
Speaker:
Gary H. Karpen
UC Berkeley, USA
Title:
Biophysics meets chromatin: is heterochromatin just a phase?
Host: Jan Larsson
Room: Lecture hall A5, Målpunkt R NUS
Meet already at 13.30 outside of the Lecture room for coffee and Mingle, the seminar will start at 14:00
National and International Seminar Series 2017
Speaker:
Andres Merits
Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Estonia
Title:
Replicative and non-replicative functions of alphavirus replicase
Host: Magnus Evander, Clinical Microbiology
Room: Lecture hall A5 Målpunkt R, NUS (Note change!)
Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start
National and International Seminar Series 2017
Speaker:
Juan Hermoso
CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Title:
Renew or Die: A structural look into the peptidoglycan remodeling and antibiotics resistance in Bacterial Pathogens
Host: Felipe Cava, MIMS
Room: Lecture hall E04, Målpunkt R, NUS
Note: before the seminar, at 13.30 will be mingle with coffee
The talk will start at 14.00
MIMS /UCMR and Molecular Biology Extra Seminar
Speaker:
Erik Holmqvist
Uppsala University
Title:
Global maps of ProQ-RNA interactions in Salmonella and Escherichia coli and a new ProQ function in controlling mRNA stability at the 3’ end
Holmqvist Lab:
http://www.icm.uu.se/microbiology/holmqvist-lab/
Host Vasili Hauryliuk, MIMS Group Leader
Friday 8 September 14.00, Lecture room A5, Målpunkt R, NUS
National and International Seminar Series 2017/2017
Speaker:
Kartik Chandran
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA
Title:
Unraveling and inhibiting the cell entry mechanisms of filoviruses and hantaviruses
Host: Mattias Forsell
Note Coffee/Tea is served from 13:30 outside of the lecture room
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National and International Seminar Series 2017/2018
Speaker
Dung Fang Lee
University of Texas Health Science Centre, TX, USA
Title:
Dissecting cancer etiology in a dish
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Place: Betula, Building 6M (close the Medical Library)
NOTE: Before the seminar, from 13.30-14.00, coffee/tea will be served! Welcome!
This National and International Seminar Series is organised by Andrea Puhar, MIMS and Molecular Biology, and Mattias Forsell
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MIMS Extra Seminar
Speaker
Ann-Beth Jonsson
Department of Molecular Biosciences, Stockholm University
Title:
Interaction and competition between bacterial species at epithelial surfaces
Host: Sun Nyunt Wai
Place: Seminar room Thymine, Department of Molecular Biology, Bldg 6K/L
National and International Seminar Series 2017/2018
Speaker
Andy Wullaert
VIB-Gent University, Belgium
Title:
Inflammasomes regulating intestinal immunity during steady state and infection
Host: Nelson Gekara
Place: Lecture hall A5, Målpunkt R
NOTE: Before the seminar, from 13.30-14.00, coffee/tea will be served! Welcome!
This National and International Seminar Series is organised by Andrea Puhar, MIMS and Molecular Biology, and Mattias Forsell
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MIMS Extra Seminar
Speaker:
Aftab Nadeem
Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Dept of Microbiology,
Immunology and Glycobiology (MIG), BMC, Lund University, Lund
Title:
Cellular targets involved in HAMLET induced tumor cell death: molecular insights and therapeutic potential
Host: Bernt Eric Uhlin
Place: Old Library, Molecular Biology, NUS, Bldg 6K/L
National and International Seminar Series 2017/2018
Speaker
Kristian Pietras
Lunds Universitet
Title:
Microenvironmental control of the malignant phenotype
Host: Daniel Öhlund
Place: Lecture hall A5, Målpunkt R
NOTE: Before the seminar, from 13.30-14.00, coffee/tea will be served! Welcome!
This National and International Seminar Series is organised by Andrea Puhar, MIMS and Molecular Biology, and Mattias Forsell
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