MIMS mini-symposium
Research presentations by candidates invited for interviews after application for MIMS Group Leader positions
Venue: Lecture hall E04, building 6 E, Node R, Level -1, University hospital area NUS
09.00-09.25
Mechanisms of Hsp70 Allostery: Interdomain Energetic Tug-of-War Creates the Allosterically Active State in Hsp70 Molecular Chaperones
Anastasia Zhuravleva Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; USA
09.25-09.50
Hepatitis C virus-mediated modulation of host immunity
Erwin Brenndörfer, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
09.50-10.15
Biofilm extracellular polysaccharides are novel signalling molecules
Yasuhiko Irie, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
10.15-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-11.10
Contributions of bacterial physiology to antimicrobial survival
Klas I. Udekwu, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
11.10-11.35
Chemical genetics, a small molecule approach to biology
Christian Hedberg, Department of Chemical Biology, Max?Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
11.35-12.00
Structure and function of Cu(I)-transporting P-type ATPases
Pontus Gourdon, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University