Events under 'General'

Department of Chemistry

Thesis Defence

Michael Albers

Title: Synthesis and Investigation of bacterial effector molecules


Faculty Examiner: Christian Hackenberger, FMP Berlin.
Supervisor: Christian Hedberg.

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KBC

Symposium 50 Years of Molecular Biology at Umeå University

One department - Two faculties

Friends of the department please join us in getting a 50 year perspective molecular biology!
We are also welcoming some of our former PhD-students, who now are research group leaders at other Universities in Sweden, to give us glimpses of what lies ahead.

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Annual Meeting of the Nordic EMBL Partnership

25-27 September 2019, Barcelona.

More information on the conference website:

https://www.embl.de/research/partnerships/events/TME19-01/index.html

Date and Time: 10-11 October 2019
Biomedicum Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen, Stockholm

The 2nd CryoNet Annual Symposium will highlight the latest discoveries in protein-nucleic acid complexes along with a view to the future of cryo-EM. Alongside presentations on important biological results will be exciting methodological advances emphasizing that cryo-EM is still in a major growth phase.

Students and postdocs are encouraged to apply to give talks and poster presentations

CryoNet is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Novo Nordisk Foundation

Invited Speakers:

Preliminary programme and registration on the webpage of SciLifeLab

Date and venue: 14-15th of October 2019, Aronsborg (Bålsta) at Aronsborgs Konferenshotell in Bålsta (between Stockholm and Uppsala).

The NIB/SFM/NDPIA 2019 meeting is co-organized by the National Network for Infection Biology (NIB) coordinated by The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), the Swedish Society for Microbiology (SFM) and the National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics (NDPIA). The meeting will take place at Aronsborgs Konferenshotell between Stockholm and Uppsala. It will gather researchers from different areas of infection biology/infection medicine and microbiology.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

• Jost Enninga, Institute Pasteur, Dynamics of Host-Pathogen Interactions, Paris, France
• Eva Gluenz, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Joan Geoghegan, Department of Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Susanne Häußler, Department for Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, and TWINCORE and Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany
• Helle Krogh Johansen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark
• Boris Striepen, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• Raphael Valdivia, Duke University School of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Durham, NC, U.S.A.

Short talks selected from abstracts The selection of the twenty short from submitted abstracts is ongoing and there will also be poster sessions, including poster presentations.

Organizing Committee:

• Oliver Billker, Umeå University, MIMS
• Eva-Maria Diehl, Umeå University, MIMS/NDPIA
• Åke Forsberg Umeå University, NDPIA/MIMS
• Fredrik Kahn, Lund University, NDPIA
• Keira Melican, Karolinska Institutet, SFM
• Barbara Sixt, Umeå University, MIMS
• Staffan Svärd, Uppsala University, SFM

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

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Link to the CONFERENCE WEBSITE for more information.

See more information here: Umeå Centre for Microbial Research - Call for postdoctoral projects to Principal Investigators (umu.se)

More information on the conference webpage: www.ucmrday2022.se

Submit your abstract here: Submission

Submission template: Submission_template.docx

Several fellowships are open for outstanding postdoctoral candidates interested to do research in the highly interactive and multidisciplinary research environments of UCMR and UPSC. In the scope of the “Excellence by Choice” Postdoctoral Programme, we aim to recruit up to six postdoctoral scientists in this round.

Visit www.ucmr.umu.se/ec-programme  for application details!

Deadline for application: April 3^rd 2022