UCMR DAY 2019

Time: 10 January 2019

Venue: Bergasalen,  University Hospital, South Entrance, "Kvinno-barn-kliniken"

Programme

09.00-09.20
 
Welcome address - UCMR – 15 years
Bernt Eric Uhlin, UCMR Coordinator, Molecular Biology
 
Session I: New faculty/MIMS group leaders
Chairpersons: Maria Fällman and Oliver Billker

09.20-09.40
A systematic functional in vivo characterisation of malaria parasite-host interactions
Ellen Bushell, MIMS group leader, Molecular biology

09.40-10.00
Visualization of molecular machines in pathogens using cryo-EM
Jonas Barandun, SciLifeLab Fellow/MIMS group leader, Molecular Biology

10.00-10.20
Illuminating the hidden power of cell-autonomous immunity
Barbara Sixt, MMIMS group leader, Molecular biology

10.20-10.40
MIMS – Ongoing activities and future perspectives
Oliver Billker, MIMS director, Molecular Biology
 
10.40-11.00 Coffee break
 
Session II: Invited speakers and short talks selected from poster abstracts
Chairpersons: Madeleine Ramstedt and Constantin Urban

11.00–11.30
Pneumococcal interactions with the host
Birgitta Henriques-Normark, Karolinska institutet, Stockholm

11.30-11.45
Uncovering the amyloid fibril structure of transthyretin using cryo-EM
Irina Iakovleva, Chemisty

11.45-12.00
PATHOGENEX: Human bacterial pathogens gene expression database
Kemal Avican, Karolinska institutet

12.00-12.15 
Role of OmpA1 and OmpA2 in Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans and Aggregatibacter aphrophilus serum resistance
Mark Lindholm, Odontology

12.15-12.30
Alarmone synthetases turn toxic
Chayan Kumar Saha, Molecular Biology
 
12.30-13.15 Lunch break
 
13.15-15.15
Poster session/poster walk groups
Chairpersons: Åke Forsberg and Victoria Shingler

13.15-14.15 posters with odd numbers
14.15-15.15 posters with even numbers
 
Session III: Invited speakers and short talks selected from poster abstracts

15.15-15.45
 Pneumococcal adaptation to the influenza-infected lower respiratory tract
Staffan Normark, Karolinska institutet

15.45-16.00
 Protein dynamics in a native membrane
Magnus Andersson, Chemistry

16.00-16.15
 Evasion of immune surveillance in low oxygen environments enhances Candida albicans virulence
José Pedro Lopes, Clinical Microbiology

16.15-16.30
New grants within the VR programme “Research environment grants within infection and antibiotics” 
 
Demontering av membranmikrodomäner i Staphylococcus aureus för att tämja antibiotikaresistens hos MRSA
Felipe Cava, Molecular Biology
 
Combatting commensal pathogens belonging to the resident microbiota – focusing on targetable secreted proteins and secretion systems – SECAM
Birgitta Henriques Normark, Karolinska intitutet
 
Multimodal imaging and proteomics to study flavivirus replication and molecular disease mechanisms
Anna Överby Wernstedt, Clinical Microbiology
 
16.30-16.45 Short break

Session IV: Invited speakers and short talks selected from poster abstracts

16.45-17.05
Two photon microscopy
Paolo Medini, Integrative Medical Biology

17.05-17.20
The Rv3160c-Rv3161c operon: one of the targets of C10 mycobacterial tolerance inhibitor
Hasan Tükenmez, Molecular Biology

17.20-17.35
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms involved in ProteinA induced tumor cell death
Aftab Nadeem, Molecular Biology

Session V: Round table discussions - UCMR Planning Session
Chairpersons: Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson and Bernt Eric Uhlin

17.45-20:00
See separate information about round table topics

Contact: Bernt Eric Uhlin, bernt.eric.uhlin@umu.se  and Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson, elisabeth.sauer-eriksson@umu.se (concerning the scientific programme) and Åke Forsberg, ake.forsberg@umu.se, Eva-Maria Diehl, eva-maria.diehl@umu.se (for organisation and registration)