Welcome to the KBC DAYS 2018 on November 6-7!
Location: Carl Kempe salen (KB.E3.03) and KBCon Focus Environment!
There will be many inspiring presentations from 'in-house', including talks by the new faculty members and award recipients, 'elevator-talks' and posters from midterm PhD students, and posters and guided tours from the KBC platforms/infrastructures.
This year, we are also very glad to announce that several of our future neighbours from the Medical Biology Centre (MBC) will present their research during the KBC Days!
Join the KBC Days to meet your colleagues and update yourself!
8.30 Registration and poster mounting
Chairperson: Stefan Janson
9.00 Opening of the KBC Days 2018
Hans Adolfsson, Vice Chancellor
9.10 tba
Katrine Riklund, Pro-Vice Chancellor
9.25 Welcome
Stefan Björklund, Scientific Coordinator for KBC
9.30 Discovering gene functions in a malaria parasite: Lessons from using omics approaches
Oliver Billker, Department of Molecular Biology and The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), New Director of MIMS
10.30 Coffee break
Chairperson: Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson
11.00 More than early development of the eye and olfactory epithelium
Lena Gunhaga, Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine (UCMM)
11.20 AMPK activator O304- a novel type 2 diabetes and obesity drug
Helena Edlund, Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine (UCMM)
11.40 Imaging the pancreas in diabetes - optical techniques to study islet function and disease dynamics
Ulf Ahlgren, Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine (UCMM)
12.00 Human sensorimotor control: from single sensory neurons to complex adaptive behavior
Michael Dimitriou, The Department of Integrative Medical Biology (IMB)
12.20 Lunch
Chairperson: Andrei Chabes
13.20 How inhibition gets exciting – Chloride ions in control of brain activity
Staffan Johansson, The Department of Integrative Medical Biology (IMB)
13.40 Exploring brain circuits in the healthy and diseased brain at high spatio-temporal resolution
Paolo Medini, The Department of Integrative Medical Biology (IMB)
14.00 Neural guidance in development and disease
Sara Wilson, The Department of Integrative Medical Biology (IMB)
14.20 Coffee break
Chairperson: Christine Funk
14.50 KBC during the last and the coming year
Stefan Björklund, Scientific Coordinator for KBC
15.10 Sustainable Chemistry
Klaus Kümmerer, Institute for Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany
15.55 Disarming of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Fredrik Almqvist, Department of Chemistry
16.15 Midterm PhD students present their Research Projects in "elevator talks" (2 Minutes)
· Characterization of adventitious root formation in Norway spruce
Sanaria Alallaq, Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), Department of Plant Physiology
· Putative b-galactosidases linked to a loss of anisotropic growth in Arabidopsis roots
Pieter Nibbering, UPSC, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology
· PIRIN2 suppresses non-cell-autonomous lignification in Arabidopsis xylem
Bernadette Sztojka, UPSC, Department of Plant Physiology
· Alternative assessment of hazard chemicals combining in silico tools with multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA): a case study of decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) alternatives
Ziye Zheng, Department of Chemistry
· How do sugars regulate flowering? Is epigenetic regulation the missing link?
Noemi Skorzinski, UPSC, Department of Plant Physiology
· NEP activity is essential for the expression of plastid photosynthesis genes during chloroplast development
Yan Ji, UPSC, Department of Plant Physiology
· Outlier Detection in Neural Networks - Chemometrics Meets Deep Learning
Rickard Sjögren, Computational Life Science Cluster (CLiC), Department of Chemistry
· Influence of cook stove technology and fuels on particle emissions - A detailed characterization on physical and chemical properties
Robert Lindgren, Thermochemical Energy Conversion Laboratory (TEC-Lab), Department of Applied Physics and Electronics
16.35 Smoothies and fruits
16.40 Poster presentations
The midterm PhD students and KBC platforms/infrastructures present their posters in the KBC Cafeteria (printed and digital presentations)
18.00 Dinner with Live Music from Second Hand Band
Chairperson: Sebastian Diehl
8.50 Infrastructure from the far side
Jonathan Gilthorpe, Pharmacology and Clinical Neursciences
9.00 Presenting Umu research infrastructures - infrastructure portal at Umu.se
Kristoffer Lindell, Project leader, Planning Office
9.15 The physics workshop
Isak Silander, Mechanical workshop at the Department of Physics
New Faculty Members and Award Recipients
9.25 Mitochondrial DNA – our overlooked genome
Paulina Wanrooij, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
9.45 Modeling the evolutionary origins of multicellularity
Eric Libby, Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
10.05 Robustness and modularity of gene regulation in development and disease
Andreas Hörnblad, Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine (UCMM)
10.25 Coffee and presentation of poster prize winner
Chairperson: Natuschka Lee
10.50 The Spiderhunt – combining citizen science with basic research
Jerker Fick, Department of Chemistry
11.10 Immunomodulatory properties of bacterial genotoxins: from killing to subversion of host responses
Teresa Frisan, Department of Molecular Biology
11.30 Swelling of graphite/graphene oxides in polar solvents
Alexandr Talyzin, Department of Physics
11.50 Genomes in space and time
Per Stenberg, Department of Molecular Biology and Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences
12.10 Bacterial conjugation via Type 4 Secretion Systems
Ronnie Berntsson, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics and WCMM
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Guided tours organized by the KBC infrastructures:
(Sign up for the tours at the registration desk)
