Open recruitment-symposium: Pre-clinical WCMM-Fellows

As a part of the recruitment process for the assistant professor position (group leader) with preclinical focus at Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) the top candidates will present their previous work.

13:00 – 13:25 Gabriel Torrens: Beyond antibiotics: How bacteria resist, persist, and cause disease.

13:25 – 13:50 Alek Erickson: Positional regulation of embryonic mesenchymal progenitor cell fate decisions.

13:50 – 14:05 Break

14:05 – 14:30 Yury Nikolaev: Touch in 3D: How Architecture Enables the Function of Mechanosensory Corpuscles.

14:30 – 14:55 Vivien Horvath: Transposable elements as gene regulators in the healthy and diseased human brain.

14:55 – 15:20 Daniel Silverman: Sleep pressure from locus coeruleus activity and its disruption in Parkinson’s disease.

15:20 – 15:35 Break

15:35 – 16:00 Johannes Karges: Metals in Medicine: A Promising Approach to Tumor Metastases Treatment?

16:00 – 16:25 Helen Farrants: Controlling and visualizing molecules across spatial and temporal scales.