Welcome to the UCMR Day on 14 January 2016! Get an update on research within UCMR and core facilities, National infrastructures co-funded by UCMR programmes!
Venue: Minor Groove and Major Groove, Department of Molecular Biology, Building 6L
Date: 14th of January 2016
All scientists and staff members within UCMR (Umeå Centre for Microbial Research) research groups, collaboration partners and researchers with an interest in microbial research and/or infection biology are invited to a day of inspiring research presentations and an excellent opportunity for networking and initiation of multidisciplinary collaborations.
Programme
8.30 – 9.00 Registration and poster mounting
Session I: UCMR/MIMS Programme news and new Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM)
9.00 – 9.05 Welcome and Introduction Åke Forsberg
9.05 – 9.20 UCMR/MIMS Programme updates and news Bernt Eric Uhlin, UCMR Director
9.20 – 9.30 The MIMS-affiliated National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics (NDPIA) – News Courses/events, network and international meetings Anna Holmström, National Director of Studies
9.30 – 9.45 Department of Biobank Research Kjell Granqvist, Medical Biosciences and Biobank Research
9.45 – 10.00 Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) Tommy Olsson, Public Health and Clinical Medicine
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break and poster viewing
Session II: Invited talks and talks selected from poster presentations Chairpersons: Richard Lundmark and Olena Rzhepishevska
10.30 –10.45 Ultrastructural characterization of membrane vesicles using corrrelative microscopy Richard Lundmark, Integrative Medical Biology/MIMS
11.00 – 11.15 Double action against type III secretion system by salicylidene acylhydrazide & the transition metal Ga Olena Rzhepishevska, Chemistry (Group Madeleine Ramstedt)
11.15 – 11.30 Aminoglycoside resistance transposons and transposon-derived circular forms in Acinetobacter baumannii Nabil Karah, Molecular Biology/MIMS (Group Bernt Eric Uhlin)
11.30 – 11.45 Number control of the virulence plasmid during infection is essential for virulence in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Tomas Edgren, Molecular Biology
11.45-12.00 Plant-bacteria interkingdom communication by non-canonical amino acids Alena Aliashkevich, Molecular Biology/MIMS (Group Felipe Cava)
12.00-12-15 New concepts on the role of the ubiquitin system in the regulation of inflammation Nelson Gekara, Molecular Biology/MIMS
12.15 – 13.15 Lunch and poster viewing
Session III: News from Infrastructures and Core Facilities Chairpersons: Linda Sandblad and Jonas Gullberg 4 min. each plus max 1 min for questions More information at poster presentations
13.15 – 14.00 Umeå Core Facility Electron Microscopy Linda Sandblad, Molecular Biology, Biochemical Imaging Centre Umeå, BiCU Irene Martinez Carrasco, Integrative Medical Biology/Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics The Laboratories for Chemical Biology Umeå, LCBU Per-Anders Enquist, Chemistry Swedish Metabolomics Centre, SMC Jonas Gullberg UPSC, Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology NMR Core Facility - NMR for Life Gerhard Gröbner/Jürgen Schleucher, Chemistry/Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Protein Expertise Platform, PEP Mikael Lindberg, Chemistry Proteomics Core Facility Gunnar Wingsle, UPSC, Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology Computational Life Science Cluster, CLiC Rui Pinto, Chemistry X-Ray Crystallography Facility Uwe Sauer, Chemistry
Session IV: Networking
14.00 – 15.00 Scientific speed dating in groups. Information about groups will be available at the registration desk. Nelson Gekara, Molecular Biology
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break and poster viewing
Session V: Awardees, new faculty, invited talks and talks selected from posters Chairpersons: Andrea Puhar and Mikael Rhen
15.30 – 15.45 New additions for probing Salmonella infections Mikael Rhen, Karolinska Institute New UCMR Guest professor from 2016
15.45 – 16.00 Unravelling Chlamydial pathogenesis using chemical genetics Wael Bahnan, Molecular Biology/MIMS (Group Sven Bergström)
16.00 – 16.15 Viperin biogenesis and antiviral effect against TBEV Arunkumar Upadhyay, Clinical Microbiology/MIMS (Group Anna Överby)
16.15 – 16.30 Unwinding the function of the G-quadruplex genome Nasim Sabouri, Wallenberg Academy Fellow, Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
16.30 – 16.45 Regulation of inflammation in the gut Andrea Puhar, Wallenberg Academy Fellow, Molecular Biology/ MIMS
16.45 – 17.00 Reversible and covalent protein functionalisation via phospho- cholination employing Legionella enzymes Philipp Ochtrop, Chemistry (Group Christian Hedberg)
17.00 – 17.15 Why should we care about mast cells? New roles for mast cells in innate immunity Pedro Lopes, Clinical Microbiology/MIMS (Group Constantin Urban)
17.15 – 18.45 Poster session (Minor Groove and outside Major Groove) Refreshments and snacks
18.45 – Buffet dinner in lunchroom and old library at Molecular Biology
