Uppsala Biomedicinska Centrum

Schedule for Spring 2012

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January 9, C10:301, 3:15 pm

No seminar

January 16, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. Ilkka Julkunen, Virus Infection Unit, Dep of Vaccination and Immune Protection, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland

"Activation of innate immune responses in influenza virus infection"

Host: Göran Akusjärvi

January 23, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. Christoph A. Merten, Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

"From living droplets to microfluidic aquariums: Biology on a miniaturized scale"

Host: Johan Kreuger

January 30, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. Carl-Henrik Heldin, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, BMC, Uppsala University

"Novel insights into mechanisms of tumor progression – possibilities for improved treatment"

Host: Aristidis Moustakas

February 6, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. Merab G. Tsagareli, Life Science Research Center, Tbilisi, Georgia

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Behavioral study of 'non-opioid tolerance' and effects of thermo-sensitive TRP channel agonists on temperature an mechanical pain sensations"

Host: Elena Kozlova


February 13, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. Aristidis Moustakas, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology & Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

"Epithelial-mesenchymal transitions under the control of TGFβ signaling"

Host: Anders Tengholm


February 20, C10:301, 3:15 pm

No seminar.

February 27, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. Pär Nordlund, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Instituet, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University

"Systems structural biology of pathways in cancer"

Host: Anders Tengholm


March 5, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. Florin Grigorescu MD, PhD (INSERM) MEDIGENE program coordinator IURC, Molecular Endocrinology, University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

"New genetic approaches in understanding susceptibility genes for insulin resistance - The MEDIGENE program on Mediterranean populations"

Host: Peter Bergsten


March 12, C10:301, 3:15 pm

No seminar

March 19, C10:301, 3:15 pm

No seminar

March 26, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. Thorkild Sorensen, Professor of Metabolic Epidemiology, The Novo Nordsk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen. Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. Director of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospitals

"Causes and consequences of obesity: a unified theory"

Host: Peter Bergsten


April 2, C10:301, 3:15 pm

No seminar

April 16, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. Dennis C. Guttridge, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics, Arthur G. James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

"New molecular insights into cancer induced muscle wasting"

Host: Lars Larsson

April 19, C10:301, 3:15 pm OBS: Thursday

Dr. Rainer Spanagel, Institute of Psychopharmacology, Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

"What have we learned from genetic animal models and human genetics in addiction research?"

Host: Åsa Mackenzie


April 23, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. Xin Lu, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

"Cell polarity in tumor suppression"

Host: Carl-Henrik Heldin


May 7, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. Yasushi Shigeri, National Insititute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Osaka

"Peptide structure analyses using topological mass spectrometry"

Host: Dan Larhammar


May 10, C10:301, 3:15 pm  OBS: Thursday

Dr. Arjan W. Griffioen, Angiogenesis Laboratory, Dept. of Medical Oncology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

"On the road to successful design of new angiogenesis inhibitors"

Host: Anna-Karin Olsson


May 14, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. Jean-Charles Sanchez, Biomedical Proteometics Group, Human Protein Sciences Department, Centre Medical Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland

"Sleeping sickness biomarkers or the wake-up of translational research"

Host: Peter Bergsten


May 21, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. Klaus Pantel, Dept. of Tumor Biology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendrof, Hamburg, Germany

"Circulating tumor cells: Detection, biology and clinical relevance"

Host: Aristidis Moustakas

May 28, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. John Roth, University of Californai Davis

"A bio-informatic species concept: A way of thinking about mutation, selection and recombination (or species as an unavoidable consequence of life under selection)"

Host: Marie Wrande


June 4, C10:301, 3:15 pm

Dr. Rupert Lanzenberger, Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

"Molecular and functional neuroimaging in psychiatric neuroscience using PET and fMRI"

Host: Erika Comasco


June 8, C10:301, 14:00 pm OBS: Friday 14:00

Dr. Lucy Shapiro, Stanford University, California, USA

"Systems architecture regulating DNA segregation and asymmetric division"

Host: Johan Elf


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