Welcome to the KBC DAYS 2019 on November 5-6!
Location: Carl Kempe salen (KB.E3.03, Map) and KBCon Interactive Learning Environment.
There will be many inspiring presentations from KBC, including talks by new faculty members and award recipients, and poster presentations from midterm PhD students. The infrastructures/platforms will present themselves in a panel show case discussion (new feature!), posters, and guided tours!
This year, we are also very glad to announce many interesting talks from representatives of other departments and centres at UmU and SLU that have research interest in the area of life science!
8.30 Registration and poster mounting
(Chairperson: Stefan Björklund)
9.00 Welcome
Stefan Björklund, Scientific Coordinator for KBC
9.10 Closer research infrastructure collaboration between SLU and UmU?
Göran Ståhl, Dean, Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU
9.25 Connecting DNA replication stress to checkpoint initiation
Peter Burgers, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, Visiting Professor at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University
10.10 Coffee break
(Chairperson: Sylvia Larsson)
10.40 Inflammasomes and Reactive Oxygen Species
Saskia Erttmann, Department of Molecular Biology
10.55 Predicting mutational routes to new adaptive phenotypes
Peter Lind, Department of Molecular Biology
11.10 Pressures and flows in the brain
Anders Eklund, Department of Radiation Sciences
CANCELLED! The SLU Stable Isotope Laboratory – how can isotopes improve your research?
Mats Öquist, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, SLU
11.25 Regulation of gene expression by RNA mods
Francesca Aguilo, Department of Medical Biosciences and Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Umeå University (WCMM)
11.40 Lunch
(Chairperson: Paulina Wanrooij)
13.15 The large KAW projects at UPSC
Ove Nilsson, Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU
13.35 Kempe Funded Postdoc Program in Integrated Structural Biology
Magnus Wolf-Watz, Department of Chemistry
13.55 The replicative lifestyle of mobile elements in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Ignacio Mir-Sanchis, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics and Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Umeå University (WCMM)
14.15 Coffee break
(Chairperson: Ann-Kristin Bergström)
14.50 AI lab for Life Science?
Johan Trygg, Department of Chemistry, Computational Life Science Cluster (CLiC)
15.10 Getting to the Root of plant biology
Karin Ljung, Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU
15.30 Coastal phytoplankton characterization for assessing ecological state
Agneta Andersson, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences (EMG)
15.50 Efforts to support the development of the individual science career
Marianne Sommarin, Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), Department of Plant Physiology
16.10 Midterm PhD students present their Research Projects in "elevator talks" (2 Minutes)
- Molecularly imprinted polymers in capillary monolithic format
Chau Huynh, Department of Chemistry
- Using Life Cycle thinking to interpret sustainable performance of essential municipal services of cities. Wastewater and Municipal Solid Waste
Kavitha Shanmugam, Department of Chemistry
- Mesoporous melamine-formaldehyde. A potential solution for utilization of CO2?
Thai Q. Bui, Department of Chemistry
- Strong effect of ageing on swelling properties of graphene oxide membranes in alcohols
Artem Iakunkov, Department of Physics
- Hydrothermal pretreatment of sugarcane bagasse with and without sulfuric acid - New insights on effects of pretreatment severity
Dimitrios Ilanidis, Department of Chemistry
- CELLULOSE SYNTHASE INTERACTING 1 is required for wood morphogenesis and mechanics in aspen
Anne Bünder, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU
- Generation of A Mucin Glycopeptide Microarray Library for Evaluation of Host-Pathogen Interactions
Sandra Behren, Department of Chemistry
- Implementation of machine learning for more comprehensive process understanding in wastewater treatment plant
Dong Wang, Department of Chemistry
- Marine microorganisms for bioplastic production
Piotr Jablonski, Department of Chemistry
- CANCELLED! Morphological Analysis of Apolipoprotein E Binding to Aβ Amyloid Using a Combination of Surface Plasmon Resonance, Immunogold Labeling and Scanning Electron Microscopy
Tohidul Islam, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Fungal community responses to clear-cutting and addition of nitrogen to seedlings
David Castro, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology
- Activated graphene as electrode material in supercapacitors
Andreas Nordenström, Department of Physics
16.35 Smoothies and fruits
16.40 POSTER SESSION
The midterm PhD students and KBC platforms/infrastructures present their posters in the KBC Cafeteria (printed and digital presentations)
18.00 Dinner
(Chairperson: Fredrik Almqvist)
9.00 Insect Biotechnology
Andreas Vilcinskas, Department of Insect Biotechnology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
9.45 Mechanics and dynamics of cell-to-cell adhesion in plants
Stéphane Verger, Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU
10.05 Control of plant development via temperature-dependent mRNA splicing
Markus Schmid, Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), Department of Plant Physiology
10.25 Coffee and presentation of the KBC Poster Award 2019
(Chairperson: Lena Gunhaga)
10.55 Type I interferons shape viral tropism in the brain
Anna Överby Wernstedt, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS)
CANCELLED! 11.10 Targeting tumor-stromal interactions in pancreatic cancer
Daniel Öhlund, Department of Radiation Sciences and Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Umeå University (WCMM)
11.25 Understanding the mechanisms modulating the interactions between herpes simplex virus and cell-surface glycosaminoglycans
Marta Bally, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Umeå University (WCMM)
11.40 Into thin air: how to sense and adapt to low oxygen
Changchun Chen, Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine (UCMM) and Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Umeå University (WCMM)
11.55 Transforming growth factor beta and oncogenic signaling pathways in prostate cancer
Maréne Landström, Department of Medical Biosciences
12.10 Lunch
(Chairperson: Florian Schmidt)
13.10 Umeå University's innovation system
Karin Borge Renberg, Umeå University Innovation Office and Umeå universitet holding AB
13.15 Regulatory CTPases as central players in bacterial chromosome segregation
Martin Thanbichler, Faculty of Biology at Philipps University, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, and the LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology (Synmikro), Marburg, Germany
14.00 Centre for Sustainable Cement and Quicklime Production at Umeå University
Matias Eriksson, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics, and Centre for Sustainable Cement and Quicklime Production
14.20 Curious about science? Communicating science through hands-on activities
Madelen Bodin, Department of Science and Mathematics Education, and Director of Curiosum
14.35 Panel show case discussion by the KBC infrastructures. Moderator: Linda Sandblad, Department of Chemistry and Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM)
15.05 Coffee and Guided tours organized by the KBC infrastructures:
(Sign up for the tours at the registration desk)
Anna Shevtsova, PhD, Communications officer, KBC
E-mail: info.kbc@umu.se, anna.shevtsova@umu.se
Tel. +46 (0)70 547 2672
Rebecca Forsberg, PhD, science communicator for SciLifeLab Site Umeå and the Chemical Biological Centre (KBC)
E-mail: info.kbc@umu.se, rebecca.forsberg@umu.se
Visiting Address: KBC-building, KB.J3(C3.25.25), Linnaeus väg 6, 90736 Umeå
Here you can download template for the abstract submission: Template.
Please, submit (latest by the 17th of October 2019) the filled template to info.kbc@umu.se.
