We cordially invite you to attend the KBC DAYS 2024 conference with the main theme "Sensing" on 5-6 November!
When: Tuesday, 5 November - Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Where: Carl Kempe salen (KB.E3.03) (MAP) and other locations at KBC
We invite you to participate in the KBC DAYS, an annual interdisciplinary conference! This conference aims to foster collaborations between different departments and research centres affiliated with the Chemical Biological Centre, KBC, including departments from two faculties from Umeå University as well as from the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU.
The scientific theme this year will be "Sensing", which is intended to be a broad topic, covering various techniques in different scientific fields used to detect biological or physical signals, converting them into signals read by a researcher or an instrument and thus “sense” the world around us. This includes, for example, using sensors to detect changes in the environment, wearable biosensors and biomaterials in healthcare and diagnostics, and optimising electrical/optical methods using sensor technology. We welcome you to listen to the keynote lectures and other presentations focused on “Sensing”!
We also welcome newcomers, longer-term KBC residents and other curious researchers to learn or update themselves about the research infrastructures available at KBC and Campus Umeå, get to know more about their services and join the guided tours to their facilities!
You will also gain insights into what happened at KBC during the previous year by listening to exciting scientific talks from new faculty members of the KBC environment, awardees and researchers who received large grants in the last year, presentations by PhD students and activities organised by the Umeå Postdoc Society (UPS)!
As usual, the KBC DAYS will bring researchers from different departments and scientific disciplines together and offer plenty of opportunities to network, participate in engaging discussions and panel sessions, and generate new ideas and collaborations!
23 October - registration deadline for the KBC DAYS 2024.
Dr. David McKee, Physics Department, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and Arctic and Marine Biology Department, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
David McKee leads the Marine Optics and Remote Sensing Group at the Physics Department, University of Strathclyde and holds an adjunct position with the Arctic and Marine Biology Department at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His research is focused on the development and use of optical technology and radiative transfer modelling to better understand marine ecosystems. Polar regions are characterised by extreme seasonality in light fields which are primary drivers of ecosystem function, with the darkness of polar night being beyond the range of standard sensors and models. This talk will present observations and simulations of the full annual light cycle at high latitudes using new approaches developed by the UoS/UiT team and co-workers. We will also discuss observations of animal responses to light pollution during the polar night and consider the role of light in a rapidly warming Arctic Ocean.
Webpage: https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/mckeedaviddr/
Prof. Dame Molly Stevens, University of Oxford, Imperial College London and Karolinska Institute
Professor Dame Molly Stevens FREng FRS is John Black Professor of Bionanoscience at the University of Oxford and part-time Professor at Imperial College London and the Karolinska Institute. Her multidisciplinary research balances the investigation of fundamental science with the development of technologies and designer biomaterials to address some of the major healthcare challenges across diagnostics, advanced therapeutics and regenerative medicine. Her research influences scientists around the world (>430 publications, h-index 109, >50k citations) and the impact of her work is recognised by numerous accolades, including the 2023 Novonordisk Prize. She is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of four spin-off companies.
Webpage: https://www.stevensgroup.org/
Prof. Dr. Silvan Schmid, TU Wien, Institute of Sensor and Actuator Systems, Vienna, Austria
Silvan Schmid, a professor at TU Wien, completed his doctorate in micro- and nanosystem technology at ETH Zurich in 2009. He then moved to the Technical University of Denmark, where he was appointed Assistant Professor in 2012. In 2016, he was promoted to Full Professor at TU Wien, where he currently heads the Micro and Nanosensors Group at the Institute of Sensor and Actuator Systems. Additionally, he received ERC grants in 2016 for nanoplasmomechanical systems research and in 2019 for a nanoelectromechanical infrared detector project. He is also a co-founder and scientific advisor of TU Wien spin-off Invisible-Light Labs GmbH, with which he received an EIC Transition grant. Since 2021, he additionally serves as the Dean of Academic Affairs for the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at TU Wien.
Webpage: https://www.tuwien.at/en/etit/isas/mns
Time in the programme is Central European Time (CET), e.g. Stockholm, Umeå
Note! The programme is under construction, preliminary and subject to change
8.30 Registration and poster mounting
(Chairperson: Stefan Björklund)
9.00 Welcome
Stefan Björklund
Scientific Coordinator of KBC
9.05 Opening of the KBC DAYS 2024
Alice Kempe
Kempestiftelserna
9.15 Overview of the Research Support and Collaboration Office
Åke Brännström
Research Support and Collaboration Office
9.30 Research results and innovation
Mats Falck
Project manager, Support Office for Life Science & Health (SOLH)
9.45 Keynote lecture I: “The sun, the moon and the stars: measuring and modelling Arctic light fields over the full annual cycle”
Dr. David McKee
Physics Department, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and Arctic and Marine Biology Department, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
10.30 Coffee break
Chairperson: Heidi Burdett
10.45 Coping with noise and making robust decisions-what can we learn from plants?
Rishikesh Bhalerao
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
11.00 Drought, tree-growth and the Wallenberg initiative in forest research
Hjalmar Laudon
Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
11.15 Contrasting latitudinal diversity gradients with different interaction partners of honey bees
Helena Wirta
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University
11.30 Uncovering Ancient Mechanisms for Antigen Receptor Diversity
Ryo Morimoto
Department of Molecular Biology, Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University
11.45 Plant cell wall dynamics: integrating growth, adaptation, and environmental sensing
Laura Bacete Cano
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University
12.00 Lunch break
Chairperson: Rachel Feeney
13.00 Keynote lecture II: “Innovating biomaterials design for healthcare therapeutics and diagnostic applications”
Prof. Dame Molly Stevens
University of Oxford, Imperial College London and Karolinska Institute
13.45 Elevator talk presentations by PhD students (2 min each)
1. Sensing Water on Mars: Clay-Salt Interactions under Simulated Martian Conditions
Trung Nguyen, Department of Chemistry, UMU
2. Inclusion stability: the unsung hero in Chlamydia trachomatis' evasion of host cell-autonomous immunity
Lana Hellga Jachmann, Department of Molecular Biology, MIMS, UCMR, UMU
3. MXene as a transparent and flexible electrode for all-solution-processed light-emitting electrochemical cells
Kumar Saumya, Department of Physics, UMU
4. Viewing the density of states through an electrochemical lens
Thushar Salkod Mahabaleshwa, Department of Physics, UMU
5. A SplitCas9 Based Conditional Knockout System to Characterize Essential Genes in Plasmodium berghei
Sophia Hernandez, Molecular Biology, MIMS, UMU
14.00 Poster presentations by PhD students
and
Coffee
Chairperson: Anna Strandberg
15.00 Sensing that a “cryptic” bacterial gene we discovered three decades ago finally might make sense
Bernt Eric Uhlin
Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University
15.15 Groundwater changes in thawing Arctic landscapes
Ylva Sjöberg
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University
15.30 Semi-permeable capsules: emerging technology for single-cell multi-omics
Linas Mazutis
Visiting professor at the Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University
15.45 The nature of bio-catalysis
Johannes Messinger
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University
16.00 RNA Modifications: Key Regulators of Gene Expression and Cellular Function
Francesca Aguilo
Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University
16.15 First results from a large-scale cloud reduction experiment in a tropical cloud forest
Daniel Metcalfe
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University
16.30 Poster viewing and mingling before the dinner starts
18.00 Dinner
- Announcement of the PhD student presentation prize winners
- Announcement of the KBC Employee of the Year
Chairperson: Najat Dzaki
8.30 Opening
8.40 Postdoc Pitches (3 min each)
9.40 Panel discussion: Progress/Moving Ahead
Moderator: Najat Dzaki, Umeå Postdoc Society
Panel members:
10.25 Break
Chairperson: Thomas Wågberg
10.30 Keynote lecture III: “Nanomechanical photothermal spectroscopy”
Prof. Silvan Schmid
TU Wien, Institute of Sensor and Actuator Systems, Vienna, Austria
11.15 Introduction to research infrastructures at KBC and SciLifeLab Umeå
Linda Sandblad
Director of Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy and SciLifeLab Site Umeå, Umeå University
11.25 Simultaneous Submicron Infrared and Raman Microscopy
Andras Gorzsas
Manager, Vibrational Spectroscopy Core Facility (ViSp), Umeå University
11.35 C-trap: combined optical tweezers, confocal microscopy and advanced microfluidics for manipulation and visualization of single-molecule dynamics in real time
Rubén Casanova-Sáez
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University
11.45 Posters by Research Infrastructures
and
standing lunch
Chairperson: Linda Sandblad
13.00 FIB-SEM for volume imaging at UCEM
Sara Henriksson
Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy (UCEM), Umeå University
13.10 From Blurry to Brilliant: Super-Resolution Techniques in Modern Microscopy
Sebastian Rönfeldt
Biochemical Imaging Centre Umeå (BICU), Umeå University
13.20 Umeå Marine Sciences Centre
Nicholas Kamenos
Director of Umeå Marine Sciences Centre (UMF), Umeå University
13.30 Can the FAIR-data principles help you to document your scientific research expertise?
Theresa Kieselbach
Umeå University Library, Department of Scholarly Communication
13.40 New light on photoprotection
Stefan Jansson
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University
13.55 Coffee break
Chairperson: Lenny Haddad
14.15 D-amino acids signal a stress-dependent run-away response in Vibrio cholerae
Felipe Cava
Department of Molecular Biology, Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University
14.30 From micro to macro: the role of microproteins in growth and development
Stephan Wenkel
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University
14.45 Solitary chemosensory cells in the skin of fish: no longer orphans
Suresh Jesuthasan
Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University
15.00 Assessing climate adaptation from natural forest trees
Kelly Swarts
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
15.15 Illuminating the Dark MicroProteome in Innate Immunity
Iker Valle Aramburu
Department of Molecular Biology, Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University
15.30 Concluding remarks
Stefan Björklund
Scientific Coordinator of KBC
15.35 Guided tours to infrastructure facilities (Meeting point: Registration desk)
Online registration is open until 1 November and continues on-site during the conference
Registration for on-site participation is closed. Register for online participation latest by 21 November
Scientific Organisers
Stefan Björklund, Professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Scientific Coordinator of KBC, Umeå University
Anna Strandberg, Associate professor, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics, Umeå University
Heidi Burdett, Associate professor, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science and Umeå Marine Sciences Centre (UMF), Umeå University
Lenny Haddad, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University
Madhusree Mitra, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, and President of Umeå Postdoc Society (UPS)
Olivier Keech, Associate professor, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University
Rachel Feeney, Doctoral student, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University
Thomas Wågberg, Professor, Department of Physics, Umeå University
Conference Organisers
Stefan Björklund, Professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Scientific coordinator of KBC, Umeå University
Anna Shevtsova, Communications officer, KBC, Umeå University
Rebecca Forsberg, Communication officer, KBC and SciLifeLab Umeå, Umeå University
Ingrid Söderbergh, Research coordinator, Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Umeå University
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
Agrisera is sponsoring the best elevator pitch presentation prize
Agrisera video presentation:
Agrisera - Your local antibody and reagent supplier
Labstuce is sponsoring the KBC Employee of the Year trophy
Umeå Biotech Incubator (UBI) sponsors the best postdoc talk prize
Our sponsoring companies have the opportunity to present themselves and their products at a table in the mingling area during the two days of the conference.
