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May 22: 15th anniversary celebration conference

We have invited distinguished alumni and international researchers to join us in a conference retrospective covering the wide array of research questions and approaches that have emerged from our experiment in collaborative, interdisciplinary science.

There will be fun activities inspired by our IceLab Camp experience designed to get everyone interacting between the talks.

We will wrap the day up with a special anniversary dinner.

Conference Schedule

Venue: Rotundan

Note: this schedule is in an early form and will be updated soon with more speakers and venues and times will be confirmed.

8:30 - Registration & welcome reception
Check-in and receive event materials

9:00 - Opening ceremony
Martin Rosvall, IceLab Director, opens up the days' events.

Marianne Sommarin, Professor emeritus, and former Umeå University Vice-Chancellor for Research when IceLab first opened, will say a few words.

9:15 - Alumni from early IceLab days
Keynote presentations from IceLab alumni

Chair: Sebastian Diehl

Jevin West, Professor, University of Washington, USA - The benefits and dangers of anthropomorphic conversational agents
Fariba Karimi, Professor, Graz University of Technology, Austria - talk title coming soon
Ala Trusina, Associate Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen - Cell polarity ㅡ a driver of morphological diversity and robustness?

10:45 - Coffee break

11:15 - IceLab's multidisciplinary postdoctoral programme funded by Kempestiftelserna

Presentations from researchers connected to the program, with a special introduction from Alice Kempe, Chairperson of Kempestiftelserna.

Chair: Ludvig Lizana, Associate professor, Department of Physics and IceLab

Jonatan Klaminder, Professor in Soil Science, SLU, Umeå - talk title coming soon
Laura Carroll, Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå - talk title coming soon
Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå - talk title coming soon

12:00 to 13:30 - Lunch

Venue: Hjortron restaurant

During the lunch we will play a game from IceLab Camp.

13:30 - IceLab now and future: Stress Response Modeling at IceLab

Presentations from new faculty connected to Stress Response Modeling at IceLab, with a special introduction from Göran Sandberg, member of the board of directors of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation.

Chair: Martin Rosvall

Gerard Rocher-Ros, Assistant professor at Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Stress Response Modeling at IceLab, Umeå University
Kemal Avican, Research fellow at Department of Molecular Biology, Stress Response Modeling at IceLab, Umeå University
Lightning talks from IceLab and Stress Response Modeling PhD students

14:30 - Novel idea creation and coffee break
Play the IceLab Camp keyword game and stretch the boundaries of your research idea generation skills!

15:30 - Closing remarks from Martin Rosvall