Welcome to the UCMR Day on 12 January 2017! Get an update on research within UCMR and core facilities, National infrastructures co-funded by UCMR programmes.
Date: 12 January 2017
Venue: Minor Groove and Major Groove, Department of Molecular Biology, Building 6L
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.
This year’s invited speakers include new faculty recruited to Department of Physics, the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) and medical faculty. We have also invited the two new Antibiotics centres at Uppsala University (Uppsala Antibiotics Center) and University of Gothenburg (Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research, CARe). In this session on-going research within UCMR to develop new antimicrobials against Chlamydia, TB, Candida and viruses will also be presented.
Programme
8.30 – 9.00 Registration and Poster mounting
Session 1: Chairpersons Åke Forsberg, UCMR/MIMS scientific secretary and Maria Fällman, Deputy director MIMS
9.00 - 9.20 UCMR/MIMS news - Postdoctoral programmes, infrastructure support, national doctoral programme Bernt Eric Uhlin, UCMR/MIMS Director
9.20 - 9.40 Organoids as a model system for pancreatic cancer Daniel Öhlund, Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Fellow – WCMM, Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University
9.40 – 10.00 Targeting Lipid Kinases for cancer therapy Jenny Persson, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University
10.00 – 10.20 Generation of attosecond pulses and their application for photography of electron motion Laszlo Veisz, Department of Physics, Umea University
10.20 – 10.50 Coffee break and poster viewing
Session II: Chairpersons: Constantin Urban, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University and Thereza Soares, UCMR Visiting Professor, Department Chemistry, Umeå University
10.50 - 11.10 Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research, CARe Per Sunnerhagen, CARe Therapeutics, Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg
11.10 - 11.30 Uppsala Antibiotics Center (UAC) Linus Sandegren, UAC management team, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University
11.30 - 11.50 Virus host interaction and development of sialic acid based attachment inhibitors Mikael Elofsson, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University
11.50 - 12.10 New approaches against infection: Targeting PrfA-mediated regulation of virulence regulation in Listeria monocytogenes Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University
12.10 – 13.10 Lunch and poster viewing
Session III: Chairpersons: Per Sunnerhagen, Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg and Madeleine Ramstedt, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University
13.10 – 13.30 Using 2-pyridone amide to treat and understand Chlamydia biology and pathogenesis Sven Bergström, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University
13.30 – 13.50 New approaches against life-threatening mycoses Constantin Urban, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University
13.50 – 14.05 Virulence inhibition of mycobacteria – a new strategy to make them all die Christer Larsson, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University
14.05 – 14.20 Molecular epidemiology and antibiotic resistance features of Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates from Sweden Nabil Karah, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University
14.20 – 14.40 Computational simulations of Polymyxin-B binding to resistant and susceptible LPS chemotypes Thereza A. Soares, UCMR Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University
14.40– 14.55 Structural and functional characterization of Gram+ T4SS adhesion components Andreas Schmitt, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University
14.55- 15.25 Coffee break
Session IV: Chairpersons Linus Sandegren, , Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University and Karina Persson, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University
15.25 – 15.45 Structural and mechanistic studies of (+)ssRNA virus replication complexes Lars-Anders Carlson, Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Fellow - WCMM, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University
15.45 – 16.00 Molecular mechanisms of A. actinomycetemcomitans host cell interaction Jan Oscarsson, Department of Odontology, Umeå University
16.00 – 16.15 Induction of antimicrobial peptides as a novel host directed strategy against multidrug resistant bacteria Peter Bergman, MIMS Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge
16.15 – 16.30 The B cell response to Puumala virus infection leads to the elicitation of broadly neutralizing anti-hantavirus antibodies in a subset of individuals Priscilla Kerkman, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University
16.30 – 16.45 Streptomyces antibiotics block nematode mating behavior regulated by ciliated sensory neurons that secrete extracellular vesicles Simon Tuck, Umeå Center for Molecular Medicine - UCMM, Umeå University
16.45 – 17.00 Lipid metabolism as a novel antibiotic target in Chlamydia Sergio A. Mojica, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University
17.00 – 17.15 Interactions between two common skin commensals: Propionibacterium acnes and granulosum Hélène Omer, Department of Medical Biosciences/Pathology, Umeå University
17.15 – Poster session, mingle, snacks and buffe
Contacts: Åke Forsberg (programme), Ingrid Dacklin (coffee, lunch breaks), Eva-Maria Diehl (abstracts and registration)
