Welcome to the UCMR DAY on 11 January 2018! Get an update on research within UCMR and core facilities and National infrastructures.
Time: 11 January 2018
Venue: Major and Minor Groove, Building 6L, NUS
All scientists and staff members within UCMR 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. The programme will include invited speakers and networking in round table discussion on topics relevant for infection biology research.
Programme
8:30 Registration and poster mounting
9.00 Welcome information and UCMR update Åke Forsberg & Bernt Eric Uhlin
TALK SESSION 1 Session chairs: Maria Fällman & Bernt Eric Uhlin 9.20 Biophysical studies of the mechanisms modulating the interaction between HSV and cell-surface carbohydrates Marta Bally, Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Department of Clinical Microbiology and WCMM, Umeå University
9.40 Synthesis of ring-fused peptidomimetics affecting amyloid fibers Dan Adolfsson, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University
9.55 Revealing the spatial arrangement of Type V pili from P. gingivalis Thomas Heidler, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University
10.10 Innate Lymphoid Cell – Epithelial cell cross-talk: Complexity of antimicrobial responses in human intestinal epithelial cells Maarten Coorens, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
10.25 Coffee
TALK SESSION 2 Session chairs: Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson and Åke Forsberg
10.55 Lift and cut: anti-host autophagy mechanism of Legionella pneumophila Yoawen Wu, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society, Dortmund, Germany; Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany;
11.15 Nucleolin: a target for lactoferrin-mediated entry of human adenoviruses? David Persson, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University
11.30 Dental Caries, an Immune Deficiency and Infection by High Virulence Types of Streptococcus mutans Nongfei Sheng, Departments of Cariology, Chemistry and Medical Chemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University
11.45 H2O2 release by bacteria suppresses inflammasome-dependent innate immunity Saskia Erttmann, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University
12.00 Orthocaspases – caspase homologues in prokaryotes Marina Klemenčič, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University
12.15 Candidalysin, a new arsenal of Candida albicans Sujan Yellagunda, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University
12.30 Lunch and mandatory poster viewing Even numbers between 13.15-14.00 Odd numbers between 14.00-14.45
14.30 Coffee
15.00-16.15 Round table discussion session 1 (see separate programme)
16.30-17.45 Round table discussion session 2 (see separate programme)
18.00 Mingle and final poster viewing Lunch room and old library at the Department of Molecular Biology
19.00 Follow up round table discussion sessions and reports from chairs. Evaluation of this years meeting Suggestions for UCMR DAY 2019 Future plans for UCMR after 2018
