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Biology Seminar Series   

LiL-SPOTON - LiL-LÄKEMEDELiLUND

LiL 3rd SYMPOSIUM - Methods and Molecules
2012-02-28, 09.30-17.00m
Information and registration
(deadline: 2012-01-26)

OMM - Center of Excellence at the Department of Chemistry
   

Previous CMPS Seminars 2012

  
CMPS Minisymposium:
Friday 2012-02-03, 13.15, Chemistry Center, Hall A
Biological implications of nanoparticles. Poster!
1. Airborne nanoparticles and their potential health effects. Mats Bohgard, Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology, Lund University
2. Towards understanding the importance of the interactions between nanoparticles and cell membrane bound receptors. Sourav Bhattacharjee, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Wageningen University,
The Netherlands
3. Nanoparticles in biological environments.
Tommy Cedervall, CMPS, Lund University

CMPS Seminar:
Elucidating the Structural Dynamics
of Proteins by Simulations. Poster! Abstract!
Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen.
Thursday 2012-02-16, 15:15, Chemistry Center, Hall A

Joint Seminar CMPS/ESS: Poster!
Why does a lobster change colour on cooking? 
Prof. John R. Helliwel, School of Chemistry, 
University of Manchester. 
Thursday 2012-01-19, 14.00, Chemistry Center, Hall B
Hosted by Derek Logan, CMPS, and Esko Oksanen, ESS.

Previous CMPS Seminars 2011

 
CMPS SEMINAR
7th of December, 2.15 pm, Room F, Kemicentrum
Joakim Lundqvist, Carlsberg Laboratories 
Enzymatic function of AAA+ complexes

CMPS Minisymposium: 
IPR - FROM IDEA TO APPLICATION. See poster!
18 November 2011, 13:15, Hall B, Kemicentrum
1. My experience with patents, spin-offs and commercialisation in natural sciences 
Jure Piskur, Molecular Genetics, Department of Biology, Lund University
2. Commercialisation of academic research - The LundBioAccelerator Program
Jesper Bristulf, LUIS, Lund University 
Eskil Söderlind, LU Bio AB
3. From basic research to drug leads and clinical trials
Anders Malmström, Matrixbiology, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University

CMPS/OMM Seminar
Functional Bacterial Amyloid
Daniel Otzen, Aarhus University
2011-10-27 at 15.15, Kemientrum, Hall F

CMPS Docent Lecture, by Sindra Peterson Årsköld
The Biological Membrane: Barrier and Carrier
2011-10-26 at 10.15, Kemicentrum, Hall B

CMPS seminar 
Wed. 2011-09-28 15.15, Room K:H, Chemical Centre 
Richard Bonneau, New York University
Integrating a wide range of peptidomimetic chemistries and non-canonical side chains into Rosetta-design. 
See poster!

CMPS and IRTG Joint Symposia
Metal Ions and RNA Biology. See poster! 
Friday Sept. 23, 14.15, Hall B, Chemical Center
Christine S. Chow, Wayne State University, USA
Targeting Ribosomal RNA Sites with Platinum Analogues
Roland K.O. Sigel, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Riboswitches and Ribozymes: Metal Ions and the RNA World on the NMR and Single Molecule Level

CMPS Minisymposium:
Alzhimer's, Parkinson's and Friedreich's Ataxia: 
the proteins behind them. See poster!
September 9th, 13:15, Hall C, Kemicentrum
1. Does a “prion-like” mechanism contribute to the spreading of neuropathology in Parkinson’s disease? Patrik Brundin, Neuronal Survival Unit, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Dept of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University.
2. Mechanistic insights into Aβ42 aggregation and effects of inhibitors.
Sara Snogerup Linse, Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Lund University.
3. Protein-protein interactions and function control in biology: Oligomerisation of yeast frataxin and iron-sulphur cluster assembly.
Salam Al-Karadaghi, Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Lund University.

CMPS Seminar:
Monday, 2011-08-22, Biochemistry library
Wojtek Potrzebowski, from the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland, will describe his work of developing a new method of fitting atomic structures into cryo-electron microscopy models. Read more!
Host: Ingemar André

CMPS Lecture 
Molecular chaperone proteins - promoting degradation or refolding of other proteins
Harm H Kampinga from University of Groningen 
who cloned the DnaJB6, and showed that it can suppresss PolyQ aggregation. 
Wednesday June 15th at 13.30 pm in Biochemistry library

CMPS Minisymposium:
Hybrid structural approaches for clues to protein function. Poster!, Leaflet!
27 May 2011 14:00 Hall B, Kemicentrum
Greasy encounters: Structural biology of myelin, a multilayered membrane in the vertebrate nervous system, Petri Kursula, Centre for Structural Systems Biology, DESY, Hamburg, Germany & Department of Biochemistry, University of Oulu, Finland 
Unexpected features of yeast LTA4 Hydrolase, Marjolein Thunnissen, Department of Biochemistry & Structural Biology, Lund University, Sweden
Using complementary structural biology methods to study allosteric regulation in ribonucleotide reductase, Derek T. Logan, Department of Biochemistry & Structural Biology, Lund University, Sweden

CMPS Minisymposium: 
Protein Interactions. Poster! Leaflet!
6 May 2011 14:00 Hall B, Kemicentrum
Specificity and promiscuity in protein-ligand interactions & intradomain allostery in protein-ligand interactions.
Per Jemth, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Dynamics and thermodynamics of ligand binding to the carbohydrate recognition domain of Galectin-3.
Mikael Akke, CMPS, Lund University, Sweden
Design and Prediction of Protein Self-assembly.
Ingemar André, CMPS, Lund University, Sweden

CMPS Seminar: 
On the formation of lysine-glutamine crosslinks between (chaperone) proteins
Monday May 2nd, Biochemistry Library at 15.15
Detection of transglutaminase activity using click chemistry. More information!
Wilbert C. Boelens, Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences and Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 

CMPS Seminar:
Protein Conformational Disorder in Solution from NMR Residual Dipolar Couplings and 15N Spin Relaxation. Poster
Loic Salmon, Institut de Biologie Structurale & Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
Wednesday March 23, 10:30, CMPS Library, Chemistry Centre, house II, floor +1)

CMPS Minisymposium: 
March 14, 2011, Lecture Hall A, Kemicentrum 
See poster!  
13.15-14.00 Order of the Viral Universe   
Prof. Dennis Bamford, University of Helsinki  
14.10-14.30 The Unresolved Story of Human Rotavirus Disease
Prof. Lennart Svensson, Linköping University
14.40-15.00 Challenging Viral Infectivity  
Prof. Alex Evilevitch, Carnegie Mellon University and Lund University
15.00 Open discussion outside of the lecture hall. Refreshments.

CMPS Minisymposium: 
March 11th, 14.00-16.15, Lecture Hall C, Kemicentrum
See poster! 
Hsp70 in cancer cell survival 
Marja Jäättelä, Institute of Cancer Biology, Danish Cancer Society
Glypican-1 a chaperone involved in protein quality control and neurodegeneration
Katrin Mani, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University
Prevention of protein aggregation by heat shock protein chaperones
Cecilia Emanuelsson, CMPS, Lund University 

CMPS Seminar:
Thursday 24th Feb, 15.15, Lecturehall B, Kemicentrum
Professor Robert B Gennis, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
The family of proton-pumping heme-copper respiratory oxidases

CMPS Seminar:
Monday 14 Feb, 15.15, KC Hall F 
Professor Hans Vogel, University of Calgary
Intracelllular calcium signaling in mammals: 
Calmodulin's IQ-test and variation in the EF-handome
Read more!

CMPS Mini-symposium:
Friday, 4th Februari, 14:00 - 17:00, lecture hall B, Kemicentrum
Host: Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology 
Delivery of peptides and proteins
Hanne Mørk Nielsen, Dept of Pharmaceutics and Analytical chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 
Nucleic acids as drugs and drug targets
Sofi Elmroth, CMPS, Lund University, Sweden 
Enzymology of hemicellulose modification for biomaterial applications
Henrik Stålbrand, CMPS, Lund University, Sweden 
Poster, Abstracts 

CMPS seminar:
Thomas Laurell, Lund University, LTH, Department of Measurement Technology and Industrial Electrical Engineering. More inforation!
Jan 20th, 15.15, Sal B, Kemicentrum
There will be a CMPS-fika after the talk 

Previous CMPS Seminars 2010

  
CMPS Mini-symposium:
Friday, 17th December, 14:00 - 16:00, lecture hall A, Kemicentrum
Electrodes for studying and using hydrogenases 
Christophe Legér, Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines, CNRS, Marseille, France
Bacterial mechanisms for sensing and responding to oxygen deprivation
Claes von Wachenfeldt, COB, Lund University, Sweden
Cellobiose dehydrogenase, a versatile redox enzyme for bioelectrocatalysis
Lo Gorton, CMPS, Lund University, Sweden

CMPS Seminar
"The dark energy of proteins comes to light: Conformational entropy and its contribution to molecular recognition by proteins"
A. Joshua Wand, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Poster, Abstract 
Thursday, December 16, 14:15, Lecture hall A, Kemicentrum

CMPS Seminar
NMR unravels global metabolic regulation
Jürgen Schleucher, Umeå University
Abstract
Thursday December 2, 15:15, Biochemistry library (+1, Bldg II), Chemistry Center

CMPS Seminar
How to grow straight: tortifolia mutants identify cytoskeletal components guiding directional cellular and organ expansion
Dr Anton Schäffner, Institute of Biochemical Plant Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München. Publication
Dr Schäffner will present published and unpublished data, which show that the loss-of-function of a microtubule-associated protein and tubulin subunit point mutations affect cell expansion and lead to either consistently right- or left-handed torsional growth.
December 2, at 15.15 in Lecture Hall C, Chemistry CenterCMPS Seminar:
The enigma of the CLIC proteins: ion channels, redox proteins, enzymes, scaffolding proteins?
Paul Curmi, University of South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Nov 16th at 13.15 in CMPS library +1
Abstract

CMPS Seminar:
Ways and means to study structural flexibility of proteins.
Alexander Shkumatov from the SAXS beamline at  EMBL Outstation at DESY, Hamburg
10th of November, 10.15, Sal B, Kemicentrum

CMPS seminar:
Nanoscale membrane-curvature as an allosteric modulator of protein localization and function.
Prof. Dimitrios Stamou, head of the Bio-Nanotechnology Laboratory and Co-director of the Lundbeck Center Biomembranes in Nanomedicine, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, and Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen.
Tues Oct 26, 13:15, Hall F
Welcome for coffee and sweets in the CMPS lunch room afterwards!

FRONTLINE PROTEIN PRODUCTION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
This MoReLife symposium is aimed at identifying the needs and possibilities for a state-of-the-art protein-production facility in Lund, strengthening the molecular medical research in the region.
Speakers: Michael Sundström, the NovoNordisk Center for Protein Research, Univ. of Copenhagen, Göran Karlsson, Swedish NMR Center, Univ. of Gothenburg, and Karin Lindqvist, Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Univ. of Gothenburg and Dept. of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University.
Oct. 15th, 12.15-16.45, Segerfalkssalen at BMC A (Neurocentrum)
Registration for free lunch: Oct 11th to Sindra.Peterson_Arskold@biochemistry.lu.se

IRTG Seminar:
Characterisation of the iron-containing enzyme tryptophan hydroxylase – a key enzyme in neuropsychiatric disorders
Hans Erik Mølager Christensen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Tuesday 25 May 14.15 Lecture Hall C

CMPS Seminar:
Design principles for artificial oxidoreductase maquettes
Prof. Christopher Moser, University of Pennsylvania
Thurs 27 May 13:15 in Hall B
Fika will be served afterwards in the CMPS lunch room

CMPS Seminar:
Salam Al-Karadaghi will tell us about:
AAA+ proteins as ATP-dependent molecular motors of cells: The case of magnesium chelatase.
Friday April 30 10:30 Hall B
10:00 Fika in the courtyard outside Hall C  (weather allowing). Welcome to a pleasant prelude to Valborgsmässoafton!

CMPS seminar:
The anticancer drug cisplatin and its adducts
Stefan Stürup, University of Copenhagen
Tuesday 20 April 14.15, Lecture hall B

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy at near-ambient pressures: a new method for the natural sciences
By Joachim Schnadt, Division of Synchrotron Radiation Research, LU
Dr Schnadt is developing the new XPS instrument soon to installed at MAX-lab, and he is visiting us both to present the method and to pick up ideas on what kind of applications may be useful for us. So this is our chance to both learn something new and make sure this LU facility will benefit us!
This Friday, 26/3, 13:15 in hall B. There will be fika in the CMPS lunch room after the seminar.

Protein engineering provides new tools for Alzheimer research and potential therapies
By Torleif Härd, SLU, Uppsala
Thu Feb 25, 16.15 in lecture hall K:B

Mendelian resistance to human norovirus.
by Prof. Lennart Svensson
Molecular Virology, Linköpings universitet.
Mon, 2010-01-11, 13.15, Lecture Hall B, Kemicentrum
Hosts: Alex Evilevitch and Sindra Petersson Årsköld

Previous CMPS Seminars 2009

Regulating the Activity of MicroRNAs in Vertebrate Cells 
by Prof. Joan Steitz  
Yale University 
Tue, 2009-12-15, 10.00, 
Sal A, Kemicentrum

A new look at biological tissues using DQF NMR and MRI.
by Prof. Gil Navon, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University.
Thu, 2009-11-26,
Sal E, Chemical Center

Structural investigations of protein folding intermediates by NMR spectroscopy
by Ulrich Weininger
Biophysik, Institut für Physik
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Wednesday September 2, 14:15
Lecture hall C, Kemicentrum
Host: Mikael Akke, Mikael.Akke@bpc.lu.se 

John E. Johnson
Dept of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA
Biophysical Studies of Virus Particles and their Maturation: Insights into Elegantly Programmed Nano-machines. Abstract.
Host: Alex Evilevitch
Fri, 2009-05-15, lecturehall B, KC

A symposium in honor of Anders Liljas
Mo, 2009-05-11. Blå Hallen, Ekologihuset (Sölvegatan 37), Lund.
Invited speakers include: Måns Ehrenberg, Uppsala University; Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson, Umeå University; Joakim Frank,  Columbia University; Marina Garber, Institute of Protein Research, Puschino, Russia; Alwyn Jones, Uppsala University; Martin Laurberg, University of California at Santa Cruz;Michael Rossmann, Purdue University.

Joseph Hughes
SACLAY, France.
Chasing Tails and the Primary Donor: Linking Low Temperature Optical Spectroscopy to Physiological Phenomena in Photosystem II. Abstract
Fri, 2009-05-08, 13.15, Lecture Hall B, KC.

Clara L. Kielkopf
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Nucleic acid recognition from prokaryotes to eukaryotes: Case studies of a redox-sensing repressor and a pre-mRNA splicing factor. Abstract.
Tue, 2009-04-23, 15.00, Lecture Hall, Biology building.

Minisymposium on Protein Aggregation
by OMM and CMPS
Tue, 2009-04-14, 13.15-18, then dinner.
Lecture Hall C, Chemical Centre

Linda Thöny-Meyer
Laboratory for Biomaterials, Empa, Switzerland.
Host: Sindra Peterson Årsköld
Wed, 2009-03-18, 13.15

Previous CMPS Seminars 2008

Dec 11, 13:15 sal E.
Michal Opas. The role of calreticulin, an ER Ca²⁺ buffer, in choice of fate by mouse ES cells.

Dec 12, 10:15    
Ulrich Brandt, Universität Frankfurt. Structural and Functional Insights into Mitochondrial Complex I. Abstract.

Dec 16, 14:00.
Anders Liljas. A historical overview on Nobel prizes in the field of structural biology.

Dec 19, 14:00 sal B:
J. Patrick Loria, Yale University. Biophysical characterization of enzyme motions: From A to Z. Abstract.

Nov 24, 15:15 at Café Ester:
Christine Selhuber-Unkel, Nils Bohr Institute. Adhesion clusters studied at the nanometer scale. Abstract.

Nov 21, 13:15 sal B    
Pia Ädelroth, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University. The relationship between substrate-reduced and vectorial proton transfer in heme-copper oxidases. Abstract.

Nov 3, 14:00, lecture hall D at KC
Anders Malmendal, Dept of Chemistry, Aarhus University.
Top-down NMR? From metabolomics of temperature-stressed fruitflies to protein perturbomics.

Oct 31     
Pär Nordlund, Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet.

Tuesday the 24 of June,  Lecturehall B at 14.00.
Roland Ludwig, BOKU University of Natural Resources & Applied Life Science, Department of Food Science & Technology, A-1190 Vienna, Austria.
Strange Carbohydrate Dehydrogenases/Oxidases from Fungi: How to Use them in Bioconversion and Analytic Applications?
Abstract
Host: Lo Gorton.

June 5th, 2008. Lecture hall B, kemicentrum, 14:00.
Frédéric Carrière, Director, Laboratory of Enzymology at Interfaces and Physiology of Lipolysis, CNRS, Marseille, France.
Pancreatic lipases: controlling substrate specificity using an active site with a lid.

Tuesday, April 1st, 14.15, lecture hall B
Prof. Sergei Vinogradov, Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
"Seeing Oxygen by Phosphorescence: New Developments in Chemistry, Microscopy and Tomography."
Abstract
Homepage Sergei Vinogradov
Host: Cecilia Hägerhäll

Monday March 17, at 14.15, Kemicentrum Lecture hall B
Assoc. Prof. Gregory A. Weiss
Departments of Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine
"Combining Combinatorial Libraries to Map Membrane Proteins and Combat HIV"
Abstract
Homepage Gregory A. Weiss
Host: Alex Evilevitch

Monday March 3, 15:15, Kemicentrum Lecture hall B
Assistant Prof. Kiyohiko Igarashi
Department of Biomaterial Sciences, School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
"Protein Recent advances in biochemistry and molecular biology of fungal cellobiose dehydrogenase and its related proteins"
Homepage
Host: Lo Gorton

 

Seminars 2007

Tuesday December 11, at 15:00, Kemicentrum Lecture hall B
Prof. Mikael Akke
Center for Molecular Protein Science, Biophysical Chemistry, Lund University
"Protein choreography and spin gymnastics!"

Wednesday November 28, at 14:00, Kemicentrum Lecture hall B
Dr. Jens Nielsen, University College Dublin, Conway Institute
Measuring electrostatic interaction energies in proteins using NMR titration curves
Abstract

Tuesday November 27, at 14:00, Kemicentrum Lecture hall B
Dr. Dmitri Svergung
EMBL Hamburg
"Low resolution studies of protein conformation in solution with small-
angle X-ray scattering SAXS"

Thursday November 1, at 14:00, Kemicentrum Lecture hall B
Prof. Victoria DeRose, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon
The influence of metal ions on RNA structure and catalysis
Homepage Victoria DeRose
Abstract seminar

Tuesday October 16, at 14:00, Kemicentrum Lecture hall B
Professor Mikael Oliveberg, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University
The role of protein misfolding in ALS
homepage Mikael Oliveberg

Thursday September 6, at 14:00, Kemicentrum sal B
Professor Roger Sunde, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Selenium Regulation of the Selenoproteome (Selenoprotein Proteome)

Friday June 8, at 15:15, Kemicentrum sal B
Professor Harm H. Kampinga, University of Groningen
Chaperones, protein quality control and protein misfolding diseases
Abstract

Monday May 28, at 14:00, Kemicentrum sal C
Professor Peter Brzezinski, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University
Proton transfer along and across biological membranes

Monday May 14, 16:15, Kemicentrum sal D
Dr. Christiane Funk, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University
Function and Localization of the Small Cab-like Proteins (SCPs) in the Photosynthetic complexes

Thursday May 10, 14:00, Kemicentrum B
Professor Bernhard Lippert, Department of Chemistry, University of Dortmund, Germany
Where Bioinorganic Chemistry Meets Molecular Architecture: Modelling  Metal-Nucleic Acids Interactions

Monday February 5, at 15:00, Kemicentrum sal B
Professor Susan L. Lindquist, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Department of Biology, MIT
Protein conformational changes -
roles of molecular chaperones in evolution and prions in memory and inheritance

 

Seminars 2006

Wednesday November 29, at 14:00, Kemicentrum sal A
Professor Måns Ehrenberg, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University
A systems biology perspective on bacterial protein synthesis

Thursday November 9, at 14:00, Kemicentrum sal A
Professor Gunnar von Heijne, Centrum för Biomembranforskning, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University
How membrane proteins insert into membranes

Wednesday October 25, at 14:00, Kemicentrum sal B
Professor Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson, Umeå Center for Molecular Patogenesis, Umeå university
Conformational Change and Assembly of Transthyretin and Ab-peptide into Amyloid fibrils

Thursday October 12, all day starting at 9:00, Akademiska Föreningen Stora Salen
Department of Chemistry: Department Day

Wednesday September 13, at 14:00, Kemicentrum sal B
Professor Bengt Mannervik, Biochemistry, Uppsala University
Emergence of new enzymes in molecular evolution

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