Programme

 October 3rd, 2023

Carl Kempe Selan, stora hörsalen, KBC huset

Opening remarks by Prof. Emmanuelle Charpentier

and welcome note by the Umeå Postdoc Society

Postdoc/PhD talks I

Directly increasing the N-status of Norway spruce trees induces Carbon starvation to its fungal symbionts
David Castro, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Repair or remove? - Using chemical genetics to identify novel functions of the autophagy machinery in membrane repair
Dale Corkery, Department of Chemistry

High throughput screen in a pancreatic tumor-stroma model: uncovering therapeutic strategies
Margarita Espona-Fiedler, Department of Radiation Sciences

Using small molecules to inhibit infections by RNA-viruses
Samuel Agyei Nyantakyi, Department of Chemistry

Poster teasers I

P6. Neurodevelopmental programs abnormally activated in cancers with a high incidence of perineural invasion
Luz María González Castrillón, Department of Integrative Medical Biology

P10. Chemical genetic inhibition of IST1-CHMP1B interaction
Anastasia Knyazeva, Department of Chemistry

P12. Deep noise prior networks for medical image denoising
Polina Kurtser, Department of Radiation Sciences

P13. Multiscale modelling of Heat transfer in Polyurethane - Phase Change Materials composites
Bokai Liu, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics

Keynote lecture I

Of glycans, viruses, and mitochondria
Karim Rafie
Department of Molecular Pharmacology, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Postdoc/PhD talks II

Investigating the effects on replacing Platinum by Molybdenum as cathode electrocatalysts in Proton Exchange Membrane water electrolysis
Alexis Piñeiro García, Department of Physics

Bacterial outer membrane vesicles exploit filopodial surfing and retraction mechanisms to reach the host cell surface
Zia Ur Rehman, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics

The impact of ungulates on vegetation in Sweden: A latitudinal gradient study
Laura Saggiomo, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies

Permanently deuterium labelled spores for metabolic activity analysis
Timir Baran Sil, Department of Physics

Keynote lecture II

Another perspective to understand photosynthesis regulation
Nicolás E. Blanco
Centre of Photosynthetic and Biochemical Studies, CONICET-UNR, Rosario, Argentina

Postdoc/PhD talks III

How does the environment shape bacterial interactions?
Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn, Department of Mathematics

Atomic resolution of ciprofloxacin adsorption on sodium montmorillonite
Rogers Swai, Department of Chemistry

Poster teasers II

P23. A quantitative high-throughput method to assess the fitness of intracellular bacteria
Atin Sharma, Department of Molecular Biology

P24. pCF10-encoded PrgK is a regulated cell wall remodelling enzyme required for conjugation in E. faecalis
Wei-Sheng Sun, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics

P25. Extracellular ATP is a signalling molecule in gut bacteria
Sophie Tronnet, Department of Molecular Biology

P26. How infection with respiratory syncytial virus alters the mechanics of live Hep-2 cells
Sarah F. Verbeek, Department of Clinical Microbiology