2015-12-14, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday December 14 Sara Wilson Umeå Center for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden In 1997 Sara Wilson completed a Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Cardiff University, UK. Between 1997 and 2009 she did postdoctoral training in embryonic development and neuronal circuit formation first at Umeå University and later at Columbia University, New York, USA. In 2009 […]

2015-12-10, Event | Uppsala

The last Thursday of the month you can visit company mini-exhibitions at SciLifeLab in Uppsala. December 10, you will have the opportunity to meet with Fisher Scientific, Beckman Coulter AB and World Courier. Please contact Erika Erkstam, erika.erkstam@scilifelab.uu.se, if you have any questions about the mini exhibition.

2015-12-09, Event | Uppsala

Scientific symposium December 9, 2015 Venue Uppsala Biomedical Centre (BMC), Husargatan 3, Uppsala SciLifeLab entrance (C11), Navet, E10:1309 Bus transportation Registration for bus transportation required.   Program 08:30-09:00 Morning coffee mingle During the morning coffee mingle you will have the opportunity to meet representatives from the PhD councils for Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of […]

2015-12-07, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday December 7 Åke Lundkvist Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University Åke Lundkvist took his PhD in 1993 at Karolinska Institutet and has since then held positions at The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control/The Public Health Agency of Sweden (Smittskyddsinstitutet/Folkhälsomyndigheten) since 1993 and Karolinska Institutet 2008-2013. Since 2013 he is professor of […]

2015-12-04, Event | Stockholm

The Bioimaging platform at SciLifeLab together with Leica Microsystems and Micromedic cordially welcome you to a one-day workshop covering sample preparation know-how and applications in advance fluorescence imaging. Date: December 4 Venue: Conference hall Air&Fire, SciLifeLab, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna Program 09:00 Opening Prof Hjalmar Brismar – Bioimaging, SciLifeLab 09:10 Tips and trick for validating sample […]

2015-12-01, Seminar | Stockholm

Tuesday December 1, 15.00 Venue: Wallenberg lecture hall, Nobel Forum, Nobels väg 1, KI Campus Solna Lars Werdelin, The Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm Hominins, carnivores, and the origins of the Anthropocene The lecture is followed by discussion between 16.15 and 18.00 (Room A 302, MTC, Nobels väg 16, KI Campus Solna) Host: Steven Jörsäter The What is […]

2015-11-30 - 2015-12-03, Event | Stockholm

Two days intensive workshops to learn software and data wizardry. Both workshop tracks are aimed towards PhD students and Post-docs in genomics, biology, biophysics, biochemistry, proteomics and other related fields. You can take both workshops or only attend one of them.

2015-11-27, Event | Uppsala

We are happy to announce a public lecture on cancer genomics by Esa Pitkänen from the University of Helsinki. This lecture should be of interest to a broad range of researchers of cancer, as well as researchers with a general interest in the rapid development of human whole-genome seuencing and precision medicine. Esa is a […]

2015-11-27, Event | Stockholm

This 1-day practical workshop will give you knowledge on why and how to use the Human Protein Atlas database.

2015-11-26, Event | Uppsala

The last Thursday of the month you can visit company mini-exhibitions at SciLifeLab in Uppsala. Nov 26, you will have the opportunity to meet with Science Imaging Scandinavia AB, IDT Intergrated DNA Technologies and Labvision AB. Please contact Erika Erkstam, erika.erkstam@scilifelab.uu.se, if you have any questions about the mini exhibition

2015-11-23, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday November 23 Ben Schuler University of Zürich, Schweitz Professor Schuler’s laboratory investigates the structure and dynamics of proteins with cutting-edge single-molecule spectroscopy. He has made key contributions to our understanding of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), proteins interacting with molecular chaperones, protein misfolding, as well as the behavior of proteins inside live cells. A key […]

2015-11-20, Event | Stockholm

Stefan W Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, 2014 year Nobel prize winner in Chemistry and the inventor and pioneer of super-resolution microscopy, will become honorary doctor at KTH. In conjunction to this event he will give a lecture entitled “Optical microscopy: the resolution revolution” (abstract enclosed). The lecture will be followed by a […]

2015-11-18, Seminar | Stockholm

Tuesday November 18, 15.00 Venue: Wallenberg lecture hall, Nobel forum, Nobels väg 1,  KI Solna campus Bob Langer, MIT, Boston, USA Novel medical techologies-from invention and discovery to clinical implementation The lecture is followed by discussion between 16.15 and 18.00 (Room A 302, MTC, Nobels väg 16, KI Campus Solna) Host: Ingemar Ernberg The What is Life-seminar series is inspired by […]

2015-11-17, Event | Uppsala

Bioscience 2015 will include a series of interesting lectures focusing on new technologies and applications as well as the latest advances and results in research. Providing a platform for meetings and networking, the event is aimed at parties in both industry and academia. The seminar programme comprises a series of brief, interesting presentations intended to stimulate […]

2015-11-12, Event | Stockholm

Speakers: Prof John-Bjarne Hansen, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Tromsø, Norway Title: ‘Interrelations between arterial and venous thromboembolic diseases’  John-Bjarne Hansen is is a clinical specialist and professor in hematology. He leads the K.G.Jebsen – Thrombosis Research and Expertise Center (TREC) which focus on inherited and non-inherited risk factors of venous thrombosis and to extend […]

2015-11-12, Event | Stockholm

Karolinska Instituet Campus, lecture hall Gardaulan at Folkhälsomyndigheten, Nobels väg 18 This year the theme is “Big Data / Data Integration / Data Access”. Keynote speakers are Mauno Vihinen, Lund University Samuli Ripatti, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) Jens Nielsen, Chalmers, Chalmers The symposium is free of charge, but you need to register before […]

2015-11-09, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday November 9 Rob Phillips Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics and Biology California Institute of Technology, CA, USA Rob Phillips is Professor of Biophysics and Biology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, and uses physical models to explore biological phenomena and construct experimental tests. Key areas of interest include the […]

2015-11-09, Seminar | Hillarp lecture hall, KI Solna

Monday November 9, 15.00 Venue: Hillarp lecture hall, Retzius väg 8, KI Campus Solna Birger Schmitz, Lund University An astronomical perspective on Earth’s geological record and evolution of life The lecture is followed by discussion between 16.15 and 18.00 (Room A 302, MTC, Nobels väg 16, KI Campus Solna) Host: Steven Jörsäter The What is Life-seminar series is inspired by […]

2015-11-05, Event | Stockholm

The aim of the workshop is to gather scientists interested in antibody (Ab) repertoire analysis. We have developed a platform using Illumina-based MiSeq sequencing and an automated bioinformatics pipeline that can be used for a wide range of pre-clinical and clinical applications where B cells play a role, such as in infection- and vaccine-induced immune […]

2015-11-04, Event | Stockholm

The Stockholm node of SciLifeLab opens its doors for curious visitors from our host universities, other Swedish universities, the health care sector and the industry. More information will follow soon!

2015-10-29, Seminar | Stockholm

Speaker: Professor Rebecka Jörnsten, Chalmers University of Technology/University of Gothenburg Venue: Seminar room Pascal, Gamma floor 6, SciLifeLab, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna Abstract:  Statistical network modeling techniques have the potential to increase our understanding of cancer genomics data. Here, we analyze multiple TCGA data sets via a generalized sparse inverse covariance model, carefully addressing such challenges as unbalanced […]

2015-10-26, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday October 26 Christer Betsholtz Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Div. Vascular Biology, Karolinska institutet and Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Sweden Christer Betsholtz took his PhD in 1986 at Uppsala University and has since then held positions at Göteborg University 1994-2004 and Karolinska Institutet 2004-today. Since 2013 he is professor […]

2015-10-22, Event | Uppsala

The last Thursday of the month you can visit company mini-exhibitions at SciLifeLab in Uppsala. October 22, you will have the opportunity to meet with Eppendorf Nordic, SAVEEN & WERNER AB and Kem-En-Tec Nordic. Please contact Erika Erkstam, erika.erkstam@scilifelab.uu.se, if you have any questions about the mini exhibition.

2015-10-16, Event | Uppsala

This event is part of a series of workshops covering various research themes central for SciLifeLab. The topic of this workshop is Medical and Population Genetics and Genomics, and will take place at SciLifeLab in Uppsala on October 16. There will be ample time for discussion, as the aim is to stimulate collaborations.

2015-10-14, Event | Uppsala

This open symposium features internationally recognized scientists who will present advances in our understanding of human brain function in health and disease. Recent progress in the field with the use of different experimental systems, gene technologies and brain imaging will be highlighted. This symposium is organized by the Swedish Society for Medical Genetics and Science […]

2015-10-12, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday October 12 Jerry Coyne Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biological Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago, USA Jerry A. Coyne is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. He received a B.S. in Biology from the College of William and Mary and a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology […]

2015-10-05 - 2015-10-06, Event | Uppsala

Two days instead of one – Bigger environmental focus – Fellows corner – Bioinformatics consultation – Biobank exhibition – Facility exhibition in a new way

2015-09-29, Event | Solna

It seems like it’s harder to develop new drugs – why? The answers are many, and during this symposia you will have the opportunity to listen to a number of pharmaceutical researchers presenting their research and their point of views. Many of the speakers have had projects resulting in commercial pharmaceuticals, all of them have experience from clinical studies. What they also have in common is that they have an academic connection, and are active in small-scale environments. Do these things matter? Yes, maybe!

2015-09-28, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday September 28 Rob Martienssen Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA After completing his undergraduate and graduate studies in England and a postdoctoral period at UC Berkeley, Rob Martienssen is currently a Howard Hughes Medical Institute–Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation investigator as well as a professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is a pioneer […]

2015-09-24, Event | Uppsala

The last Thursday of the month you can visit company mini-exhibitions at SciLifeLab in Uppsala. September 24th, you will have the opportunity to meet with Sartorius, Sarstedt AB and MEDIQIP AB. Please contact Erika Erkstam, erika.erkstam@scilifelab.uu.se, if you have any questions about the mini exhibition.

2015-09-23, Seminar | Karolinska University Hospital

Wednesday September 23, 16.15 Venue: Nanna Svartz lecture hall, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna Yehezkel Ben-Ari, INMED/INSERM Marseille, France Neuroarcheology and neuropediatric diseases The lecture is followed by discussion between 17.15 and 18.00 Host: Hugo Lagercrantz The What is Life-seminar series is inspired by the seminal book What is life? by Erwin Schrödinger, published 60 years ago. In this seminar series […]

2015-09-22 - 2015-09-25, Seminar | Karolinska Institutet Solna

Tuesday September 22, 16.15 Venue: Wallenberg lecture hall, Nobels väg 1, KI Campus Solna Pasko Rakic, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Neuronal Migration and Brain Map Formation The lecture is followed by discussion between 17.15 and 18.00   Host: Hugo Lagercrantz   The What is Life-seminar series is inspired by the seminal book What is life? by Erwin Schrödinger, […]

2015-09-14, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday September 14 Andras Simon Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska insitutet, Sweden Andras Simon received his PhD degree at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Stockholm, 1999. During his PhD he identified the enzyme that catalyzes the rate limiting step in the generation of the chromophore of the eye, 11-cis retinol dehydrogenase. Subsequently, […]

2015-08-31, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday August 31 Stirling Churchman Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard, Boston, USA Stirling Churchman was a postdoc with Jonathan Weissmann, UCSF, where she pioneered native elongating transcript sequencing (NET-seq, Nature 2011). In 2011 she started her own lab at Harvard Medical School where they study the molecular mechanisms that control and coordinate transcription […]

2015-08-27, Event | Stockholm

Gunnar von Heijne, SU/SciLifeLab, have been commissioned by the SciLifeLab National Board to prepare a call for proposals for Swedish universities to host facilities within a national distributed infrastructure for protein production. According to the decision, the infrastructure should primarily support work in structural biology (X-ray crystallography/Max IV, NMR, cryo-EM), drug development and proteomics/individualized medicine. On August 27 there will be a […]

2015-06-17, Seminar | Solna

What is life? – The Future of Biology seminar series Wednesday June 17, 15.00   Title: Tuned into time: Music, speech, & the biology of auditory-motor integration Speaker: Nina Kraus, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA Venue: Jacob Berzelius (Adam) lecture hall, Berzelius väg 3, KI Solna Host: Gunnar Bjursell   The What is Life-seminar series is inspired by the seminal book […]

2015-06-16, Seminar

Cancelled This event has been cancelled. What is life? – The Future of Biology seminar series Tuesday June 16, 15.00   Title: What is life? revisited (prel title) Speaker: Sydney Brenner, Cambridge, UK, Singapore and Okinawa Venue: To be announced. Host: Ingemar Ernberg   The What is Life-seminar series is inspired by the seminal book What is life? by […]

2015-06-11, Seminar | Solna

What is life? – The Future of Biology seminar series   Cancelled! This event has been cancelled. For more information please contact Susanna Appel, susanna.appel@scilifelab.se     Title: Parental regulation of the Epigenome:Mechanisms for Transgenerational Transmission Speaker: Michael Meaney, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Venue: Jacob Berzelius (Adam) lecture hall, Berzelius väg 3, KI Solna Host: Hugo Lagercrantz   The What is […]

2015-06-08 - 2015-06-09, Seminar | Solna

Speakers: Martin Weight, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France David T. Jones, University Collage London, London, UK Program in PDF: Solving the protein folding problem Venue:  Delta area, SciLifeLab, Tomtebodavägen 23A and MTC seminar room A302, Karolinska Institutet Registration: Fee of 500 SEK includes dinner To register go to http://symposium.aurell.org/ Deadline May 15

2015-06-04, Seminar | 752 37 Uppsala

Does your next breakthrough finding depend on sequencing FFPE samples? Could the publication of your next top-tier article be accelerated by sequencing whole human genomes? Technological advances enable increasingly more sample types to be prepared for and sequenced by next generation sequencing (NGS). This includes historical FFPE samples having been locked away in freezers for […]

2015-06-03, Seminar | Solna

What is life? – The Future of Biology seminar series Wednesday June 3, 15.00 Title: Medical and ethical challenges in provision of medical care in a multi-cultural environment modern-day Israel Speaker: Eric Shinwell, Neonatology, Ziv Hospital, Tsfat, Bar Ilan University, Israel Venue: Wallenberg lecture hall, Nobel forum, Nobels väg 1,  KI campus Solna   Host: Hugo Lagercrantz   The What is Life-seminar series is […]

2015-06-02, Event | Solna

The Bioimaging platform at Science for Life laboratory cordially welcome you to an open symposium covering applications of superresolution fluorescence microscopy methods from world leading experts in the field.

2015-06-01, Event | Uppsala

This is the second SciLifeLab workshop: Drug Discovery. This workshop focuses on DDD innovation: Financing & Re-purposing.

2015-06-01, Event | Uppsala

This is the second SciLifeLab workshop on Biodiversity and Evolution and the theme of this workshop is Environmental Genomics. The workshop will take place at SciLifeLab in Uppsala June 1, 2015.

2015-05-29, Seminar | Solna

  Speaker: Professor Romas Kazlauskas Title: Molecular features that make ancestral enzymes more promiscuous than modern enzymes Date & time: May 29, 11:00 Venue: Lunchroom on level 2 in Alfa building  (SciLifeLab Stockholm)   REGISTRATION Please confirm you attendance via the registration form.   The event is free of charge.   ABSTRACT Evolutionary biologists hypothesize that ancestral enzymes were generalists; that is, that […]

2015-05-29, Event | Solna

About the workshop This event is part of a series of workshops covering various research themes central for SciLifeLab. The topic of this workshop is Cancer Genomics. Cancelled! This event has been cancelled. For more information please contact Susanna Appel, susanna.appel@scilifelab.se

2015-05-28, Seminar | Solna

Speaker:  Lars Sandberg, Computational Chemist at the Drug Discovery Unit, University of Dundee Venue:  Room Kilsbregen, Alfa floor 4, SciLifeLab, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna Abstract: Good chemical starting points are likely to increase the chance for success of a drug discovery project. One way of finding starting points is by screening a large set of lead-like molecules available […]

2015-05-28, Event | Husargatan 3

The last Thursday of the month you can visit company mini-exhibitions at SciLifeLab in Uppsala. May 28, you will have the opportunity to meet with Thermo Fisher Scientific, Mettler-Toledo AB and BioNordika (Sweden) AB. Please contact Erika Erkstam, erika.erkstam@scilifelab.uu.se, if you have any questions about the mini exhibition.

2015-05-27, Event | Uppsala

Come and visit our Uppsala facilities! To reach awareness of the technologies and expertise offered to researchers from all of Sweden, SciLifeLab organizes its first Open House. At the SciLifeLab Open House, you will get the opportunity to interact with facility personnel and visit many of the laboratories located in Uppsala. Take the opportunity to […]

2015-05-25, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday May 25 Jeff Doyle School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, US Jeff Doyle’s research lies in the area of molecular systematics, molecular evolution, and comparative genomics. Jeff is particularly interested in genome duplication, specifically the origin and evolution of polyploidy and its functional and regulatory consequences. His research has primarily focused on polyploid […]

2015-05-22, Event | Uppsala

2015 is the International Year of Light. To celebrate this, the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) will be hosting a symposium co-organized by SciLifeLab and co-sponsored by the Academia Europaea and Uppsala University to celebrate the accomplishments of illuminating women in science.

2015-05-18, Seminar | Solna

Speaker: David Leppert MD, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel Venue: Gamma, Floor 2, SciLifeLab, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna The seminar is arranged by AZ Translational Science Center at SciLifeLab.

2015-05-18, Event | Solna

This event is part of a series of workshops covering various research themes central for SciLifeLab. The topic of this workshop is Medical and Population Genetics and Genomics, and will take place at SciLifeLab in Stockholm on May 18. There will be ample time for discussion, as the aim is to stimulate collaborations.

2015-05-12, Seminar | Solna

What is life? – The Future of Biology seminar series Network of chemical reactions   Tuesday May 12, 15.00 Title: Music, Speech and Brain Speaker: Isabella Peretz, The International Laboratory of Brain, Music and Sound Research, Montreal Venue: Wallenberg lecture hall, Nobel forum, Nobels väg 1,  KI campus Solna The lecture is followed by student discussion between 16-18 in […]

2015-05-11, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday, May 11 Harold Zakon Neurobiology, School of Biological Sciences,  University of Texas, Austin, US Harold Zakon (PhD, Cornell University; postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Diego) has been at the University of Texas since 1983 in the departments of Neuroscience and Integrative Biology. Using biophysical and molecular methods he studies the function, regulation, and evolution […]

2015-05-06, Seminar | Uppsala

The SciLifeLab regional facility of national interest BioVis (Biological visualization) invites you to the “scientific Imaging” Symposium on May 6, including lectures about Image Flow Cytometry, Label free 2Photon Microscopy, Light Sheet Microscopy and Image Analysis.

2015-04-29, Event | Solna

Scientific Highlights SciLifeLab researchers contribute to almost two scientific publications every day. At this event, we put forward the work behind a few of our most exciting high-impact papers. Platform presentations As a national center, SciLifeLab offer techniques and know-how to Swedish researchers within molecular biosciences. Come meet our platforms and learn about our services. Keynote […]

2015-04-27, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday, April 27 Martha Sommer Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany Martha Sommer first became interested in the molecular mechanisms of signal transduction when studying bacterial chemotaxis at the University of Texas at Austin.  Later she joined the lab of Prof. David Farrens at the Oregon Health & Science University, where she worked on the eukaryotic photoreceptor […]

2015-04-27, Seminar | Stockholm

Hear a presentation of the newest journal in the Cell Press family.

2015-04-23, Event | Solna

The symposium aims to bring together researchers, clinicians and engineers involved in human genome sequencing to spread knowledge and favor further development of the field.

2015-04-23, Event | Uppsala

The last Thursday of the month you can visit company mini-exhibitions at SciLifeLab in Uppsala. April 23, you will have the opportunity to meet with Thermo Fisher Scientific, World Courier, Mettler-Toledo AB and AH diagnostics. Please contact Erika Erkstam, erika.erkstam@scilifelab.uu.se, if you have any questions about the mini exhibition.

2015-04-20, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday, April 20 Suzanne Shale Independent Ethics Consultant; Research Associate at Ethox, University of Oxford Noble and ignoble science: the long fight against fraud and fabrication Sir Cyril Herman Hinshelwood, 1956 winner of the Nobel prize in Chemistry, described science as “an imaginative adventure of the mind, seeking truth in a world of mystery”. But […]

2015-04-09, Event | Uppsala

Uppsala Biobank and SLU Biobank will visit SciLifeLab in Uppsala to present themselves. The two biobanks have a close cooperation and together they offer a wide range of biobanking services for you as a researcher. Uppsala Biobank manages human samples and the legislation for them. SLU Biobank handles other biological materials, such as samples from […]

2015-03-30, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday, March 30 Hiroshi Nakato Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, US Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans in the Stem Cell Niche: Lessons from Drosophila Stem cells are defined by their unique potential to self-renew and to differentiate into mature cell types, which support normal development and maintain tissue homeostasis. Stem cells typically […]

2015-03-24, Seminar | Solna

Does your new next breakthrough finding depend on successful sequencing of degraded or minute samples? NGI welcomes you to a breakfast seminar on how to harness the invaluable information from challenging samples using NGS.

2015-03-19, Event | Segerfalkssalen

To raise awareness of the technologies and expertise offered to researchers from all of Sweden, SciLifeLab organizes national Outreach days. During spring 2015, we will visit both Linköping university and Lund university on March 19. At the Outreach days, you will get the opportunity to listen to platform presentations and hear real-life examples from current users of the platform’s facilities. A […]

2015-03-19, Event | Linköping

To raise awareness of the technologies and expertise offered to researchers from all of Sweden, SciLifeLab organizes national Outreach days. During spring 2015, we will visit both Linköping university and Lund university on March 19. At the Outreach days, you will get the opportunity to listen to platform presentations and hear real-life examples from current users of the platform’s facilities. A […]

2015-03-16, Seminar | Uppsala

Monday, March 16 Leif Andersson Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University Leif Andersson has been working on comparative genomics using domestic animals as study objects the last 30 years. In recent years the research […]

2015-03-10, Event | Uppsala

This event is part of a series of workshops covering various research themes central for SciLifeLab. The topic of this workshop is Medical and Population Genetics and Genomics, and will take place at SciLifeLab in Uppsala on March 10. There will be ample time for discussion, as the aim is to stimulate collaborations.

2015-03-04, Seminar | Solna

Application of gene modulation technologies (e.g RNAi) in research laboratory
have accelerated studies in numerous areas including functional genomics,
gene mapping, pathway analysis, and drug target identification. RNAi screens
are routinely used in high-throughput formats to elucidate the roles of specific
genes in cellular processes. However, there area considerable number of
factors that can contribute to the success or failure of a screen that must be
accounted for in order to determine correct gene function.

2015-03-03, Seminar | Solna

What is life? – The Future of Biology seminar series   The Connected Brain of the Child   Tuesday March 3, 15.00 Venue: Wallenberg lecture hall, Nobel forum, Nobels väg 1,  KI campus Solna Hugo Lagercrantz, Dept of Women’s and Children Health, Karolinska Institutet   Host: Gunnar Bjursell The What is Life-seminar series is inspired by the seminal book What is life? […]

2015-03-02, Seminar | Uppsala

SciLifeLab The Svedberg seminar series Monday, March 2 Joel Sussman Department of Structural Biology and Israel Structural Proteomics Center Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel Joel Sussman is an outstanding structural biologist, primarily famous for his work on acetylcholine esterase, an enzyme intimately involved in acute neurotoxicity caused by nerve agents and pesticides. Among other […]

2015-02-09, Seminar | Uppsala

SciLifeLab The Svedberg seminar series Monday, February 9 Co-organized with the Rudbeck seminar series at Uppsala University . Richard O. Hynes Howard Hughes Medical Institute, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, MA, US Dr. Hynes did his undergraduate work in Biochemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, and his PhD in Biology […]

2015-02-06, Event | Solna

Speaker: Carninci Piero, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Division of Genomic Technologies Title: Searching function of non-coding RNAs in complex mammalian transcriptomes Date & time: February 6, 10:00 Venue: Air/Fire conference in Gamma building  (SciLifeLab Stockholm)   The event is free of charge and does not require any registration.    ABSTRACT We have developed cap-analysis gene expression (CAGE) […]

2015-02-04 - 2015-02-20, Event

Welcome to a workshop about the possibilities to use expertise, technology and reagent resources available at the Affinity Proteomics & Bioimaging platforms at SciLifeLab. The workshop will include seminars presenting our nine national facilitites, a poster session with lunch and/or coffee, followed by bookable personal meetings with representatives from the facilities. Establish new interactions and […]

2015-02-02, Seminar | Uppsala

SciLifeLab The Svedberg seminar series Monday, February 2 Aleksandra Radenovic Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Aleksandra Radenovic received her master’s degree in physics from the University of Zagreb in 1999 before joining Professor Giovanni Dietler’s Laboratory of Physics of Living Matter in 2000 […]

2015-01-30, Event | Solna

About the workshop This event is part of a series of workshops covering various research themes central for SciLifeLab. The topic of this workshop is Medical and Population Genetics and Genomics, and will take place at SciLifeLab in Stockholm on January 30. There will be ample time for discussion, as the aim is to stimulate collaborations. Organizers Niklas Dahl, Anna […]

2015-01-28, Seminar | Uppsala

The 6th symposium on Pharmaceutical Profiling in Drug Discovery and Development is hosted by the Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, together with the SciLifeLab Drug Discovery and Development platform and the Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden. This year’s program is focused on advances in pharmaceutical compound profiling, the role of transport proteins in drug disposition, and proteomics in drug discovery and development.

2015-01-27, Event | Solna

SciLifeLab has acquired 10 Illumina HiSeq X (X Ten) sequencers, which will form the basis for offering whole genome sequencing to the Swedish scientific community. We are pleased to invite you to this workshop, which will provide information about different aspects of human sequencing, ranging from practical questions about sample handling to ethical issues and the data handling and analysis tools. We will also present the reference database being established as well as our ambition to build a community facilitating sharing of data when feasible and desired by the respective scientists.

2015-01-22, Seminar | Solna

Sunney Xie is a pioneer of single molecule enzymology and single cell genomics. Here are some extracts from his homepage: http://bernstein.harvard.edu/

2015-01-21, Seminar | Solna

What is life? – The Future of Biology seminar series   Wednesday January 21, 15.00 Venue: Samuelssonsalen lecture hall, Tomtebodavägen 6, KI Campus Solna Sunney Xie, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,  Cambridge, US Lecture followed by discussion in room A 302, MTC, Nobels väg 16, KI Campus Solna (16.15 – 18.00)   Hosts: Ingemar Ernberg & […]

2015-01-21, Event | Stockholm

Speaker: Mika Gustafsson, Associate professor in bioinformatics, IFM, Linköping University, and Centre for Individualised Medicine Abstract The cost for genome-wide measurements in molecular biology (‘omics) has drastically decreased during the last 10 years. Systems medicine analysing the measurements from thousands of molecules will therefore likely become routine for medical doctors within the clinics. Potentially, this […]

2015-01-19, Seminar | Uppsala

SciLifeLab The Svedberg seminar series Monday, January 19 Yenan Bryceson Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Yenan Bryceson received his his PhD from Karolinska Institutet in 2008 after working in the lab of Eric Long at the NIH, and is currently Assistant Professor at the Center for Infectious Medicine at Karolinska […]