Pushing the Frontiers 2021
September 22 @ 11:00 – 17:45 UTC
The Scientific Director for SciLifeLab-UU and the SciLifeLab-UU Committee welcomes you to Pushing the Frontiers 2021.
This is a one-day scientific event where two SciLifeLab fellow alumni at Uppsala University and many of the 21 postdocs financed by the SciLifeLab-UU postdoc programs of 2017-2018 will share their research progress with the local SciLifeLab community.
Presentation format: Postdocs: 10 min + 5 min discussion. Fellows: 25 min+5 min discussion.
Organizers: SciLifeLab committee UU, The SciLifeLab-UU working group: Staffan Svärd, Jenny Alfredsson, Titti Ekegren, Aristidis Moustakas, Mikael Widersten.
If you have any questions, please contact events@SciLifeLab.se
Hybrid event
The event is a hybrid event. Lunch and coffee will be served in Navet.
We have 40 seats (Corona distance) in the Triple room of Navet at BMC, Uppsala (principle of first come, first served). To enter Navet, please bring your QR code ticket. We care about your health. To join in person, we want you to be fully vaccinated. If you register to be on-site but change your mind, please adjust your registration with the link in the confirmation email.
A link to the Zoom meeting and a QR code ticket to enter Navet will be provided in the confirmation email.
Program
| 09:00 | Welcome Staffan Svärd & SciLifeLab-UU Committee |
| Chair: Mikael Widersten | |
| 09:00 | Single nuclei RNA-sequencing from metabolic tissues Marco Cavalli |
| 09:15 | Exploring deep human roots in south-central African ancient and modern genetic data Nina Hollfelder |
| 09:30 | A time-resolved imaging-based CRISPRi screening method Daniel Camsund |
| 09:45 | A novel mitochondrion-related organelle revealed through comparative genomics of the uncultured protist parasite Paramikrocytos canceri (Rhizaria, Ascetosporea) Ioana Onut Brannström |
| 10:00 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 | Conservation of G-quadruplexes and other GC-rich regions of avian genomes Julie Blommaert |
| 10:45 | Monoallelic and bi-allelic variants in NCDN cause neurodevelopmental delay, intellectual disability, and epilepsy Ambrin Fatima |
| 11:00 | Microfluidic solution for electroporation of dye-labelled biological macromolecules into E. coli Zahra Atena Khaji |
| Fellows session: | |
| 11:15 | Chemistry – Chemical Biology and biomarkers Daniel Globisch |
| 11:45 | Lunch break |
| Chair: Aristidis Moustakas | |
| 12:30 | Protein machines at single molecule level Sebastian Deindl |
| 13:00 | The DNA methylome of adult and pediatric relapsed acute myeloid leukemia Mahsa Shahidi Dadras |
| 13:15 | Genomics-driven exploration of Asgard archaeal symbioses to gain insight in the origin of eukaryotes Courtney Stairs |
| 13:30 | Fungal-bacterial metabolic interactions in the deep biosphere Maliheh Mehrshad |
| 13:45 | Development and clinical implementation of advanced technologies for detection of exosomes as biomarkers with relevance for prostate cancer Liza Löf |
| 14:00 | Characterizing cell origin and co-operative mutations of MYC-driven brain cancer Miao Zhao |
| 14:15 | Using organotypic tissue culture to decipher the host cell tropism of invasive gut bacteria Jorik van Rijn |
| 14:30 | CRISPR/Cas9 “multi-hit” mutations to decipher the role of heparan sulfate N-sulfation in embryonic development Laura Waldmann |
| 14:45 | Coffee break |
| Chair: Staffan Svärd | |
| 15:00 | Open discussion The future of SciLifeLab (including: the postdoctoral program at UU): aims, expectations, achievements, future perspectives. We want to hear your thought on the future of SciLifeLab at UU. |
| 15:30 | Concluding remarks Staffan Svärd & SciLifeLab-UU Committee |
| 15:45 | End of day |
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