SciLifeLab

Campus Solna Seminar Series: Erik Wernersson & Stefan Wennmalm
2025-04-24 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Air&Fire, SciLifeLab Stockholm, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna, Sweden
Welcome to join the Campus Solna Seminar Series – an initiative to promote the fantastic science ongoing at Campus Solna and hopefully forge more internal communication and collaboration between within Campus Solna. The format consists of two 20 min talks (One speaker from the Alpha-building and one from the Gamma-building respectively), with an additional 5 min of questions. Presentation of ongoing (unpublished) projects is strongly encouraged.

The seminars are held Thursdays 12:00-13:00. You can bring your lunch to the seminar.

PhD students that are attending the Campus Solna Seminar lectures will have the opportunity to gain credits. For the syllabus and instructions on how to obtain these credits, read this document. Please contact your own department at your host University to confirm.See here the full schedule for this semester.

This week:

Erik Wernersson

Magda Bienko – alpha 4

FISH probe design: Aligners and Anti-Aligners

Stefan Wennmalm

Hans Blom – gamma 3

MINFLUX tracking of single molecules in cells at the Advanced Light Microscopy Facility

This seminar series is organized by the PhD & Postdoc Council. For more information about the Council and other events check our page.

SciLifeLab & AAAS/Science Publishing Workshop for Junior Researchers
2025-04-24 08:30 - 15:30 | Birgit Thilander Lecture Hall, Medicinaregatan 3, Göteborg
Are you a junior researcher looking to navigate the scientific publishing landscape with confidence? Want to know what makes a great manuscript and how to optimize your chances of getting published in high-impact journals?

Join us for this highly regarded and rewarding interactive workshop hosted by SciLifeLab in collaboration with AAAS/Science, designed for early career researchers (PhD students and postdocs).

Workshop Leaders

Valda Vinson (Executive Editor, Science Magazine) and Sacha Vignieri (Deputy Editor, Research, Science Magazine) are traveling all the way from the USA to provide you with exclusive insider insights into the entire publishing process – from writing and structuring your paper to peer review and post-publication impact.

Workshop Content

View Curriculum
Morning session (hybrid)

The publishing landscape

Towards reproducibility

Open access and preprints

Authorship

Picking a journal

Preparing your paper

Planning ahead

Structure your paper

Cover Letter

Title/Abstract

Data accessibility

The Publication Process

Process at Science

Review process

Writing a review

Optimizing Impact (author promotion)

Afternoon session (on-site)

This session features an interactive paper tutorial, where participants will engage in in-depth group analysis and discussion of selected preprints—both those nominated by participants and publications chosen by the Editors.

Please note: Pre-workshop preparation is required for all participants.

The selected preprints should fall under one of the following categories:

Cell and Molecular Biology

Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology Approaches

Ecology and Environment

Molecular Medicine

Practical Details

The workshop is divided into two sessions:

🔹 Morning Session (Hybrid) – A Zoom link will be provided to online participants one day before the workshop.🔹 Afternoon Session (On-site) – Focused on preprints within life science topics (see Curriculum for details).

Participation Guidelines

🔹 PhD students and postdocs in life sciences will be prioritized for the on-site session.🔹 Pre-workshop preparation is required for all on-site participants.🔹 Everyone is welcome to join online.🔹 On-site participation includes lunch and coffee breaks with the Science Editors.

On-site participation is limited to 40 spots!

Participants for the on-site workshop will be selected after the application deadline based on:✔️ Affiliation (to ensure a fair distribution across research groups).✔️ First come, first served basis.

📅 Deadline for onsite application: March 24, 2025

📅 Deadline for online registration: April 22, 2025

Apply here

Data Management in Life Science
2025-04-23 13:00 - 2025-04-24 15:00 | Campus US, Digitalis, House 511, floor 11, Linköping
Registration Now Open

Register here

SciLifeLab Linköping together with SciLifeLab Data Centre and NBIS welcomes all life-science researchers (from master student to PI), data support, tech staff and infrastructure experts in Linköping to join this event where we explore the available support for research data handling and discuss on good data management practices according to FAIR principles and Open Science.

On-site event

PROGRAM

APRIL 23

13:00-14:00 Good Data Management Practices – available services and support

Here you will learn how to handle your research data according to FAIR principles and Open Science. The SciLifeLab Data Center, NBIS and several units at LiU is providing knowledge, tools and support in all life science data areas.

Linköping University and SciLifeLab, has signed the CoARA agreement along with many other universities and academic organizations all over the world. FAIR is the abbreviation for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.

This Open Lecture is for everyone in academia and health care handling research data

APRIL 24

9:00-10:00 FAIR breakfast for Master students, PhD-students and Postdocs
Here, young scientists join for breakfast and discussions on FAIR principles and how to handle research data. FAIR is the abbreviation for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. Knowledge in good research data handling from the very beginning of a project is not only required from many funders and journals for publication, it will also be of good help for the researcher throughout the project and beyond.

10:15-12:00 Workshop 1 – Data Management Plans

Bring your laptop and we will guide you through the Data Management Plan support program that will help you create your own plan.

13:15-15:00 Workshop 2 – Working with Human Data

How can we meet the requirements of Open Data, FAIR and share data when we only work with Sensitive Human Data? Is it possible?

KI-SciLifeLab symposium 2025
2025-04-23 12:00 - 18:00 | Andreas Vesalius Lecture Hall, Karolinska Institutet, Berzelius väg 3, Solna, 171 65, Sweden
Join us at the fourth annual KI-SciLifeLab symposium. This is a half-day event that aims to bring together members of the SciLifeLab community at KI and others interested in our work. The afternoon will feature a series of scientific talks, followed by a poster session and an opportunity to mingle.

Confirmed speakers

Andreas Luttens

Jan Ellenberg

William Nyberg

Stefanos Stagkourakis

Melis Anahtar

Konstantinos Georgiadis

Mikael Altun

Brinton Seashore-Ludlow

Kimmo Kartasalo

Read more

Registration

Program
11:30Registration and lunch12:30Greetings from KI managementMartin Bergö, Vice President Karolinska Institutet12:45Artificial intelligence for prostate computational pathologyKimmo Kartasalo13:00Navigating vast chemical spaces for drug discoveryAndreas Luttens13:15Greetings from SciLifeLab managementJan Ellenberg, Director SciLifeLab13:30In vivo CRISPR engineering to reprogram T cells13.45Title TBAStefanos Stagkourakis14:00Coffee break14.30Deep learning-enabled discovery of antibiotics for Neisseria gonorrhoeaeMelis Anahtar15:15Delineating tumor evolution dynamics in breast cancer by time-course single-cell copy number profilingKonstantinos Georgiadis15:30Title TBAMikael Altun15.50High content imaging in advanced models for functional precision medicineBrinton Seashore-Ludlow16:30Poster Session17:00Announcement of best poster price

Organisers
Kimmo Kartasalo kimmo.kartasalo@ki.se

William Nyberg william.nyberg@ki.se

Stefanos Argyrios Stagkourakis stefanos.stagkourakis@ki.se

Ann-Charlotte Zingmark ann-charlott.zingmark@ki.se

[The Svedberg seminar]-The origins and functional evolution of amniote sex chromosomes
2025-04-22 15:15 - 16:15 | BMC Room C8:301, Husargatan 3, Uppsala, Sweden
Henrik Kaessmann

Professor of Evolutionary Genomics at Heidelberg , Germany

Bio

Dr. Henrik Kaessmann is Professor of Evolutionary Genomics at Heidelberg University. His research focuses on the molecular foundations of mammalian phenotypic evolution, leveraging various comparative and functional genomics approaches. After earning his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago as an EMBO Fellow. His interdisciplinary lab, which he initially established in Lausanne (Switzerland), has pioneered large-scale studies of gene expression changes and their phenotypic implications across various biological dimensions, including organs, species, developmental stages, gene expression layers, coding and noncoding gene types, splicing isoforms, and sexes. Prof. Kaessmann has published extensively in leading journals and has received numerous prestigious honors, including three ERC grants, EMBO membership, the Friedrich Miescher Award, and the Cloëtta Prize. Beyond his research, he teaches and mentors at Heidelberg University and maintains active collaborations with clinical researchers and major scientific institutions worldwide.Collectively, Henrik Kaessmann’s transformative work has profoundly advanced our understanding of the molecular foundations of mammalian phenotypic evolution and the driving forces of natural selection. The remarkable scope of his lab‘s major findings demonstrates how large-scale genomics approaches can yield fundamental biological insights and test key hypotheses. Notably, his interdisciplinary research has had far-reaching impact beyond evolution and development, as evidenced by extensive citations across diverse fields. His findings, including the observation of functional divergence of many genes between humans and mice, and unique gene expression (i.e., transcriptome, epigenome, translatome) datasets spanning key organs and developmental stages in humans and various model and non-model species, have become indispensable resources for biomedical research in general. To maximize their impact, his team has created interactive public databases that ensure optimal usability for the scientific community.

The origins and functional evolution of amniote sex chromosomes

In our lab, we carry out large-scale studies of gene expression changes and their phenotypic implications across various biological dimensions (e.g., species, organs, developmental stages, gene expression layers, coding and noncoding gene types, splicing isoforms, and sexes). In this seminar, I will focus on our endeavors to unravel the origins of the different amniote sex chromosome systems, which emerged from ancestral sets of autosomes. We have, for example, unveiled the origins of the sex chromosomes of therian (i.e., placental and marsupial) and monotreme mammals, and those of birds and lizards. We then scrutinized the evolutionary and functional consequences of sex chromosome differentiations (i.e., the degeneration of Y or W chromosomes in males or females, respectively) and the associated selective forces. Overall, our work has illuminated the evolution of the specific gene contents on the respective sex chromosomes, the origins and consequences of male (meiotic) sex chromosome inactivation, and the forces and mechanisms underlying the evolution of the various amniote dosage compensation mechanisms, including the drivers underlying the emergence of the female X inactivation mechanism in therians. I will present published and unpublished highlights of our work

Host: Leif Andersson leif.andersson@imbim.uu.se

“It just works with my software” – How to adopt the FAIR principles in life science research at any career stage
2025-04-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Online event via Zoom
This seminar will explain why funders promote the FAIR principles and showcase how the principles are useful to you in projects and collaborations of any size. The FAIR principles are intended to support effective data sharing up to the degree that you can assert “It just works with my software”. But they apply equally well to the social aspects of data sharing and can serve as a guide to help you address the question “If I leave the lab today, how can my colleagues understand, find and use my data?”.

What you’ll learn:

Understand the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) and their importance in research.

Discover how adopting these principles can improve data sharing, collaboration, and long-term research impact.

Learn practical strategies to make your data FAIR—valuable and usable for years to come.

Who should attend?

Researchers and professionals at any career stage who aim to optimize their data management practices.

Why attend?

This seminar offers actionable insights to help you align with funder expectations, enhance research reproducibility, and maximize the value of your data.

Presenters: Wolmar Nyberg Åkerström and Niclas Jareborg (NBIS, SciLifeLab)

Link to the recording on YouTube.

Link to the presentation slides.

More info
This event is part of the SciLifeLab Data Management seminar series, an event series by the SciLifeLab Data Centre and NBIS joint Data Management team.

The goal of the events in this seminar series is to provide interesting interactive seminars around topics related to Research Data Management and Open Science in general, and to foster discussions around best practices.

The events are open to everyone working at or affiliated with a Swedish research institute or university. We welcome all researchers, educational professionals, staff, RDM professionals, and others with an interest in life sciences, from all university levels. The events are informal and inclusive, so feel welcome to join and participate in our interesting discussions!

The events will be recorded and published openly after the seminars on the SciLifeLab YouTube channel.

Link to the recording on will follow after the presentation.

Link to the presentation slides will follow after the presentation.More information about SciLifeLab Data Centre and NBIS joint Data Management seminar series: https://www.scilifelab.se/data/scilifelab-data-management-seminar-series/

For more information or inquiries, please contact: data-management@scilifelab.se

Campus Solna Seminar Series: Ernest Cheng-De Liu & David Unnersjö-Jess
2025-04-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Air&Fire, SciLifeLab Stockholm, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna, Sweden
Welcome to join the Campus Solna Seminar Series – an initiative to promote the fantastic science ongoing at Campus Solna and hopefully forge more internal communication and collaboration between within Campus Solna. The format consists of two 20 min talks (One speaker from the Alpha-building and one from the Gamma-building respectively), with an additional 5 min of questions. Presentation of ongoing (unpublished) projects is strongly encouraged.

The seminars are held Thursdays 12:00-13:00. You can bring your lunch to the seminar.

PhD students that are attending the Campus Solna Seminar lectures will have the opportunity to gain credits. For the syllabus and instructions on how to obtain these credits, read this document. Please contact your own department at your host University to confirm.See here the full schedule for this semester.

This week:

Ernest Cheng-De Liu

Kasper Karlsson – alpha 5

Enhancing Neuroblastoma Organoid Diversity with Single-Cell Transcriptomics Heterogeneity Measurement

David Unnersjö-Jess

Hjalmar Brismar – gamma 3

Nanoscale Imaging with Advanced Image Analysis for Patient Stratification, Drug Development, and Diagnostics

This seminar series is organized by the PhD & Postdoc Council. For more information about the Council and other events check our page.

Bringing Cells to Life of the Computer: Whole-Cell Modeling from Minimal Bacteria to Human Cells
2025-04-16 10:30 - 11:30 | Air&Fire, SciLifeLab Stockholm, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna, Sweden
Speaker

Zane R Thornburg, PhD

Chemical Imaging and Structures Laboratory

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Abstract

The goal of whole-cell modeling is to computationally predict the temporal progression of cell states. To simulate minutes to hours of biological time, we sacrifice atomic resolution and instead use coarse-grained hybrid simulations. In these models, large structures like membranes are projected onto a 3D cubic lattice, macromolecules like proteins are individual particles, and small molecules like metabolites are tracked as dynamic concentrations. Our most complete model is the genetically minimal bacterium in which we successfully simulate an entire cell cycle from start to division in 3D including the entire metabolic network and expression of its 493 genes. Organisms of more practical interest are significantly more complicated, and many challenges still need to be discovered and overcome to model them. I will present two ongoing efforts in the areas of cell metabolism and mRNA splicing. One of the greatest challenges in metabolic modelling is determining a set of kinetic parameters. We present a method to determine sets of thermodynamically realistic kinetic parameters for enzymatic reactions in whole-cell metabolic models. The fate of a eukaryotic cell depends on proper maturation of its pre-mRNA through splicing. Variations in splicing of pre-mRNA from a single gene (alternative splicing) result in multiple isoforms of mature mRNA, each producing a different protein with distinct biological activities. We model the kinetics of splicing to predict the frequencies at which the isoforms occur and demonstrate the model’s capabilities and limitations using known splicing isoforms from the human genome.

Contact: Erik Lindahl (erik.lindahl@scilifelab.se)

SciLifeLab Train the Trainer Course
2025-04-14 13:30 - 2025-04-16 17:00 | BMC – Biomedical Centre (Lund), Sölvegatan 19, Lund, 22362, Sweden
This course offers guidance, ideas and tips for designing training/teaching, development and delivery on training activities, all based on research-driven educational principles. This course will cover the following topics:

Learning principles and how they apply to training and teaching

Design and plan session, course, materials

Teaching techniques to enhance learner engagement and participation

Assessment and feedback in training and teaching

Creating and maintaining engagement

This course is directed towards anyone who is interested in becoming a trainer/instructor, or improving your training skills. If you have questions like the following ones, this course may be very helpful to you.

How learning works?

How do I use learning principles and theories to improve my teaching/training?

How do I make my teaching/training more engaging and effective?

How should I adjust my teaching/training to different types of learners?

How do I ensure learning progress?

How can I assess whether my students are actually understanding my lessons? Are they actually learning?

What is the best balance between theory and practice?

How can I best assess whether learning is occurring and/or has occurred?

What works in a classroom and what doesn’t?

Important dates and information

Application open: November 25, 2024Application closes: February 28, 2025Confirmation to accepted applicants: March 7, 2025

The course will run:April 14: 13:30-16:30April 15: 09:00-16.30April 16: 09:00-16.30

Note: The course is highly interactive and hence it is important that you, as a participant, actively contribute to all sessions and elements of the course.

Registration

To preview the course content, you can take a look at the 2024 Train the Trainer (Online) Course website

Learning Objectives and Learning Outcomes

Learning Objectives

To get acquainted with Learning principles and how they apply to training

To be able to select and use training techniques that can help enhance learner engagement and participation

To learn how to use assessment and feedback in training

To learn about session, course, and materials design as well as strategies for making learning engaging

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

Name learning principles that a good teacher/instructor should have in mind

Describe at least three training techniques, drawing on learning principles

Design a training session and a course

Develop assessment questionnaires

Enumerate types of materials needed for each part of a training session or course

Describe strategies to promote engagement amongst learners

Target Audience

This course is directed towards anyone who is interested in becoming a trainer/instructor, or improving your training skills.

Course fee:

None. The course includes lunches, coffee/tea and snacks.

Due to limited space the course can accommodate a maximum of 25 participants. If we receive more applications, participants will be selected based on selection criteria: Priority will be given to applicants from SciLifeLab infrastructures, institutes and organizations across the Nordic research community, and to participants from Nordic ELIXIR nodes.

CSI Seminar: Navigating Rejection in Academia
2025-04-10 14:00 - 14:30 | Gamma 2 Lunchroom, SciLifeLab, Tomtebodavägen 23, Solna, Sweden
Rejection is an unavoidable part of academic life – whether it’s a rejected manuscript, an unsuccessful grant application, or job market setbacks. But while rejection is common, it can still feel deeply personal and discouraging. Why does rejection sting so much, and how can we navigate the emotions and self-doubt that come with it? In this seminar, we’ll explore how common rejection in academia is, the psychological impact of academic rejection, strategies for maintaining resilience, and ways to reframe setbacks as opportunities for growth.

We will begin with a ~ 20 min talk, held in Solna and over zoom. Then proceed with a reflection and discussion held on-site. We encourage other sites to form watch parties, by listening in together to the talk and then hold their own discussion afterwards. Hopefully seeding many local chapters of CSI.

To help facilitate discussion and reflection, consider the following starter questions:

Awareness: where do we experience rejection in our lives already?

Analysis: how well do I currently interact with rejection?

Alternative: how could we relate to rejection in academia, for ourselves and others?

Action: how will knowledge of rejection in academia change my decisions going forward?

Innovation through collaboration
2025-04-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Galaxen (Sirius), Universum, Umeå, Universitetstorget 4, Umeå, 90187, Sweden
AstraZeneca Open Innovation and Collaborative Insights from Mikael Elofsson, UMU

Speakers: Björn Tyrberg and Hannah Semple present Open Innovation, AstraZeneca, covering:

– CoSolve challenges– Preclinical compound sharing– Compound screening collaborations:–> Diversity screens–> Phenotypic screens–> Bespoke library screens–> Secretome and other libraries

The presentation will be given in Galaxen (Sirius), found on the ground floor of the Universum building, at Umeå University. Find your way to the venue: MazeMap link.

Time will be given afterwards for 1:1 project discussions with interested investigators.

Register to come to the presentation and reserve your lunch, as well as book a 1:1 project discussion by Tuesday, 8 April at 10:00.

Read more and register here

Campus Solna Seminar Series: Emil Johansson & Solveig Thiele
2025-04-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Milkyway SciLifeLab Solna, Tomtebodavägen 23, Solna
Welcome to join the Campus Solna Seminar Series – an initiative to promote the fantastic science ongoing at Campus Solna and hopefully forge more internal communication and collaboration between within Campus Solna. The format consists of two 20 min talks (One speaker from the Alpha-building and one from the Gamma-building respectively), with an additional 5 min of questions. Presentation of ongoing (unpublished) projects is strongly encouraged.

The seminars are held Thursdays 12:00-13:00. You can bring your lunch to the seminar.

PhD students that are attending the Campus Solna Seminar lectures will have the opportunity to gain credits. For the syllabus and instructions on how to obtain these credits, read this document. Please contact your own department at your host University to confirm.See here the full schedule for this semester.

This week:

Emil Johansson

Fredrik Edfors – alpha 6

The blood plasma proteome in cardiovascular diseases

Solveig Thiele

Jonathan Martin – gamma 5

Reaching higher throughput for chemical exposomics of human serum with phospholipid removal and LC-HRMS

This seminar series is organized by the PhD & Postdoc Council. For more information about the Council and other events check our page.

Clinical Genomics 10th Anniversary Symposium – Genomic technologies transforming precision diagnostics
2025-04-10 09:00 - 2025-04-11 17:00 | Conference Centre Wallenberg, Medicinaregatan 20A, Gothenburg, 413 90, Sweden
Celebrate a Decade of Innovation in Clinical Genomics!

We’re thrilled to invite you to the 10th Anniversary Symposium of the SciLifeLab Clinical Genomics Platform. This milestone event, themed “Genomic Technologies Transforming Precision Diagnostics,” will be held April 10–11, 2025, at the Conference Centre Wallenberg in Gothenburg, Sweden.

This symposium marks ten years of progress in personalized medicine and genomic research. It will gather leading experts to explore groundbreaking advancements and discuss the future of clinical genomics, oncology, and precision diagnostics.

This event offers an excellent chance to engage with thought leaders, exchange ideas, and gain insights into the innovations shaping the future of medicine. Save the dates and join us in Gothenburg this April to celebrate a decade of progress and discovery!

Key Topics

Current and Emerging Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies

Translational Single Cell and Spatial Omics

Genomics for Pathogen Detection and Pandemic Preparedness

Diagnostic Analytics and Informatics

The Future of Genome-Based Diagnostics and Medicine

The event will also feature exhibitions and presentations by leading companies in genomic technologies, showcasing their innovations and expertise.

Program

CG_10years_ProgramDownload

Conference booklet

CG10Y_ConferenceBooklet_digitalDownload

Confirmed speakers

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Annika Jenmalm Jensen

Infrastructure Director at SciLifeLab and researcher at Karolinska Institutet.

Helene Cederroth

Co-founder and president of the Wilhelm Foundation. Board member of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network International

Valtteri Wirta

Platform Scientific Director at Clinical Genomics Stockholm. Head of Office, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet.

Lars Feuk

Co-Director of the SciLifeLab National Genomics Infrastructure and Professor at Uppsala University.

Lars Engstrand

Professor and senior physician at Karolinska Institutet, directs the Centre for Translational Microbiome Research.

Richard Rosenquist Brandell

Professor of Clinical Genetics at Karolinska Institutet and Senior Physician at Karolinska University Hospital, Director of Genomic Medicine Sweden.

Joakim Lundeberg

Professor of molecular biotechnology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, renowned for developing Spatial Transcriptomics.

Olli Dufva

Physician-scientist and postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, with expertise in computational analysis and functional genomics.

Mikael Benson

Principal researcher at Karolinska Institutet, leading the Medical Digital Twin Research Group.

Matt Brown

Professor at King’s College London and Chief Scientific Officer at Genomics England

Anders Ståhlberg

Professor in Clinical Genomics at the University of Gothenburg. Principal investigator at the Sahlgrenska Center for Cancer Research and the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine.

Tatjana Pandzic

Clinical laboratory geneticist and researcher at Uppsala University Hospital. Co-leads the hematology work package at Clinical Genomics Uppsala.

Rene Kaden

Associate Professor at Uppsala University’s Department of Medical Sciences, specializing in Clinical Microbiology.

Sofia Brunet

PhD student at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, with a background in clinical microbiology.

Göran Jönsson

Professor of molecular oncology at Lund University, specializing in melanoma research.

Jessica Nordlund

Researcher at Uppsala University’s Department of Medical Sciences, where she leads the Molecular Precision Medicine research group.

Araz Rawshani

Associate professor at the University of Gothenburg’s Institute of Medicine and a resident physician in cardiology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital.

Marcin Kierzcak

Bioinformatics data scientist at the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS) and associate professor in bioinformatics at Uppsala University.

Confirmed exhibitors

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Gold Exhibitors

illumina

Integrated DNA Technologies

Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Roche Diagnostics Scandinavia

Silver Exhibitors

Parse BioSciences

Techtum Lab

Triolab

Bronze Exhibitors

10x Genomics

BioNordika and their supplier New England Biolabs

Bruker Spatial Biology

Hamilton Nordic AB

Nordic Biolabs AB and their supplier Promega

Proteintech Europe

Saveen & Werner

Takara Bio

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Organizing committee

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Thoas Fioretos, Platform Director, Clinical Genomics (until Dec 31, 2024); Lund University

Lucia Cavelier, Platform Co-Director, Clinical Genomics (until Dec 31, 2024); Uppsala University

Colum Walsh, Platform Director, Clinical Genomics (from Jan 1, 2025); Linköping University

Malin Melin, Platform Co-Director, Clinical Genomics (from Jan 1, 2025); Uppsala University

Marcela Davila, Platform Coordination Officer, Clinical Genomics; University of Gothenburg

Eva Berglund, Platform Strategy and External Relations Officer, Clinical Genomics; Uppsala University

Maria Smedh, Site Coordinator; University of Gothenburg

Accommodation

A block of rooms has been reserved for symposium attendees at Elite Park Avenue Hotel
Elite Park Avenue Hotel, is a centrally located hotel on Gothenburg’s main boulevard, Avenyn (Kungsportsavenyn), for the nights of April 9 and 10.

If you wish to stay at this hotel, please email reservations.gbgpark@elite.se and use “CG10years” as the booking code. If you prefer to pay by invoice, be sure to provide complete invoicing details, including information for e-invoicing. The room rates follow the governmental agreements (Kammarkollegiet).

The reserved rooms will be available until the end of March (5 weeks before arrival). After that, unbooked rooms will be gradually released, with all remaining reservations canceled 1 week before arrival.

Getting There

The easiest way to travel within Gothenburg is by tram,
and the most convenient way to pay is by using the Västtrafik ToGo app, which also includes a travel planner.

From the Elite Park Avenue Hotel

To reach the conference center from the hotel, take tram no. 7 from Valand (Track B) to Medicinaregatan. During rush hours, tram 7 departs every 6 minutes. You can download the timetable here. The total journey, including walking, takes approximately 20 minutes.

From Gothenburg Central Station

To get from the central train station to the conference center, take tram no. 1, 2, or 7 from Centralstationen (Track C) to Medicinaregatan. During rush hours, trams run every 2–4 minutes. The total journey, including walking, takes approximately 20 minutes.

Registration

Registration deadline: March 31, 2025

Innovation Through Collaboration
2025-04-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Gamma 2 Lunchroom, SciLifeLab, Tomtebodavägen 23, Solna, Sweden
Innovation Through Collaboration:AstraZeneca Open Innovation & Collaborative Insights from Malin Wickström & Arne Östman from Karolinska InstitutetBjörn Tyberg, PhD and PIpresents AstraZeneca Open Innovation

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

CoSolve challenges

Preclinical compound sharing

Compound screening collaborations: Diversity screens, Phenotypic screens, Bespoke library screens and Secretome & other libraries

Time will be given afterwards for 1:1 project discussions with interested investigators. To book a time slot, please contact per.moberg@ki.se

We will meet up with individuals who do not have access to SciLifeLab at the reception at 13:55

To book a time slot, please contact per.moberg@ki.se

Umeå seminar series: Beyond the Command Line - HPC2N and the OpenOnDemand Experience
2025-04-08 12:00 - 13:00 | KBC Building Umeå, Linneaus Väg 6, Umeå
“Beyond the Command Line – HPC2N and the OpenOnDemand Experience”

Speaker: Björn Torkelsson, System engineer and Assistant director, High Performance Computing Centre North (HPC2N)

Abstract: This presentation will provide an update on the latest developments at HPC2N. We will explore recent enhancements in infrastructure, software, and services offered to researchers and users.

A significant portion of the presentation will be dedicated to a live demonstration of OpenOnDemand, a web-based portal that simplifies access and utilization of Kebnekaise, the local UMU HPC resource. We will showcase how OpenOnDemand enables easy execution of applications, data visualization, and job management directly from a web browser, enhancing accessibility and efficiency for users of all levels.

Webpage of High Performance Computing Centre North (HPC2N)

Registration: Sign up for the IRL seminar and reserve your free lunch (salad, drink, and little sweet snack) by Friday, 4 April, 13:30: https://www.umu.se/en/research/infrastructure/scilifelab/scilifelab-site-umea–kbc-infrastructure-seminar-series

Follow the seminar online (registration is not required): Meeting URL: https://umu.zoom.us/j/69390567429

[The Svedberg seminar]-Navigating Lipid Metabolism: From Basic Molecular Mechanisms to Cellular Symphony
2025-04-07 15:15 - 16:15 | BMC Room C8:301, Husargatan 3, Uppsala, Sweden
Aditi Das

Professor School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Bio

Dr. Aditi Das is a Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Her research explores lipid biochemistry, enzymology, and drug metabolism, with a focus on bioactive metabolites and their roles in inflammation and neurodegenerative diseases. She earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton University, specializing in functional protein design, followed by postdoctoral research utilizing biophysical tools to study membrane proteins in Nanodiscs. Dr. Das has made significant contributions to understanding cytochrome P450 enzymes and their role in lipid oxidation, leading to advances in drug discovery and biomedical applications. Her work has been widely published in high-impact journals, and she has received numerous grants and awards. Her national accolades include the NIH R35 Outstanding Researcher Award, the E.L.R. Stokstad Award, and the Mary Swartz Rose Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Nutrition. Beyond her research, she serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Molecular Pharmacology and Frontiers in Pharmacology. Through her work, Dr. Das continues to advance the fields of lipid biochemistry and cannabinoid metabolism, translating fundamental science into real-world applications for human health.

Navigating Lipid Metabolism: From Basic Molecular Mechanisms to Cellular Symphony

Lipids are vital for cellular functions, acting as structural components, signaling molecules, and energy sources. Their metabolism, particularly through cytochrome P450s and other oxidizing enzymes, plays a key role in inflammation and disease. This study uses biochemical, analytical, and biophysical methods to examine the metabolism of endocannabinoids and cannabinoids by membrane-bound cytochrome P450s, stabilized in nanoscale lipid bilayers (Nanodiscs). The pharmacological properties of lipid metabolites are evaluated, focusing on their impact on inflammation and pain receptor modulation. The study also explores the metabolism of minor cannabinoids like cannabinol (CBN), cannabigerol (CBG), and cannabichromene (CBC), which provide medicinal benefits without THC’s psychoactive effects. Computational modeling helps further understand binding mechanisms, and in vitro studies confirm the bioactivity of these metabolites. This integrated approach enhances our understanding of lipid metabolism and cannabinoid pharmacology, supporting the development of therapeutic strategies for pain and inflammatory diseases.

Host: Peter Kasson peter.kasson@icm.uu.se

PLOS and SciLifeLab Webinar: Navigating Open Science Policies – Practical Guidance for Researchers on Sharing Data and Software
2025-04-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Online event via Zoom
Open science policies are rapidly evolving, but many researchers find them to be vague and difficult to navigate. These policies often lack clear, actionable guidelines for how researchers can respond to requirements while ensuring they meet research community, national, and international standards. This webinar will briefly summarise the current landscape of selected open science policies. Through real-world examples from PLOS and SciLifeLab, attendees will gain practical insights into how these policies are being implemented and how to align their work with both institutional and national requirements and monitoring initiatives. The session will offer valuable tools and strategies for ensuring compliance and promoting open science practices in a way that is both manageable and impactful.

Time is in CEST

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Link to the recording on YouTube

Link to the slides on SciLifeLab Data Repository

Presenters:

Nonia Pariente, Editor-in-Chief, PLOS Biology

Agata Morka, Regional Director, Publishing Development (Europe) at PLOS

Christopher Erdmann, Head of Open Science, SciLifeLab

Co-hosts:

Parul Tewatia, Project coordinator (FAIR Metadata and Semantic Technologies), SciLifeLab

Suné Joubert, Project coordinator (Open Science Communities and Metrics), SciLifeLab

Organizers:

This event is co-hosted by SciLifeLab and PLOS.

Campus Solna Seminar Series: Karin Garefelt & Oskar Kviman
2025-04-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Milkyway SciLifeLab Solna, Tomtebodavägen 23, Solna
Welcome to join the Campus Solna Seminar Series – an initiative to promote the fantastic science ongoing at Campus Solna and hopefully forge more internal communication and collaboration between within Campus Solna. The format consists of two 20 min talks (One speaker from the Alpha-building and one from the Gamma-building respectively), with an additional 5 min of questions. Presentation of ongoing (unpublished) projects is strongly encouraged.

The seminars are held Thursdays 12:00-13:00. You can bring your lunch to the seminar.

PhD students that are attending the Campus Solna Seminar lectures will have the opportunity to gain credits. For the syllabus and instructions on how to obtain these credits, read this document. Please contact your own department at your host University to confirm.See here the full schedule for this semester.

This week:

Karin Garefelt

Anders Andersson – alpha 3

Wide-spread diel vertical migration in phytoplankton revealed by high-throughput imaging and deep-learning

Oskar Kviman

Jens Lagergren – gamma 6

When and why t-testing for differential expressions will fail in scRNA-seq, and how to solve it

This seminar series is organized by the PhD & Postdoc Council. For more information about the Council and other events check our page.

Introduction to Data Management Practices
2025-04-01 08:00 - 2025-04-03 17:00 | Air&Fire, SciLifeLab Stockholm, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna, Sweden
Introduction to Data Management Practices

National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS) gives a course in research data management practices. This workshop in Data Management with an updated curriculum is a unique event that provides an introduction to practices for better data management for PhD students, postdocs, researchers, and other employees within all Swedish universities. We also welcome applications from outside of Sweden and from the non-academic sector; for more information, contact us.

Course description

The workshop will introduce important research data management aspects through lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on computer exercises. The course is intended for researchers who want to take the first steps towards a more systematic and reproducible approach to documenting, describing and managing research data.

Topics covered will include

Open Science and FAIR in practice

Organising data, files and folders in research projects

Describing data with metadata

Documentation using Markdown

Publishing data to public data repositories

Cleaning tabular data and metadata with OpenRefine

Versioning data, documents and scripts (e.g. by using Git & GitHub)

Writing Data Management Plans

Note that the covered topics have been updated from previous course events.

Important dates and information

Workshop Dates: 2025-04-01 – 2025-04-03

Application closes: 2025-03-10

Venue: Air&Fire, Gamma-2, SciLifeLab Solna

Format: This workshop runs on-site in Solna, Stockholm. Teaching assistants and instructors will be available throughout the course to help you with exercises and questions.

Application

Course website

Course fee

The fee for this on-site training is:

2000 SEK for participants from academic institutions

9500 SEK for participants from non-academic organisations

The fee includes lunches, coffee breaks, snacks, and a course dinner.

Invoices will be sent to the participant’s organisation. If you accept a spot in the course but do not attend (no-show), the full fee will still be charged. Please note that NBIS cannot invoice individuals directly.

Entry requirements

No previous programming experience is required, but you are required to bring your own laptop with the required software pre-installed.

Certification

Participants who attend all sessions and complete the exercises will receive a certificate of participation, outlining the topics covered and the workshop duration. Please note that this course does not offer formal university credits.

Limited Spots Available

The course can accommodate a maximum of 25 participants, and applications will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Additional Information

For more details, visit the workshop website.

Pre-course Preparation:

Approximately one week before the workshop, we will host a pre-course session to help participants set up the required software on their laptops.

For any questions, feel free to contact us at edu.intro-dm [at] nbis.se.

Apply now to secure your spot in this valuable and interactive workshop!

Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data Analysis
2025-03-31 08:00 - 2025-04-03 17:00 | Online event via Zoom
National course open for PhD students, postdocs, researchers and other employees in all Swedish universities, in need of single cell RNAseq analysis skills. We also welcome applications from outside of Sweden and from the non-academic sector, for more info contact us!

Course dates: 31 March 2025 – 3 April 2025 and 10 April 2025

Important dates and information

Application opens: 2024-12-18

Application closes: 2025-02-28

Confirmation to accepted students: 2025-03-07

Course Leader and teachers: Åsa Björklund (CL), Susanne Reinsbach (CL), Jennifer Fransson (CL)

In case you miss information on any of the above dates, please contact: edu.sc [at] nbis.se

Course fee

This online training event has no fee for academic participants. However, if you accept a position at the workshop and do not participate (no-show) you will be invoiced 3000 SEK. For non-academic participants a course fee* of 12000 SEK will be invoiced.

*Please note that NBIS cannot invoice individuals

Register here

Course content

This workshop will introduce the best practice bioinformatics methods for analysing single cell RNA-seq data via a series of lectures and computer practicals. The total course duration is 5 days which includes 4 days of lectures and exercises followed by a “Bring Your Own Data” (BYOD) day where you get to practice your skills on a dataset of your choosing. Please note that the BYOD section will take place the week after the lectures.

Topics covered will include:

Overview of the current scRNAseq technologies

Basic overview of pipelines for processing raw reads into expression values

Quality control and normalization

Dimensionality reduction techniques

Data integration and batch correction

Differential gene expression

Clustering techniques

Cell type prediction

Trajectory inference analysis

Comparison of Seurat, Bioconductor and Scanpy toolkits

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to run analysis on your own data, select appropriate analysis methods and interpret the results.

Entry requirements

The following is a list of skills required for being able to follow the course and complete the exercises:

You are familiar with basic UNIX command line (bash)

You are familiar with either R and/or Python

You already understand the basics of NGS technologies

You are familiar with analyses of bulk RNA-sequencing data

You have full access to your computer (admin permissions). Instructions on installation will be sent by email to accepted participants.

The course accommodates a maximum of 25 participants. If we receive more applications, participants will be selected based on selection criteria, including (but not limited to) correct entry requirements, motivation to attend the course, as well as gender and geographical balance.

Contact

education@nbis.se

SciLifeLab Lund Seminar Series | LBIC
2025-03-26 15:00 - 16:00 | Belfragesalen, BMC D15, Klinikgatan 32, Lund, Sweden
Welcome to the SciLifeLab Lund seminar series!

These seminars are designed to highlight SciLifeLab Lund, our cutting-edge research infrastructure, and the diverse resources available to the scientific community.

In the 6th seminar, we will have a look into the Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC), an infrastructure within the Medical Faculty at Lund University, housing a large variety of advanced imaging equipment and cutting-edge bioimaging techniques ranging from micro to macro.

The session will begin with an overview of LBIC and its advanced capabilities, followed by a user presentation showcasing a project that leveraged the unit’s expertise to achieve impactful results.

Please note that the seminars are site only but the recordings are available HERE.

Registration

Register for the next seminars!

23rd April 2025 | Lund Protein Production Platform

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28th May 2025 | National Bioinformatics Infrastructure (NBIS)

Register Seminar May

18th June | Structural Proteomics

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Making toxicology tools more accessible and interoperable
2025-03-26 11:00 - 2025-03-27 15:00 | BMC Trippelrummet, Husargatan 3, entrance C11, Uppsala, Sweden
This workshop (for up to 40 participants) is a face-to-face, free-of-charge hands-on workshop, organised in the context of the first implementation study (INTOXICOM) of the ELIXIR Toxicology Community. See the ELIXIR Toxicology Community Whitepaper for more in-depth information about the community’s goals.

Several projects, such as NanoSolveIT, ONTOX, and VHP4Safety, already make computational toxicology services available. In this workshop, we will cover various aspects of making computational tools available and how they are used.

The first session will focus on what tools currently exist and how they relate to ELIXIR Europe. This session will be user-centric and will give an overview of what is available and how ELIXIR solutions like FAIRsharing and bio.tools can be used to find tools and what information about the tools they provide.

The first day continues with a session bridging data with the tools. This session is user-centric with experimental toxicologists, explaining how their data can integrate with these computational tools. For example, how data hosted on Figshare can be used in tools, or how computational workflows can bridge data repositories with computational tools.

The second day continues with a session on how computational tools can address data gaps and enhance experimental toxicology data. Topics in this session are expected to explain how computational solutions help give biological and toxicological context, how AI is used for predictions, and how large language models may help with literature research.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Toxicologists who are interested in learning more about computational toxicology and how it can be used for and with their experimental data.

WHEN

Day 1: Wednesday 26.03. from 11h to 18h & subsequent social dinner

Day 2: Thursday 27.03. from 9h to 15h

WHERE

BMC TrippelrummetHusargatan 3, entrance C11751 22 Uppsala

Read more and join the workshop

CONTACT INFO

This workshop is organised by:

Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University, Netherlands, egon.willighagen@maastrichtuniversity.nl)

Ola Spjuth (Uppsala University, Sweden, ola.spjuth@uu.se)

Antreas Afantitis (Cypress)

Andreas Tsoumanis (Greece)

Umeå seminar series: Powder X-ray diffraction in geochemical, environmental, and energy sciences
2025-03-25 12:00 - 13:00 | KBC Building, Linneaus Väg 6, Umeå, Sweden
“Powder X-ray diffraction in geochemical, environmental, and energy sciences – identifying and quantifying crystalline structures using the MAXS platform”Speaker: Nils Skoglund, MAXS platform manager and Associate Professor at Thermochemical Energy Conversion Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics, Umeå University.

Target audience: PhD students, post-docs and PIs working with solid samples related to geology, sediments, environment, or energy sciences.

Platform’s webpage: Multi-purpose Adaptive X-ray Scattering platform (MAXS)

Registration: Sign up for the IRL seminar and reserve your free lunch (salad, drink, and little sweet snack) by Friday, 21 March, 12:00, or follow online (registration is not required):Meeting URL: https://umu.zoom.us/j/69390567429

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SciLifeLab Site Umeå/KBC Infrastructure Seminar Series

This event is part of the SciLifeLab site Umeå/KBC Infrastructure Seminar series, for future events in spring 2025, check the seminar series home page.

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Introduction to bioinformatics using NGS data
2025-03-24 08:00 - 2025-03-28 17:00 | Online event via Zoom
National workshop for PhD students, postdocs, researchers, and other employees within Swedish academia, introducing the analysis of next generation sequencing data.

Responsible teachers: Malin Larsson, Martin Dahlö, Roy Francis

Contact information: edu.intro-ngs@nbis.se

Important dates

Application opens: 13-Jan-2025

Application closes: 23-Feb-2025

Confirmation to accepted students: Week 9, 2025

Course fee

This online training event is subsidized by academic grants and thereby free of charge for academic participants. The fee for non-academic participants is 12 000 SEK.

Non-show fee: If you accept a position at the workshop but fail to attend without a valid reason (sickness or urgent family matter), you will be liable for a now-show fee of 3000 SEK (for academic participants) or the full fee (for non-academic participants).

Please note that NBIS cannot invoice individuals.

Apply here

Course description

This intense one-week workshop provides an introduction to the analysis of next generation sequencing data. Lectures on the theory of concepts will be paired with practical computational exercises in the Linux environment. The practical exercises will focus on data from the Illumina platform, but we will discuss other sequencing platforms and the advantages and challenges to using their data during the lectures.

Course content

Briefly, the workshop covers the followings major topics:

● Working on the UNIX/LINUX command line

● Bioinformatic/NGS data formats and QC

● DNA variant calling workflow essentials

● RNA sequence analysis workflow essentials

Learning outcomes

After this workshop you should be able to:

● Describe the basic principles of next generation sequencing.

● Use the Linux command line interface to manage simple file processing operations, and organise directory structures.

● Connect to and work on a remote high performance compute cluster.

● Apply programs in Linux for analysis of NGS data.

● Summarise the applications of current NGS technologies, including the weakness and strengths of the approaches and when it is appropriate to use which one of them.

● Explain common NGS file formats.

● Interpret quality control of NGS reads.

● Explain the steps involved in variant calling using whole genome sequencing data.

● Independently perform a basic variant calling workflow on example data.

● Demonstrate hands-on experience with handling raw RNA sequencing data, QC and quantification of gene expression.

● Explain the steps involved in differential gene expression using RNA seq data.

Entry requirements

To be able to follow the workshop you need to:

BYOL, bring your own laptop configured according to precourse instructions.

Have a background in genetics, cell biology, biomedicine, biochemistry, bioinformatics or comparable.

To get the maximum benefit from the workshop you should:

Have a research project where you are currently using or are planning to use next generation sequencing.

Selection criteria

If we receive more applications than we have seats in the course, participants will be selected based on several criteria. Selection criteria include correct entry requirements, motivation to attend the workshop as well as gender and geographical balance. Priority is given to PhD scholars followed by other researchers, and we will prioritise applications from Swedish academia.

Precision phenotyping in dilated cardiomyopathy
2025-03-21 09:00 - 09:40 | Online event via Zoom
Charlotta Ljungman, Senior consultant

This Clinical talks has been rescheduled – from February 28 to March 21. Any prior registrations remains valid.

Charlotta Ljungman is senior consultant and associate professor in cardiology working at Sahlgrenska University Gothenburg.

Her research involves aspects of heart failure and cardiomyopathy and she is the founder of Sahlgrenska Cardiomyopathy Center. She is also the chair of the Swedish heart failure registry (Swede-HF)

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Abstract

Precision phenotyping has been suggested to find new subtypes and biomarkers in heart failure and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), the most common cardiomyopathy, and were the cause in 50% of the cases is unknown. Therefore, the aim of this project is to combine proteomics and metabolomics to:

Understand cardiac energy metabolism in heart failure and DCM.

Find subtypes and biomarkers by multimodal precision phenotyping with proteomics and integration of data

Once established, the precision phenotyping approach may allow identification of patients/subtypes at greatest risk, find new biomarkers and allow intervention and personalized follow-up of high-risk individuals.

The aim will be achieved by investigating cardiac energy metabolism (uptake and release) and proteomic profile in relation to cardiac function at rest and during exercise, in patients in comparison to healthy controls. Patients undergoing right heart catheterization (RHC) with the diagnosis of heart failure and DCM without metabolic disease are included in a prospective mechanistic case control study of cardiac energetics; the MEtabolic CHAracterization of patients with Dilated cardiomyopathy (MECHAD) study. Age and sex matched controls without heart failure undergoing electrophysiological examination are included. Arterial blood supply tissues and organs with oxygen and metabolites for energy and venous blood carry the metabolic by-products and carbon oxide from tissues and organs. This allows to calculate uptake and release of metabolites and oxygen through arteriovenous approach by simultaneous sampling in artery (to the heart) and the coronary sinus (from the heart) when performing RHC and calculate cardiac energy metabolism and collect samples for proteomics profiling. Patients undergo clinical examinations including medical history, alcohol use disorders identification test, Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire, ECG, blood pressure, Transthoracical echocardiography (TTE) and Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET). All patients are followed for 12 months.

Clinical Talks returns with a new season!

After seven successful seasons and over seventy dedicated speakers, we are excited to continue showcasing the contributions of our diverse clinical, academic, and industry Life Science community. This season will feature ten insightful talks, following our well-established format.

The overarching theme is “How to Achieve Feasible Implementation.” Sessions will be held monthly on Fridays from 09:00 to 09:30 am via Zoom, with occasional exceptions. Each talk will be followed by an engaging Q&A session, moderated by standing host Rikard Fred, alongside a guest moderator with subject matter expertise to enrich the discussion.

In today’s rapidly evolving post-pandemic landscape, it is crucial to explore how academic, clinical, and industry research—combined with technological advancements—can drive practical and sustainable solutions. Join us for an opportunity to gain fresh insights, expand your knowledge, and connect with experts shaping the future of Life Sciences!

Clinical Talks are organized by the SciLifeLab’s Precision Medicine Capability

Campus Solna Seminar Series: Ioannis Siavelis & Yongyue Qian
2025-03-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Milkyway SciLifeLab Solna, Tomtebodavägen 23, Solna
Welcome to join the Campus Solna Seminar Series – an initiative to promote the fantastic science ongoing at Campus Solna and hopefully forge more internal communication and collaboration between within Campus Solna. The format consists of two 20 min talks (One speaker from the Alpha-building and one from the Gamma-building respectively), with an additional 5 min of questions. Presentation of ongoing (unpublished) projects is strongly encouraged.

The seminars are held Thursdays 12:00-13:00. You can bring your lunch to the seminar.

PhD students that are attending the Campus Solna Seminar lectures will have the opportunity to gain credits. For the syllabus and instructions on how to obtain these credits, read this document. Please contact your own department at your host University to confirm.See here the full schedule for this semester.

This week:

Ioannis Siavelis

Janne Lehtiö – alpha 1

Investigation of mass spectrometry-based prognostic and predictive biomarkers in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Yongyue Qian

Ilaria Testa – gamma 3

Rotational diffusivity measurement of large biological complexes using wide-field STARSS

This seminar series is organized by the PhD & Postdoc Council. For more information about the Council and other events check our page.

Current Trends in Applied Mass Spectrometry
2025-03-19 09:00 - 2025-03-20 16:30 | KBC Building Umeå, Linneaus Väg 6, Umeå
This event is a forum where people from industry, academia and research infrastructures can meet and discuss the latest developments in Applied Mass Spectrometry. The event consists of several workshops, a conference and a fair where leading companies in the field will present their latest analytical applications and technologies.This event includes a workshop day on 19 March and a conference and a fair on 20 March. The event ends with a dinner on 20 March.

Important dates:

Monday, 3 March at 23:59 – registration deadline for the Workshops on 19 March

Thursday, 6 March at 23:59 – registration deadline for the Conference and Fair on 20 March.

After 6 March, you can register for the conference, but not for the lunch.

OrganizersThe event is organized by the Swedish Mass Spectrometry Society (SMSS), the Swedish Metabolomics Centre (SMC), and SciLifeLab in collaboration with the Mass Spectrometry Network Umeå and the participating companies. The KBC Communications Office and Umeå University Library provide organisational support.

DDLS Research School Annual Meeting
2025-03-18 15:00 - 2025-03-21 14:00 | Djurönäset, Seregårdsvägen 1, Djurhamn
The first DDLS Research School Annual Meeting for PhDs and PIs, including DDLS fellows. This meeting is by invitation only. DDLS PhD students are invited to participate the entire duration of the meeting (18-21 March), while their supervisors are invited to participate 18-19 March (afternoon-to-lunch)

Program

Tuesday March 18:

14:30-15:30Registration and coffeeLilla Kongressen15:30-16:30Welcome and introduction to the DDLS Research SchoolLilla Kongressen16:30-17:15– PIs: meeting with DDLS Research School Directors – PhD students: group activity– Room 7E – Lilla Kongressen17:30-18:3017:30-19:00– PIs: questions and answers with DDLS RS Directors – PhD students: Social activity – Lilla Kongressen– House 9, Stora Kongressen19:00Welcome drinkLobby, main building19:30DinnerRestaurant, main building

Wednesday March 19:

07:00 Breakfast opens08:30-10:10PI presentations: CMB & EBI Stora Kongressen10:10-10:40Coffee with Group PhotoStora Kongressen10:40-12:30PI presentations: EB & PMD Stora Kongressen12:45– Lunch – Set up your poster in Stora KongressenMain building13:45Bus departure for PIs Outside main building14:00-16:30 Workshop led by Maja Neiman, SwedenBioStora Kongressen16:30-18:30Poster session with refreshmentsStora Kongressen19:00 Dinner Restaurant, main building

Thursday March 20:

08:30-17:00Course: Open science in the Swedish contextLilla Kongressen11:30LunchRestaurant, main building17:00-18:30Free time18:30 Dinner Restaurant, main building20:00 Music quiz House 9, Bar

Friday March 21:

09:00-10:00Introduction to upcoming DDLS Research School coursesLilla Kongressen10:00-10:30CoffeeLilla Kongressen10:30-11:30Group work: future courses in the DDLS Research SchoolLilla Kongressen11:30-12:00Summary of the Annual Meeting [RS directors]Lilla Kongressen12:00 Lunch. Annual Meeting ends.Restaurant, main building13:15 Bus departureOutside main building

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Details regarding bus transfer will be sent by email to those who have signed up for bus in their registration

18 March Bus from Uppsala at 13:15from Stockholm at 13:00

19 March From Djurönäset to Stockholm and Uppsala 13:45

21 March From Djurönäset to Stockholm and Uppsala 13:15

Advancing biomarker discovery with innovative omics technologies
2025-03-18 13:00 - 15:00 | Birgit Thilander Lecture Hall, Medicinaregatan 3, Göteborg
Takara Bio Europe, in collaboration with Clinical Genomics Gothenburg, invites you to explore their latest NGS technologies, enjoy insightful talks from guest speakers, and discover how their innovations are driving cutting-edge research!

Agenda and speakers

Dr Joan Camuñas-SolerAssistant Professor, Dept. of Medical Biochemistry & Cell Biology, WallenbergCenter for Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Gothenburg• Predictive RNA profiles for lung involvement in systemic sclerosis

Dr Florian PaaschNGS Sales Specialist, Takara Bio Europe• Total RNA-seq from clinical samples

Dr Matthieu PesantSr Market Strategy Manager, Translational Genomics, Takara Bio Europe• New single-cell omics technologies for biomarker discovery• Enabling long-read mRNA-seq for biomarker discovery using limited clinical sample inputs

Registration

Register here: Takara Bio | NGS Innovation TourOnline participation via Teams is possible. Please, contact Beatrice Westman (beatrice_westman@takarabio.com) for the link.

PULSE Challenge: Selection and screening of antibody based drugs
2025-03-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Online event via Zoom
This presentation will provide an overview of the selection and screening processes, as well as future challenges for antibody-based drugs. It will be exemplified with data from one of Alligator Bioscience’s bispecific antibody drug candidates, ATOR-4066. ATOR-4066 is a novel bispecific antibody constructed in the RUBY™ format using Alligator Bioscience’s Neo-X-Prime platform. It targets the tumor-associated antigen CEA (CEACAM5) on tumor cells and CD40 on myeloid cells. ATOR-4066 is designed to induce efficient CEA-conditional activation of myeloid cells, facilitate the uptake of neoantigen-containing tumor-derived material, and subsequently drive the cross-priming of tumor-specific T cells, resulting in long-lasting anti-tumor activity.

The seminar series PULSE Challenge is connected to the MSCA co-funded* postdoctoral program SciLifeLab PULSE, that will train 48 future leaders in life sciences. The program focuses on innovative, fundamental and translational research carried out in supportive and diverse academic and industrial environments, preparing postdocs with necessary skills for long-term career sustainability. Click HERE to find out more about SciLifeLab PULSE

On-line event via Zoom

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Presenter: Dr Peter Ellmark, PhDChief Scientific OfficerAlligator bioscience, Lund, Sweden

Abstract:Antibody-based drugs have revolutionized the treatment landscape for numerous serious conditions, with a global market size exceeding $250 billion. The success of these drugs can be attributed to their high specificity and versatility. Critical to the successful development of antibody-based drugs is the appropriate selection and screening methodology, which ensures that drug candidates meet all key criteria for successful development.

A short speaker biography:Peter Ellmark joined Alligator Bioscience in 2008 and serves as Chief Scientist. He holds a PhD and an adjunct professorship in Immunotechnology at Lund University and has more than 20 years’ experience of developing antibodies for immunotherapy of cancer. Dr. Ellmark´s research interest is focused on developing mono- and bispecific antibodies, in particular CD40 and 4-1BB targeting therapies, for tumor directed immunotherapy of cancer.
