Events, seminars and symposia
Bringing life science professionals together and furthering skills in the scientific community are in SciLifeLab’s DNA. Our many events spanning a wide range of topics, present opportunities to develop your know-how and share your own experiences and network – sparking new ideas, as well as new collaborations. All events are free and open to everyone (unless otherwise stated), and we warmly welcome participants from industry, academia, healthcare, and beyond.
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[Clinical Talks]Seeing is believing, unraveling the discovery of a centimeter-long macro-bacteria
On April 8, Dr. Jean-Marie Volland, Scientist at Berkeley Lab and Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems (LRC Systems), and Shailesh Date, CEO of LRC Systems (Adj. Assoc. Professor at UCSF),will talk about their recent discovery and characterization of the macro-bacteria Ca. Thiomargarita magnifica. The threadlike single-cell bacterium, commonly found in the Caribbean Mangroves, is […]
Decreased levels of oxygen radicals cause autoimmune disease.
Prof. Rikard Holmdahl from Karolinska Institute will talk about Finding and understanding genes associated with common diseases; decreased levels of oxygen radicals cause autoimmune disease
γδSTO workshop – Mini-symposium of Stockholm’s γδ T cell community
A workshop on the May 5, on gamma delta T cells for our scientific community in Stockholm. Different labs from SciLifeLab, KI (Solna and Fleminsberg) and Stockholm University are invited. Program: 13:15 / Introduction Taras Kreslavskiy(KI): Transcriptome-wide screen for γδTCR specificities identifies a novel superantigen-like ligand candidate for Vγ7 γδTCRs Lola Boutin (KI): Evaluation of […]
SciLifeLab COVID-19 seminar: Jinal Bhiman and Vicent Pelechano
The second SciLifeLab COVID-19 seminar this spring starts with Jinal Bhiman, PhD and Scientific lead for the Global Immunology and Immune Sequencing South Africa (GIISER-SA), talking about SARS-CoV-2 viral evolution in South Africa and hybrid immunity profiles. Vicent Pelechano, PhD, SciLifeLab and Wallenberg Academy Fellow and Principal Researcher at Karolinska Institutet, then continues the seminar with his talk on Development of LAMP-based point of care strategies for simplified SARS-CoV-2 detection
Campus Solna Seminar – Martin Kosar and Ryan Hull
Welcome to 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 the alpha and gamma buildings. The format will be 2 short 15 min talks (1 speaker from alpha and 1 from gamma), with an additional 5 min […]
WGS & WTS – gamechangers in AML and ALL diagnostics
Speaker: Manja Meggendorfer, Head of Molecular Genetics at MLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory The webinar is jointly organized by the Unit of Clinical Genetics at the Department of Molecular Medicine, KI, the Clinical Genomics platform and Genomic Medicine Sweden.
Campus Solna Seminars
Welcome to 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 the alpha and gamma buildings. The format will be 2 short 15 min talks (1 speaker from alpha and 1 from gamma), with an additional 5 min […]
Career in Life Science – MTLS Networking Event
The MTLS Alumni Network is a student-led initiative to connect current students and alumni of the Joint Master’s Programme in Molecular Techniques in Life Science (MTLS). The programme was created through a collaboration between Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm University, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Launched in 2015, it has since reached a network of over 150 alumni and 60 current students. At […]
FAIRPoints-Things you need to know about Data Access Statements
FAIRPoints is an event series bringing together people across the research ecosystem to discuss, highlight, and share pragmatic solutions to making FAIR a reality
[Clinical Talks] Introduction to AI-driven image analysis in pathology: from preclinical research to clinical diagnostics
Dr. Sami Blom leads Aiforia’s application development team with an ambition to build impactful image analysis solutions to advance histopathology. He has a background in the fields of translational cancer research and pathology and he has extensive expertise in staining and imaging methods for histology specimens. Dr. Blom joined Aiforia in 2016 to develop and […]
NBIS/ELIXIR-SE Tools for Reproducible Research – ONLINE
This course is open for PhD students, postdocs, group leaders and core facility staff interested in making their computational analysis more reproducible.