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SciLifeLab Infrastructure Day site Umeå
2026-05-11 08:30 - 17:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Rotundan, Umeå University, Universums Gränd 4, Umeå, Sweden
Join us! 11 May

Welcome to Infrastructure Day, hosted by SciLifeLab Umeå. We bring together research infrastructures from Umeå University’s Faculties of Science and Technology and Medicine, as well as SLU and the University Hospital, to connect with researchers, explore cutting-edge technologies, share expertise, and strengthen collaboration in northern Sweden

About the event

A full-day gathering for all scientists to explore research infrastructure opportunities, share expertise, and connect across Umeå’s life science. Learn more about national research infrastructures and the SciLifeLab platforms across Sweden, through personal meetings with our local staff scientists. Be part of collaboration with research infrastructures and SciLifeLab capabilities to drive life science in Sweden.

Event highlights include:Future outlook of SciLifeLab site Umeå Presentations from national and local research infrastructure unitsFocus on bridging science and technology developmentData managment pannel discussionInfrastructure poster exhibitions, mingling and engaging infrastructure presentations

Registration

Registration

Registration deadline: April 27, 2026

This event is free of charge, but please note that a fee of 500 SEK will be charged in case of no-shows without prior notice.For those who wish to present posters, any costs related to poster board hire may be charged if the poster board is left empty on the day of the event.

SciLifeLab Uppsala Spring Mini-Symposium
2026-05-11 12:00 - 16:00 | Navet, SciLifeLab Uppsala, SciLifeLab Uppsala, BMC C11, Husargatan 3, Uppsala, 75237, Sweden
Dynamic Landscapes: Mapping Interactions from Molecules to Ecosystems

We’re thrilled to invite you to our second SciLifeLab Uppsala Spring Mini-Symposium in Navet, BMC, on the 11th of May.

A half-day meeting dedicated to inspiring scientific talks, meaningful interactions, and collaborative discussions. (Spots are limited to 90p.)

PhD students and postdocs are especially encouraged to attend and present their work – it’s an excellent opportunity to expand your network and spark future collaborations!

EVENT TIME & DATE: 11th of May 2026, 12:00 – 16:00 with mingle and poster session afterwards.

ORGANIZER: SciLifeLab and DDLS Fellow and Alumni groups

Program

12:00-12:45Network Lunch12:45-14:15Session 1: Cellular & Molecular LandscapesBurçin Yildirim (James lab)Ioanna Tsiara (Globisch lab)Paarkavi Udayakumar (Teleki lab)Maria Letizia Di Martino (Sellin lab)Aline Pfefferle (new SciLifeLab fellow)14:15-14:45Coffee break14:45-16:00Session 2: Environmental & Evolutionary LandscapesIoannis Mystakidis (Tarbier lab)Pascal Milesi (SciLifeLab fellow)Elena Quintero (Braga lab, SLU)Ezgi Mehmetoglu (Lundberg lab, SLU)Flash talks16:00-17:00Poster session and mingle

Registration

The seats are limited to 92p.

The registration will close on April 28. Please respect the deadline. After the deadline, we can not accommodate any special food requirements and the order for catering is fixed.

Waiting list: If we reach full capacity, a waiting list will be activated. Sign up for the waiting list, and you will automatically receive an email when a spot becomes available. You must accept to secure the spot. If you decline, the offer will go to the next person on the waiting list.

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MINFLUX - nanoscale fluorescence microscopy and novel applications
2026-05-13 09:00 - 15:00 | Air&Fire, SciLifeLab Stockholm, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna, Sweden
If you are interested in the latest nanoscale fluorescence microscopy technology and its novel applications please join our MINFLUX symposium at SciLifeLab Campus Solna.

Register by sending an e-mail to hans.blom@scilifelab.se by May 6th at the latest.

DDLS seminars at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
2026-05-18 09:00 - 12:00 | Online event via Zoom
9.00 Tobias Baril, Transposable Elements: Genome parasites, or genome architects?

9.30 Fernando Domingues Tria, From Gene Filtering to Gene Integration in Phylogenomics

10.00 Coffee break

10.30 Zhen Li, The evolutionary logic of gene loss

11.00 Bethany Allen, How has biodiversity changed over deep time?

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Workshop om Kostnadsmodeller för Forskningsinfrastruktur
2026-05-20 13:00 - 16:00 | Online event via Zoom
Inom ramen för projektet “Stärkt konkurrenskraft med ökad tillgång för näringslivet till SciLifeLabs forskningsinfrastruktur” arrangerar vi en workshop som adresserar hur man kan göra beräkningar av avgifter för forskingsinfrastruktur genemot olika användare.

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läs mer om projektet

Workshopen håll på svenska och är öppen för alla som är intresserade men vänder sig i första hand till:*ekonomer/controller på universitet som arbetar med forskningsinfrastruktur och kostnadsberäkningar för dessa*enhetschefer i forskningsinfrastruktur*andra forskningsinfrastruktur-ansvariga

Möjlighet att meddela frågor du vill att vi adresserar under workshopen finns i anmälan.

The workshop will be held in Swedish.

Program

13:00, Introduktion, Josefin Lundgren Gawell, Per Lek (SciLifeLab)Inledning som beskriver SciLifeLabs forskningsinfrastruktur, industri användning och det Vinnova finansierade projektet “SciLifeLab Industry Access”.

Gruppdiskussion

Att ta betalt för forskningsinfrastruktur, Victoria Nuth, Cecilia Carlson (Statskontoret)Statskontoret (tidigare Ekonomistyrningsverket, ESV) lämnade år 2020 förslag till regeringen om att universitet och högskolor skulle få ett särskilt bemyndigande för att ta ut avgifter för att tillhandahålla forskningsinfrastruktur. Förordningen om avgifter för forskningsinfrastruktur överensstämmer i stora delar med förslaget. Statskontoret redogör för förslaget som lämnades, hur vi kom fram till det och för det generella regelverket för avgifter.

ca 14:00 PAUS

Redogörelse av erfarenheter från SESAM projektet, Anders Berntson (RISE)

Genomgång hur man kan göra sin kostnadsberäkning, Maria Östman (KTH), Anna Lidin (UU)Presentation om KTH:s erfarenheter och arbete med att implementera förordningen om avgifter för forskningsinfrastruktur. KTH;s arbete och centrala stöd för kalkylering av kostnader och beräkning av pris.

ca 15:00 PAUS

Gruppdiskussion

Frågor & svar

Summering & avslut t.o.m. 16:00

Kontakt

Josefin Lundgren Gawell

Per Lek

Campus Solna Seminar Series: Jeremie Charbord & Fei Luo
2026-05-21 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:

Jeremie Charbord

Stefania Giacomello – alpha 3

Differential age- and domain-specific brain responses and recovery in spaceflight-exposed mice

Fei Luo

Lukas Käll – gamma 6

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

CSI Seminar - Organizational Culture: Shaping a workplace where people thrive
2026-05-21 14:30 - 15:00 | Gamma 2 Lunchroom, SciLifeLab, Tomtebodavägen 23, Solna, Sweden
Organizational culture underpins every workplace, and guides how members of an organization interact, work, and make decisions, through the shared set of values, beliefs, behaviors, and norms that they uphold. This culture can be created through leadership, at all levels, decision-making processes, communication styles, symbols, and behavioral norms, and has significant influence on employee well-being, satisfaction, and retention, and the overall alignment of the organization.

We will discuss: How can organizational culture produce positive or negative working environments? How can we create an organizational culture that allows all members to thrive and do productive work? Whether you’re a student, researcher, faculty member, or simply interested in understanding more, you are warmly invited to join this conversation.

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?

Precision Oral Care Through Genomic Dentistry
2026-05-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Online event via Zoom
Clinical Genomics Webinar Series

Clinical Genomics Umeå is hosting this webinar as part of the Clinical Genomics Platform webinar series

Redefining Chronic Disease Through Genomics and Multi-Omics: Insights from Dental Caries and Precision Dentistry

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This seminar will present a translational framework integrating clinical cohorts, genomics, and multi-omics to redefine dental caries as a biologically stratified disease.Three prospective studies will be highlighted: a birth cohort (mother–father–child), an adolescent case–referent cohort with 5-year longitudinal follow-up, and an intervention study (n≈500 each).The genomic strategy integrates host and microbial variation to resolve distinct disease pathways. Host stratification based on PRH1, PRH2, and DMBT1–CNV identifies discrete 2- and 3-gene susceptibility profiles that quantitatively predict caries progression. In parallel, genomic variation in surface adhesins and housekeeping genes of Streptococcus mutans reveals high-virulence strains capable of driving disease in genetically non-susceptible individuals, demonstrating independent microbial risk trajectories.Multi-omics analyses, including inflammatory profiling (Olink) and metabolomics of short-chain fatty acids (LC–MS), further define the 3-gene susceptibility profile as a distinct inflammatory caries type.Together, these findings support a shift from descriptive to mechanism-based risk assessment, establishing biologically defined risk groups with predictive value for disease progression. This provides a foundation for precision dentistry through targeted, cost-effective prevention. The seminar will also address key challenges in validating and implementing host–microbe signatures in clinical practice.

Everyone is welcome so feel free to spread the details with anyone who may be interested. Hope to see you there!

Host: Linda Köhn, Head of Unit, Clinical Genomics Umeå

Invited speaker: Nicklas StrömbergDepartment of Odontology, Faculty of Medicine, Umeå University

Making Sense of AI: Foundations and Practical Realities
2026-05-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Online event via Zoom
Eric Dexter

NBIS and SciLifeLab Data Centre arrange an open SciLifeLab AI Seminar Series aimed at knowledge-sharing about Artificial Intelligence and applications in the Life Science community. The seminar series is open to everyone. The seminar is run over Zoom on the third Friday of the month during academic terms, typically between 10 and 11 am, with approx. 45 min presentation and 15 min discussion.

When: May 22, 10:00-11:00

Where: Zoom http://meet.nbis.se/ainw

Speaker: Eric Dexter, Dexter Precision Analytics.

Read more about the speaker here .

Abstract

The rapid spread of AI models, especially large language models (LLMs), has put many researchers and institutions in an awkward position: making consequential decisions about fast-moving technologies. This talk is about identifying and closing knowledge gaps to support better decision making around AI implementation. It covers the fundamentals of AI literacy needed to participate meaningfully in decisions about these tools, with the recognition that different roles, whether user, decision-maker, or engineer, call for different depths of understanding. Working through key vocabulary and the basics of how LLMs actually behave, including hallucinations, model bias, and the rise of agentic systems built on top of them, the talk lays out a practical framework for getting started with LLMs at the institutional level. We will look at common failure modes that lead to wasted effort or poorly scoped projects, how to design pilot initiatives that produce useful information rather than just enthusiasm, and how to build reproducible workflows that hold up to scientific scrutiny.

To stay updated, you can join our email list by contacting ai-network@scilifelab.se.

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Challenges in GPCR Drug Discovery
2026-05-26 09:00 - 17:00 | AstraZeneca (KC Reception), Pepparedsleden 1, Mölndal, Sweden
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest protein family encoded by the human genome and one of the key targets for therapeutic approaches across many disease areas. However, only around 25% of the druggable GPCRs have been tapped into. This presents a significant opportunity to develop novel medicines with high therapeutic impact for the GPCR class in numerous indications.

The Challenges in GPCR drug discovery workshop is co-organized by Gothenburg University, Uppsala University, and AstraZeneca to explore the latest advancements in GPCR drug discovery research. Our aim is to bring together renowned international experts from industry, biotech, academia and service providers to facilitate communication between scientific groups and research areas within GPCR drug discovery community. The workshop focusses on lead-generation aspects such as, computational approaches, structural biology and pharmacology in early drug discovery of GPCRs. We believe this will lead to uncovering common challenges and finding new innovative approaches to drug discovery for GPCRs, and further strengthen the GPCR community in the Nordics.

The workshop has a maximum of 90 attendants generating an informal atmosphere encouraging discussions, networking and information exchange. Participants are encouraged to submit poster abstracts. Registration deadline is 27th of April. Due to the limited number of seats, with over-subscription the organizing committee will maintain the right to select participants on the basis of fit to the program, participants with a poster contribution will be prioritized, otherwise selections in order of registration.

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Venue

AstraZeneca Gothenburg, Pepparedsleden 1, 431 53, MölndalParticipants are welcomed to report at the reception at the main entrance (KC)

Confirmed Speakers

Martin Gustavsson, Copenhagen University

Elisabeth Rexen Ulven, Copenhagen University

Alexander Hauser, Copenhagen University

Janosch Ehrenmann, LeadXpro

Andreas Kiessling, Cube-Biotech

Madan Babu, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Gunnar Schulte, Karolinska Institutet

Tore Bengtsson, Atrogi

Organizing committee

Linda Johansson, Gothenburg University

Jens Carlsson, Uppsala University

Arjan Snijder, AstraZeneca

This workshop is sponsored by: Cube Biotech

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Nutrient regulation of senescence and age reversal
2026-05-26 15:15 - 16:15 | Air&Fire, SciLifeLab Stockholm, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna, Sweden
Professor Adam Antebi, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, University of Cologne, Germany

Abstract

Biography

Prof. Antebi received his PhD in Biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and performed his post-doctoral studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is currently one of the founding Directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany. Dr Antebi’s work has focused on dietary, metabolic and endocrine regulation of longevity from worms to vertebrates. His research seeks to decipher convergent mechanisms of longevity across pathways and evolution, using molecular and systems approaches.

Host: Per Ljungdahl per.ljungdahl@scilifelab.se

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Umeå seminar series:"C-Trap: combined optical tweezers, confocal microscopy and microfluidics for the study of single-molecule dynamics and mechanics"
2026-05-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Glasburen Seminar Room, Chemical Biological Centre (KBC) Building, Umeå University, Umeå, 901 87, Sweden
Presenter: Rubén Casanova-Sáez, Manager of the C-trap Facility, Department of Plant Physiology (UPSC)

The C-Trap facility at KBC provides access to a dual-trap C-Trap Dymo 300 system, an integrated platform that combines optical tweezers, multichannel microfluidics, and fluorescence microscopy. This unique setup enables simultaneous manipulation, visualization, and force measurement of biomolecules with sub-nanometer spatial precision and sub-millisecond temporal resolution. Based on highly focused laser beams, optical tweezers can trap and control microscopic particles, allowing precise application and detection of forces in the picoNewton range at the single-molecule level.The facility supports real-time investigations of biomolecular interactions under near-physiological conditions, including DNA–protein and RNA–protein binding, protein folding, and conformational dynamics. Integration with confocal fluorescence microscopy enables direct observation of molecular events such as binding, translocation, and structural changes, while the microfluidics system allows rapid exchange of reagents and environmental conditions during experiments. This correlative approach provides simultaneous access to mechanical and biochemical information within a single experiment, overcoming limitations of traditional bulk assays that average out heterogeneous or transient behaviors.In this seminar, I will introduce the C-Trap instrument and its capabilities, outline the support available to facility users, and present selected examples of research enabled by the C-Trap.Learn more about the C-Trap Facility at UMU: https://www.umu.se/en/research/infrastructure/c-trap-facility/

Registration: Sign up for the IRL seminar and reserve your free lunch by Monday, 25 May 10:00, or follow online (registration is not required):Zoom link: https://umu.zoom.us/j/61307079123Meeting ID: 613 0707 9123

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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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Campus Solna Seminar Series: Ana Agostinho & Alexandra Johannesson
2026-05-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Becquerel, SciLifeLab, 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:

Ana Agostinho

Hans Blom – gamma 3

Super resolution fluorescence microscopy support

Alexandra Johannesson

Emma Lundberg – alpha

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

[The Svedberg seminar] - Unraveling the mechanisms of seasonal and lunar rhythms in vertebrates
2026-05-29 15:15 - 16:15 | BMC Room C8:301, Husargatan 3, Uppsala, Sweden
Takashi Yoshimura

Professor Nagoya University, Japan

Bio

Takashi Yoshimura received his PhD from Nagoya University in 1999. He is currently a Professor at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM) and the Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences at Nagoya University.

Research in the Yoshimura laboratory focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms of biological clocks in vertebrates. The uniqueness of his research lies in the use of wide range of vertebrate species, including Japanese quail, chicken, hamster, mouse, macaque, medaka, and grass puffer. Through functional genomics approaches, his group has uncovered key signal transduction pathways that regulate seasonal reproduction in vertebrates.

He serves as Vice President of the Japanese Society of Chronobiology and as a board member of the European Biological Rhythms Society. He is also currently Director of WPI-ITbM.

Unraveling the mechanisms of seasonal and lunar rhythms in vertebrates

The celestial movements of the Sun, Earth, and Moon generate cyclical environmental changes that shape biological rhythms across species. For instance, the spawning of grass puffers is tightly synchronized with the lunar cycle, while many animals reproduce during specific seasons. Humans are no exception; the menstrual cycle is synchronized with new and full moons, and cardiovascular disease, influenza, and depression become more severe in winter. However, the mechanisms underlying these phenomena remain largely unknown. Although Drosophila and mice have provided profound insights into physiology and behavior, they do not exhibit clear lunar or seasonal phenotypes. To overcome this limitation, we have studied non-model organisms, including quail and medaka, and uncovered key signaling pathways that regulates seasonal rhythms. To further elucidate the molecular basis of seasonally regulated physiology and disease, we analyzed seasonal transcriptome profiles of 80 tissues from macaques. This analysis revealed seasonal oscillations in genes associated with disease risk and drug efficacy. In addition, we have identified a pheromone that triggers puffer to spawn on beaches during the spring tides. In this talk, I will present our challenges to unravel the mechanisms underlying these enigmatic biological rhythms.

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

[The Svedberg & Spotlight] Genome Maintenance at Higher Resolution
2026-06-01 15:15 - 16:15
Prof. Taekjip Ha

Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s HospitalDates:June 1 at 15:15 (The Svedberg seminar)Venue: A1:111a, BMC, UppsalaJune 2 at 15:15 (Spotlight seminar)Venue: Air&Fire, Tomtebodavägen 23 A, SolnaAbstract: My research program focuses on the theme of genome maintenance at higher resolution. Genome maintenance, because the accurate duplication and repair of our genome is critical for a healthy life and for informing potential therapies for genetic diseases. Higher resolution, because improved resolution in space and time—encompassing single-molecule, single-cell, and single-base-pair resolution—allows us to ask and answer questions inaccessible to traditional tools

I will first discuss our discovery of homology search mechanisms in mammalian cells, enabled by our very fast CRISPR technology that uses light to activate DNA cleavage by Cas9 with a time resolution of seconds, several hundred-fold better than previous approaches. Here, we found that a DNA motor protein called cohesin grabs and scans the RAD51 filament against the sister chromosome in search of a homologous sequence, explaining how cells recover from a DNA break accurately and rapidly.

In the second part of the lecture, I will present our MINFLUX nanoscopy studies of DNA replication machinery, in particular the MCM complexes that act as replicative helicases. We visualize individual MCM complexes in cells and directly detect the double hexameric MCM (DH). During S phase, a subset of DHs separates up to ~85 nm, generating single MCM hexamers. Furthermore, cohesin is dispensable for MCM loading but required to maintain replisome coupling during S phase. Together, these findings establish cohesin as a versatile genomic architect, actively driving chromatin scanning to preserve genome stability while orchestrating the precise spatiotemporal organization of the active replisome.

Biography: Dr. Taekjip Ha is George D. Yancopoulos Professor of Pediatrics in honor Frederick W. Alt at Harvard Medical School and director and senior investigator of Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. He has been an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 2005. He received a bachelor’s in physics from Seoul National University in 1990 and Physics PhD from University of California at Berkeley in 1996. After postdoctoral training at Stanford, he was a Physics professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2000-2015), where he co-directed an NSF Physics Frontier Center, and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University (2015-2023). He is a member of the National Academy of Science and the National Academy of Medicine, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received Ho-Am Prize in Science (2011), Kazuhito Kinosita Award in single molecule biophysics (2018) and Barany Award for young investigators (2007). He was named Searle Scholar (2001) and Sloan Fellow (2003). He has served on Editorial Boards for Science (2011-present), Cell (2009-2020) and eLife (2014-2020). He co-chaired the National Academies committee on Toward Sequencing and Mapping of RNA Modifications (2022-2024). He served as President of the Biophysical Society (2023-2024).

Webpage : https://www.tjhalab.com/Hosts:Sebastian Deindl, UUHans Bloom, KTH

The good life of a science editor
2026-06-02 09:30 - 10:30 | Air&Fire, SciLifeLab Stockholm, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna, Sweden
Dr. Alejandro Montenegro-Montero, Executive Editor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Abstract

Editors at scientific journals occupy a unique position at the interface between research, communication, and community building. But what does the role actually involve, and how does one move from the bench to a career in scientific publishing?

In this talk, Dr. Alejandro Montenegro-Montero, will provide an inside look at the life of a professional scientific editor. He will discuss the core responsibilities of the role, which include managing peer review, working with authors and reviewers, developing journal strategy, commissioning content, and navigating complex ethical and integrity cases. He will also reflect on the skills and personal attributes that are essential for success in scientific editing, including broad intellectual curiosity, diplomacy, and decisiveness.

Finally, the talk will explore how researchers can prepare for and pursue careers in scientific publishing, highlighting different entry points into the field and practical steps for those considering a transition beyond the bench.

Biography

Dr. Alejandro Montenegro-Montero is an Executive Editor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Press, where he oversees CSH Protocols and leads the laboratory manuals program. He also commissions and develops content for CSH Perspectives in Biology and CSH Perspectives in Medicine, two leading review journals in the life and biomedical sciences, working closely with the scientific community to identify emerging topics and champion high-impact collections. At CSHL Press, Dr. Montenegro-Montero also leads the “Integrity in Publishing” group, providing support and advice to colleagues, editors, and societies on ethical cases and publishing best practices.

Dr. Montenegro-Montero was trained as a molecular biologist, with a Master’s and Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from P. Universidad Católica de Chile. His research focused on gene regulation, specifically on the characterization of transcriptional regulatory networks in eukaryotes. Following postdoctoral work at P. Universidad Católica de Chile and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, he transitioned into scientific publishing. He served as Chief Editor of Health Science Reports at Wiley, before joining Current Protocols as Senior Editor, where he ran the molecular biology, plant biology, and toxicology sections and collaborated with multiple corporate partners to develop innovative content for the scientific community.

Host: Xesùs Abalo xesus.abalo@scilifelab.se

Webinar: Interactive multi-dataset dashboards with Depictio: from creation to sharing through a public URL
2026-06-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Online event via Zoom
Welcome to join us for the Tools for AI/ML research in life sciences event series for our next webinar. We welcome Thomas Weber, ARISE fellow at EMBL to present “Interactive multi-dataset dashboards with Depictio: from creation to sharing through a public URL”.

Date and time: June 2 at 10:00-11:00 Stockholm time (CEST)Speaker: Thomas Weber, ARISE fellow at EMBL

Registration: Please register before June 2, at 9.00 CEST.

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Abstract

As expectations around open data sharing and interactive access to research outputs continue to grow, researchers increasingly need ways to present their data as explorable dashboards rather than static figures. Depictio is an open-source platform that enables researchers to build multi-datasets dashboards through an intuitive graphical interface. Depictio can be downloaded and used locally on your computer or life science researchers at Swedish universities can create an instance online for free through SciLifeLab Serve.

In this webinar, we will walk through the following steps: creating a project, uploading multiple datasets, such as tabular results and MultiQC reports, and, finally, building a multi-tab dashboard that combines data from different sources into unified, interactive visualizations. We will show how to create and layout Plotly-based components such as figures, metrics cards, tables and interactive components. Furthermore, we will demonstrate Depictio’s private-to-public migration: develop your dashboard in a private instance, then export and import it to a public instance on SciLifeLab Serve for public sharing. This webinar is aimed at life science researchers who produce data they want to visualize and share interactively, whether from bioinformatics pipelines, experimental workflows, or other research outputs, without building a full web application from scratch.

Tools for AI/ML research in life sciences is an event series by the SciLifeLab Data Centre aimed at life science researchers who use data science and machine learning methods in their work. The goal of the events in this seminar series is to provide introductions to different tools for ML research but also to foster discussions around our practices and how they can be improved. We organise in-person workshops and webinars as part of the event series. The events are open to all researchers in Sweden and beyond, regardless of SciLifeLab affiliation.

Contact: SciLifeLab Data Centre serve@scilifelab.se

Cell Biology at Scale 2026
2026-06-03 08:00 - 17:00 | Life City, Solnavägen 3H, Stockholm, 113 64
The Cell Biology at Scale (CB@S) meeting is co-hosted by SciLifeLab, the national research infrastructure for life science in Sweden, and Biohub. This event aims to bring together researchers working at the interface of cell biology, imaging, functional genomics, computational biology, and artificial intelligence.

Recent advances in multiplexed molecular profiling, high-resolution imaging, perturbation technologies, and AI-driven modeling are changing how we study cells. Conducting cell biology at scale is not simply about increasing throughput. It represents a shift in how experiments are designed, how data are integrated, and how biological questions are formulated across molecular, cellular, and organismal levels.

CB@S 2026, a one-day symposium, will focus on forward-looking perspectives:

How do we integrate multimodal cellular data?

How can modeling and AI help build predictive, cell-scale theoretical frameworks?

What experimental and computational strategies are still missing?

The symposium will be accessible both on site and via live stream.

The annual CB@S meetings started four years ago, and so far, all have taken place in the United States. Now for the first time, the meeting will be hosted in Europe. Stockholm is an established international center for interdisciplinary life science research, with strong environments in cell biology, data-driven biology, and technology development.

This event is kindly supported by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

Invited Speakers

Alexander van Oudenaarden, Hubrecht InstituteAubrey Weigel, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteFlorian Jug, Human TechnopoleJan Funke, Human TechnopoleJohann Wenckstern, EPFLJohannes Schöneberg, UCSDLukas Kapitein, Utrecht UniversityMagda Bienko, SciLifeLab, Karolinska Institutet / Human TechnopoleRalf Jungmann, Max Planck Institute of BiochemistrySuliana Manley, EPFL

Registration

Registration for on-site participation is now closed. Registration for on-line participation remains open.

registration for on-line participation

Program

Program and sessions are preliminary and subject to change

TimeActivity08:00Doors open, registration, coffee09:00Welcome remarks (SciLifeLab & Biohub)Jan Ellenberg, Manuel Leonetti & Paul BlaineySession I – Molecular Mapping at ScaleModerators: Johan Elf + Paul Blainey09:20Novel sequencing tools to monitor translation in individual cellsAlexander van Oudenaarden09:40DNA-associated intronic RNAs form introsomes that shape genome architecture in neurons Magda Bienko10:00Short presentationsIntegrating spatial multi-omics to reveal inflammatory and regulatory signalling niches in the lungAlexandra FirsovaFrom Genome to Drug Targets: A Computational Pipeline for Setaria digitataBará AdiHow to achieve high throughput and correlative biophysical, physiological and multiomic dataErdinc Sezgin10:15Session Wrap up10:20Coffee BreakSession II – Cellular Organization & DynamicsModerator: Jan Ellenberg10:504D Cell Biology: Drug Discovery using Advanced Microscopy, Organoids, Digital Twins, and AIJohannes Schöneberg11:10Using light to dissect and direct cellular organization and dynamicsLukas Kapitein11:30Mapping Cells at Scale: Sharing Data and Workflows for Tissue-Scale vEMAubrey Weigel11:50Tunable Three-Photon-Activatable Cyclooctynes for Wavelength-Selective Labeling of Nascent RNA and Proteins in CellsDaniel Fürth12:00Short presentationsThe Fourth Dimension: Probing Developmental and Evolutionary Time in Spatial OmicsMarco GrilloStitch-seq: A Facile and High-Throughput Perturbation Sequencing MethodFrances KeerMINFLUX – SRS – TPE FLIM imaging of bacteria and their targeted host cellsChinmaya Venugopal Srambickal12:15Session Wrap-up12:20Lunch and Poster sessionSession III – From imaging to modelsModerators: Carolina Wählby + Manuel Leonetti13:30From DNA Nanotechnology to Biomedical Insight: Towards Single-Molecule Spatial OmicsRalf Jungmann13:50Smart microscopy reveals patterns in the mitochondrial life cycleSuliana Manley14:10Live-cell nanoscopy empowered by computationIlaria Testa14:20Short PresentationsScaling Cell Biology with Smart Microscopy: Adaptive Workflows as a ServiceRafael CamachoAgentic-J: An All-Round AI Agent for Cell Biologists Analyzing Microscopy Images from Exploration to PublicationsJianxu ChenFrom Learning to Generating Representations: Constructing a Visual-based World Model for Virtual Cells at Meso-scaleGaole Dai14:35Discussion & Session Wrap-up14:40Coffee BreakSession IV – Outlook: Building Predictive Cell BiologyModerators: Sanja Vickovic + Jason Swedlow15:10AI as a Trusted Partner for Scientific Discovery Across Biological ScalesFlorian Jug15:30Mechanistic Models of MorphogenesisJan Funke15:50Virtual Patient Labs: AI-Driven Simulation and Diagnostics for Precision OncologyJohann Wenckstern, EPFL16:10Short PresentationsCells as Single-Molecule Protein Proximity NetworksFilip KarlssonLive-cell transcriptomics with engineered virus-like particlesMohamad Najia16:20Virtual Biology InitiativeManuel Leonetti16:30Alpha CellJan Ellenberg16:40Panel discussionAudience Q&A17:10Conference Wrap up – Thank you17:15End of MeetingPost-symposium mingle

Poster Session

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Scientific Committee

Paul BlaineyIain CheesemanJohan ElfJan EllenbergManuel LeonettiCarolina WählbyLucas PelkmansJason SwedlowSanja Vickovic

NASSA Kick-Off Meeting
2026-06-03 09:00 - 17:20 | Inspira, Medicon Village, Scheelevägen 4, Lund, 223 63, Sweden
The NASSA (Nordic Alliance for Single-Cell and Spatial Analysis) Kick-Off Meeting brings together invited experts from all four partner countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland) in single-cell and spatial analysis.

Explore the latest technologies, meet the people behind them, and get early insight into what is becoming available across the Nordic infrastructures. This is a unique opportunity to discover new methods, discuss your research needs, and connect directly with experts shaping the future of the field. Join us to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving single-cell and spatial landscape!

Registration

Registration is closed & the event is fully booked.

Event highlights include:

Allow partners & participants to meet and get to know each other, align visions, share bottlenecks, and define collaborative priorities.

Define plans for future hub activities, including working groups, benchmarking exercises, technology scouting, and joint training initiatives.

Mapping Nordic infrastructure and initiating structured strategies. The NASSA Kick-Off establishes a foundation for a sustainable, collaborative hub, positioning SciLifeLab as a central coordinator in this rapidly evolving technical landscape.

The NASSA Kick-Off Meeting is open for everyone. We will wrap up the 3 June with a joint event-dinner at the Inspira restaurant! The following day, June 4th, there will be a semi-open half-day NASSA workshop (separate program below) at Belfragesalen (BMC, D15), Klinikgatan 32, Lund.

This event is free of charge, but please note that a fee of 600 SEK will be charged in case of no-shows without prior notice.

Event App

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Abstracts & Travel grants

In the registration form there will be an opportunity to:

Submit an Abstract for a poster presentation. Deadline: April 15.

Apply for a Travel grant (500 EUR) for those who have submitted an abstract. Deadline: April 15.

Abstract submissions and travel grant applications are now closed.

Program 3 June & Workshop 4 June

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User meeting for your multi-modal research projects
2026-06-04 09:00 - 10:30
Boost your research — Book a private SciLifeLab planning and feedback session for your multi-modal research projects!

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Once we have received your registration, you will be sent the link to the online meeting.

Date: June 4, 9.00 – 10.30 Registration deadline: May 29

Multimodal molecular profiling and novel computational methods are transforming life science research, but also pose new challenges in study design, project resource planning and data management. SciLifeLab is a national resource of unique technologies and expertise available to life scientists, in areas such as biomedicine, ecology and evolution, aiming to bring scientists together across traditional boundaries and foster collaborations with industry, health care, public research organizations and international partners.

The first Thursday of every month at 9.00 (except July and August), SciLifeLab offers an opportunity to jointly meet with representatives across the SciLifeLab service platforms, to get feedback and help to plan, design, and refine new or ongoing multimodal research projects. Your project plans are discussed privately and remain confidential, and information will not be shared outside of the service platforms. Note that for most studies, follow-up meetings will be needed, but our aim for these meetings is to provide an easy-access entry point for an overarching planning of multimodal studies.

For studies focusing on a single technology only, please primarily contact our service platforms directly as described at the SciLifeLab homepage.

To make the best out of the allotted time, we ask you to provide some background information about your project, to help us ensure that the relevant experts are available to discuss your study.

Campus Solna Seminar Series: Mengping Long & Samuel Eriksson Lidbrink
2026-06-04 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:

Mengping Long

Mats Nilsson – gamma 4

Contour based analysis in Spatial Transcriptomic data

Samuel Eriksson Lidbrink

Erik Lindahl – gamma

Several multiple sequence alignment perturbation methods enhance AlphaFold3 sampling of alternative protein states

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

The Myth of (Gender) Neutral Science & Other Stories
2026-06-04 15:00 - 16:00 | Gamma 2 Lunchroom, SciLifeLab, Tomtebodavägen 23, Solna, Sweden
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at SciLifeLab (DEIS) invites all members of the SciLifeLab community to a special seminar & fika this month, promoting inter-campus communication on diversity, equity and inclusion in the life sciences across Sweden.

Hormone-driven cancers in time and space from trials to mechanisms and back again
2026-06-04 15:30 - 16:30 | Air&Fire, SciLifeLab Stockholm, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna, Sweden
Title: Hormone-driven cancers in time and space from trials to mechanisms and back again

Who: Prof. Wilbert Zwart, the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI; Amsterdam) and Eindhoven University of Technology.

When:June 4, 15:30

Where: Air&Fire, SciLifeLab, Tomtebodavägen 23, Solna or Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/67045711876

Wilbert Zwart completed his PhD at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI; Amsterdam) in 2009, and received his post-doctoral training at the CRUK-CI in Cambridge (UK), in the lab of Prof. Jason Carroll. In 2011, Wilbert returned to the Netherlands to open his independent research lab at the NKI studying hormone-dependent cancers, focusing on hormone receptor biology, epigenetics, and gene regulation. His projects have a ‘full circle’ design, connecting basic scientific discoveries, translational research, and clinical trials. By implementing functional genomics and molecular endocrinology in innovative clinical trials, basic scientific breakthroughs can be best connected with the patient, allowing for a swift translation of these discoveries to the clinic. In 2018, he was appointed senior group leader at the NKI, as well as full professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and a member of the Oncode Institute. He serves as Chair of the NKI Translational Research Board, theme lead Precision Oncology of the NKI, and takes a seat on the Board of Directors of Cancer Core Europe.

Recent Publication: Padrão N, Severson TM, Gregoricchio S, Guijarro A, Lutz C, Taranto D, Hutten S, Ligorio F, Persia A, Roest M, Sanders J, Song JY, Pires-Oliveira S, Donaldson Collier M, Horlings H, Pisciotta L, de Braud F, Vernieri C, Akkari L, Jonkers J, Nencioni A, Caffa I, Zwart W. Fasting boosts breast cancer therapy efficacy via glucocorticoid activation. Nature. 2026 Jan

Host: Cecilia Williams, Dept Protein Science, KTH, and Dept MedH, KI.

Slots for meetings: If you are interested in meeting with Prof. Zwart separately, he has a few afternoon slots available. Please, contact Cecilia Williams (cecilia.williams@scilifelab.se).

One Health on Two Wheels: From Thessaloniki to Stockholm to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance and Build Microbiology Capacity in Mbujimayi, DRC
2026-06-05 10:30 - 12:00 | Bioclinicum, Solnavägen 30, Solna, 171 64
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health threat with major epidemiological consequences across human, animal, and environmental health.

This lecture will first outline the current global burden and trends of AMR. It will then explore key drivers of rising resistance through a One Health lens, explaining how interconnected systems—medicine, veterinary practice, agriculture, and the environment—contribute to its emergence and spread. Particular attention will be given to low-resource settings, where the impact of AMR is greatest and diagnostic capacity remains limited. Field data from Nigeria, including work conducted with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), will illustrate these challenges.

Finally, the lecture presents a trans-European bicycle initiative from Thessaloniki to Stockholm, designed to foster cross-sector dialogue along the North–South AMR gradient while raising funds through a crowdfunding campaign to support the implementation of microbiology laboratory capacity in Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Speaker

Prof. Dimitri Van der Linden, pediatric infectious diseases specialist, specialized pediatrics service, Pediatric Department, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium.

Registration

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VENUE: BioClinicum, J3:11, Birger & Margareta Blombäck. Solnavägen 30, 171 64 Solna

ORGANIZER: DDLS Fellow Andrea Fossati, KI. Susanna Brighenti, KI.

CONTACT FOR QUESTIONS: Andrea.fossati@scilifelab.se

MSCA in 2026 and beyond: what it takes to build successful research careers in Europe
2026-06-05 13:30 - 14:30 | Air&Fire, SciLifeLab Stockholm, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna, Sweden
Speaker: Vanessa Debiais-Sainton, Head of Department-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions & Support to Experts

Chair: Jan Ellenberg, SciLifeLab

Seminar topics:How to best design the future MSCA actions under the next MFF – 2028-2034 to help researchers to develop successful careers in Europe?What are the researchers’ struggles? How can MSCAs best address them and bridge the gap?How can MSCAs be simplified while increasing their impact for researchers in terms of attractive working conditions and career development opportunities in Europe?

Vanessa Debiais-Sainton is Head of Department for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and Support to Experts at the European Research Executive Agency, where she leads a team of over 320 colleagues responsible for implementing one of the EU’s flagship research talent programmes under Horizon Europe.

With two decades of experience shaping EU higher education and research policy, she has shaped transformative initiatives such as the European Universities alliances, driven major programmes like Erasmus+, and coordinated the Union of Skills agenda as a member of the Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu. Earlier in her career, she helped design the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions themselves, including the creation of the European Industrial Doctorate.

Before joining the European Commission, Vanessa worked in industry at Solvay’s research and innovation centre, where she led process optimisation and environmental impact projects — experience that informs her deep commitment to bridging research, innovation, education and real-world impact.

Vanessa holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering and postgraduate qualifications in advanced processes and polymers and has completed executive education at Harvard Business School.

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Advances in Pathogen Detection from Primary Samples
2026-06-08 10:00 - 11:00 | https://www.scilifelab.se/event/advances-in-pathogen-detection-from-primary-samples/
Clinical Genomics Webinar Series

Clinical Genomics Örebro is hosting this webinar as part of the Clinical Genomics Platform webinar series

Rapid Metagenomic Pathogen Detection from Primary Clinical Samples

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Rapid metagenomic sequencing directly from clinical samples has the potential to transform infectious disease diagnostics by enabling culture-independent detection of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance markers within clinically actionable timeframes. In this webinar, Adela Medina will present recent advances in unified metagenomic workflows for respiratory and bloodstream infections, including rapid nanopore-based detection of bacteria, viruses, and fungi directly from bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and blood samples. Daniel Golparian will focus on whole genome sequencing of sexually transmitted infection (STI) pathogens directly from urine samples, highlighting applications for diagnostics and antimicrobial resistance surveillance. Together, the presentations will showcase how sequencing technologies, host DNA depletion strategies, and bioinformatic approaches are advancing direct-from-sample pathogen genomics in clinical microbiology.

Everyone is welcome so feel free to spread the details with anyone who may be interested. Hope to see you there!

Host: Bianca Stenmark, Head of Unit, Clinical Genomics Örebro

Invited speakers: Adela Medina, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK and Daniel Golparian, Örebro University

Hands-on Workshop: Developing AI Agents in Life Sciences (Gothenburg)
2026-06-09 10:00 - 15:30 | Korallrevet, Natrium, Medicinaregatan 7B, Gothenburg, 413 90, Sweden
We are delighted to invite you to join our upcoming workshop on “Developing AI Agents in Life Sciences”, organized by SciLifeLab Data Centre. AI agents are emerging as autonomous systems that orchestrate scientific workflows by interacting with digital tools and data sources. These have various implications for life science research. They can, for example, simplify complex analyses by automating data integration, run computational models, and coordinate experimental steps, making research pipelines more efficient and reproducible. In this on-site hands-on workshop held at Korallrevet, Natrium building (Medicinaregatan 7B) in Gothenburg, we will introduce and discuss AI Agents in life science, and engage in collaborative practical sessions. Welcome!

Date: 2026-06-09Time: 10.00-15.30 (coffee will be served from 9.30). Fika and lunch provided free of charge. Location: room Korallrevet, Natrium, Medicinaregatan 7B, Gothenburg. No remote participation.

Target audience: Researchers, PhD students, research infrastructure interested in learning more about and trying hands-on exercises with AI Agents. Participants with any university affiliation and industry researchers are welcome. Basic Python programming skills are required; previous experience working with Jupyter notebooks would be helpful. Participants must bring their own laptop.

Registration: We expect many to be interested in attending this event. After we reach max capacity, we will open a waitlist. If you cannot join, please cancel your registration as soon as possible to make your spot available for someone else. Please add dietary restrictions to your registration. Please register by June 5th at 24.00.

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Speakers and Facilitators: Chris Long Huynh (PhD candidate, Uppsala University), and Mahbub Ul Alam and Johan Alfredéen (Data Engineers (AI) at SciLifeLab Data Centre).

The workshop will feature a series of engaging presentations, interactive discussions, and collaborative sessions focusing on:

Introduction to AI agent technologies

Applications, opportunities and challenges of AI Agents in life science

Hands-on tutorials with reasoning models, LangChain and MCP servers

Discussions on the role of AI agents in shaping the future of life science

Agenda

09:30-10:00 Light breakfast and networking

10.00-10.15 Presentation session 1: Introduction: Exploring how AI agents can transform life sciences. Speaker: Johan Alfredéen.

10.15-10.30 Demonstration Session: AI agents in action. Facilitators: Mahbub Ul Alam.

10:30-12:00 Hands-on Session 1: Developing AI agents with LangChain & ReAct. Session Facilitators: Dinh Long Huynh, Mahbub Ul Alam.

12:00-13:00 Lunch and networking

13:00-13:30 Continuation of Hands-on Session 1: Developing AI agents with LangChain & ReAct.

13:30-15:00 Hands-on Session 2: AI agent collaboration with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Session Facilitators: Mahbub Ul Alam, Johan Alfredéen, Dinh Long Huynh.

15:00-15:15 Presentation Session 2: Deploying AI Agents: Legal, Technical, and Practical Considerations. Speaker: Johan Alfredéen.

15:15-15:30 Concluding Session: Open Q&A

15:30 Fika and networking

Registration: Please add dietary restrictions to your registration. If you cannot join, please cancel your registration.

This event is a organised by SciLifeLab Data Centre. For questions please contact serve@scilifelab.se .

Umeå seminar series:"Exposomics: high-resolution mapping of environmental chemical exposures in human and ecosystem health."
2026-06-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Glasburen Seminar Room, Chemical Biological Centre (KBC) Building, Umeå University, Umeå, 901 87, Sweden
Presenter: Stefano Papazian, Head of unit National Facility for Exposomics, SciLifeLab, Stockholm University

Exposomics is an emerging field focused on the comprehensive characterization of environmental exposures and their impacts on human and ecosystem health. The exposome concept encompasses the lifetime exposure of an individual to synthetic chemicals, environmental pollutants, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, dietary components, and other exogenous small molecules, together with the biological responses they trigger.At SciLifeLab, the National Facility for Exposomics (Metabolomics & Exposomics Platform), located at Campus Solna and coordinated by Stockholm University (Department of Environmental Science), provides advanced infrastructure and expertise in chemical exposomics using high-resolution mass spectrometry and computational workflows for large-scale assessment of the chemical exposome. The facility supports targeted and untargeted analysis of complex chemical mixtures across a broad range of biological and environmental samples, including human biofluids and tissues, wildlife, air, water, and other environmental matrices.In this seminar, Stefano Papazian, Head of Unit at the National Facility for Exposomics, will introduce the field of chemical exposomics, present the analytical techniques and workflows available at the facility, and highlight selected examples of user projects in human cohorts, environmental health, and planetary biology.Learn more about the National Facility for Exposomics: https://www.scilifelab.se/units/exposomics/

Registration: Sign up for the IRL seminar and reserve your free lunch by Monday, 8 June 10:00, or follow online (registration is not required):Zoom Link: https://umu.zoom.us/j/64548089768Meeting ID: 645 4808 9768

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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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Campus Solna Seminar Series: Hui Zhou & Marcus Saarinen
2026-06-11 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:

Hui Zhou

Vicent Pelechano – gamma 5

Marcus Saarinen

Jochen Schwenk – alpha

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

[The Svedberg seminar] - Tissue Regulatory T cells
2026-06-12 15:15 - 16:15 | BMC Room C8:305
Adrian Liston

ProfessorUniversity of Cambridge, UK

Bio

Adrian Liston is Professor of Pathology at the University of Cambridge and Equalities Fellow at St Catharine’s College. Prof Liston is highly published in immunology and neuroimmunology, in particular his work on regulatory T cells in the brain, and manipulating the population for therapeutic benefit. He has been awarded fellowship to the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Francqui Chair, the Eppendorf Prize, two Wellcome Trust awards and four ERC grants, among other honours. Beyond his research, Prof Liston is a prolific writer and workshop coordinator on the topics of navigating a science career and improving research culture. Finally, Prof Liston is also an extensive public communicator, including writing several illustrated books for children and designing educational computer games.

Tissue Regulatory T cells

Tregs have well-defined roles in limiting systemic immune responses, with additional functions for tissue-resident Tregs becoming increasingly apparent. These tissue-resident Tregs have diverse beneficial roles in tissue physiology, such as aiding homeostasis and promoting tissue repair and regeneration. In this talk Prof Liston will discuss the molecular features and cellular kinetics that drive tissue residency for Tregs, and the potential for clinical translation.

Host: Kailash Singh kailash.singh@mcb.uu.se
