Science for Life seminars in Campus Solna

The SciLifeLab Spotlight seminar is  is a high-profile seminar series that aims to invite leading scientists making a major impact in the field of biosciences to come to present their ongoing research at Campus Solna.

The intention is to promote an active intellectual environment at Campus Solna via networking with excellent national and international researchers to fuel new ideas and foster collaborations.

Speakers are selected via an open nomination process. They can be nominated twice per year by the SciLifeLab community at Campus Solna, employed at the KTH, Karolinska Institutet or Stockholm University. Nominations will be evaluated by a Scientific Committee. The nominator(s) of selected speakers will have the responsibility to invite the speaker to Stockholm. SciLifeLab will cover the costs for travel, accommodation and a social activity, according to the seminar guidelines.

In addition to evaluating scientific excellence and representation of the research fields, the Scientific Committee will ensure fair gender balance and inclusiveness and encourage nominations of leading scientist regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, nationality and the like.

Selection criteria for speakers

• Scientific excellence
• Presentation skills
• Research areas of interest
• Gender balance
• Geografical balance

Scientific Committee

• Adnane Achour, KI
• Claudia Fredolini, KTH
• Fredrik Edfors, KTH
• Iskra Pollak, SU
• Stefania Giacomello, KTH
• Vicent Pelechano, KI
• Mafalda Ferreira, SU

Spotlight seminars are held in Air and Fire at 15:15-16:15 if not stated otherwise

Spring

January 20
Aubrey Weigl
Host: Jan Ellenberg

January 27
Gene-Wei Li
MIT, USA
Host:Vicente Pelechano, KI

January 27
Simon Scheuring
Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Host: Stavros Azinas, SU

February 17
Leo Lahti
University of Turku, Finland
Host: Anders Andersson

February 20 (Gamma 2 Lunchroom)
Melike Lakadamyali
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Host:Ilaria Testa, KTH

March 17
Till Bachman
University of Edinburgh, Great Britain
Host: Donal Barrett, KI

April 28
Valerie Mezger
Université de Paris, CNRS, France
Host:Annina Vihervaara, KTH

May 26
Adam Antebi
Max Planck Institute, USA
Host:Per Ljungdahl, SU

June 2
Taekjip Ha
Boston Children Hospital, USA
Host: Hans Blom, KI

June 9
Stefan Jakobs
Multidisziplinary Sciences, Max Plank Institute, Goettingen, Germany
Host: Rebecca Mordini, KTH

Fall

August 25
Ute Hellmich (Gamma 2 Lunchroom)
Fredrich Shiller University Jena, Germany
Host: Lucie Delmotte, KTH

September 8 (Gamma 2 Lunchroom)
Fernando Garcia-Moreno
Yale University, USA
Host: Marco Grillo, SU

September 22
David Wishart
 University of Alberta, Canada
Host: Jonathan Martin, SU

October 6
Marcus Conrad
Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
Host: Erdinc Sezgin, KI

October 20 – (Gamma 2 Lunchroom)
Ewa Szczurek
University of Warsaw, Poland
Host: Vicente Pelechano, KI

November 17
TBA
Host:

December 15
Sebastian Leidel
University of Bern, Switzerland
Host: Vicente Pelechano, KI