BBB Seminars

Spring 2013

• Thursday, January 17, 13.00
• Donald Gullberg, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen
• My sabbatical year: muscling in on integrins 

• Thursday, January 24, 13.00
• Ross C. Walker, San Diego Supercomputer Center & Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
• Identifying novel drug targets with advanced molecular dynamics simulations: Application to adenovirus proteases
  

• Thursday, January 31, 13.00
• Birgitta Åsjø, Section for Microbiology and Immunology, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen
• A 30 year involvement in HIV research
  

• Thursday, February 7, 13.00
• Rodrigue Rossignol, Laboratory of Rare Diseases: Genetics and Metabolism (MRGM), University of Bordeaux, France
• Mitoplasticity: Adaptation biology of the mitochondrion to the cellular redox state in physiology and carcinogenesis

• Thursday, February 14, 13.00
• Claudia Bagni, VIB Center for the Biology of Disease, University of Leuven, Belgium
• Molecular plasticity in the context of the Fragile X Syndrome

• Thursday, February 21, 13.00
• Kristiina Kompus, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen
• Neural mechanisms of auditory hallucinations

• Thursday, February 28, 13.00 - Cancelled
• Gilbert Weidinger, Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Ulm University, Germany

• Thursday, March 7, 13.00
• Arne O. Smalås, Norwegian Structural Biology Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Tromsø
• Research activities at the Norwegian Structural Biology Centre (NorStruct) 

• Thursday, March 14, 13.00
• Frits Alan Thorsen, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen 
• My sabbatical year 2011-2012: Animal models to study brain metastasis
  

• Thursday, March 21, 13.00
• James Lorens, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen
• Stem cells, EMT and cancer: The role of the Axl receptor
  

• Thursday, April 4, 13.00
• Carien M. Niessen, Department of Dermatology, University of Cologne, Germany 
• Regulation of cell and tissue architecture in epidermal morphogenesis and homeostasis
  

• Thursday, April 11, 13.00
• Agnès Noël, Laboratory of Tumor and Development Biology, Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Génoprotéomique Appliquée (GIGA-Cancer), University of Liège, Belgium
• Contribution of cancer associated fibroblasts and lymphatic endothelial cells in the remodelling of a collagen-rich tumor microenvironment

• Thursday, April 18, 13.00
• Bertil B. Fredholm, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Caffeine, adenosine and the brain
  

• Thursday, April 25, 13.00
• Catherine Merry, Stem Cell Glycobiology Group, Materials Science Centre, University of Manchester, UK
• Sugar-coated webs to drive stem cell differentiation

• Thursday, May 2, 13.00
• Dontscho Kerjaschki, Clinical Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
• The sunrise of understanding lymphatic vessel function in human diseases

• Thursday, May 16, 13.00 - NB! Auditorium 2
  
• Ian Wilmut, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK
• From Dolly to treatment of human disease

• Thursday, May 23, 13.00
• Karin U. Schallreuter, Centre for Skin Sciences, University of Bradford, UK
• From the bench to the bedside – In vivo and in vitro evidence for ROS/RNS-mediated stress in vitiligo

• Thursday, May 30, 13.00
• Angela M. Gronenborn, Department of Structural Biology and Pittsburgh Center for HIV-Protein Interactions, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA
• Novel findings for HIV capsid function - Synergy between NMR, cryo-EM and large-scale MD simulations

• Thursday, June 6, 13.00
• Robert J. Harvey, Department of Pharmacology, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK
• Dysfunction of inhibitory glycinergic synapses in startle disease

• Thursday, June 13, 13.00
• Kathrine Skarstein, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen
• Long-lived plasma cells and their survival niches in Sjögren's syndrome

Autumn 2013, preliminary programme

• Thursday, August 15, 14.30
• To be announced

• Thursday, August 22, 14.30
• To be announced

• Thursday, August 29, 14.30
• Contribution from SFF CCBIO

• Thursday, September 5, 14.30
• To be announced

• Thursday, September 12, 14.30
• To be announced

• Thursday, September 19 14.30 
• IBM 50 Years Anniversary

• Thursday, September 26, 14.30
• Contribution from SFF CCBIO

• Thursday, October 3, 14.30
• To be announced

• Thursday, October 10, 14.30
• To be announced

• Thursday, October 17, 14.30
• To be announced

• Thursday, October 24, 14.30
• To be announced

• Thursday, October 31, 14.30
• Contribution from SFF CCBIO

• Thursday, November 7, 14.30
• To be announced

• Thursday, November 14, 14.30
• To be announced

• Thursday, November 21, 14.30
• To be announced

• Thursday, November 28, 14.30
• Contribution from SFF CCBIO

• Thursday, December 5, 14.30
• To be announced

• Thursday, December 12, 14.30
• Päivi Kettunen, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen

• Thursday, December 19, 14.30
• Anne K. Jonassen, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen

Autumn 2012

• Thursday, August 9, 13.00
• Juan A. Hermoso, Department of Crystallography and Structural Biology, Institute of Physical Chemistry “Rocasolano”, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
• Unraveling the host-pathogen interactions in Streptococcus pneumoniae by X-ray crystallography
  
  
• Thursday, August 16, 13.00
• Roger H. Adamson, Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, University of California at Davis, CA, USA
• Regulation of microvascular permeability: an in vivo perspective

• Thursday, August 23, 13.00
• Ragna Sannerud, Laboratory of Membrane Trafficking, Center for Human Genetics, Catholic University of Leuven and VIB Center for the Biology of Disease, Leuven, Belgium
• Sorting out the cell biology of Alzheimer’s disease: Focus on BACE1 and APP
  

• Thursday, August 30, 13.00
• Katherine A. Hajjar, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
• The annexin A2 system and angiogenesis: Lessons from the knockout mouse

• Thursday, September 6, 13.00 - NB! Auditorium 2
  
• The Kavli Prize Symposium in Neuroscience (invited speaker)
• Michael E. Greenberg, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
• Neuronal activity-dependent signaling: Networks that regulate synapse development and cognitive function

• Thursday, September 13, 13.00
• René Westerhausen, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen
• Cognitive control of auditory speech perception

• Thursday, September 20, 13.00
• Michael Z. Lin, Departments of Pediatrics and Bioengineering, Stanford University, CA, USA
• Teaching an old dog lots of new tricks: Extending fluorescent protein uses in neuroscience and stem cell biology
  

• Thursday, September 27, 13.00
• Gareth Griffiths, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo
• Development of biodegradable nanoparticles enclosing antibiotics against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in macrophages and in a zebrafish model system

• Thursday, October 4, 13.00
• Heather A. Cameron, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
• Maturation and function of new neurons in the adult hippocampus

• Thursday, October 11  -  No seminar

• Thursday, October 18 - NB! 14.00
• Frank Winkler, Department of Neurooncology, Neurology Clinic and National Center for Tumor Disease, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
• Seeing is believing is understanding: Intravital microscopy of brain tumor progression and response to therapy

• Thursday, October 25, 13.00 - NB! Auditorium 2
  
• The 5th NorMIC Symposium (invited speaker)
  
• Ben N. G. Giepmans, Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• Fluorescence microscopy meets electron microscopy

• Thursday, November 1, 13.00 - Seminar postponed to the spring
• The Falch Lecture 2012
• Kari Alitalo, Molecular/Cancer Biology Laboratory, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Finland

• Thursday, November 8, 13.00
• Rainer Pepperkok, Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
• High throughput microscopy to study membrane traffic and disease mechanisms

• Thursday, November 15, 13.00
• Jason Matthews, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
• New mechanisms of AHR function using zinc finger nuclease-mediated gene knockout and identification of TiPARP (ARTD14) as a repressor of AHR transactivation

• Thursday, November 22, 13.00
• Lena Claesson-Welsh, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Histidine-rich glycoprotein in tumor vessel normalization and anti-tumor immune responsiveness

• Thursday, November 29, 13.00
• Biokjemisk Kollokvium (NBS, Bergen Division)
• Gregor Anderluh, Laboratory for Molecular Biology and Nanobiotechnology, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, and Infrastructural Centre for Molecular Interactions Analysis, Department of Biology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Perforin adventures on lipid membranes

• Thursday, December 6, 13.00
• Andrea Trentani, Department of Neurodegeneration Research, Neurology & GI Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Harlow, UK
• Regulation of hippocampal neurogenesis in healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease
  

• Thursday, December 13, 13.00
• The Nansen Neuroscience Network Symposium (invited speaker)
• Janne Sande Mathisen, Smartfish AS, Oslo Innovation Center
• Medical food for the clinical dietary management of brain disorders

• NB! Wednesday, December 19, 13.00
• Werner J. H. Koopman, Department of Biochemistry, Nijmegen Centre  for Molecular Life Sciences (NCMLS), Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Cellular pathophysiology and therapy of mitochondrial OXPHOS disorders

Spring 2012

• Thursday, January 19, 13.00
• Christian A. Vedeler, Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen
• Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes

• Thursday, January 26, 13.00
• Bryndis Birnir, Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Insulin and GABA as mediators in cross-talks between the metabolic and the nervous systems

• Thursday, February 2, 13.00
• Marc Rehmsmeier, Computational Biology Unit (CBU), Uni Computing, Uni Research, University of Bergen
• It's not the size that matters but what you do with it. DNA sequence principles in the era of genome-wide datasets

• Thursday, February 9, 13.00
• Taija Makinen, Lymphatic Development Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK
• Morphogenesis of the lymphatic vascular system

• Thursday, February 16, 13.00
• Ayumu Tashiro, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim
• Activity-dependent mechanisms in circuit formation through adult neurogenesis

• Thursday, February 23, 13.00
• Karsten Specht, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, Bergen fMRI-Group, University of Bergen
• When a sound becomes a word
  Tracing the ventral stream for speech perception with functional imaging: a meta-analysis

• Thursday, March 1  - No seminar
  

• Thursday, March 8, 13.00
• Helga B. Salvesen, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen
• New targets for personalised medicine in endometrial cancer

• Thursday, March 15, 13.00
• Kevin Knower, Cancer Drug Discovery Laboratory, Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, VIC, Australia
• Epigenetic markers of oestrogen production in the breast

• Thursday, March 22, 13.00
• Thoralf Christoffersen, Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo
• The evasive target: Signal transduction and antitumour therapy

• Thursday, March 29, 13.00
• Aurélia E. Lewis, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen
• Lipid signalling and function in the cell nucleus

• Thursday, April 12, 13.00
• Kamal Babikeir Eln Mustafa, Department of Clinical Dentistry, University of Bergen
• Stem cells and biomedical engineering

• Thursday, April 19, 13.00
• Suzanne J. Baker, Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
• Genomic alterations in pediatric high-grade glioma

• Thursday, April 26, 13.00
• Mathias Ziegler, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen
• Generation and functions of subcellular NAD pools – key determinants of bioenergetic and signaling pathways

• Thursday, May 3, 13.00 - Seminar postponed until August 30
  
• Katherine A. Hajjar, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
• The annexin A2 system and angiogenesis: Lessons from the knockout mouse

• Thursday, May 10, 13.00
• Ellen Berggreen, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen
• Dental infectious diseases and the lymphatic system

• Thursday, May 24, 13.00
• Arturo Muga, Biophysics Unit and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
• ClpB, a disaggregase machine

• NB! Friday, June 1, 13.00
• Kristen M. Harris, Center for Learning and Memory, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
• Structural synaptic scaling during long-term potentiation (LTP)

• Thursday, June 7, 13.00
• Marco Conti, Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Reproductive Sciences, Center for Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), CA, USA
• Role of PDE4 in shaping the ß-adrenergic signals

• Thursday, June 14, 13.00
• Michael J. Berridge, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
• Calcium signalling in health and disease

General information

1. About the "BBB Seminars"
The "BBB Seminars" form a seminar series covering a broad spectrum of research areas within BioMedicine and BioSciences. The series is arranged by the Department of Biomedicine. The Norwegian Biochemical Society (NBS) is thanked for financial support. The seminars are held by invited local, national and international speakers suggested by colleagues at the Department of Biomedicine and other research environments in Bergen as well as by members of the Organising Committee. Any suggestions for future speakers are most welcome (see below, Section 3). Please note that the series is also part of the master/PhD programme at the Department (see Section 6).

2. Place, time, transport
The seminars are held at BBB, Jonas Lies vei 91, 3rd floor, in auditorium 4. The auditorium is up the stairs on the right hand side after passing the reception at the BBB main entrance or is straight on when coming via the pedestrian bridge from Haukeland Hospital. Usually, the seminars take place every Thursday at 13:00. This fits to the schedule of the campus bus, arriving at Haukeland Hospital at 12:55. We are thankful to the bus driver Arild Sørensen for including extra tours back to the HIB, Realfagb., and NIFES after the seminars, leaving at 14:10 from the BBB main entrance.

3. Call for proposal for speakers!
Please get in touch with any member of the Scientific Committee (see Section 7) to suggest a guest speaker of your choice. Your suggestion is welcome any time but the best possible way to be successful would be to plan good time in advance. Please include the following information: affiliation, CV or publication list and webpage of the speaker and a short motivation. The Committee will select the speakers among those suggested, using the following criteria: scientific excellence, topic of general interest, topic diversity. Travel and accommodation costs for the selected speakers will be covered within certain limitations.

4. Please inform us about your guests!
If a renowned scientist is going to visit your lab, for example as an "opponent" on the occasion of a thesis defence or for the purpose of research collaboration, and would be willing to give a seminar during his/her stay, please let us know. Take contact with any member of the Scientific Committee (see Section 7) as soon as possible.

5. Checklist for hosts
You should agree to act as host for the guest speaker you invite. This involves the following responsibilities:

• Arranging transport and accommodation for the guest (for budget frame work and reimbursement procedure, please click here).
• Arranging a social program for the guest during his/her stay.
• Asking the speaker to submit an abstract and writing a short biography of the speaker describing his/her background, current research interests, merits (both preferably max. ½ an A4 page).
• Sending abstract, biography and the webpage of the speaker to Beate Stern latest two weeks before the seminar.
• Asking the speaker to give a general introduction at the beginning of the talk and preferentially place his/her work/results into a broader perspective at the end. Further, informing him/her that the lecture should not greatly exceed 45 minutes.
• Setting up the computer/overhead presentation in the auditorium together with the speaker in due time before the start of the seminar. In case you would like assistance, please contact Torstein Ravnskog at least one day in advance.
• Chairing the seminar which includes introducing the speaker and leading the discussion.

6. Master/PhD programme (BMED380)
The "BBB Seminars" series is part of the master/PhD programme and is open to all students at the UiB interested in biomedical and biosciences research. Registration to the course can be done at StudentWeb. Attendance is monitored by you signing a name list laid out during the seminars. To obtain a 5-point credit, attendance at a minimum of 25 lectures over two semesters is required and short written reviews of two selected lectures have to be submitted (one review for each semester).

7. The Committee
Members of the Scientific Committee:

Beate Stern, Chairman
Clive Bramham
Jaakko Saraste

Other Committee members:
Ludmila Burdek
Torstein Ravnskog
Arild Sørensen