50 Years Anniversary Symposium

Preclinical Institutes / Department of Biomedicine

19^th September 2013, BBB, Auditorium 1

History – Main research areas – Future

8:30 Opening

• Rolf K. Reed, Head of Department, Department of Biomedicine
• Dag Rune Olsen, Rector, University of Bergen
• Nina Langeland, Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

8:55 “The early days”
Chair: Rolf K. Reed

• Karen Blaauw Helle, Department of Biomedicine
• Torgeir Flatmark, Department of Biomedicine
• Stener Kvinnsland, Managing Director, Haukeland University Hospital

Guest lectures related to the main research areas at the department

9:20
Chair: Clive Bramham

• Terje Lømo, Department of Physiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo
• Long-term potentiation (LTP): From humble beginnings to major significance

9:55 Coffee break

10:15
Chair: Rolf Bjerkvig

• Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale, Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo
• Integrating omics data for better prognostication of breast cancer

• Simone P. Niclou, NorLux Neuro-Oncology Laboratory, Public Research Centre for Health (CRP-Santé), Luxembourg
• NorLux Neuro-Oncology: Collaborative efforts to fight brain tumors

• Angelo Corti, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
• Chromogranin A and the endothelial barrier function; implication forangiogenesis, inflammation and cancer

12:00 Lunch and poster viewing

13:15
Chair: Helge Wiig

• Kirsti Ytrehus, Cardiovascular Research Group, Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø
• Role of mitochondria in cardioprotection

• Taina Pihlajaniemi, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Oulu, Finland
• Multiplexin collagens as microenvironmental regulators

14:25 Coffee break

14:45
Chair: Aurora Martinez

• Bjørn Tore Gjertsen, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen
• Protein phosphorylation from bench to bedside: How knowledge about protein modifications will make personalized medicine happen

• Rein Aasland, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen
• “DNA makes RNA makes protein” – Where does chromatin fit in?

16:00 “The next 50 years”

Chair: Rolf K. Reed

• Lars A. Akslen, Department of Clinical Medicine & Centre for Cancer Biomarkers, University of Bergen
• Perspectives on the future of translational cancer research

• Jan Haavik, Department of Biomedicine & K.G. Jebsen Centre for Research on Neuropsychiatric Disorders, University of Bergen
• Perspectives on the future of translational neuroscience research

17:00 End of symposium

• Rolf K. Reed
• Closing remarks

Comittee:
Karen B. Helle, Aurora Martinez, Rolf K. Reed, Beate Stern and Helge Wiig.