Events

NCMBM is organising a new seminar series in the Life Science Building this autumn. The series will give researchers and colleagues working in and around the building an opportunity to get to know each other’s research and the different research environments.

Speakers: Jukka Corander and Anthony Mathelier

NCMBM, as part of its International Seminar series, will be welcoming Jonathan Frazer, Group Leader at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain. 

His talk is entitled:"Reading evolutionary constraint with deep learning: from rare disease to endangered species".

NCMBM, as part of its International Seminar series, will be welcoming Peter Meerlo, Associate Professor, from the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen in The Netherlands. 

He will be presenting his work on "Environmental influences on sleep architecture and sleep homeostasis in mammals and birds".

NCMBM, as part of its International Seminar series, will be welcoming Laura Cantini, from Institut Pasteur where she is a Group Leader. She holds a chair in the Paris Institute of AI (PRAIRIE).

Her talk is entitled: "Breaking Silos in Single-Cell Biology: Towards a Unified Cellular View".

M.Sc. Romana Pop at Norwegian Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Medicine will be defending the thesis “Omics data integration with gene regulatory networks in health and disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Romana Pop at Norwegian Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Medicine will give a trial lecture on the given topic: “Computational methods for inference of trajectories in single-cell RNA-seq data”

Marianne Fyhn, from the Department of Bioscience at UiO will be presenting her work: "Watching neurons at play during learning and memory processing".

We are delighted to bring you this co-organised seminar, with international speaker, David A. Knowles, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.

He will be presenting his work on:"Dissecting complex disease mechanisms with causal inference and deep learning".

NCMBM, as part of its International Seminar series, will be welcoming Arafath Kaja Najumudeen, from Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) in Helsinki.

He will present his work on "How do cells absorb nutrients? Spatially resolving metabolism of colorectal cancer".

NCMBM, as part of its International Seminar series, will be welcoming David Kent, from the University of York, and Julia Skokowa, from University Hospital Tübingen.

NCMBM is delighted to welcome Professor Luis Serrano, Director of the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, as the speaker for NCMBM’s inaugural Christmas Lecture. 

He will be presenting is work on:"Combining synthetic biology and protein design to engineer a lung therapeutic bacteria".

This month, NCMBM International Seminar will be welcoming Prof Claire Booth, Professor in Gene Therapy and Paediatric Immunology and Consultant Paediatric Immunologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London; and Prof Judith Zaugg, Professor of Molecular Medicine at Basel University, University Hospital Basel in the Department of Biomedicine.

Adrien Peyrache, Assistant Professor at Montreal Neurological Institute - The Neuro, at McGill University, will be presenting is work on: "Orienting memories during sleep".

Pierre Chymkowitch, from the Department of Bioscience at UiO will be presenting his work: "SUMOylation Safeguards Adipogenic Fate and Restricts Epigenetic Drift in Human Adipocytes".

Open lectures on biodiversity from ants to ocean life, and how taxonomy helps us understand ecology and evolution. With Corrie S. Moreau, Cornell University, and Torsten H. Struck, University of Oslo.

Daniel Globisch is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Uppsala University, Sweden.

He will be presenting his work on "Chemical Metabolomics – Unique Chemical Biology Tools to Explore Gut Microbiota Metabolism for Biomarker Discovery".

Jacob Schreiber is a visiting scientist at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology at the Vienna BioCenter. His talk is entitled:"Understanding and designing regulatory DNA using machine learning".

Anniina Färkkilä, MD PhD, is an Assistant professor in translational gynecologic oncology and a Specialist in gynecology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

The title of her talk is:"Unraveling the Determinants of Spatial Tumor Ecosystems in Ovarian Cancer: Insights into Immune Interactions and Therapeutic Opportunities".