Sólrún Melkorka Maggadóttir, pediatric allergist and immunologist will give a lecture titled Treating cancer with adoptive cellular therapy, in room 201 in Læknagarður.
Insect bite hypersensitivity (IBH) is an IgE-mediated dermatitis of horses caused by bites of insects of the genus Culicoides. IBH does not occur in Iceland due to absence of the causative insects but has a high incidence (>50%) in horses exported from Iceland to countries where Culicoides spp. are endemic.
In this talk Professor Sverrisdottir will give insight into the Microneurographic technique as well as some of the unique findings it has revealed about Human Sympathetic nerve traffic in health and disease.
Professor Reuben S. Harris will give a lecture titled Basic and translational studies on the second largest source of mutation in cancer in our distinguished lecture series in Fróði auditorium the 2nd of March at 11:00-12:00. GPMLS will also invite students/post docs to lunch with Dr. Harris after his presentation.
BMC Seminar Thursday 23rd of February at 12:00 in Læknagarður, room 201
Title: Modulation of epithelial innate immune responses by microbiota metabolites
BMC Seminar Thursday 9th of February at 12:00 in Læknagarður, room 201
Title: Dietary fish oil enhances hallmarks of resolution of inflammation with NK cells playing a key role
BMC Seminar Thursday 2nd of February at 12:00 in Læknagarður
Title: Sepsis requiring Intensive Care Unit admission: Studies on temporal trends in epidemiology, cancer, elective surgery and local infectious outbreaks
BMC Seminar Thursday 26th of January at 12:00 in Læknagarður, room 343
Title: Sustainability in laboratories
BMC Seminar Thursday 12th of January at 12:00 in Læknagarður, room 201
Title: Non-antibiotic disease modifying effects of macrolides in airway diseases.
Through evolution organisms have come up with multiple ways to evade lentiviral infections. Among these host defenses is the mammalian APOBEC3 (A3) family of cytidine deaminases that restricts infections by mutating viral DNA and impeding reverse transcription.
Studies have shown that the causative agent of bacterial kidney disease (BKD), the Gram-positive bacterium Renibacterium salmoninarum (Rs), is endemic in wild salmonids that inhabit Icelandic freshwater systems, i.e., Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus), brown trout (Salmo trutta), and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).
Scrapie has been endemic in Iceland for a long time, causing problems for sheep farmers.