The Biomedical Center‘s seminar will take place most Thursdays.
All talks will be in English.
BMC chairs this semester will be Auður Anna Aradóttir Pind post-doc and Agnes Katharina Ulfig post-doc.
Events and courses
| Date | Title of talk | Speaker |
| Jan 12 | Paediatric clinical studies on immune responses - Ideas turned to actions | Valtýr Stefánsson Thors |
| Jan 14 | BMC Bioinformatics Workshop - Gene expression |
| Jan 15 | A Novel Role of the MITF-A Isoform in Maintaining Genomic Stability | Thejus B. Venkatesh |
| Jan 22 | Neurological dysfunction in Wiedemann-Steiner mouse model | Kimberley J. Anderson |
| Jan 23 | Mast cells - linking immune sensing to host-protective behavior | Thomas Plum |
| Date | Title of talk | Speaker |
| August 25 | Volumetric calcium imaging of the mammary gland during lactation | Felicity Davis |
| September 4 | Centromeres, Polyploidy, and the Reshaping of Genomes: Insights from Plants to Cancer | Victor A. Albert |
| September 11 | Dose-sparing effects of adjuvants and alum in vaccination | Jenny Estupiñan |
| September 18 | The Impact of Smoothened Cholesterol-Binding Pocket Mutations on Hedgehog Signaling and Osteoarthritis | Abbi Elise Smith |
| September 23 | Cortical neural circuits for olfaction | Alexander Fleischmann |
| October 11 | “Chasing Malaria through time and space!” | Johannes Krause |
| October 16 | Mathematical modeling on drug-induced persistence in cancer | Einar Bjarki Gunnarsson |
| October 22 | BMC Bioinformatics Facility hands-on sessions |
| October 23 | Epigenetic machinery disruption in neuronal progenitors | Katrín Möller |
| November 5 | BMC Bioinformatics Facility hands-on sessions |
| November 13 | Redox Regulation of Stem Cell Fate During Development | Agnes Ulfig |
| November 20 | Novel Treatment for ADHD: A Drug Discovery Journey | Karl Ægir Karlsson |
| November 27 | Non-antibiotic effects of macrolides on airway epithelial differentiation and metabolism | Árni Ásbjarnarson |
| December 3 | BMC Seminar - Transcriptome quantification |
| December 4 | BMS Seminar - Effect of chitosan and lifestyle on health and gut microbiota | Marta Guðjónsdóttir |
| December 11 | Designing and screening inhibitors for “undruggable” glycolysis enzymes | Jens Guðmundur Hjörleifsson |
| December 17 | BMC Bioinformatics Facility hands-on sessions |
| December 18 | Investigating protein disorder and interactions with high-field NMR and single-molecule FRET | Louise Pinet |
| Date | Title of talk | Speaker |
| January 6 | Introducation to the new FV4000 Olympus confocal microscope | |
| January 7 | BMC Bioinformatics Facility hands-on sessions | Session 004 | Adrián & Snævar |
| January 16 | Evolution of cellular and developmental regulatory networks | Dr. Arnar Pálsson |
| January 23 | The role of gene duplications in generating animal biodiversity | Dr. Adam Ray Smith |
| February 5 | BMC Bioinformatics Facility hands-on sessions | Session 004 |
| February 13 | Evolution of cellular and developmental regulatory networks | Margrét Helga Ögmundsdóttir, professor |
| March 5 | BMC Bioinformatics Facility hands-on sessions | Session 008 | |
| March 6 | Precision Nutrition & Exposomics: Future Opportunities | Bryndís Eva Birgisdottir, professor |
| March 13 | The role of differentiation in immunomodulatory gene expression in melanoma | Teitur Sævarsson, PhD student |
| March 19 | Trajectory inference in single-cell transcriptomics | |
| March 20 | Participation bias and human genetic studies | Stefanía Benónísdóttir, post-doc |
| March 27 | What we have learned from screening a nation for monoclonal gammopathies: The iStopMM study | Dr. Sæmundur Rögnvaldsson |
| April 2 | BMC Bioinfroamatics workshop - Introduction to CUT & RUN data analysis | |
| April 2 | Genotype and Machine Learning Based Blood Matching: Towards Improved Transfusion Outcomes | Nicholas Gleadall |
| April 3 | Inducers of host defense peptide expression, improve the epithelial barrier integrity | Guðmundur Hrafn Guðmundsson, Professor |
| May 7 | BMC Bioinformatics session - Introduction to CUT & RUN data analysis | |
| May 8 | Crosslinking mass spectrometry-past, present and future | Dr. Guðrún Rútsdóttir |
| May 8 | Prófessorsfyrirlestur | Margrét Helga Ögmundsdóttir |
| May 20 | Seminars on Human Genome Variation | |
| May 26 | “Towards a thermodynamic understanding of amyloid solubility enhancement by chaperones” | Sara Snogerup Linse, professor |
| June 2 | Systems Learning of Single Cells | Dr. Qing Nie |
| June 3 | Physiological autophagy in space and time | Tom McWilliams, Associate Professor |
| June 23 | Analysis of R-loop forming regions identifies RNU2-2 and RNU5B-1 as neurodevelopmental disorder genes | Siddhart Banka, Professor |
| June 25 | BMC Bioinformatics Facility hands-on sessions | Session 013 |
| July 4 | Stochasticity and plasticity in human health and disease | Dr. Sidhartha Goyal |
| Date | Title of talk | Speaker |
| August 16 | KRAB zinc finger protein essential for heart development | Dr. Anna D. Senft |
| August 27 | Modeling alveolar soft part sarcoma | Dr. Takuro Nakamura, M.D., Ph.D. |
| September 5 | Nextcloud data storage solution for research projects | Adrian Lomana, Research Specialist |
| September 11 | BD FACSDiscover S8 cell sorter | Adrian Lomana, Research Specialist |
| October 10 | Serum proteomics reveal APOE-ε4-dependent and APOE-ε4-independent protein signatures in Alzheimer’s disease | Dr. Valborg Guðmundsdóttir |
| October 31 | Novel mechanisms of MITF regulation identified in a mouse suppressor screen | Dr. Nhung Hong Vu |
| November 12 | Addressing challenges in biomarker translation from a clinical perspective | Brian Rappold |
| November 14 | Isoform specific role of the autophagy protein ATG7 in cancer | Clémence Larat, PhD student |
| November 19 | Doctoral defence - Drífa Hrund Guðmundsdóttir | Drífa Hrund Guðmundsdóttir |
| November 21 | Doctoral defence - Valgerður Jakobína Hjaltalín | Valgerður Jakobína Hjaltalín |
| November 27 | BMC bioinformatics hands-on workshop |
| November 28 | The Sequencing Facility at Landspítali University Hospital | Dr. Eiríkur Briem |
| December 5 | Programming environments: plain text editors, RStudio and Jupyter lab |
| December 11 | BMC Bioinformatics Facility hands-on sessions | Session 003 - Transcriptome quantification with kallisto | Adrián & Snævar |
| December 12 | Androgens mediate sexual dimorphism in Pilarowski-Bjornsson Syndrome | Dr. Kimberley Jade Anderson |
| Date | Title of talk | Speaker |
| January 11 | Molecular pathology of cancer and the application of clinical sequencing | Bylgja Hilmarsdóttir, PhD. |
| January 18 | Green actions in the lab: there really is no time to waste! | Katrín Möller, Postdoc |
| February 1 | Scientific innovation, the potential and the pitfalls | Einar Mäntylä, CEO |
| February 2 | Heiðursmálþing - Vilmundur Guðnason | Ýmsir |
| February 5 | Neuronal heterogeneity and plasticity in the olfactory bulb | Dr. Elisa Galiano |
| February 8 | Oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer and adverse outcome in BRCA2 mutation carriers and young non-carrier patients | Laufey Tryggvadóttir, Clinical Professor |
| February 22 | Clinical Metabolomics of Acute Critical Illness and Links to The Endothelium | Sarah McGarrity, PhD |
| February 29 | Identifying causal protein candidates for common disease in the AGES-RS cohort using Mendelian randomization | Þórarinn Jónmundsson, Faculty of Medicine |
| March 14 | DNA binding redistributes activation domain ensemble and accessibility in pioneer factor Sox2 | Sveinn Bjarnason, PhD student |
| March 22 | Introducing Proteintech as a Manufacturer of Antibodies, Cytokines and Nanobodies | Dr. Frank Schestag |
| March 22 | Exploring the genetic landscape of early-onset breast cancer using CRISPR-select | Þorkell Guðjónsson, assistant professor |
| April 4 | DNA methylation abnormalities in neurons | Juan Ouyang, Phd student |
| April 5 | Doctoral defence in medical science | Salvör Rafnsdóttir |
| April 16 | Doctoral defence in medical science | Guðný Anna Árnadóttir |
| April 23 | Becoming an RNAscope™ Expert: From Lunch Break to Science Breakthrough | Joan Raouf, Spatial Biology Specialist |
| June 18 | Doctoral defence | Romain Maurice Jacques Lasseur |
| June 19 | The Curie Institute proteomics platform, projects and developments | Dr. Florent Dingli |
| June 20 | Epigenetics, genetics and adaptation in naturally diverging populations | Dr. Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser |
| June 21 | Doctoral defence in Biology | Sébastien Léon Tadeus Matlosz |
| Date | Title of talk | Speaker |
| August 30 | The cellular and circuit basis of visual processing strategies | Prof. Marion Silies |
| August 31 | GDAP1 loss of function inhibits the mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase complex | Dr. Axel Methner |
| September 5 | RNA editing in neurodegenerative disorders | Dimitra Dafou, Associate Prof. |
| September 11 | Introduction to the Bioinformatics Service at the BMC | Workshop |
| September 15 | The moral status of stem cell-derived embryo models | Open symposium |
| September 22 | Overcoming Chromatin Barriers to Change Cell Fate | Dr. Ken Zaret |
| September 25 | Cost/Benefit of Open Access & Open Science | Dr. Bernd Pulverer |
| September 25 | Transparent Publishing and Open Science | Dr. Bernd Pulverer |
| September 25 | Long range connections and multisensory integration in brain microcircuits in vivo: a combined electro- and opto-physiological approach | Paolo Medini, Associate Prof. |
| September 26 | Navigating the publishing process | Dr. Bernd Pulverer |
| September 27 | Atg8ylation in canonical autophagy and other processes | Dr. Vojo Deretic |
| October 11-13 | The Nordic Melanoma Meeting | Conference |
| October 12 | IceBio2023 | Biennial Conference on Biology |
| October 19 | Bioinformatics | Workshop |
| November 17 | Target Mitochondrial Metabolism in Leukaemic Stem Cells | Prof. Vignir Helgason |
| November 30 | High-throughput synthetic biology approach to study human disease proteins in yeast | Dr. Guðjón Ólafsson |
| December 7 | The potential role of Atlastin 2 in breast cancer progression | Dr. Inga Reynisdóttir |
| Date | Title of talk | Speaker |
| January 12 | Non-antibiotic disease modifying effects of macrolides in airway diseases | Árni Ásbjarnarson |
| January 26 | Sustainability in laboratories | Dr. Katrín Möller |
| February 2 | Sepsis requiring Intensive Care Unit admission: Studies on temporal trends in epidemiology, cancer, elective surgery and local infectious outbreaks | Dr. Edda Vésteinsdóttir |
| February 9 | Dietary fish oil enhances hallmarks of resolution of inflammation with NK cells playing a key role | Prof. Jóna Freysdóttir |
| February 23 | Modulation of epithelial innate immune responses by microbiota metabolites | Dr. Iwona Teresa Myszor |
| March 2 | GPMLS lecture - Basic and translational studies on the second largest source of mutation in cancer | Prof. Reuben S. Harris |
| March 9 | Microneurography as a tool in clinical neurophysiology – studying Sympathetic nerve traffic in humans | Prof. Yrsa Bergmann Sverrisdóttir |
| March 16 | Development of a preventive vaccine against insect bite hypersensitivity in horses | Dr. Sigríður Jónsdóttir |
| March 23 | Can we cure cancer? - Treating cancer with adoptive cellular therapy | Sólrún Melkorka Maggadóttir |
| March 29 | HNRNPA2B1 reduces miRNAs Targeting Key Enzymes in the Serine Synthesis Pathway to Promote Endocrine-Resistance in Breast Cancer Cells | Prof. Carolyn Klinge |
| March 30 | Introduction of the BD FACSymphony™ A3 Cell Analyzer – New flow cytometer at the Department of Immunology | Dr. Morten Løbner |
| April 13 | Role of the key autophagy protein ATG7 in tumor biology: Analysis of a mammalian specific function | Valgerður J. Hjaltalín |
| April 17 | GPMLS lecture - Breast cancer prevention via targeting progenitors | Prof. Kornelia Polyak |
| April 27 | Cancer in Iceland; the current and future situation | Sigríður Gunnarsdóttir |
| May 11 | Pharmacological rescue of impaired mitophagy in Parkinson’s disease-related LRRK2 G2019S knock-in mice | Dr. Francois Singh |
| May 31 | Oral training presentation | xxx |
| June 15 | Robert Ballotti will introduce us to his work within the field of melanoma | Robert Ballotti |
| June 22 | Building the Australian RNA ecosystem | Prof. Páll Þórðarson |
| Date | Title of talk | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| November 24 | Host restriction of lentiviruses and viral countermeasures: The Vif protein of maedi-visnavirus | Dr. Stefán Ragnar Jónsson |
| November 10 | A comparison of the genomes of Icelandic Renibacterium salmoninarum isolates to genomes of isolates from North America, Europe, and Chile | Dr. Birkir Þór Bragason |
| October 27 | Scrapie situation in Iceland and recent findings | Dr. Stefanía Þorgeirsdóttir |
| October 20 | Modelling APRT deficiency in kidney cells in vitro | Hildur Rún Helgudóttir |
| September 15 | Mímir II - A new high-performance computer-cluster for bioinformatics | Dr. Elvar Örn Jónsson and Dr. Snævar Sigurðsson |
| August 25 | GPMLS lecture - Large-scale data archives and analytic tools for neurological disorders | Dr. Dominique Duncan |
| August 15 | Life in context: EMBL‘s perspective | Dr. Edith Heard |
| March 3 | Epitranscriptomic regulation of DNA repair genes | Karen Kristjánsdóttir |
| February 24 | Regulation of vascular tone and wall tension in retinal arteries | Prof. Þór Eysteinsson |
| February 17 | New Research infrastructure - Part B | Margrét, Óttar, Stefanía and Ragnhildur |
| February 10 | New Research Infrastructure; Part A | Ragnhildur, George, Þór and Hans |
| February 3 | Microglial table manners: a new role for the centrosome in timing and controlling neuronal uptake by microglia | Katrín Möller |
| January 27 | Skin and mucosal immune-dysregulation and its role in Autoimmunity | Prof. Björn Rúnar Lúðvíksson |
| January 20 | Neuromuscular Tissue Engineering: In vivo studies with cellular therapies in models of severe lesion | Dr. Tiago Ramos Pereira |
| January 13 | The role of Mitf in neuronal activity | Fatich Mechmet |
| Date | Title of talk | Speaker |
| December 17 | Dissecting the phagophore assembly site | Mr. Sigurður Rúnar Guðmundsson |
| December 10 | APRT Deficiency: Prevalence and Clinical Outcomes | Dr. Hrafnhildur Linnet Runólfsdóttir |
| December 3 | New developments in ocular delivery: Eye drops for retinal diseas | Prof. Einar Stefánsson |
| November 26 | Sleep revolution - remodeling of sleep diagnostics and treatment | Dr. Erna Sif Arnardóttir |
| November 19 | Role of biological sex in cardiovascular (patho)physiology | Dr. George Kararigas |
| November 12 | CRISPR-Cas9: discovery, current uses and future uses | Prof. Hans Tómas Björnsson |
| October 29 | The genetics of fetal hemoglobin levels in adults | Prof. Magnús Karl Magnússon |
| Date | Title of talk | Speaker |
| February 27 | Positive communication in an academic environment | Jóhanna Ella Jónsdóttir |
| February 20 | Horizon Europe – what to expect in the next EU framework programme | Aðalheiður Jónsdóttir |
| February 13 | Novel aspects of MITF in melanoma | Dr. Valerie Fock |
| February 6 | Plasma Metabolomics Profiles Associated with Endothelial Health and Dysfunction and their Influence on Endothelial Cell Metabolism | Prof. Óttar Rolfsson |
| January 30 | Secondary effects of head trauma in sports – psychological, neuropsychological and hormonal aspects | Dr. Ingunn S. Unnsteinsdóttir Kristensen & dr. Helga Ágústa Sigurjónsdóttir |
| January 23 | IDH2-mediated glutamine dependency in breast epithelial cells: Implications for drug resistance | Sigurður Trausti Karvelsson |
| January 16 | iStopMM: Early findings of a nation-wide screening study for multiple myeloma | Dr. Sigrún Þorsteinsdóttir and dr. Sæmundur Rögnvaldsson |
| January 9 | New projects supported by the Infrastructure Fund 2019 | Many |