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Graduate Program in Molecular Life Sciences

Confirmed GPMLS/BMC guest speakers - Academic year 2017-2018

Day

Guest speaker

Title

Contact person

July 5

Dr. Linfa WANG

Bats, viruses and longevity: what´s the link?

Próf. Magnús Gottfreðsson

April 16

Dr. Rafael Casellas

How nuclear architecture regulates transcription

Dr. Erna Magnúsdóttir

April 10

Prof. Jonas Bergquist

Mass Spectrometry in Precision Medicine

Dr. Margrét Þorsteinsdóttir

March 19

Prof. Ardem Patapoutian

Piezo channels in mechanotransduction: sensory biology to disease

Prof. Eiríkur Steingrímsson

October 19

Dr. Fiona Watt

Regulation of cell fate in mammalian epidermis

Prof. Þórarinn Guðjónsson

August 22

Dr. Joan Massagué

Metastatic colonization by circulating cancer cells

Dr. Inga Reynisdóttir

Confirmed GPMLS/BMC guest speakers – Academic year 2016-2017

Month	Guest speaker	Title	Contact person
September 9	Petra Knaus	Disease causing mutations in the BMP pathway	Guðrún Valdimarsdóttir
September 19	Susan Domchek	Beyond BRCA1 and BRCA2 - Where do we go from here?	Sigríður Klara Böðvarsdóttir
October 27	Albin Sandelin	The transcription start site and enhancer landscape of the descending colon in inflammatory bowel disease	Arnar Pálsson
January 23	John Hardy	Genomics of neurodegeneration	Diahann Atacho
March 1	Nevan Krogan	Using Systems Approaches to Study the Host-Pathogen Interface	Valgerður Andrésdóttir
April 10	David Sabatini	Regulation of Growth by the mTOR Pathway	Margrét Helga Ögmundsdóttir
April 21	Paul Nurse	Controlling the Cell Cycle	Eiríkur Steingrímsson
May 26	Immaculata De Vivo	The Impact of Telomere Dynamics and Lifestyle Choices on Cancer Risk	Gunnar Guðmundsson
June 2	Andrew Jackson	A to Z of Microcephaly: Linking instability to innate immunity	Jón Jóhannes Jónsson
June 26	Josef Penninger	Yeast genetics in mammalian stem cells	Valerie Fock

Confirmed GPMLS/BMC guest speakers – Academic year 2015-2016

Month	Guest speaker	Title	Contact person
September (24. Sept)	Claire Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania	Lysosomal roles in extracellular and intracellular communication	Þór Eysteinsson/Josue Ballesteros
November (5. Nov)	Mina Bissell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Why don’t we get more cancer? The crucial role of Extracellular Matrix and Microenvironment in metastasis and dormancy.	Þórarinn Guðjónsson
November (6. Nov)	Robert Hindges, Kings College		Zophonías O. Jónsson
January (21. Jan)	Kári Stefánsson, DeCODE genetics	Genetics of Common Complex Traits	Guðrún Valdimarsdóttir
March (10. March)	Frank Heppner, Charité Medical University Berlin	Immune actions in Alzheimer’s disease	Diahann Atacho
March (17. March)	Martin Lagging, University of Gothenburg	Impact of Host Genetic Factors on the Natural History and Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus Infection	Þorbjörg Einarsdóttir
May (6. May) Mini-symposium	Alan Ashworth, UCSF Serena Nik-Zainal, Sanger Institute	Harnessing DNA repair defects to develop new therapies for cancer Landscape of somatic genetics in 560 whole breast cancer genomes	Helga M. Ögmundsdóttir
May (26. May)	Christine Mummery, LUMC Leiden	Human pluripotent stem cells in modelling cardiovascular disease: the new patient	Guðrún Valdimarsdóttir
June (21. June)	Andreas Radbruch, DRFZ, Berlin	The resting and the restless immunological memory: Its role in immunity and chronic inflammation	Jóna Freysdóttir
June (27. June) Mini-symposium	Rudolf Jaenisch & Richard Young, Whitehead Institute, MIT	Epigenetics, stem cells and disease research Development and disease: the view from chromosome neighborhoods	Anne Richter

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Graduate Program in Molecular Life Sciences

Confirmed GPMLS/BMC guest speakers - Academic year 2017-2018

Confirmed GPMLS/BMC guest speakers – Academic year 2016-2017

Confirmed GPMLS/BMC guest speakers – Academic year 2015-2016