Weekly seminars
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Weekly seminars
The Biomedical Center‘s weekly seminar series.
The seminar will take place every Thursday at 12:00-13:00.
All talks will be in English.
If you have any suggestion of a seminar please contact Dr. Jón Pétur Jóelsson (jpj@hi.is) or Hildur Sigurgrímsdóttir (hildusig@landspitali.is)
Previous seminar programmes
| 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 |
| 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 |
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