HIB Friday Seminars at
SARS Centre - MBI
 

current seminars


2005
The seminars are organised jointly by Department of Molecular Biology and
the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology

Guest lectures
Friday seminars
PhD programme seminars
and thesis defences
Special Seminars

Date Place Speaker Host Title
Friday Dec 9th. 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Silke Appel
Department of Biomedicine, UiB
M. Ziegler Molecular and functional analyses of the differentiation of human dendritic cells
Thursday Dec 8th. 15:00 Sars Seminar room, (222A4) Biobuilding, HIB Di Jiang
University of California, Santa Barbara
D. Chourrout How does notochord take its shape? Lessons learned from ascidian developmental genetics
Tuesday Dec 6th at 10:15 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Stephan Schuster
Penn State University, USA
U. Technau Non-Sanger sequencing and what it might do for Biology (see also 454)

Friday Dec 2nd 10:15

Large Auditorium (2144), Data building, HIB. Anne Vatland Krøvel
Sars
PhD Thesis Defence Exploring germline formation and gametogenesis in zebrafish using a vas::EGFP transgene
Thursday Dec 1st at 14:15 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Paul Lasko
Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
L.C. Olsen Translational control in Drosophila
development

Thursday Nov 24th. 13:30

MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Rasmus Skern
Havforskningsinstituttet
Pre-doctoral lecture with given title Structure and function of proteinase inhibitors in arthropods

Friday Nov 25th10:15

Large Auditorium (2144), Data building, HIB. Rasmus Skern
Havforskningsinstituttet
PhD Thesis Defence Trypsin and trypsin-like peptidases from Lepeophtheirus salmonis

Monday Nov 7th 13:15

MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Anne Vatland Krøvel
Sars
Pre-doctoral lecture with given title Circadian rythms: From Drosophila to mammals
Friday Nov 4th at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB.

Knud N. Nierhaus
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin

M. Ziegler LepA, a recently detected elongation factor, highly conserved and present in all bacteria and mitochondria.
Tuesday Oct 25th at 9:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB.

Toby J. Gibson
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

R. Aasland When Unstructure determines Protein Function
Friday Oct 21st at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB.

Oddmund Bakke
Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo

M. Ziegler The endosomal pathway for MHC-II antigen loading in 4D
Friday Oct 14th at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB.

Sebastian Shimeld
University of Oxford, UK

U. Technau Placodes in protochordates and the evolution of vertebrate cranial
senses
Friday Oct 7th at 12:15 (note the time!) MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB.

Yoshiyuki Yamamoto
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology University College London, UK

D. Chourrout Pleiotropic Tradeoff During Blind Cavefish Evolution and Development
Tuesday Sep 27th 13:00 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB.

Toshi Fujisawa
National Institute of Genetics, Mishima

U. Technau Complexity of the Hydra nervous system revealed by expression of neuropeptide genes

Friday Sep 23th 10:15

Auditorium 2, Realfagbygget Bjørn Olav Kvamme
Havforskningsinstituttet
PhD Thesis Defence Trypsins from the salmon louse (Lepeoptheirus salmonis, Crustacea, Copepoda).
Friday Sep 16th at 13:30 Large Auditorium (2144), Data building, HIB. Iain Mattaj
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
R. Aasland & D. Chourrout The Ran GTPase as a spatial regulator in mitosis
Tuesday Sep 13th at 10:00 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Konstantin Birukov
Section of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine, Department of Medicine,
University of Chicago
M. Ziegler Small GTPases in the regulation of endothelial permeability and the cytoskeleton
Friday Sep 2nd at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Valina Dawson
Johns Hopkins University, USA
M. Ziegler Poly(ADP-Ribosyl)ation in the Life and Death of Neurons

Wednesday Aug 24th. 10:15

MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Clemens Furnes
MBI
Pre-doctoral lecture with given title The role of (viral and cellular) microRNA in the virus-host interaction and possible therapeutic/antiviral applications
Wednesday Aug. 24th. 13:15 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB.

Roland Stauber
Institute for Biomedical Research, Georg-Speyer-Haus, Frankfurt

A.M. Szilvay Regulated nucleocytoplasmic transport: Biological implications and potential for therapeutic interventions

Thursday Aug. 25th. 10:15

Large Auditorium (2144), Data building, HIB. Clemens Furnes
MBI
PhD Thesis Defence Subcellular localization, oligomerization and trafficking of HIV-1 Rev
Friday Aug 19th at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta
Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, CSIC/ Universidad Pablo de Olavide Sevilla, Spain
T. Becker A functional survey of the enhancer activity of conserved non-coding sequences from vertebrate iroquois cluster gene deserts
Tuesday June 28th at 13:00 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Jaime Caro
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia

J.R. Lillehaug,
T. Arnesen

Hypoxia regulation of gene expression

Tuesday June. 21nd. 10:15

Large Auditorium (2144), Data building, HIB. Odd Andre Karlsen
MBI
PhD Thesis Defence Molecular analyses of copper responding proteins in Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)

Thursday June. 23rd. 13:15

MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Bjørn Olav Kvamme
Institute for Marine Research
Pre-doctoral lecture with given title Caspases; structure, function and evolution
Friday June 17th at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Charles N. David
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany
U. Technau Multiple roles for apoptosis in Hydra growth and development
Wednesday June 15th at 14:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Tor Erik Rusten
The Norwegian Radium Hospital
R. Aasland Regulation of vesicle trafficking and cell signaling by phosphatidylinositol converting enzymes in Drosophila melanogaster

Thursday June ?th. 10:15

MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Odd Andre Karlsen
MBI
Pre-doctoral lecture with given title w.w.t.t.a.
Friday May 27th at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Frederic Berger
Chromatin and Reproduction Group
Temasek Lifescience Laboratory, Singapore
E. M. Thompson Role of Polycomb group complex in plant Reproduction; from imprinting to heterochronies

Friday May. 27th. 10:15

Large Auditorium (2144), Data building, HIB. Laila J. Reigstad
MBI
PhD Thesis Defence PDGF-C: Structural analysis and endogenous intracellular expression with special reference to human thyroid tissue
Wednesday May 18th at 13:15 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Patrick Charnay
Ecole Normale Supériure, Paris
T. Becker Boundary caps, a source of neural stem cells of the vertebrate PNS?
Friday May 20th at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Jaakko Saraste
Department of Biomedicine, UiB
M. Ziegler Dynamics and functional organisation of pre-Golgi membranes

Thursday Apr 28th. 10:15

MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Rolf B. Edvardsen
Sars
Pre-doctoral lecture with given title Alternative intron splicing in animal function and evolution

Friday Apr. 29th. 10:15

Large Auditorium (2144), Data building, HIB. Rolf B. Edvardsen
Sars
PhD Thesis Defence Rapid genome evolution tin the urochordate linage of Oikopleura dioica

Monday May 2nd. 14:00

MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Laila Reigstad
MBI
Pre-doctoral lecture with given title

Biological significance of RNA interference in modulation of gene expression

Friday Apr 22nd at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Ralf J. Sommer
MPI fuer Entwicklungsbiologie Tuebingen, Germany
U. Technau The nematode Pristionchus pacificus as a new model system in evolutionary developmental biology and ecology
Friday Apr 15th at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Clive D´Santos
Department of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry, University of Utrecht
M. Ziegler Inositol Lipid kinase binding proteins and proteomics
Friday April 8th at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Frederic Pendino
MBI
MBI Telomerase Targeting by Retinoids in Leukemic Cells
Friday Mar 18th at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Ulrich Technau
The Sars Centre
Sars Reconstructing the Urmetazoa: The cnidarians and the evolution of developmental mechanisms
Friday Mar 11th at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Anders Molven
The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Norway
M. Ziegler Using microsatellite markers to throw new light on blood glucose regulation:
The hunt for a hypoglycemia gene.
Friday Mar 4th at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Christa Schleper
Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Norway
M. Ziegler Metagenomics: Digging out clues on the metabolism of uncultivated archaea from environmental soil libraries
Friday Feb 25th at 10:40 Sars Room 222A4, Biobuilding HIB. Thomas Mueller
Institute of Neurobiology A Fessard, CNRS, France
Sars Molecular Atlas Database of Zebrafish Brain Development and Neurogenesis: a key for linking genetic pathways to neuronal subtype formation
Friday Feb 25th at 9:50 Sars Room 222A4, Biobuilding HIB. Mariya Broun
Institute of Zoology, University of Toronto, Canada.
Sars Studies of axis formation and epithelial polarization in Cnidarians Hydra and Nematostella
Friday Feb 25th at 9:00 Sars Room 222A4, Biobuilding HIB. Klaus Rohr
Insitute of Developmental Biology, University of Koln, Germany
Sars From organ evolution to medical implications:
The vascular system plays a major role in thyroid Development
Friday Jan 28th at 12:15 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Thilo Hagen
Wolfson Digestive Diseases Center
University Hospital Nottingham, UK
M. Ziegler Regulation of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor by Nitric Oxide in mammalian cells - Lessons learned from Fireflies
Friday Feb 11th at 13:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Stephen Rudd
Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Turku, Finland
U. Technau Comparative genomics - are EST collections a substitute for complete
genomes?

Friday Jan 21st. 10:15

Large Auditorium (2144), Data building, HIB. Frode S. Berven
MBI
PhD Thesis Defence Analysing the outer membrane subproteome of Methylococcus capsultaus (Bath)
using proteomics and bioinformatics.

Friday Jan 7th. 10:15

Large Auditorium (2144), Data building, HIB. Anja Ragvin
MBI
PhD Thesis Defence The PHD finger: a nucleosome-binding protein module involved in epigenetic gene regulation
Thursday Jan 6th 16:30 MBI Seminar room (520B1), Biobuilding HIB. Patrick Varga-Weisz
Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
R. Aasland ATP-dependent nucleosome remodelling factors
in chromatin replication
 
Links to previous seminars:
[current] [2006] [2005] [2004] [2003] [2002] [2001] [2000] [1999] [V1998] [V1998] [H1997] [V1997] [H1996]
organisers: Daniel Chourrout (Sars), Rein Aasland and Mathias Ziegler (MBI)
Page maintained by Rein Aasland