GENERAL INFORMATION

1. About the “CCBIO Seminars”
The “CCBIO Seminars” form a seminar series covering the full spectrum of research areas within CCBIOs research focus. The seminars are held by invited local, national and international speakers suggested by colleagues at the CCBIO and their research collaborators. Please note that the series is also part of the master/PhD program at the Department of Biomeicine (see Section 6).

2. Place, time, transport
The seminars are held at BBB, Jonas Lies vei 91, 3rd floor, in auditorium 4. The auditorium is up the stairs on the right hand side after passing the reception at the BBB main entrance or is straight on when coming via the pedestrian bridge from Haukeland Hospital. Usually, the seminars take place every Thursday at 14:30. This fits tightly with the schedule of the campus bus, arriving at Haukeland Hospital at 14:30 and well wait for attendants if they make their way directly to the auditorium.

3. Call for proposal for speakers
Please get in touch with any member of the Scientific Committee (see Section 7) to suggest a guest speaker of your choice to open slots in the seminar schedule. Your suggestion is welcome any time but the best possible way to be successful would be to plan good time in advance. Please include the following information: affiliation, CV or publication list and webpage of the speaker and a short motivation. The Committee will select the speakers among those suggested, using the following criteria: scientific excellence, topic of general interest, topic diversity. Travel and accommodation costs for the selected speakers will be covered within certain limitations.

4. Please inform us about your guests
If a renowned scientist within a relevant field is going to visit your lab, for example as an “opponent” on the occasion of a thesis defence or for the purpose of research collaboration, and would be willing to give a seminar during his/her stay, please let us know. Take contact with Professor Donald Gullberg or Rolf Reed (see Section 7) as soon as possible.

5. Checklist for hosts
You should agree to act as host for the guest speaker you invite. This involves the following responsibilities:

• Arranging transport and accommodation for the guest (for budget frame work and reimbursement procedure, please click here).
• Arranging a social program for the guest during his/her stay.
• Asking the speaker to submit an abstract and writing a short biography of the speaker describing his/her background, current research interests, merits (both preferably max. ½ an A4 page).
• Sending abstract, biography and the webpage of the speaker to Geir Olav Løken latest two weeks before the seminar.
• Asking the speaker to give a general introduction at the beginning of the talk and preferentially place his/her work/results into a broader perspective at the end. Further, informing him/her that the lecture should not greatly exceed 45 minutes.
• Setting up the computer/overhead presentation in the auditorium together with the speaker in due time before the start of the seminar. In case you would like assistance, please contact Torstein Ravnskog at least one day in advance.
• Chairing the seminar which includes introducing the speaker and leading the discussion.

6. Master/PhD programme (BMED380)
During the fall 2013, the CCBIO seminars series is part of the master/PhD program and is open to all students at the UiB interested in biomedical and biosciences research. Registration to the course can be done at StudentWeb. Attendance is monitored by you signing a name list laid out during the seminars. To obtain a 5-point credit, attendance at a minimum of 25 lectures over two semesters is required and short written reviews of two selected lectures have to be submitted (one review for each semester).

7. The Committee
The CCBIO seminars committee consist of CCBIOs Director Lars Akslen and the Professors Rolf Reed and Donald Gullberg. CCBIOs Administrative Leader is the contact person for  suggestions for speakers and other practicalities.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRlkzdqMaFE

Seminars in 2013

29.8.2013: Lars A. Akslen, Director of CCBIO. CCBIO: Current concepts and challenges in cancer research.

26.9.2013: Helga B. Salvesen, Co-Director of CCBIO. Individualized therapy based on molecular alterations in gynecologic cancer.

31.10.2013: Oddbjørn Straume, CCBIO. Angiogenic biomarkers in malignant melanoma.

25.11.2013: CCBIO Special Lecture: Sonja Loges, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, University Comprehensive Cancer. Center II, Medical Clinic & Institute of Tumor Biology
Role of Gas6 - Axl axis in malignant interaction with the host.

28.11.2013: Bjørn Tore Gjertsen, CCBIO. Phosphoprotein signaling in acute myeloid leukemia.

Seminars in 2014

30.01.2014, Karl-Henning Kalland,

Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO), Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen:
Heterogeneity and reprogramming plasticity of cancer cells – therapeutic possibilities.

20.02.2014: Roger Strand,

Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO) and Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen:
Crossing the Styx

20.03.2014, Cédric Gaggioli,

Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging (IRCAN), Nice, France:
Production of LIF cytokine by cancer cells and fibroblasts contributes to the establishment of a pro-invasive tumor microenvironment.

24.04.2014, Angela Nieto,

Instituto de Neurociencias Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)–Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH), San Juan de Alicante, Spain:
Epithelial plasticity in development and disease

22.05.2014, Emmet McCormack,

Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen:
Pharmacological inhibition of the SIRT1 deacetylase with the small molecule inhibitor Tenovin-6 enhances ablation of FLT3-ITD+ LSC in combination with TKI treatment.