CERIC seminars Fall 2012

The seminars will be located in the CMM Lecture Hall (L8:00), unless otherwise specified. All seminars are Fridays from 15:00-16:00 with refreshments served both before and after the seminar.

August 31st CMM Lecture Hall (L8:00)

Speaker: Enikö Sonkoly, Dermatology Research Group, Karolinska Institutet

Title: MicroRNAs in psoriasis - potential therapeutic targets and biomarkers

Host: Mona Ståhle

September 7th CMM Lecture Hall (L8:00) - cancelled

September 14th CMM Lecture Hall (L8:00)

Speaker: Paul Moss, Head of School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham

Title: Getting the balance right': understanding the role of immunity to cytomegalovirus in health and vascular disease.

Host: Cecilia Söderberg-Naucler

September 21st CMM Lecture Hall (L8:00)

Speaker: Jon Lampa, Reumatologiska kliniken, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset Solna

Title: Nerve-immune system interactions in inflammatory diseases

Host: Marie Wahren

September 28thMBB Large Seminar Room (A3:311)

Speaker: Gregg Fields, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies

Title: Unraveling the Mechanism of Collagenolysis

Host: Rikard Holmdahl

October 5th CMM Lecture Hall (L8:00)

Speaker: Karl-Johan Malmberg, Oslo University Hospital

Title: Mapping Human Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-Like Receptor Repertoires and Their Adaptation to CMV Infection

Host: Cecilia Söderberg-Naucler

October 12th CMM Lecture Hall (L8:00)

Speaker: Riitta Lahesmaa, Molecular Immunology Group, Turku Centre for Biotechnology

Title: Holistic approach to human lymphocyte differentiation to functionally distinct subsets

Host: Jesper Tegnér

October 19th CMM Lecture Hall (L8:00)

Speaker: Sonja Schrepfer, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg Transplant and Stem Cell Immunobiology Lab (TSI)

Title: Stem Cells and their Immunobiology in MyocardialRegeneration

Host: Lars Maegdefessel

October 26th CMM Lecture Hall (L8:00)

Speaker: Göran Andersson, Uppsala University

Title: Genetics of diseases in dogs

Host: Rikard Holmdahl

November 2 No Seminar

November 9th CMM Lecture Hall (L8:00)

Speaker: Jon Lundberg, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet

Title: The nitrate-nitrite-nitric oxide pathway in health and disease

Host: Jesper Haeggström

November 16th CMM Lecture Hall (L8:00)

Speaker: Mauro D'Amato, Department of Bioscience and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute

Title: Genetics of gastrointestinal diseases; it takes guts

Host: Stephen Malin

November 23rd CMM Lecture Hall (L8:00)

Speaker: Julien Diana, INSERM, Hôpital Saint Vincent de Paul

Title: Neutrophils and antimicrobial peptides: new players in autoimmune diabetes

Host: Birgitta Agerberth

November 30th CMM Lecture Hall (L8:00)

Speaker: Trevor Owens, Neurobiology Department, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark

Title: Immune responses in the brain – inflammation, regulation, location

Host: Tomas Olsson

December 7thNo Seminar

December 14thNo Seminar