MNBTS 9000 (2008)

MNBTS 9000: A course in molecular biology (7.5 credit points)

The aim of the course is to introduce students to advanced research on molecular biology, biotechnology, bioinformatics etc, by having some of the best researchers in Norway to talk about their field in general and then present their own data.

Please bookmark this page. All future changes or announcements for the 2008 course will be posted to this page. The BiO web page for MNBTS 9000 is at http://www.biotek.uio.no/MNBTS/

Registration: ragni.indahl@biotek.uio.no

Place

Forskningsparken, room 10 (Provisional)
Exceptions:
On Thursday 16. Oct 2008 the course will be held in RH B1.1017 Seminarrom 3, RH Rikshospitalet, Sognsvannsveien 20. See the room [here] and the [map]

On Friday, October 17th the course will be held in room 10 from 9 to 12 and then in room 7 for the remainder of the day.

Lunch is on your own between 1:00 PM and 2:15 PM (except 15th and 22nd: 11:00 AM to 12:30). Please completely vacate the room during these lunch times.

Programme

Please note: The displayed programme is a preliminary schedule from September 10, 2008. Changes are possible.

MNBTS 9000 2008

Time	Speaker	Contact	Details and suggested readings
Monday 13. Oct 2008
9.00-9.15	Ian Donaldson	ian.donaldson at biotek.uio.no	Introduction
9.15-11.00	Farrukh Chaudhry	f.a.chaudhry at biotek.uio.no	Transport proteins PMID 18064412 and PMID 18832333.
11:15-13.00	Marit Otterlei	marit.otterlei at medisin.ntnu.no	Model systems for functional and dynamic analysis of BER / SSBR complexes using confocal microscopy and immunoprecipitation. PMID 18256616 and PMID 17512402.
14.15-16.00	Ludvig Sollid	l.m.sollid at medisin.uio.no	Functional immunogenetics. PMID 16557259 and PMID 12209133.
Tuesday 14. Oct 2008
9.15-11.00	Jon Nissen Meyer	jon.nissen-meyer at imbv.uio.no	Antimicrobial peptides (peptide bacteriocins) produced by gram-positive bacteria: Synthesis, structure and mode of action. Reference supplied.
11:15-13.00	Line M. Grønning-Wang	l.m.gronning-wang at medisin.uio.no	Hyperglycemia and cellular dysfunction. PMID 16317114 and PMID 16234270.
13:00-14:00	Everyone	-	Get together with pizza
14.15-16.00	Pål Falnes	pal.falnes at imbv.uio.no	Macromolecular methylation and its reversal Demethylation of DNA and RNA by AlkB proteins. PMID-15040447 and PMID 16362057.
Wednesday 15. Oct 2008
9:15-11.00	Katarzyna Arczewska	katarzyna.arczewska at biotek.uio.no	C. elegans and DNA repair. PMID 18050489 and PMID 16964178.
11:00-12:30	Lunch until 12:30. Please vacate the room.
12:30-14.15	Bernd Thiede	bernd.thiede at biotek.uio.no	Proteomics and cell death. PMID-162314219 and PMID 18186019.
14:15-16:00	Michael Leitges	Michael.leitges at biotek.uio.no	Generation of knock-out mice and Protein kinase C.
Thursday 16. Oct 2008 Note room change above!!
9:15-11:00	Heidi Kiil Blomhoff	h.k.blomhoff at medisin.uio.no	How cells die. cAMP and modulation of chemotherapy. PMID 15725726.
11:15-13.00	Tone Tønjum	tone.tonjum at medisin.uio.no	Genome dynamics and microbial pathogenesis PMID 16357857.
14:15-16:00	Torgeir Holen	torgeir.holen at medisin.uio.no	RNA interference - new tool ancient immune system A tale of mutated tails and overhangs Rooting out possible sources of experimental error in RNAi studies PMID 11937629 PMID 15741316
Friday 17. Oct 2008 Change to room 7 after lunch!
9.15-11.00	Ole Petter Ottersen	o.p.ottersen at basalmed.uio.no	Imaging of the brain at multiple levels: from EM to PET Molecular mechanisms of brain edema and brain water
11:00-2:15	Lunch until 2:15
14.15-16.00	Anne Spurkland	anne.spurkland at medisin.uio.no	What is a functional polymorphism? Autoimmunity, T-cell activation and angiogenesis controlled by the same adapter molecular
Monday 20. Oct 2008
9.15-11.00	Ian Donaldson	ian.donaldson at biotek.uio.no	Protein interaction resources
11:15-13.00	Terje Johansen	terje.johansen at fagmed.uit.no	Cell polarity, protein aggregations, degradation
14.15-16.00	Antonio Mora and Sabry Razick	Donaldson group	Cytoscape and the iRefIndex plugin
Tuesday 21. Oct 2008
9.15-11.00	Reidunn Aalen	reidunn.aalen at imbv.uio.no	Arabidopsis thaliana – an ideal model organism for functional genomics Plant epigentics
11:15-13.00	Lars Eide	laeide at medisin.uio.no	ROS and mitochondrial homeostasis PMID 15356189 and PMID 16740593
14.15-16.00	Mohammed Amarzguioui	mohammed.amarzguioui at biotek.uio.no	RNAi in functional genomics and therapeutics. PMID 17304245 and PMID 17183358.
Wednesday 22. Oct 2008
9.15-11.00	Fahri Saatcioglu	fahri.saatcioglu at imbv.uio.no	Structure-function analysis of nuclear receptors Molecular mechanisms of androgen action
11:00-12:30	Lunch until 12:30. Please vacate the room.
12:30-14:15	Kirsten Skarstad	kskarsta at ulrik.uio.no	Timing and coordination of overlapping replication cycles in E coli Two regulatory systems that are required for proper timing of chromosome replication. PMID 17914458 and PMID 18835566.
14.15-16.00	Torbjørn Rognes	torbjorn.rognes at medisin.uio.no	Introduction to similarity searches in sequence databases Computer tools for unravelling AlkB and other mysterious proteins. PMID 9254694, PMID 11276424 and PMID 11893514.
Friday 24. Oct 2008
9.15-12.00	Student presentations
Monday 27 Oct 2008
9.15-13.15	Exam (4 hour written open book)