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).
Programme
Please note: The displayed programme is a preliminary schedule from September 10, 2008. Changes are possible.
| 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 |
| Wednesday 15. Oct 2008 | |||
| 9:15-11.00 | Katarzyna Arczewska | katarzyna.arczewska at biotek.uio.no | C. elegans and DNA repair |
| 11:00-12:30 | Lunch until 12:30 | ||
| 12:30-14.15 | Bernd Thiede | bernd.thiede at biotek.uio.no | Proteomics and cell death |
| 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 |
| 11:15-13.00 | Tone Tønjum | tone.tonjum at medisin.uio.no | Genome dynamics and microbial pathogenesis |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 14.15-16.00 | Mohammed Amarzguioui | mohammed.amarzguioui at biotek.uio.no | RNAi in functional genomics and therapeutics |
| 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 | ||
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Friday 24. Oct 2008 | |||
| 9.15-12.00 | Student presentations | ||
| Monday 27 Oct 2008 | |||
| 9.15-13.15 | Exam (4 hour written open book) | ||
