Science for Life seminars in Campus Solna

The SciLifeLab Spotlight seminar is  is a high-profile seminar series that aims to invite leading scientists making a major impact in the field of biosciences to come to present their ongoing research at Campus Solna.

The intention is to promote an active intellectual environment at Campus Solna via networking with excellent national and international researchers to fuel new ideas and foster collaborations.

Speakers are selected via an open nomination process. They can be nominated twice per year by the SciLifeLab community at Campus Solna, employed at the KTH, Karolinska Institutet or Stockholm University. Nominations will be evaluated by a Scientific Committee. The nominator(s) of selected speakers will have the responsibility to invite the speaker to Stockholm. SciLifeLab will cover the costs for travel, accommodation and a social activity, according to the seminar guidelines.

In addition to evaluating scientific excellence and representation of the research fields, the Scientific Committee will ensure fair gender balance and inclusiveness and encourage nominations of leading scientist regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, nationality and the like.

Selection criteria for speakers

• Scientific excellence
• Presentation skills
• Research areas of interest
• Gender balance
• Geografical balance

Scientific Committee

• Adnane Achour, KI
• Claudia Fredolini, KTH
• Fredrik Edfors, KTH
• Iskra Pollak, SU
• Marta Carroni, SU
• Ola Larsson, KI
• Stefania Giacomello, KTH
• Vicent Pelechano, KI
• Mafalda Ferreira, SU

Spotlight seminars are held in Air and Fire at 15:15-16:15 if not stated otherwise

Spring

January 14
Arnaud Krebs
EMBL, Germany
Title: TBA
Host: Eva Brinkman, KI

February 18
William Nyberg, SciLifeLab Fellow

Mars 25
Naoko Mizuno
NIH, USA
Title: Molecular neurobiology by in situ cryo-EM/ET
Host: Lisa Engelhardt, SU

April 29
Brenda Andrews
Department of Molecular Genetics – Canada Research Chair Systems Genetics & Cell Biology, Canada
Title: Using comparative functional genomics to map genetic networks
Host: Per Ljungdahl,SU

May 20
Lude Franke
Department of Genetics, University of Groeningen, Netherlands
Title: Investigating the regulatory impact of rare non-coding somatic mutations in cancer
Host: Tuuli Lappalainen, KTH

June 17
CANCELLED; Jonathan Weissman
MIT, USA
Title: TBA
Host: Erik Sonnhammer, SU

Fall

August 27
Klara Hlouchova
Faculty of Science, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Title: TBA
Host: Ilaria Piazza, KI

September 23
John Tsang
Yale University, USA
Title: TBA
Host: Burcu Ayoglu, KTH

October 21
TBD


November 18
Leo Lahti
University of Turku, Finland
Title: TBA
Host: Anders Anderson, SU

December 16
TBD