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 Caroni, SU
• Ola Larsson, KI
• Stefania Giacomello, KTH
• Vicent Pelechano, KI

Spotlight seminars are held in Air and Fire at 15:00-16:00 if not stated otherwise

Fall 2024

September 10
Luke D. Lavis
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
Title: Designing brighter dyes for advanced fluorescence microscopy and beyond
Host: Simon Elsässer, KI

October 22
Jon Yewdell
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA
Title: Drips and SliPS and Retirees, Oh My!
Host: Adnane Achour, KI

November 6 at 16:00
Jan Ellenberg
SciLifeLab Director
Title: Imaging the molecular processes of cell division across scale
Host: Per Ljungdahl, SU

November 19
Alfredo Castello
University of Glasgow, UK
Title: When viral RNA met the cell: a story of host-virus interactions
Host: Eduardo Sagredo Campos, KI

December 17
Mateusz Sikora
Max Plank Institue of Biophysics and Maloposka Centre of Biotechnology, Poland
Title: TBA
Host: Piotr Draczkowski, SU

2025

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

February 18
TBD

Mars 25
Naoko Mizuno
NIH, USA
Title: TBA
Host: Lisa Engelhardt, SU

April 29
Brenda Andrews
Department of Molecular Genetics – Canada Research Chair Systems Genetics & Cell Biology, Canada
Title: TBA
Host: Per Ljungdahl,SU

May 20
Lude Franke
Department of Genetics, University of Groeningen, Netherlands
Title: TBA
Host: Tuuli Lappalainen, KTH

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