Nobel Laureate Revisiting Lecture – Stanley B. Prusiner 2017
Nobel Laureate Revisiting Lecture Tuesday, April 4th, 2017, at 4.30 Stanley B. Prusiner Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1997 Title: Quest for prion therapeutics in neurodegenerative diseases Alzheimer’s (AD) and Parkinson’s diseases (PD) are the most common neuro-degenerative diseases (ND). Increasing evidence argues that both AD and PD are caused by prions. Ab and
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Karolinska Research Lecture – Xiadong Wang 2017
Research Lecture at Nobel Forum 6 April, 16.30 Xiaodong Wang, Ph.D. National Institute of Biological Sciences, #7 Science Park Road, Zhongguancun Life Science Park, Beijing 102206, China. http://www.nibs.ac.cn Title: “Programmed Cell Death in Diseases and Aging” The longest ongoing research program of our laboratory studies apoptosis, i.e. caspase-mediated cell death. One of our most
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Karolinska Research Lecture – Hidde Ploegh 2017
Research Lecture at Nobel Forum 16 March, 16.30 Hidde L. Ploegh Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research 9 Cambridge Center, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02142, USA http://ploeghlab.wi.mit.edu Title: “Imaging immunity” Recent work in my laboratory has focused on applications of camelid-derived single domain antibodies. These protein, also referred to as VHHs or nanobodies, are small (~12 kDa), do
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Karolinska Research Lecture – Michael S. Levine 2017
Research Lecture at Nobel Forum 16 Februari, kl. 16.30 Michael S. Levine Professor of Molecular Biology Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA http://molbio.princeton.edu/faculty/molbio-faculty/891-levine Title: “Visualization and evolution of transcriptional enhancers in animal development” ABSTRACT Transcriptional enhancers are short segments of DNA that switch genes on and off in response
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy Press release in English (PDF) Pressmeddelande på Svenska (PDF) Advanced information in English (PDF)
Karolinska Research Lecture – Michael J. Berridge 2016
Research Lecture at Nobel Forum Free admission Date: 13 October, kl. 16.30 Speaker: Michael J. Berridge, The Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Title: "Inositol trisphosphate, calcium and Vitamin D signalling in health and disease" ABSTRACT Many cellular functions are regulated by calcium (Ca2+) signals that are generated by different signalling pathways. One of
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