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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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Press badge needed for entrance to the Aula Medica Lecture hall on the 7th of December must be picked up at the Reception Desk, Nobel Forum, Nobels väg 1, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., December 7th.

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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Karolinska Research Lecture – Bonnie L. Bassler 2016

Research Lecture at Nobel Forum Free admission 15 September, kl. 16.30 Bonnie L. Bassler Professor in Molecular Biology Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University New Jersey, USA http://molbio.princeton.edu/labs/bassler/ Title: “Quorum Sensing and its Control” ABSTRACT Bacteria communicate with one another via the production and detection of secreted signal molecules called autoinducers. This cell-to-cell communication process,
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Nobel Laureate Revisiting Lecture 2016

Thursday, April 7th at 4.30 Venue: Wallenbergsalen, Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 1 Jack Szostak, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2009 “The Origin of Cellular Life” The amazing complexity and diversity of life is a result of billions of years of evolution.  But how did the process of evolution itself begin? I will describe how efforts
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