IMT and TGPBB Autumn Seminar Series

Protein folding, misfolding and disease
Per Hammarström, Professor of protein chemistry
Linköping University, Sweden

Per Hammarström is currently a professor of protein chemistry at the Linköping University. He received his PhD in 2000 at Linköping University and spent two years as a post doctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute, in La Jolla, USA. His early research was centered on the role of protein folding intermediates in the protein folding process and the mechanistic function of molecular chaperones.

Following his post doctoral years Hammarström's research has shifted towards investigation of protein misfolding and its key role in a wide variety of diseases. His research is focused on protein misfolding, amyloid formation and disease on the molecular level. One of the topics includes the folding defects of mutant carbonic anhydrases. 

15.00 - 16.00
Visualizing genome stability in fission yeast 
Susan Forsburg
University of Southern California, USA

Susan Forsburg received her A.B. from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, in molecular biology and English literature. She moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, for her Ph.D., where she worked on transcriptional regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Still traveling eastwards, Forsburg next joined Paul Nurse's laboratory at Oxford University, UK, as part of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund for her postdoctorate on cell-cycle control in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. In 1993, she returned home to California, USA, as a faculty member of the Salk Institute in La Jolla. She was recruited to the University of Southern California in 2004, where she joined the expanding programme in molecular and computational biology.

Forsburg's laboratory investigates DNA replication, recombination and chromosome dynamics in fission yeast, with a particular interest in how the MCM helicase operates to maintain genome stability and influence chromatin structure. 

The lectures are part of a seminar series organized by the Institute of Medical Technology & Tampere Graduate Program in Biomedicine and Biotechnology.

Coffee and snacks before the seminar, everybody welcome!

IMT & TGPBB Autumn Seminar Series 2010