BBB/NBS seminar
Henriette Aksnes from the University of Bergen will give a talk entitled “Membrane protein modifications in neurodegenerative disease”.
Position: Researcher at the Department of Biomedicine
Research field: Cell and physiological implications of protein N-terminal acetylation.
Main achievements: Received the Zona award for her PhD work the Department of Molecular biology, UiB. Was recognized with the Falch junior award at MED for her postdoc work on NAA80 and NAA60. Is now a work package leader in ongoing ERC and NFR projects.
Seminar focus: Over the recent years Henriette has worked on novel links between N-terminal acetylation and neurobiology. In the seminar she will focus on the role of this modification for membrane proteins involved in brain calcification and will also cover Nt-acetylation of the Parkinson’s disease-linked protein aSynuclein.
Thursday, October 6, 14.30
BBB seminar
Linda Sandblad from Umeå University, Sweden will give a talk entitled “Cryo-electron microscopy methods to explore the nano-universe of cells and molecules”.
Position: Director of Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy.
Research field: Cell biology, microbiology, biochemistry.
Main achievements: Linda Sandblad holds a PhD from (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) EMBL-Heidelberg and is currently a researcher at Umeå University. She has established the cryo-EM and electron tomography facilities as Director of Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy. These achievements were awarded with a future five-year project for correlative cryo-EM method development, as a Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research – Research Infrastructure Fellow.
Seminar focus: This seminar will introduce cryo-EM sample preparation and instruments and give examples of projects and methods used for 3D image visualization of cells and molecules.
Thursday, October 20, 14:30