George Z MENTIS
Assistant Professor
The Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease
Columbia University
Title: "Non-cell autonomous, activity-dependent mechanisms are responsible for motor neuron dysfunction in the neurodegenerative disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy".
Tuesday, September 2nd 2014 @ 12:00
Seminar Room 1 [FORTH's bldg]
Host: N. Tavernarakis
Time:
12:00
Description:
ΟΜΙΛΗΤΗΣ: Αριστείδης Μαυρίδης
Ομότιμος Καθηγητής Τμήμα Χημείας ΕΚΠΑ
TΙΤΛΟΣ: "Προλήψεις και προκαταλήψεις στη Χημεία"
ΗΜΕΡΟΜΗΝΙΑ: Παρασκευή 19 Σεπτεμβρίου 2014
ΩΡΑ: 12:00
ΑΙΘΟΥΣΑ ΣΕΜΙΝΑΡΙΩΝ ΤΜΗΜΑΤΟΣ ΧΗΜΕΙΑΣ
Time:
13:00
Description:
Petra FROMME
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Paul V Galvin Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Director, Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery Director of the Center for Membrane Proteins in Infectious Diseases Arizona State University
Title: "Femtosecond Crystallography opens a new Era in Structural Biology".
Thursday, September 25th 2014 @ 13:00
Seminar Room 1 [FORTH's bldg]
BACKGROUND: Structure determination of proteins and other macromolecules has historically required the growth of high-quality crystals sufficiently large to diffract X-rays efficiently. The applicability of the method has been limited by radiation damage and time resolution. The recently developed technique of Serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography (SFX) an X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) to obtain high-resolution structural information from microcrystals has overcome these limitations.
Host: M. Kokkinidis, InnovCrete project
Time:
12:00
Description:
Marios CHATZIGEORGIOU
Career Development Fellow
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Title: "What can worms and mice teach us about how we hear and taste?".
Friday, September 26th 2014 @ 12:00
Seminar Room 1 [FORTH's bldg]
Host: C. Delidakis
Time:
12:10
Description:
SPEAKER: Dr. Martin Rebroš
Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
TITLE: "Immobilized Enzymes and Cells in Biocatalysis"
DATE: Friday 26th September 2014
TIME: 12:00
ROOM: Chemistry Seminar Room
Time:
13:00
Description:
George Thyfronitis
University of Ioannina
“IFN-I directly acts on T lymphocytes resulting in milder development of the early phases of the EAE”
Wednesday 1/10/2014, 1:00 pm
Room 7A.02, Med School
Info: G. Mavrothalassitis x 4537
Time:
15:00
Description:
Dr. Ioanna TRIVIAI
Junior Group Leader - Stem Cell Biology Group
Clinic of Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center Hamburg
Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
And Heinrich – Pette Institut, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Title: "Neoplastic stem cells in hematopoietic niche disruption: the paradigm of Primary Myelofibrosis".
ABSTRACT:
Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) are chronic hematological malignancies characterized by expansion of aberrant myeloid progenitors.
Primary myelofibrosis (PMF) has the worst prognosis of all MPN and involves massive disruption of the hematopoietic niche leading to fibrosis/osteosclerosis development and/or transformation to acute myeloid leukemia (AML). In our studies to elucidate the trigerring event in PMF we identified a neoplastic stem cell population in patient peripheral blood responsible for disease initiation and development in vivo. Identifying the neoplastic stem cells in myeloproliferating neoplasms will provide the basis to decipher complicated niche
interactions implicated in evolution of the chronic phase and leukemic transformation and introduce new therapeutical targets to eradicate the disease.
Emmanouil G. Spanakis, PhD.
Computational Medicine Laboratory
Institute of Computer Science
Time:
12:00
Description:
SPEAKER: Prof. Anastasios Melis,
University of California, Berkeley
Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology
111 Koshland Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3102
http://pmb.berkeley.edu/profile/amelis
TITLE: " Photosynthesis for fuel and chemicals production"
DATE: Friday 3rd October 2014
TIME: 12:00
ROOM: Chemistry Seminar Room
Time:
13:00 - 14:00
Description:
Genetic Dissection of Death Receptor Signalling
Carlos F. Ibáñez
Professor of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute
& Neurobiology Programme, National University of Singapore