
SciLifeLab Day Gothenburg 2023
This event is a kick-off for the national SciLIfeLab site in Gothenburg. Learn more about the services and capabilities that are offered from SciLifeLab, both nationally and locally, and how you can participate in the activities!
SciLifeLab Day – Gothenburg
Date: April 17, 2023
Location: Wallenberg conference centre and Academicum
Registration deadline: 12:00 (noon) on April 10
The Gothenburg Site of SciLifeLab is happy to welcome the research community in Gothenburg and beyond to this kick-off. Meet with the established site, researchers, local and national infrastructures; interact with the SciLifeLab capabilities: Precision Medicine, Pandemic Laboratory Preparedness and Planetary Biology; learn about the Data Centre services, the Data Driven Life Science program and much more.
Exhibition, poster session and mingle
Show your research in a poster and take the opportunity to discuss how you can implement SciLifeLab's advanced technologies with the infrastructure experts! Or just visit the exhibitions or posters from the infrastructure units to learn what services they can offer you.
Main program
08:30 Coffee & Registration
09:00 Plenary Session
- Welcome words
- "Overview of SciLifeLab: Technology- and data-driven life science", Olli Kallioniemi, Director SciLifeLab
- "SciLifeLab infrastructure in the overall infrastructure landscape in Sweden", Annika Jenmalm Jensen, Infrastructure Director SciLifeLab
- SciLifeLab Gothenburg – Site Presentation, Elisabet Carlsohn, Site Director, and Maria Smedh, Site Coordinator
- User success story 1: "High-resolution NMR Spectroscopy reveals the activation and allosteric regulation of the pro-apoptotic HtrA2 protease", Björn Burmann, Dept. of Chemistry & Molecular Biology, Univ. of Gothenburg
- User success story 2: Lena Öhman (Metabolomics)
10:35 Coffee break
11:00 Continued session
- "SciLifeLab & Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS)", Margit Mahlapuu, Prof. in Molecular Genetics, co-director WCMTM, Univ. of Gothenburg
- Data Centre & NBIS
- DDLS Data Science Nodes, Thomas Svensson, NBIS and Chalmers Univ. of Technology
- User success story 3: Victoria Hennings (NGI)
- User success story 4: "Mucin utilization by gut microbiota - recent advances on characterization of key enzymes", Ana Sofia de Jesus Vaz Luis, Dept. of Medical Biochemistry and Cell biology, Univ. of Gothenburg
- Training Hub & DDLS Research School, PhD and PostDoc program
- User success story 5 - Lars Westberg (imaging)
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Parallel Sessions for the capabilities (see detailed program below)
- Pandemic Laboratory Preparedness
- Planetary Biology
- Precision Medicine
15:30 Exhibition and poster session
Mingle, food and wine from 16:00
~17:30 End of program
Parallell sessions program
Venue: Birgit Thilander, Academicum, Medicinaregatan 3, Gothenburg
Program
14:00-14:15 "Welcome & Introduction of SciLifeLab Pandemic Preparedness Program, PLP"
Staffan Svärd, SciLifeLab Scientific Director
14:15-14:30 "Gothenburg Initiative for Pandemic Laboratory Preparedness (GILP)"
Magnus Lindh and Johan Johan Ringlander, GU
14:30-14:45 "Register-based large-scale national population study to monitor Covid-19 vaccination effectiveness and safety (RECOVAC)"
Fredrik Nyberg, GU
14:45-15:00 "Immune responses to COVID-19 vaccination in unexposed, previously infected and immunosuppressed individuals"
Anna Lundgren
15:00-15:20 "Panel discussion (what can be done in PLP nationally and in Göteborg)"
Magnus Lindh, Fredrik Nyberg, Anna Lundgren, Staffan Svärd
15:20-15:30 Wrap up
Staffan Svärd, SciLifeLab Scientific Director
Contact person:
SciLifeLab Operations Office
Alice Sollazzo, alice.sollazzo@scilifelab.uu.se
Venue: Sydamerika, Conference Centre Wallenberg, Medicinaregatan 20, Gothenburg
Program
14:00 - 14:30 Planetary Biology Capability: what it is and what is it for
Olga Vinnere Petterson, Stefan Bertilsson, PB Scientific leads
14:30 - 15:00 Plenary discussion - community input session
All participants
15:00 - 16:00 Time for personal consultations and meeting the capability leads
Venue: Arvid Carlsson, Academicum, Medicinaregatan 3, Gothenburg
Program
14.00-14.20 Introduction to Precision Medicine capability
14.20-14.50 Research presentations
14.50-15.30 Panel discussion
Registration is open!
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SciLifeLab Days at other sites during 2023
Umeå, September 11
Lund, September 28
Linköping, October 10