Two-day program with social events at the end of both days.
Place: Auditorium 1 and Solhallen (location in MazeMap)
Teorifagsbygget – UiT
08:30-08:50
Welcome by Dean Gunbjørg Svineng - Updates from the Faculty of Health Sciences and the past year
08:50 -09:20
Head of Institutes
Session chair: Wei Li
09:20 -10:05
Invited speaker Abhishek Garg. Toward reverse translationally-designed dendritic cell-based immunotherapy against cancer
10:05 - 10:25
Coffee break with fruits & snack
10:25 -10:40
Mathias Kranz (UNN). Imaging of Glioblastoma neo-vascularization with [18F]rhPSMA-7.3 PET/MRI for the development of a new personalised treatment approach
10:40 -10:55
Indusmita Routray (IKM). Exploring the local and systemic immunomodulatory properties of radiotherapy in preclinical models
10:55 -11:10
Kristin Fenton (IMB). Tertiary lymphoid structures in autoimmunity and cancer
11:10 -11:25
Turid Hellevik (UNN). Radiation-mediated effects on the CD73/adenosine system and its impact on anti-tumor immunity
Session chair: Joanna Konieczny
11:25 -11:32
Marc Ferré Oliver (IMB). Exploring the transformation potential of haematopoietic stem cells under germinal NTRK1 mutations
11:32 -11:39
Anmar Numan. Evaluating the Impact of Static Cold Storage (SCS) Prior to Normothermic Machine Perfusion (NMP) in Livers Exposed to Prolonged Warm Ischemia
11:39 -11:46
Elias Myrvoll Lorentzen (IKM). BK Polyomavirus induce massive cytoplasmic vacuolization in human renal proximal tubule epithelial cells
11:46 -11:53
Elena Markova (IKM). Improving immune cell targeting through optimization of liposome lipid composition
11:53 -12:00
Mithlesh Kumar Ray (IKM). Mithylation-regulated long non-coding RNA expression in ulcerative colitis
12:00 -13:10
Session chair: Saikat Das Sajib
13:10 - 13:30
Tor Brynjar Stuge (IMB). Therapeutic targeting of T cells to prevent Fetal and Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia
13:30 - 13:50
Maria Perander (IMB). Long non-coding RNA NEAT1 - a future target for patient-tailored treatment of breast cancer?
13:50 - 14:10
Inigo Zubiavrre Martinez (IKM). Non-invasive immuno-PET imaging to optimize radio-immunotherapy treatment schedules
14:10 - 14:30
Sybil Akua Okyerewa Obuobi (IFA). Advancing drug delivery via DNA nanocarrier design to treat persistent bacterial infections
14:30 - 14:50
Coffee break with fruits & snack
14:50 - 15:10
Christian Lentz (IMB). Mapping adaptive changes to antimicrobial resistance to cefiderocol
15:10 - 15:30
Jorunn Pauline Cavanagh (IKM). OPTIMIST - optimizing mastitis identification and treatment
Session chair: Martin Christensen
15:30 - 15:37
Øyvind Myrvoll Lorentzen (IFA). Genetic conflict between the SXT-element and a multidrug resistance plasmids in Vibrio cholerae
15:37 - 15:44
Md Jalal Uddin (IMB). Chemoproteomic identification of serine hydrolases in Klebsiella pneumonia is important for initial colonization in human-derived colon organoids
16:30 - 17:30
Rebus walk from venue up to Skihytta
17:30 - 21:30
Barbeque at Skihytta
Place: Auditorium 1 and Solhallen (location in MazeMap)
Teorifagsbygget – UiT
Session chair: Ida Emilie Bjørlo
08:30 - 09:15
Invited speaker Tor Erik Rusten. Autophagy in tumor growth and cancer cachexia, a nutritional relationship
09:15 - 09:45
Terje Johansen (IMB). MORG1, a novel negative regulator of mTORC1 required for basal autophagic flux
09:45 - 10:00
Mireia Nager Grifo (UNN). Marked increase in mitochondria degradation in engineered heart tissue during reperfusion
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee break with fruits & snack
10:20 - 11:05
Invited speaker Vanina Romanello. Mitochondria-peroxisome interactions in skeletal muscle
Session chair: Jalal Uddin
11:05 - 11:20
Marie Mardal (IFA) TROMBOLOME: Development and application of a comprehensive digital archive of the TROMsø study metaBOLOME
11:20 -11:35
Johan Isaksson (IFA). The structural dynamics of human dUTPase revealed by NMR spectroscopy
11:35 - 11:50
Karolina Szafranska (IMB). Long-term culture of primary liver cells
11:50 - 13:00
13:00 - 13:55
Invited speaker Micha Drukker . The human axial stem cells
Session chair: Jana Wurz and Samuel Geiseler
13:55 - 14:15
Amalie Hofmeyer Andersen – visions and challenges from AKM. Opportunities
14:15 - 14:35
Mette Kongstorp (IPS). Neural signatures of protein appetite
14:35 - 14:55
Rune Sundset (IKM/UNN) – opportunities, visions and challenges from PETCore.
14:55 - 15:15
Coffee break with fruits & snack
15:15 - 15:35
Arne Smalås (Faculty of Science and Technology). How to get funding (NTF strategy)
15:35 - 15:50
NORINOVA and SEFU. From Research to Impact – and how to finance it
15:50 - 16:10
Steinar Johansen (Nord University). Possible synergy between the Faculty of Health Sciences-UiT and the Life Sciences Faculty-Nord University in Bodø
16:10 - 16:25
Closing remarks and prizes
18:30 - 22:00
Dinner at Skirri Restaurant with "Sofa Talk"