Startsida
New issue of INFOrum Scientium
Information from Student Council, project descriptions by Sara Nilsson, PhD student and Lars Faxälv, Transformer. Two members of Former Scientium; Karin Sörgjerd, postdoc in Japan, and Janosch Hennig, postdoc in Munich, also write about their experiences.
INFOrum Scientium No 3 2010
New announcement for the "Transformer" award
At the following address you can find information on the new announcement
people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/award.pdf
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Use this break to get some distraction from the research, and hopefully we will have many new break-throughs during 2011!
Ina Berg
has received a postdoc grant from VR. The grant covers two years at the lab of prof Samuel E. Gandy
http://www.mssm.edu/profiles/samuel-e-gandy
Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York
Teknikhistoria
7,5 hp, kursstart 2 februari 2011, ges av tema Teknik och social förändring.
http://www.lith.liu.se/forskarutbildning/doktorand/teknikhistoria?l=sv
Anmälan till Eva Danielsson, tema T, 013-282171 senast 26 januari 2011.
Nonlinear optimization, equations and least squares
9 hp, Starting January 2011. Application to Oleg Burdakov, MAI.
http://www.mai.liu.se/foutb/kurser/kursplaner/MAI0008.html
“Direct imaging in Bio/Medical science”
Seminar Tuesday 18th January, 2011 Lund; Biomedical Centre, Segerfalcksalen
Among other presentations: Prof. Atsushi Miyawaki (RIKEN): “New fluorescent probes and new perspectives in bioscience”
http://www.jsps-sto.com/admin/UploadFile.aspx?path=/UserUploadFiles/Colloquium/Program20110118.pdf
AgoraLink provides grants for mobility
The AgoraLink spinning programme intends to improve the understanding of different work conditions in industry, health care, and academia. Now we launch the possibility for 8 PhD students to make a spinning visit to a company, health care organization, or an international research and innovation centre as part of their research education. For this we give a grant of 70 000 SEK that will cover travel costs (travel, lodging, and expenses).
More info at https://people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/forum/Call2_AgoraLinkSpinning.pdf
Application form https://people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/forum/spinning_application_form_2010.pdf
Biomedical Engineering for personalized health care
Starting 13 jan
Mer info https://people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/forum/indvard.pdf
Biomedical Optics Sensors
This part of the course is focussed on biomedical sensors and given by the Department of Biomedical Engineering (IMT) at Linköping University.
The course starts in February 2011
More info at https://people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/forum/biomedoptics.pdf
Molecular Imaging
The course will cover molecular imaging in perspective of different modalities (PET, SPECT, MR, CT, US, optical), biological processes that can be studied, applications in different clinical and research areas, possibilities for quantification and pharmacokinetic studies, as well as in a pre-clinical view including the different kind of probes that can be used and evaluation in animals.
It is given from Feb - May 2011.
More info at https://people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/forum/MolecularImaging.pdf
Nobel prizes 2010 presented by scientists from Linköping University
Physics
"for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene"
Prof Rositza Yakimova
Wednesday December 1 from 12.15 to 13.00
in seminar room Schrödinger (E324) in the Physics Building Campus Valla
(In English)
More info at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2010/press.html
Medicin
“för utvecklingen av in vitro fertilisering och hur vi idag använder tekniken
i klinisk vardag”
Med Dr Elizabeth Nedstrand
Måndag 6 december från 12.15 till 13.00
i seminarierum Eken Campus US
(In Swedish)
More info at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2010/press-sv.html
Chemistry
"for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
Prof Peter Konradsson
Tuesday December 7 from 12.15 to 13.00
in seminar room Schrödinger (E324) in the Physics Building Campus Valla
(In English)
More info at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2010/press.html
Christmas Banquette
people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/christmas.pdf
Please find attached the invitation to the annual Forum Scientium Christmas Banquette, December 9th.
Workshops will be organized during the afternoon the same day that will give you the opportunity to experience a method, used by Forum members, “live” and “in action”. Take the chance to learn a new technique, discuss an application to your research and talk about new collaborations or twinning projects. The workshop will include a demonstration, basic theory as well as requirements and limitations of the method.
We are working on the workshop schedule and will come back with details soon.
If you have any ideas or questions feel free to contact Jutta or Alexandra.
R.V.S.P. before Monday 29/11
Backpack rules
(This does not apply for the Marie Curie Scholarships who have the same kind of money directly from EU)
Each Forum member has a backpack of 15 000 SEK per year. The backpack should be used for the doctoral studies e.g. conferences, summer schools, external courses, course literature, etc. Notice! All participation in conferences or courses has to be approved by the supervisor in advance. The course literature will be a property of the department. The costs should be approved in advance. Contact Susann Årnfelt and discuss with her how to do in each individual case. To get your backpack there is a need for more than 60% attendance at the Forum seminars, to make your Forum workload and other mandatory things. At the day of your defence the backpack will be zeroed.
If you would like to know how much money you have left in your backpack contact Susann Årnfelt.
Credits for summer conferences and Monthly seminars
After attending three summer conferences you can receive 3 hp. Also after attending three years of monthly seminars you can get another 3 hp for that. If you would like to have this in your Ladok and have fulfilled the criteria and in sufficient time before your defense you contact Susann Årnfelt and we will register it in forskar-Ladok.
Forum Scientium Seminar December 1, 2010
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Planck, IFM.
The presenters are
Cecilia Andrésen, Anna Kivling, Sara Nilsson, Cecilia Vahlberg
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Forum Scientium Seminar November 3, 2010
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Linden, US.
The presenters are
Fredrik Lysholm, Caroline Skoglund, Maria Bolin, Maria Jonson
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Karin Sörgjerd
Click on the following link to learn more about Karins postdoc at RIKEN institute, Saitama, Japan
www.riken.jp/fpr/fellows.html#chemistry
Structural Biology - Structural Studies of Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein C and the Implications for Heart Muscle Regulation: NMR, Crystallography and Small-Angle Scattering
Jill Trewhella of University of Sydney, Australia. Jill is a front figure in the use of Small Angle Scattering as a method to obtain structural data on higher molecular weight protein complexes, in combination with NMR and crystallography. Visiting her seminar gives you a great opportunity not only to extend your knowledge in Structural Biology, but also to take initial contacts with a Top-Level Australian university, which may be an opportunity for your coming postdoc or research visit. Not only is Jill Dean of Science at U of Sydney, she also has a range of affiliations and collaborations across the world and will be an excellent contact for you when investigating future career tracks. Don't miss the seminar: Wednesday 27 Oct, at 15.15 in Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla (note that the location has been changed).
Karin Wermelin
The company she works in has changed name to Episurf Medical. You can read more on that and also on what Sandvik Tooling are doing within biomaterial at
http://www.svd.se/naringsliv/special/innovation/reservdelar-ger-slitna-knan-nytt-liv_5407457.svd
Two positions at Sandvik Tooling - Biomaterial applications
The positions are placed in Stockholm http://www.sandvik.se/
LiU Innovation Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Linköpings Universitet - week 45
Inspirationsföreläsning med Yngve Bergkvist, IceHotel - Mån 8/11 kl. 11-12, Campus Valla Linköping, Sal C4 i C-huset, Länk till anmälan: http://simplesignup.se/events/4491
Inspirationsföreläsning med Percy Barnevik, fd ABB-chef och nu ledare för välgörenhetsstiftelsen Hand in Hand - Mån 8/11 kl. 12-13, Campus Valla Linköping, Sal C1 i C-huset, Länk till anmälan: http://simplesignup.se/events/4490
And much more, see http://www.v45.se/
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
The course "Biochemistry and Cell Biology" with Helen Setterud at he faculty of Health Sciences as course leader. This course is given for master students within the master programme Biomedical Engineering (course code TBME03, 6 hp). This course starts October 25 and ends around December 20. If you have any further questions on this course please direct them to Helen Setterud with e-mail helen.setterud@liu.se
Your course credits, 6 hp, will be registered in research-LADOK with the the name "Biochemistry and Cell Biology" just like any other PhD-course.
Half time control - Åsa Jufvas, IKE
"Analysis of histone variants and their post-translational modifications in primary human fat cells"
October 29, Kl 13:15, in Rönnen plan 10
The results of the enquiry sent out to all PhD-students will be presented October 29 (in Swedish)
29 oktober kl.13.15 inbjuds alla intresserade till ett möte Anna Ullman presenterar resultatet av årets doktorandenkät, med tillfälle till frågor. Lokal: Glashuset, Hus B Campus Valla, ingång 25
Mer info: http://www.liu.se/insidan/ndi
Advanced Biosensor Technology
starting at the end of October. The course is directed to PhD students, but also other students with an interest in the field are welcome, independent of background. The use and interest of biosensors and biomedical sensors is expected to grow considerably in the near future, since it is considered that the health care systems of the industrialized countries will undergo major changes within the next 10 - 15 years. In this course, basic principles of biosensors and biomedical sensors will be presented. For more information see: https://people.ifm.liu.se/frewi/Agora/
Research Preparatory Course in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 20 hp, at KI
The deadline for current application is October 22. Detailed information can also be obtained from http://ki.se/meb/rpc. For more info contact fang.fang@ki.se or +46 8 5248 6131.
Forum Scientium Seminar October 6, 2010
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Planck, IFM.
The presenters are
Patricia Wennerstrand, Sebastian Schultz, Anna Kivling
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Writing for publication
We have received a special invitation to all Forum Scientium members to particiapte in the following Junior Faculty activity:
JF Club: Writing for publication
Thursday September 30. 15.00-17 Nationernas Hus
Professor Christian Berggen (IEI) and Pamela Wang (IKK) discuss different aspects of academic writing, from obstacles in writing to editorial contact.
You register at juniorfaculty@liu.se
Basic project management
This course is mandatory for all Forum Scientium members during their first two years (preferably during the first year). Therefore send your application to lena.sjoholm@liu.se October 13 at the latest.
More info on the course can be found at https://doktorandportalen.iei.liu.se/user/course/62/ The course is normally given in English.
Presentation by new LiU "junior" researchers (LiU-foass)
http://www.liu.se/liu-nytt/startsida?l=sv&newsitem=217311
Tid: Måndag 20 september kl 15:00-17:00
Plats: Temcas, Hus T, Campus Valla
Seminar by a photochemist working on nanoparticles and biosensors
Prof Juan 'Tito' Scaiano from Ottawa, Canada, will give a seminar Thursday September 30 at 15.15 in Schrödinger, Physics House, Campus Valla.
AgoraLink-courses autumn 2010
See http://www.imt.liu.se/agoralink/courses/
Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice, 7.5hp
Application to Lena Sjöholm at iei, lena.sjoholm@liu.se, or 013 28 23 57, latest November 1, 2011.
More info at https://people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/ETP.pdf
Common PhD-courses at LiTH
- Bayesian networks with forensic and other applications, 6 hp, kursstart hösten 2010
- Academic Writing, 6 hp, starting September 2010
- Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice (ETP) 7.5 hp, starting December 2010
More info at http://www.lith.liu.se/forskarutbildning/doktorand/kurser?l=sv
Forum Scientium Seminar September 8, 2010
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Berzelius, HU.
The presenters are
Sara Helander, Mikael Pihl, Kristina Buchholt, Erik Gabrielsson
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Intellectual Property as a Business Tool (IPR)
A special course for PhD-students will be given 7 September to 12 October 2010. See http://www.iei.liu.se/forskarutbildning/ipr?l=sv for more info. It is still possible to apply!
Isa Lindgren
will defend her thesis Friday September 10 at 9.15 in Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla. http://www2.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2010/tek1330s.pdf
Transformer
We have received an increased support from Rektor to make it possible for us to continue the Transformer programme!
The award aims at promoting the future career for the awardees and to stimulate the multidisciplinarity within Forum Scientium. It should also be of benefit for the active PhD students within Forum Scientium. The awardees should therefore be active within at least two Forum Scientium research groups, and he or she should assist within their specialities to all PhD students within the network. During the transformer period Forum Scientium will provide maximum of 250 000 SEK for a 12-month period for costs related to salary. It will be possible to apply two times a year with start during this autumn.
A report on the so far 14 transformers that have been awarded can be found at https://people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/forum/Transformerrapport.pdf
Summer Conference 2010
This years summer conference was arranged by Fredrik Agholme and Pernilla Eliasson in a most rewarding way. If you would like to see what we did you can find the programme and the poster below
Poster competition
This years poster prize goes to:
1. Poster no 12, Erik Martinsson
2. Poster no 6, Pernilla Eliasson
3. Poster no 36, Pitsiri Sukkaew
Motivations, rules and jury members can be found at https://people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/forum/Poster%20prize.pdf
Postdoc positions in Dublin
Attached is a short leaflet on the positions. Contact Sofia Ramström at sofiaramstrom@gmail.com for more info. (Sofia is a Former Scientium.)
Travel report Cambridge
The travel report from the study visit to Cambridge and London in May can be found here.
Summer conference
August 23-25, 2010, we have our yearly summer conference. This time we stay at Stjärnholms slott situated between Nyköping and Oxelösund. The programme san be found at people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/forum/Program.pdf and the abstracts at people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/forum/Abstracts.pdf
Yearly report 2009
The activity report for 2009 can now be found at Activity report
Janosch Hennig
has received two post-doc scholarships, one from VR and one from EMBO. He will start his postdoc September 1, 2010, in the research group of prof Michael Sattler www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/en/stb/research-group-sattler/index.html
Study visit to Norrköping, June 2, 2010
20 PhD-students will visit
Organic Electronics
Printed Electronics
Visualization centre C (demonstration of how haptics can aid in understanding of biochemical reactions, and 3D movie in the dome)
Study visit to Cambridge and London, May 26-28, 2010
24 PhD-students, one Former and one Transformer will visit research departments and companies in Cambridge and London.
Forum Scientium Seminar May 19, 2010
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Planck, IFM.
The presenters are
Jutta Speda, Anna Rydén, Janosch Hennig, Alexandra Ahlner
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Isa Lindgren
has received a post doc with professor Nicholas A. Flavahan group at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore. She will start there in October 2010 after defending her thesis.
More info on her next research group at www.hopkinsmedicine.org/anesthesiology_critical_care_medicine/research/experts/research_faculty/bios/flavahan.html
Olof Andersson
has from 19 July 2010 a new position as Senior Scientist at Layerlab AB, Gothenburg www.layerlab.se/
Dissertation 21 May 2010
Jens Wigenius
Friday 21 May 2010, kl 14.00, Planck, Campus Valla
"Conjugated polyelectrolytes in interaction with biomolecules for supramolecular assembly and sensing"
Summary or Full text
Dissertation 21 May 2010
Ina Berg
Friday 21 May 2010, kl 09:15, Planck, Campus Valla
"Modeling Amyloid Disease in Drosophila melanogaster"
Summary or Full text
Stephen Macken
has obtained a position as Specialist in Image Processing at Autoliv AB, Mjärdevi, Linköping. He will start working there in May 2010, and will defend his thesis in October 2010.
Dissertation 12 May, 2010
John Olsson
Wednesday 12 May, 2010, kl 13.15, Planck, Campus Valla
"Characterization of a voltammetric electronic tongue"
Summary or Full text
Lan Bui
I started my PhD in the group of Prof. Magnus Rueping December 2009, at RWTH-Aachen University, Germany (http://www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/bdz/). The group is quite new here in Aachen. Prof. Rueping moved here with his group from Frankfurt last spring, and the group is expanding still. The group consist of the moment of over 20 group members. We are a very international group with people from every part of the world.
The subject of my research here is to develop new enantioselective brönstedt acid catalyst. Since it is very important in organic synthesis were we can design reactions with high enantioselectivity eg when designing new drug candidates. On the group homepage (http://www.oc3.rwth-aachen.de/rueping/research.html) you can read more about our research.
Forum Scientium Award "Transformer"
The fifth offer of the Forum Scientium Award to “exceptionally good” PhDs within Forum Scientium to continue their research at Linköping University. The supports aim at promoting the future career for the post-docs, and to promote twinning among Forum Scientium members.
The deadline for applications is Wednesday May 12, 2010.
Forum Scientium Seminar April 21, 2010
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Eken, US.
The presenters are
Leif Johansson, Karin Magnusson, Tobias Ekblad, Cecilia Karlsson
Dissertation April 16, 2010
Caroline Skoglund
Friday April 16, 2010, kl 09.00, Berzeliussalen, Campus US
"Platelets in inflammation: Role of complement protein C1q, C-reactive proteinand toll-like receptors"
Summary or Full text
Statistical methods in experimental science, 3-4,5 hp
This course in Statistical Methods in Experimental Science will be given by Prof Anders Grimvall sometime between April 26 till June 4 2010 (exact start and end date will be decided by the participators and the examiner). The course has been given three times before and the participating PhD-students have been very satisfied with it. Focus will be on the participators own problems, their own data will be used during the course. The prerequisites are at least a quarter of a year of Mathematics including at least three weeks of Statistics, but also participators with more knowledge are welcome. The course will be given in English (or Swedish). The course includes lessons, 2-3 hours each, at 6-10 occasions. The number of participators should be 5-15 PhD-students (members of Forum Scientium will have priority if needed).
The deadline for application is 14 April 2010 by e-mail to Stefan Klintström, stekl@ifm.liu.se. Remember that you always have to have your main supervisors allowance before applying for a course.
Forum Scientium Seminar March 24, 2010
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Planck, IFM.
The presenters are
Robert Selegård, Anna Rydén, Linnéa Axelsson, Thommie Karlsson
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Licentiate March 8, 2010
Linda Rattfält
"Textile electrodes for ECG measurements in distributed care, performance and applications"
Monday March 8, 2010, at 10.00 in IMT1, Campus US
Forum Scientium Seminar February 24, 2010
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Linden, Campus US.
The presenters are
Stefan Klintström, Stina Axelson, Anders Elfwing
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Karin Wermelin
Karin has a new job as a Research Scientist at Diamorph Medtech AB in Stockholm
New Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine
Prof Ebo D. de Muinck's research area is inflammation and wound healing in the cardiovascular system. He is looking for post-docs and PhD-students. For more info see the following link
Pain Research Centre
Prof Björn Gerdle, HU, has made an initiative to try to start a Pain Research Centre at LiU. If you are interested you can contact prof Björn Gerdle directly.
Forum Scientium Seminar January 27, 2010
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Planck, Campus Valla.
The presenters are
Linda Andrén, Åsa Svensson, Erik Martinsson, Liza Ljungberg
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Anna Fyrenius
Anna Fyrenius bloggar om livet som läkare inom internmedicin och lungmedicin (se länk nedan).
Anna var med i den Forumkull som började 1996. Hon försvarade en licavhandling 1999 (första examen inom Forum!)
Three-dimensional Intracardiac Flow Studied with Time Resolved Phase Contrast MRI : Blood flow in the human left atrium and ventricle
Hon slutade därefter i Forum, bytte forskningsinritkning, och försvarade 2007 en doktorsavhandling med titeln
Dynamiskt lärande: En ämnesdidaktisk avhandling om fysiologiska fenomen och läkarstudentens lärande
Paula Linderbäck
Paula has received a very nice position as a coordinator of the Finnish National Graduate School of Musculoskeletal Disorders and Biomaterials from February 2010. She will during this spring work mainly here in Linköping, but will from June 2010 move to Åbo/Turku in Finland. Her new position is actually very similar to mine except that her programme is national and includes many more researchers and PhD-students!
National Graduate School of Musculoskeletal Disorders and Biomaterials
Johan Benesch
Johan Benesch has had a position as a senior researcher at University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, for some years. He has now a new position as Research Programme Officer, European Commission, Brussels
Dissertation January 14, 2010
Maria Hjorth
Thursday January 14, kl 09.00, Berzelius, Campus US
"Immunological profile and aspects of immunotherapy in type I diabetes"
Summary and Full text
Organic Chemistry for non-chemists, 5 points
will be given in the spring semester 2010. The course will be held for non-chemists on a level suitable for PhD students not majoring chemistry before. About 13-15 lectures will be given approx. once a week.
The course will start the 28 th of January at 15.15 -17 in room Bikupan at Chemistry in the B-House. It is planned to be scheduled weekly Thursdays between 15-17.
We will follow the book Fundamentals og Organic Chemistry 6 ed McMurry/Simanek, which will be available from the bookshop in Kårallen. As the book title tells the course will give fundamentals in organic chemistry, which can and may be of importance in many fields of eg physics. Examination: Either written exam or home problems throughout the course.
For those of you who wants to attend the course, please give Stefan Svensson, sts@ifm.liu.se, a mail in response January 6, together with a notice if I should order the book to the bookshop for you.
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