NEWS

Thommie Karlsson

our latest PhD and newest Transformer has been interviewed by TV4.
http://www.tv4play.se/program/nyheterna-link%C3%B6ping?video_id=2356139

Linnéa Selegård 

will defend her thesis
"Synthesis, surface modification, and characterization of metal oxide nanoparticles : nanoprobes for signal enhancement in biomedical imaging"
May 24 in Planck, Campus Valla, starting at 10:15 (English/Svenska)
http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:619331

Copenhagen

Sunday May 26 - Wednesday May 29, 29 persons from Forum Scientium will visit companies and research departments in the Copenhagen area, see list below:

1. NovoNordisk, Målöv, Copenhagen, Global healthcare company within diabetes, haemophilia and hormone treatment.
2. The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, CPR, Scientific research groups and a protein production facility
3. BRIC (Biotech Research & Innovation Centre); Univ of Copenhagen, Center for biomedical research on cancer, CNS-related diseases and metabolic disorders.
4. DAKO A/S, An antibody company focusing on cancer
5. Institute of Sports Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital, Main focus: “the adaptation of tendon and muscle connective tissue to acute and chronic mechanical loading”
6. Department of Micro-and Nanotechnology, DTU, Their aim is to develop high performance mechanical sensors for bio/chemical detection.
7. Bone Support, Lund, Medical technology company that develop injectable osteoconductive biomaterials.
8. Glycom AS, Synthesize and commercialize human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs).
9. Scandinavian Micro Biodevices, DTU, Copenhagen, Designing and manufacturing diagnostic microfluidic technology.
10. Radiometer A/S, Company providing solutions for acute care testing. Very big within sensors, historically within electrochemistry
11. Lund Stem Cell Center, Lund, One of Swedens six strategic centers of excellence in life sciences focused on stem cell and cell replacement therapies.
12. Statens Serum Institute (correspond to the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, SMI), Research concerning epidemiology, infectious diseases and vaccines for example.
13. MEMPHYS, Center for Biomembrane Physics, Odense, Interdisciplinary research center concerned with parallel experimental, theoretical, and simulational research within the fields of physics, molecular biophysics, and physical chemistry of macromolecules, soft interfaces, and biological membranes and the interaction of these systems with foreign molecules like drugs.
14. CRC, Malmö, Diabetes research center, they are e.g. involved in TEDDY the world’s biggest study on type 1 diabetes

Therése Klingstedt

will defend her thesis
May 31 in Planck, Campus Valla, starting at 10:15 (English)

Travel grants

The UK Royal Society of Chemistry gives travel grants to PhD students and postdocs to go to international conferences. Joining the society is well worth it for PhD students who have reduced fees and can claim substantial grants. Postdocs might also consider the benefits:
http://www.rsc.org/scienceandtechnology/funding/division-travel-grants/index.asp

Forum Scientium Seminar May 15, 2013

The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Eken, Campus US.
The presenters are
Amy Gelmi, Malin Larsson, Erik Gabrielsson, Mattias Tengdelius

Abstracts
List of FS seminars

Forum Scientium Seminar April 17, 2013

The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Planck, IFM.
The presenters are
Robert Selegård, Elin Nyman, Inga Gerlach, Malin Hammerman

Abstracts
List of FS seminars

Extra information! After the seminar the IFM Pub is open från 17:00. Find your way to Bragg for some tasty sandwiches, drinks and pleasant company. The PhD students from Chemistry arrange it.

Björn Kronander

is a new member in Forum Scientium. He has a Master in Engineering Biology, and is now a PhD student in the Division of Organic Electronics, ITN, Campus Norrköping.
He will continue the development of the organic ion pump for controlled delivery of larger biomolecules like peptides, chemotherapeutic substances and proteins.

BILS (Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences)

is a distributed national research infrastructure supported by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) providing bioinformatics support to life science researchers in Sweden. BILS is also the Swedish contact point to the European infrastructure for biological information ELIXIR.
Linköping University has a person employed as our representative. Her name is Malin Larsson and you can contact her if you have any questions. Her e-mail is malin.larsson@liu.se
For more info see http://www.bils.se/

Basic Management of Research Projects

For Spring 2013 the course seminars will be held 8, 14 and 22 May.
This is the only course that is mandatory for Forum members. Register as soon as possible!
https://doktorandportalen.iei.liu.se/user/course/163/ 

Thommie Karlsson

will defend his thesis
"Water Fluxes and Cell Migration: How Aquaporin 9 Controls Cell Shape and Motility"
April 5 in Berzeliussalen, Campus US, starting at 09:00 (Svenska)
http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:611254

Credits for your participation in Forum Scientium

At the end of your time as a PhD student you can get:
- 3 credits for your participation in the monthly seminars
- 3 credits for your participation in three or more summer con 

Intellectual Property as a Business Tool

is starting up soon (March 13). Still possible to register directly to Arne Jakobsson!
For info, see: https://doktorandportalen.iei.liu.se/user/course/138/

”Domestication, Sexual selection and the chicken”

Dominic Wright
Time: March 18 at 10:15. Place: Planck, Fysikhuset
Abstract: Although most famous for his idea of Natural Selection, Darwin also came up with another revolutionary concept – that of sexual selection. With this, he theorised why so many animals have such a wide array of ornaments, decorations and behaviours that may not be beneficial to their direct survival. One such sexual ornament is the chicken comb (the fleshy, red appendage on top of their head). Both males and females have a comb, which they use to help select a mate. To help study this ornament and process (sexual selection) we are actually using another tool that fascinated Darwin – that of domestication. During domestication the comb of the chicken has become massively enlarged proportional to its body size and we can use it to help explain sexual selection in the chicken. By crossing domestic chickens with wild chickens, we can begin to unravel the genetic differences that cause these changes, and also begin to identify what other traits they influence.

Sofia Svedhem

(assistant professor at  the division of Biological Physics, Chalmers, and the lic opponent of Emma Ericsson)
will give a presentation on Thursday Feb 28 at 10.15 in Planck, Campus Valla.

Emma Eriksson

will defend her licentiate thesis
"Biosensor surface chemistry for oriented protein immobilization and biochip patterning"
Thursday 2013-01-28, Planck, Physics Building, Campus Valla, starting at 13:15

Forum Scientium Seminar February 20, 2013

The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Planck, IFM.
The presenters are
Katarina Bengtsson, Meenu Rajan, Mohsen Golabi, Narges Bayat

Abstracts
List of FS seminars

Advanced Light Microscopy and Live Cell Imaging, 3 credits

Includes also Fluorescence. Week 16-17, 2013. Apply at once!
http://www.hu.liu.se/forskning/fun/forskarutbildningskurser/advanced-light-microscopy-and-live-cell-imaging?l=sv

Cecilia Vahlberg

will after one year as Development Engineer, Svensk Biogas, Tekniska Verken, Linköping, from February 11, 2013, work as Project Coordinator within CBRN materials at SKL - the Swedish National Laboratory of Forensic Science, in Linköping

Study visit to Copenhagen May 27-29, 2013

If you have any proposals for visits to relevant companies and research groups send them to Björn Kronander or Angelika Holm.
The demand is that it should be a place that a Forum member can get a job after exam, or that it has very interesting research that it should be possible to collaborate, or that it is just very interesting.

Introductory course in Scanning Probe Microscopy, 3 hp

Deadline for application as soon as possible (the course will start February 26th)
For more info, see attached document

Summer Conference August 28-30, 2013

We are looking for a really interesting speaker for our summer conference. Something like Hans Rosling. If you have any proposals for this send them to Emina Vorkapic and Malin Hammerman.

Four new transformers!

Timmy Fyrner
Klas Tybrandt
Amanda Nordigården (after PhD exam)
Thommie Karlsson (after PhD exam)

Andreas Åslund

Post Doc på NTNU Trondheim, Norway from Feb 1, 2013.
"Multifunctional nanoparticles for drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier".

Research Fellow - development of commercially successful applications exploiting the unique properties of synthetic conducting diamond in electrochemical sensor applications

University of Warwick -Department of Chemistry, £27,854 - £36,298 pa, Fixed Term Contract for 12 Months
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFX619/research-fellow/

Paula Linderbäck

Process/Research engineer, Goodtech, Mariehamn, Åland
http://goodtech.se/en/home

Heidelberg Forum for Young Life Scientists

Biotechnology, OMICs, Infections and Immunity, as well as Stem Cell Biology
2013, June 6-7. More info at http://www.life-science-forum-hd.de/  

Susanna Lönnqvist

is a new member of Forum Scientium
She has a MSc in Medical Biology from LiU and will make her project within the division IKE Plastic Surgery.
She will study "Electronic surfaces in tissue engineering"

Anna Södergren

is a new member of Forum Scientium
She has a MSc in Medical Biology from LiU and will make her project within the division IKE Clinical Chemistry
She will study "Factors involved in platelet activation"

Camilla Sandén

is a new member of Forum Scientium
She has a MSc in Engineering Biology from LiU and will make her project within the division IFM Molecular Physics
She will study "Nanostructures for drug release"

Ethics in Research and Publication

January 31st, 14.30-16.00, Campus US, entrance 65, Björken lecture room
The seminar will cover various aspects of ethics in research and publications, including issues related to co-authorship of scientific papers.
14.30 Introduction to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (Vancouver convention) M. Ljunggren
15.00 Research and Publication ethics - A webinar to help early career researchers understand the ethical boundaries in scientific research and publishing BrightTALK     

Andreas Skallberg

is a new member of Forum Scientium
He has a MSc in Chemical Biology from LiU and will make his project within the division IFM Molecular Surface Physics and Nano Science.
He will develop "nanoprobes with contrast enhancement and luminiscent properties for biomedical imaging"

Transformer decision end of January

We had eight applications for the Transformer award, a new record. The decision of which persons that will get the award is delayed. It will be announced January 31 at the latest.

Forum Scientium Seminar January 23, 2013

The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Eken, US.
The presenters are
Robert Selegård, Linda Åkerman, Christopher Aronsson, Mikael Pihl

Abstracts
List of FS seminars

Fredrik Lysholm

will defend his thesis
"Bioinformatic methods for characterization of viral pathogens in metagenomic samples"
Friday 2013-01-25, Planck, Physics Building, Campus Valla, starting at 10:15 (English)
http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:575554

Workshop Intro to Adobe Illustrator, New date

This time we will use the Campusbus which will probably make the transport more reliable.
Tuesday January 15 or Wednesday January 16, Stefan Gustavson from ITN will give us an intro to the use of Adobe Illustrator. The place is Campus Norrköping (K4507 in Kåkenhus). Starting at 9.15, break for lunch 12-13, afternoon is a free session with supervision by Stefan Gustavson, you can stay as long as you like (the last Campusbus will leave Norrköping at 18).
Send your registration to me this Monday Dec 3 at the latest. I would like to stress that this is a voluntarily activity and that supervisors are most welcome to participate!
As a first start I would like to have your comments if Tuesday (15 jan) or Wednesday (16 jan) is the best choice. Send this to me December 28 at the latest.

Summer Conference August 28-30, 2013

Emina Vorkapic and Malin Hammerman will (with support from the Student Council and the management group) arrange the coming Summer Conference. As a prerequisite is that it is summer during the summer conference we have had extensive contacts with SMHI who have promised that it will be perfect weather during these dates. The location will be Sandvik gård 30 km north of Norrköping. http://www.sandvikgard.com/ I would like to stress that this is a mandatory activity and that supervisors are most welcome to participate!

Study visit spring 2012

Björn Kronander and Angelika Holm will (with support from the Student Council and the management group) arrange the study visit spring 2012. Whereto will be decided by during January 2012. This is a voluntarily activity and supervisors are most welcome to participate!

SMSS Symposium 2013 – Advances in MS instrumentations

11 March at Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
www.smss.se/symposium

Forum Scientium Award "Transformer"

We had a new record of eight applications!

Workshop Intro to Adobe Illustrator

Wednesday December 5. Cancelled because of too much snow and wind. Will be arranged in January instead.

Forum Forum

Instead of the normal monthly meeting, we will this time have a so-called Forum Forum (arranged by Narges Bayat). Start 15.00, end 17.00. Lecture room Planck, Physics Building, Campus Valla. Supervisors are most welcome!

Mingle after Forum Forum instead of Christmas Banquette

After Forum Forum we will have a mingle upstairs from Planck (in the big coffee room). There will be a wrap served, together with something to drink and after that coffee, glögg and some nice Christmas dessert. Supervisors are most welcome!

"IGEN Clinical Themes" Symposium

December 6, 2012, Linden lecture room, Start 9 o'clock, end 16 o'clock

Clinical and preclinical researchers will present IGEN's ongoing translational research in three main areas of interest: Corneal implantation, Cardiovascular regeneration, Skin reconstruction

No registration is required

BIO-X ”HOSPITAL–ACQUIRED INFECTIONS. PREVENTION AND DETECTION”

Den 4 december kl 15.00 kommer BIO-X från Uppsala för att informera om call för 2013 års utlysning av BIO-X. Plats: Rönnen, HU. Vi bjuder på landgång och mineralvatten. Vänligen meddela om du föredrar vegetariskt, glutenfritt eller andra varianter.

Anmälan: claes.post@liu.se InnovationskontorETT

Länk till BIO-X: http://www.uppsalabio.se/DynPage.aspx?id=120883&mpath=7400,7402,7681

Dubious open access journals

LiU carries a warning on its website: http://www.ep.liu.se/authorinf/dubiousjournals.en.asp

You can also get help from the Electronic Press team on dubious conferences.

FRONTIERS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

21-23 May 2013, Sitges, Spain (Just after the BioSensing Technologies Conference)

Abstract Deadline 14 December

http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bECO001/mKPYHD4F/uH3KK5/xGCZ9E4F

Electrochemistry for PhD students

will be offered starting January 2013 at Linkoping.

Interested students who plan to take the course are kindly asked to send e-mail to: shimo@ifm.liu.se

Apply for travel grants and travel the world

http://www.liu.se/insidan/nyhetsarkiv/1.418758?l=en&sc=true

Cecilia Brännmark

will defend her thesis
Insulin Signaling in Human Adipocytes a Systems Biology Approach
Friday 2012-11-30, Berzeliussalen, Hälsouniversitetet, Campus US, Linköpings universitet, starting at 09:00 (Svenska)
http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:563497

FORUM FORUM

an event arranged by
FORUM SCIENTIUM in collaboration with the JUNIOR FACULTY CLUB
open for everyone to participate

Wednesday December 5, in lecture hall Planck, Physics building, Campus Valla

Start 15:15 Opening remarks and short presentations of Junior Faculty and Forum Scientium

Research presentations:

Sofia Ramström, IKE Clinical Chemistry
The platelet’s guide to the coagulation

Valerio Beni, IFM Biosensors and Bioelectronics
DNA Based Sensors: From Surface to Transduction

Susanne Hilke, IKE Cell Biology
The role of the neuropeptide cholecystokinin

16:00 Coffee break

Nathaniel D. Robinson, IFM Surface Physics and Chemistry
Microfluidic tools for life science

Agneta Jansson, IKE Oncology
17β hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases and breast cancer

Håkan Gustafsson, IMH Radiological Science
Medical applications of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)

16:55 Concluding remarks

Invitation Forum Forum Dec 5, 2012.pdf

 

The nobel prize in Chemistry 2012

“for studies of G-protein–coupled receptors”
presented by Prof Samuel Svensson
Monday November 26, 12.15 - 13.00
in seminar room Schrödinger (E324), Physics Building, Campus Valla
More info at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2012/press.html

The nobel prize in Medicine 2012

“for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”
presented by Prof Stefan Thor
Tuesday November 27, 12.15 - 13.00
in seminar room Schrödinger (E324), Physics Building Campus Valla
More info at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2012/press.html

The nobel prize in Physics 2012

“for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”
presented by Prof Irina Yakymenko
Thursday November 29, 12.15 - 13.00
in seminar room Schrödinger (E324) in the Physics Building Campus Valla
More info at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2012/press.html

3rd IGEN-practical course in advanced cytometry

Linköping 4th-8th of February 2013
The course is our response to a growing demand for training in advanced cytometry.
More info at https://www.hu.liu.se/igen/igen-practical-course-in-advanced-cytometry?l=en
Deadline November 30th

Systems Biology and Systems Medicine

Linköping, Sweden, Nov 26 - Dec 6, 2012
The PhD course is divided in the following four parts:
•Nov 26-27, Systems biology methodologies: basic introduction to modelling for beginners, and advanced methods for experienced modellers
•Nov 28-30, Multi-level modelling of type 2 diabetes, part 1: Whole-body aspects and an adipose tissue module
•Dec 1-3, Workshop on systems medicine: Network methods; Model-based approaches to diagnosis and drug development; Modelling for improved liver diagnosis
•Dec 4-6, Multi-level modelling of type 2 diabetes, part 2: Liver, Muscle, and Pancreas
All 4 parts may be attended separately, and give 1.5 ECTs each, implies 6 ECTs for all four parts. All parts are open for both experimentalists, doctors, biologists etc, who have never worked with systems biology or modelling before, as well as to experienced modellers.
Register by sending an email to gunnar.cedersund@liu.se
More info at http://isbgroup.eu/2012/

Invitation to Forum Forum December 5th between 15.15 - 18.00!

Forum Forum is being organized by Forum Scientium in collaboration with Junior Faculty Club.

Forum Forum is an informal get-together event where ideas about future collaboration projects can be born.

SCHEDULE
15:15 Opening remarks and short presentations of Junior Faculty and Forum Scientium
Sofia Ramström, IKE Clinical Chemistry
Valerio Beni, IFM Biosensors and Bioelectronics
Susanne Hilke, IKE Cell Biology
16:00 Coffee break
Nathaniel D. Robinson, IFM Surface Physics and Chemistry
Agneta Jansson, IKE Oncology
Håkan Gustafsson, IMH Radiological Science
16:55 Concluding remarks
17:00-18:00 Mingle with light food and drinks

Invitation Forum Forum Dec 5, 2012.pdf

Mikael Chéramy

will defend his thesis
Characteristics of GADA in Type 1 Diabetes following Immunomodulation with GAD₆₅
Friday 2012-11-15, Berzeliussalen, Hälsouniversitetet, Campus US, Linköpings universitet, Linköping, 13:00 (Engelska
http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:562438

Forum Scientium Seminar November 7, 2012

The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Eken, US.
The presenters are
Wetra Yandi, Åsa Jufvas, Per Erlandsson, Angelika Holm  

Abstracts
List of FS seminars

Linnéa Axelsson

has a position as Research engineer at FOI in Linköping

Basic Management of Research Projects, 1,5 hp

Mandatory course for Forum Scientium. All members should follow this during their first two years. Language is English. Dates 17, 24 och 31 October (full days) More info at: https://doktorandportalen.iei.liu.se/user/course/136/ Registration to lena.sjoholm@liu.se as soon as possible as the number of participants is very limited.

Singapore

Last day for application October 19

How to write a successful grant application?

October 24, 15:30 - 17:00, Boltzmann (E225), Physics building, Campus Valla
Join us to learn more about how to write a funding proposal. Young researchers that already succeeded in getting funding will provide their advices and recommendations. Furthermore, representatives of the main funding agencies will express their opinion and give valuable recommendations. Open for "old" PhD students. More info at http://www.liu.se/juniorfaculty/future_activites?l=en

LiU Junior Faculty Career Day 2012: Industry – Academy Bridge

November 28, 9:00 - 17:00, Planck, Physics building, Campus Valla
A full day devoted to the career options for junior researchers, both in academia and industry. Take the opportunity to learn from the experience of researchers about collaboration between academia and industry, and the differences working in academia and in industry. What does industry expect from a young researcher? What is the difference in research activity being in academia and industry? What is the university vision on the collaboration between academia and industry? How is it supported by the main funding agencies? These are some of the questions that will be addressed during the JF Career Day. Open for "old" PhD students. More info at http://www.liu.se/juniorfaculty/future_activites?l=en

Progress report

The deadline wasa some time ago. If you have not sent it to me do it now.

LiU Research Fellow

These are "tenure-track" positions. The positions, which are limited to four years, with the possibility of promotion and permanent employment, contain among other things a significant research capacity, a broad development program and a leadership program. To be considered for the position the candidate must have obtained their PhD within the last seven years and completed time as a post doc. http://www.liu.se/en/job/show.html?4842
Closing date: 5 November. Admission: early autumn 2013.

Prof Applied Physics

Deadline Nov 2, 2012. More info at http://www.liu.se/en/job/show.html?4775

The brain reward system: inflammation and cocaine

Dr David Engblom (from the Division of Cell Biology, IKE, Faculty of Health Sciences, LiU)
Thursday the 25th of October at 15.00 in Planck, Physics Building

Entrepreneurial mindset: a natural part of doctoral training?

a seminar where InnovationskontorETT want you to:
-       be inspired by your colleagues and friends that have experienced a change in their career after adding courses in entrepreneurship and innovation to their educational plan.
-       be surprised by what Burton Lee, Professor at Stanford University, has to say about the American system and what he looks for when employing researchers to his team
-      discuss possibilities for you to learn about entrepreneurship and innovation at LiU.     
The date and time for the seminar will be the 7th of November 11.30-14. Place: Signalen, Building B
We will serve a buffet lunch (any food requirements e.g. vegetarian & allergy, please let us know) and therefore kindly ask you to register your participation to Carina Ekhager (carina.ekhager@liu.se) latest the 1st of November.

31 Oct LiU - Surviving your thesis/thriving in academia when science is wild: what are the available tips and tricks of the trade – and how can you apply them?

Hur överlever vi tiden efter disputationen, i och utanför akademin? Med en särskild fokusering på postdoktorer och blivande postdoktorer presenterar Cecilia Åsberg och Hillevi Lenz Taguchi tidigare forskning inom fältet och presenterar några projekt som arbetat med dessa frågor. Tillsammans diskuterar vi dessa frågor och bidrar med tips, tankar och strategier.
Anmälan görs till koordinator linnea.boden@liu.se senast 24 oktober

6 Nov LiU and 7 nov LiU - "‪Beamtimes and Lifetimes: ‪The World of High Energy Physicists"

Sharon Traweek - Traweek är associate professor på Department of History, UCLA. I den inflytelserika boken "‪Beamtimes and Lifetimes: ‪The World of High Energy Physicists" (1992) öppnar Traweek dörren till partikelfysikernas kulturella och vetenskapliga rum.
Anmälan görs till koordinator linnea.boden@liu.se senast 24 oktober

10 Dec LiU - Akademiskt ledarskap: kön, kultur och karriär

Helen Peterson kommer ansvara för ett lab där frågor om rekrytering, ledarskap och kön står i fokus. Peterson är forskningsassistent vid Tema Teknik och social förändring. I sin forskning har hon undersökt bland annat könade karriärvägar inom SET (science, engineering and technology); kön, kultur, akademi och karriär; den sociala och könade konstruktionen av teknisk kompetens och hur ny teknik påverkar spatiala och temporala gränser för arbete och övrigt liv. Just nu arbetar Peterson med forskningsprojektet ”Akademiskt ledarskap i balans? Kvinnor på ledande positioner vid svenska universitet och högskolor 1990-2010”
Anmälan görs till koordinator linnea.boden@liu.se senast 24 oktober

Research Opportunities within a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN)

"Human Exposure to Aerosol Contaminants in Modern Microenvironments" (HEXACOMM)
Early Stage Researcher (ESR) and Experienced Researcher (ER) Positions
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/47133213/A-TEAM/A-TEAM_Home.html

Vecka 45

InnovationskontorETT anordnar massor av aktiviteter http://vecka45.se/

Avogadro Colloquia on "Organic Bio-Electronics: Challenges and Opportunities for Chemistry"

Bologna 29th October 2012. Deadline 15th October, 2012. Further information http://www.soc.chim.it/avogadro_colloquia

 “Scientific and commercial aspects of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells”

Thursday, November 15, 2012 @15.15
Location: Planck or Schrödinger
Prof. Johan Hyllner, Cellectis & new adjunct professor at LiU

3rd International Conference on Bio-Sensing Technology

will take place in Sitges (near Barcelona), Spain, on 12-15 May 2013.
http://www.biosensingconference.com/
Deadline November 30, 2012

Book Wednesday Dec 5 from 13-22 o'clock

Workshop on Illustrator, Indesign and Photoshop
Forum Forum
Christmas Banquette

Transformer

The new announcement of Transformer awards is delayed as we are waiting for the universities decision for 2013.

Resebidrag från Knut och Alice Wallenbergs jubileumsfond

http://www.liu.se/insidan/forskningsfinansiering/utlysningar-nationell-finansiering/1.329731?l=sv
Deadline 30 oktober 2012

Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practise

recommended course https://doktorandportalen.iei.liu.se/user/course/113/

Medicinal Chemistry Symposium 16/6 - 19/6 2013

Kinases, GPCRs, Enzymes, protein-protein interaction, epigenetics, chemical biology
Deadline Feb 12, 2013. More info at http://www.lakemedelsakademin.se/templates/kurs/kurstillfalle.aspx?id=5062&kId=5061

Forum Scientium Seminar October 10, 2012 - with Constructive Criticism

The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Planck, IFM.
The Forum Scientium members Fredrik Bäcklund, Camilla Halvarsson will first present their work. After this, Ann-Sofie Bergeling, LiU, will give a one-hour seminar on Constructive Criticism between 16 and 17. 

Abstracts
List of FS seminars

Forum Scientium Seminar September 12, 2012

The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Eken, US.
The presenters are
Fredrik Lysholm, Daniel Sanchez, Amanda Jonsson, Linda Helmfors
Abstracts
List of FS seminars

Inspiration on how to make excellent figures and animations Sep 25 at Visualization Center C at Campus Norrköping

Welcome to Visualization Center C at Campus Norrköping Tuesday September 25 at 18.00 o’clock. The world leading illustrator Dr Graham Johnson from University of California, San Fransisco, will, in the Dome theatre, present a show focusing on the cell. For more info see people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/InbjudanGrahamSep2012.pdf

Please e-mail a registration to Stefan Sep 20 at the latest, and indicate if you would like us to arrange some kind of transport there and/or back from Norrköping.

Basic Management of Research Projects, 1,5 hp

Mandatory course for Forum Scientium. All members should follow this during their first two years.

Language is English. Dates 17, 24 och 31 October (full days)

More info at: doktorandportalen.iei.liu.se/user/course/136/

Registration to lena.sjoholm@liu.se as soon as possible as the number of participants is very limited.

Klas Tybrandt

will defend his thesis Friday September 21 at 11:00 in Kåkenhus, Campus Norrköping

liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf

(His opponent will be prof Janos Vörös, that many of you met at ETH in Zürich.)

Conference Label-Free Technologies: Advances and Applications

Amsterdam, 1-3 November 2012

www.labelfreetech.com/index.html

Deadline September 7 (for reduced rate)

3rd International Conference on Bio-Sensing Technology

will take place in Sitges (near Barcelona), Spain, on 12-15 May 2013.

www.biosensingconference.com/

Deadline November 30, 2012

Patricia Wennerstrand

will defend her thesis Friday September 7 at 9.15 in Planck, Physics building, Campus Valla

http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:546114

Chemists wanted in Britain

Norbrook Laboratories based in Newry, Northern Ireland are looking for a chemist with specialist expertise in HPLC method development/validation and analysis. This senior person will oversee all laboratory work in all 3 R&D labs, formulation chemistry, GMP Stability and GLP clinical laboratory so will be expert in methods associated with product quality as well as tissue matrices. This person will be responsible for overall compliance of the laboratories to ensure we are meeting full regulatory standards. This will be a well-paid managerial position.

A second senior position will be a formulations chemist responsible for deconstruction of existing products to ascertain qualitative and quantitative composition with a view to developing a pharmaceutical equivalent product. Again this position is managerial in nature.

Please contact Andrew.Hillan@norbrook.co.uk

Transformer

The new announcement of Transformer awards is delayed as we are waiting for the universities decision for 2013.

Resebidrag från Knut och Alice Wallenbergs jubileumsfond

Resebidrag från Knut och Alice Wallenbergs jubileumsfond

Deadline 30 oktober 2012

Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practise

doktorandportalen.iei.liu.se/user/course/113/

Sweden-Japan Seminar on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology

(SJS-Nano): Special focus on Nanotech in Health, Energy and Environment

10-11 September 2012

Venue: Physics Building-IFM, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

More info: Ashutosh Tiwari

FET devices, general principles and gas sensors

PhD course and seminar at Linköping University by Prof. Shinji Nakagomi

Ishinomaki Senshu University, Japan

September 17-18, 2012

More info: Prof Anita Lloyd Spetz

Scientific methods & research practice - starting October

Course web site: Scientific methods & Research practice

Sensors 2012 - Nanosensor Technologies for Monitoring – materials and methods

7th November 2012

at the The Royal Society of Chemistry Burlington House, London . W1J 0BA

Deadline for submission of abstracts for the Sensors 2012 conference, 7th September, www.aamg-rsc.org

Agora Materiae

A new graduate school with a multidisciplinary direction within Material Physics has been initiated at Linköping University. This graduate school within the AFM (Advanced Functional Materials) initiative includes both hard and soft materials, and involve about 20 research groups/areas at several departments (IFM, IEI, ITN…) within LiU. For more info see Agora Materiae

Timmy Fyrner

will defend his thesis
"Synthesis of Orthogonally Functionalized Oligosaccharides for Self-assembled Monolayers and as Multimodal Tools in Chemical Biology"
Friday 11 May 2012 at 10.15 in Planck, Campus Valla
liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf;jsessionid=aedf9cc6f381585519d31ce73708

Mattias Tengdelius

will present his Project Preparatory Paper (PPP)
"Design and Synthesis of Bio-active Crosslinkers for Use in Artificial Corneas".
Thursday May 3 from 10.15 to 10.40 in seminar room E330 KEPLER in the Physics Building at Campus Valla.
All are welcome!

Annica Myrskog

has a new job as a Consultant within Fuel & Lubricant Testing at Exova AB in Linköping

Forum Scientium Seminar April 18, 2012

The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Planck, IFM.
The presenters are
Sara Helander, Cecilia Brännmark, Linnéa Selegård, Karin Magnusson
Abstracts
List of FS seminars

LinkedIn Notes

The notes from Annica Thorbergs presentation of "How to use LinkedIn to improve your future career" can be found at the following link Notes from LinkedIn seminar 120317

Sebastian Schultz

has received a 3-year postdoc position starting July 1 2012 at the Dept of Biochemistry, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital in Oslo. Sebastian will there work with Andreas Brech in the Harald Stenmark group
http://www.ous-research.no/stenmark

Reminder - Biosafety course 1.5 credits

http://www.hu.liu.se/styrelse_namnder/fun/forskarutbildningskurser/biosafety?l=sv
Register on the home page, deadline April 10 (number of participants limited). Two days are scheduled for the course: April 24 and May 9. If questions, contact course coordinator Charlotte Immerstrand (charlotte.immerstrand@liu.se).

Träffa LiU forskningsledare inom Life Science

http://www.biomedley.com/2005_aktiviteter.asp

Future Science

Lunch seminars arranged by HU Junior Faculty
https://people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/Futscience.pdf

Important dates

•    21-23 May – Three day study visit, to Boston, US. Minimum: Leaving Sweden Sunday morning May 20. Back at the earliest Thursday afternoon May 24.
•    27-29 August – Three Day Summer Conference in Vadstena (Kungs Starby)

 

Reunion

March 17, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

Forum Scientium Seminar March 14, 2012

The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Eken, US.
The presenters are
Jutta Speda, Leif Johansson, Feng-i Tai, Alexandra Ahlner
Abstracts
List of FS seminars

Scientific Publishing, 3 ECTS

Registration not later than 16 March. More info at
https://people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/Scientific%20Publishing%202012.pdf

Statistical methods in experimental science, 3-4,5 hp

This course will be given by Prof Anders Grimvall some time between April 18 and June 1 (exact start and end date will be decided by the participants and the examiner). The course has previously been given seven times and the participating PhD students have been very satisfied with it. Focus will be on problems brought to the course by the participants.
The prerequisites are at least a quarter of a year of Mathematics including at least three weeks of Statistics, but also participants with more knowledge are welcome. It is also a prerequisite that the PhD student has a project where statistical analysis of data is an important element. The participants should bring their own data (or data from the research group) to be discussed and analysed.
The course will be given in English, and it includes lessons, 2-3 hours each, at 6-10 occasions. The number of participators should be 6-15 PhD students (members of Forum Scientium will have priority if needed). The deadline for application is March 15, 2012 by e-mail to Anne Moe, anne.moe@liu.se
Remember that you must have permission from your main supervisor to apply for the course.

Basic Management of Research Projects

Mandatory for all Forum Scientium members. Given twice a year. This time in English.
Dates March 14, March 28 and 11 April (full days)
First day will collide with the Forum seminar, but that this is OK, you should participate in the course.
More info at: https://doktorandportalen.iei.liu.se/user/course/84/
Registration to lena.sjoholm@liu.se

Paula Linderbäck

has got a new position as coordinator for a brand new doctoral programme in Molecular Medicine at Turkku University.

 

 

Biosafety course, 1.5 hp

http://www.hu.liu.se/styrelse_namnder/fun/forskarutbildningskurser/biosafety?l=sv
Register on the home page, deadline April 10 (number of participants limited).
Two days are scheduled for the course: April 24 and May 9.
If questions, contact course coordinator Charlotte Immerstrand (charlotte.immerstrand@liu.se).

Reunion March 17

Especially I would like to stress that all present PhD students should participate in the reunion as it will , among other things, give you possibilities to learn to know PhDs from around Sweden that, in the not to long future, can help you to find a good position for your future career. For more info incl who the 122 persons are that has registered so far,
http://www.liu.se/forskning/scientium/reunion?l=en

 

No monthly meeting May 23!

 

Fredrik Agholme

has received a Transformer award from Forum Scientium.

 

Forum Scientium Seminar February 15, 2012

The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Planck, IFM.
The presenters are
Sebastian Schultz, Siri Aili Fagerholm, Fredrik Agholme, Anders Elfwing 
Abstracts
List of FS seminars

Forum Scientium Seminar January 25, 2012

The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place is Eken, US.
The presenters are
Sara Bergstrand, Cecilia Karlsson, Meenu Rajan
Abstracts
List of FS seminars

Hanna Björck

will defend her thesis
"Vessel wall integrity : influence of genetics and flow"
Friday January 20, 2012, at 09.15 in Berzelius, Campus US
http://chaplin2.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2012/med1270s.pdf

Boston

We are now in the process of contacting different persons that can host us during our visit to the Boston area. We need the help. especially from senior researchers for this. A personal contact will make it much easier. It is a little bit urgent as we need to have enough first positive answers before we buy our flight tickets. Therefore I would like to ask the senior researchers reading this to contact Erik Martinsson (erik.martinsson@liu.se) or Camilla Halvarsson (camilla.halvarsson@liu.se) during next week with your proposals of persons that you could help us to contact. That is January 20 at the latest.

Organic Chemistry for non-chemists , 6 hp

will be given  in the spring semester 2012. The course will be held  for non-chemists on a level suitable for PhD students not majoring chemistry before. About 14 lectures will be given approx. once a week. The course will start the 26 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.
Reply before January 14, by E-mail to sts@ifm.liu.se  

Introductory course in Scanning Probe Microscopy

This PhD course will be given during the period 120227-120309, provided sufficient interest. I will try to adjust the schedule according to the schedule of the participants.
The course will consist of 4*2 h lectures and 1*6 h laboration. (3 hp credits)
Litterature: Scanning Probe Microscopy, the lab on a tip, E. Meyer, H. J. Hug, R. Bennewitz. The book is available at Adlibris.com
General SPM: The common principles and technologies used in SPM, The Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), The Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), The Scanning Near Field Optical Microscope (SNOM),
AFM specific: Force detection methods, Tip/cantilever technology, AFM operation modes (contact, non-contact, dc, ac), Tip-surface interaction, Image artifacts, Measurements in liquids, Local force measurements, Atomically resolved AFM
Those interested in participating should contact Ragnar Erlandsson by e-mail rag@ifm.liu.se. Notify Ragnar before 2012-01-30

Intellectual Property as a Business Tool, 3 hp

Applications should be sent to Lena Sjöholm: lena.sjoholm@liu.se February 20 at the latest.
More info at https://doktorandportalen.iei.liu.se/user/course?cid=123
The course starts March 7 and ends April 18 (click schedule and search for Intellectual)

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