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Welcome to the homepage of Forum Scientium – a doctoral programme of natural sciences, engineering, and biomedicine that was established in 1996 by Linköpings universitet and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research.
NEWS
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.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009
"Fibre optics and the CCD"
presented by prof Ingemar Lundström
Monday 14/12 kl 12.15-13.00 in lecture hall Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2009/press.html
Dissertation December 17, 2009
Andreas Åslund
Thursday December 17, 2009, kl 13.00, Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla
"Designing thiophene-based fluorescent probes for the study of neurodegenerative protein aggregation diseases: From test tube to in vivo experiments"
Summary and Full text
Anders Flodström and Christmas banquette Dec 18
Forum Scientium's yearly Christmas banquette for PhD-students and supervisors will this year start with a debate with Anders Flodström, University Chancellor, on PhD-studies and its future development. (The university chancellor is head of the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education and a former PhD-student at LiU.) The discussion will be Tuesday December 18, between 15 and 17, and will be followed by a common dinner.
Dissertation December 11, 2009
Pernilla M Eliasson
Friday December 11, 2009, kl 13.00, Berzelius, Campus US
"Live and Let Die: Critical regulation of survival in normal and malignant hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells"
Summary and Full text
Dissertation December 4, 2009
Karin Vretenbrant Öberg
Friday December 4, 2009, kl 13.00, Linden, Campus US
"The role of platelet thrombin receptors PAR1 and PAR4 in platelet activation"
Summary and Full text
Dissertation December 4, 2009
Magnus Baumgardt
Friday December 4, 2009, kl 09.00, Linden, Campus US
"Genetic mechanisms behind cell specification in the Drosophila CNS"
Summary and Full text
Charlotte Immerstrand
From January 1, 2010, Charlotte Immerstrand will start working 30% helping me with the stimulating job with Forum Scientium! One of the things Charlotte will work with isw the contacts with you. I look very much forward to start working with Charlotte! (During the other part she will work with biosecurity within LiU.)
Sofia Ramström
Sofia moves on to a new job in Dublin. She leaves the position at Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The new job is at ICON "a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. We specialise in the strategic development, management and analysis of programs that support Clinical Development - from compound selection to Phase I-IV clinical studies".
Evaluation of you by SSF
SSF have made an evaluation of the outcome of the efforts they made to stimulate doctoral programmes during their first years. They have had rather big troubles to define questions and analyse answers, but some of the results are:
- The brutto time to exam was shorter for SSF-PhDs compared to the control group.
- More of the SSF-PhDs work within industry
- More of the SSF-PhDs say that there education was highly relevant
- Especially women SSF-PhDs regarded to be part of a SSF-programme higher
You can read the report (in Swedish) at
16 new PhDs this year!
Very near to the all time high of 18 PhD-exams 2001. Altogether there will at the end of this year exist 80 Forum Scientium PhDs. As the new year starts the number of PhD-students will have diminished to 59, but on the other hand we will have 10 transformers!
Forum Scientium Seminar November 25, 2009
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Eken, Campus US.
The presenters are
Kristin Persson, Cecilia Brännmark, Stephen Macken, Caroline Skoglund
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Dissertation November 27, 2009
Satish Babu Moparthi
Friday November 27, 2009, kl 10.15, Planck, Campus Valla
"Biophysical Studies of Protein Folding Upon Interaction with Molecular Chaperones"
Summary and Full text
Nobel Prize presentations 2009
As usual the Nobel Prizes will be presented by researchers at Linköping University
Chemistry – The Ribosome
Thursday November 26, kl 12.05-13.00, Schrödinger (E324), Physics House, Campus Valla
Lena Tibell and Nalle Jonsson
Medicine – The Telomeres and the Telomerase
Thursday 26/11 kl 15.30-16.30, Eken, Campus US
Karin Öllinger
Creativity for beginners, 1,5 hp
Crearum has given this course earlier. The information is given in Swedish but the course is given in English or Swedish.
The course days are 2010/01/21, 2010/01/28, 2010/02/04, and 2010/02/11
Each day from 8:15 until 12:00
Deadline for application is Monday November 30, 2009
http://people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/forum/creativity.pdf
Dissertation November 20, 2009
Inger Hallberg
Friday November 20, 2009, kl 13.00, Berzelius, Campus US
"Health-related quality of life in postmenopausal women with ostoeoporotic fractures"
Summary and Full text
Dissertation November 20, 2009
Sofie Nyström
Friday November 20, 2009, kl 10.15, Planck, Campus Valla
"Early events in disease associated protein misfolding"
Summary and Full text
Dissertation November 6, 2009
Yvonne Johansson
Friday November 6, 2009, kl 13.00, Berzelius, Campus US
"Structure-function studies on TRIM21/Ro52, a protein involved in autoimmune diseases"
Summary and Full text
Dissertation November 6, 2009
Jonas Carlsson
Friday November 6, 2009, kl 10.00, Planck, Campus Valla
"Mutational effects on protein structure and function"
Summary and Full text
Dissertation October 30, 2009
Janosch Hennig
Friday October 30, 2009, kl 13.15, Planck, Campus Valla
"Structure-function studies on TRIM21/Ro52, a protein involved in autoimmune diseases"
Summary and Full text
Forum Scientium Award "Transformer"
The fourth 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 Tuesday November 10, 2009.
Modern Biology for non-biologists
This autumn we will present a course in basic cell biology, biochemistry and gene technology for people without a background in these areas. The course will start October 21. There is no specific deadline for application, but the number of participants are limited so send your application as soon as possible!
Therése and Stefan
More info on content, dates, etc can be found here
Study visit Monday 2 November
The National Board of Forensic Medicine (Rättsmedicinalverket). Situated at Garnisonsområdet. Host is Prof Johan Ahlner
Monday 2 November kl 13-15
Kvalitet o Säkerhet, Nya metoder o Tekniker, Personalplanerare berättar vilka kompetenser dom har behov av, Slutligen en rundtur i huset.
Forum Scientium Seminar September 30, 2009
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Planck, Campus Valla.
The presenters are
Timmy Fyrner, Mikael Chéramy, Emma Ericsson, Fredrik Agholme
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Licentiate October 2, 2009
Lan Bui
Friday October 2, 2009, kl 10.00, Jordan-Fermi, Campus Valla
"Synthesis of Substituted Alkanethiols Intended for Protein Immobilization"
Forum Scientium Seminar September 30, 2009
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Linden, Campus US.
The presenters are
Janosch Hennig, Hung-Hsun Lee, Klas Tybrandt and Karin Vretenbrant Öberg
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Dissertation September 25, 2009
Sofia Petersson
Friday September 25, 2009, kl 13.00, Berzelius, Campus US
"Biodegradable gelatin microcarriers in tissue engineering : in vitro studies on cartilage and bone"
Summary and Full text
FS#70
Forum Scientium Seminar September 2, 2009
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Planck, Campus Valla.
The presenters are
Thérese Klingstedt, Anne Lahdenperä, Maria Ahrén and Hanna Björk
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Poster prize
1st prize: 20 000 SEK poster number 27, Klas Tybrandt
2nd prize: 10 000 SEK poster number 20, Erik Martinsson
3rd prize: 5 000 SEK poster number 7, Marie Oskarsson
The prize should primarily be used for a training period abroad.
In addition, the jury decided to give a special attention to three other posters for excellent presentations:
Poster number 28, Sebastian Schultz
Poster number 2, Isa Lindgren
Poster number 9, Kristin Persson
Motivations for the prizes and some general comments
Summer Conference August 24-26, 2009
This year’s FS summer conference was held August 24-26 at the conference hotel Sandvik gård located north of Norrköping, about 45 minutes by car from Linköping (www.sandvikgard.com).
Here follows some important information:
All new Forum members that have not yet presented at the Forum meetings should shortly present their research project (5-10 min) at the first day of the conference. These new members are; Per Erlandsson, Sara Helander, Linda Andrén, Leif Johansson, Klas Tybrandt and Marie Oskarsson (the new members Kristin Persson, Rozalyn Simon, Patricia Wennerstrand and Sara Nilsson have already made presentations).
The main part of the time will be used for rhetoric training, poster presentations, presentations by Former Scientium members, career tips from senior researchers and stress handling.
Best regards,
Feng-I and Marie
Dissertation August 28, 2009
Torun Berlind
Friday August 28, 2009, kl 10.15, Planck, Campus Valla
"Carbon Nitride Characterization and Protein Interactions"
Summary and Full text
Licentiate August 17, 2009
Annica Myrskog
Monday August 17, 2009, kl 13.15, Planck, Campus Valla
"Self Assembled Monolayers for Quartz Crystal Microbalance based Biosensing"
Summary and Full text
Forum Scientium Seminar June 10, 2009
Cancelled because of sickness!
Study Visit Dublin May 20-22
During three busy days we visited:
Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (BDI)
Respiratory, cardiovascular and exercise physiology group at UCD Physiology
Protein folding at the Trinity College
Clinical Research Centre (CRC)
Nanoparticles and Cell Interactions
UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research
Synthesis and Chemical Biology
BiancaMed and NovaUCD
RCSI Sofia Ramström
Cellix Ltd
Tissue Engineering/Regenerative Medicine, Cardiovascular Engineering and Biomaterials
Detailed info can be found in the travel report (pdf)
Forum Scientium Seminar May 13, 2009
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Planck, Campus Valla.
The presenters are
Cecilia Andrésen, Sebastian Schultz, Feng-I Tai, Sara Bergstrand
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Satish Moparthi receives post-doc in Madrid
Satish Moparthi's defence of his dissertation is scheduled for October 2009, but despite of that he has already received a two year post-doc in Madrid from July 1, 2009.
Study Visit Stockholm April 17, 2009
We visited:
Biosensor Applications
Neuroscience KI
Smittskyddsinstitutet
Silex Microsystems
Eli Lilly
Full info can be found in the report
Forum Scientium Seminar April 15, 2009
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Eken, Campus US.
The presenters are
Cecilia Vahlberg, Sara Nilsson, Ina Berg, Pernilla T Eliasson
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Forum Forum March 25, 2009
We welcome you to attend Forum Forum held the 25th of March between 13.15 and 16 o´clock in lecture hall Linden at Campus US. Forum Forum is arranged by Forum Scientium and will involve presentations by invited speakers. It is a chance to see what other research groups are trying to achieve and to find possible collaborations. Afterwards we will mingle and eat some tasty food.
What is Forum Forum?
Forum Forum is an informal come together event where ideas about future collaboration projects can be born. By talking to Ph.D. students and senior researchers, and by listening to the visions of other research groups, we (Forum Scientium) hope that the attendants will find inspiration and opportunities to start up joint multi-disciplinary research projects.
Scientists within Linköping University will present their research with focus on the visions of their research groups. There will be time for discussions after each presentation.
Presentations (13:15 - 16:00)
13.15 Welcome
13.20-13.50 Per Ask - IMT Physiological Measurements
13.50-14.20 Johan Ahlner - IMH Forensic Science and Toxicology
14.20-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-15.30 Mattias Alenius – IKE Neurobiology
15.30-16.00 Edwin Jager – ITN Organic Electronics
Forum Scientium Seminar March 18, 2009
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Planck, Campus Valla.
The presenters are
Andreas Åslund, Mikael Pihl, Jens Wigenius and Ann-Charlotte Svensson Holm
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Fantastic skiing by Erik Martinsson
Erik Martinsson finished as number 220 in this years Vasalopp. (Last year he finished as number 451.)
Licentiate March 9, 2009
Liza Ljungberg
Monday March 9, 2009, kl 13.00, Berzelius, Campus US
"Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme"
Dissertation March 5, 2009
Anna Lundberg
Thursday March 5, 2009, kl 09.00, Berzelius, Campus US
"Immune responses to lipopolysaccharide in relation to allergic disease : a TLR4 gene polymorphism and endotoxin exposure"
Summary and Full text
Dissertation February 26, 2009
Karin Almstedt
Thursday February 26, 2009, kl 13.15, Planck, Physics house, Campus Valla
"Protein Misfolding in Human Diseases"
Summary and Full text
Forum Scientium Study Visit to Dublin spring 2009
The schedule for the visit can be found below. We need your definitive registration Thursday February 12 (that is this Thursday!). You should send your registration to Susann Årnfelt, susar@ifm.liu.se, and she will then order the flight tickets on Friday.
If you would like to have some time on your own before or after you should just tell Susann which Ryanair flights you would like to use. The tax authority allows us to stay away in this case in total 6-8 days. Forum Scientium pays all cost during the trip except food during Saturday and Sunday (I guess you will get traktamente for that). You still need a go-ahead signal from your supervisor.
Schedule:
Tuesday May 19 at 18.00 o’clock Bus from Linköping
Tuesday May 19 at 22.00 o’clock Flight from Skavsta
Wednesday morning Free time in Dublin
Wednesday afternoon Parallel study visits starts
Thursday Parallel study visits
Friday Parallel study visits
Saturday Free time in Dublin
Sunday morning Free time in Dublin
Sunday May 24 at 14.00 o’clock Bus from Dublin
Sunday May 24 at 17.45 o’clock Flight from Dublin
Sunday May 24 at 21.25 o’clock Back in Nyköping
Sunday May 24 at around midnight Back in Linköping
(There are no flights to Dublin Wednesday morning, and no flights back during Saturday.)
For the moment proposed visits:
http://www.bdi.ie/
http://www.rcsi.ie/
http://www.dcu.ie/index.shtml
http://www.cellixltd.com/
http://www.ucd.ie/conway/
http://www.ucd.ie/nova/
http://www.tcd.ie/
http://www.dit.ie/
And, there will be more visits to chose from.
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 20 till May 30 2008 (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 25 February 2008 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.
More info at:
http://people.ifm.liu.se/stekl/forum/courses.htm
Forum Scientium Seminar February 18, 2009
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Eken, Campus US. The presenters are Rozalyn Simon, Stina Axelsson and Maria Bolin
Abstracts
List of FS seminars
Activities during spring 2009
Forum Forum Wednesday afternoon March 25 from 13-17Study visit StockholmFriday April 17 leaving early and coming back lateStudy visit IrelandDate is not decided yet. It depends on our hosts in Dublin, but it will be eitherMay 20-23 (first choice) orMay 24-27Summer ConferenceAugust 24-26 is our first choice
Forum Scientium Seminar January 21, 2009
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Planck, Campus Valla. The presenters are Therése Klingstedt, Siri Fagerholm, Kristina Buchholt, Yvonne Johansson AbstractsList of FS seminars
Christmas Banquette
The normal schedule for Wednesday December 17 for you will be:Between 12 and 13: Poster session preparation in the entrance of the Physics House, Campus Valla13-15: Inspiring seminar on Oral Presentation in seminar room Kepler in the Physics House, Campus Valla15-17: Poster session in the entrance of the Physics House, Campus Valla17-19: Preparation for the Christmas banquette, at home or somewhere else.19- : Christmas banquette in the pub in the cellar of the Physics House, Campus Valla
Forum Scientium Postdoc Support
Forum Scientium has decided to offer postdoctoral supports to:Karin Almstedt, IFM BiochemistryOlle Andersson, IFM Molecular Physics andLars Faxälv, IMH Drug ResearchThe support should be used to promote the future career for the post-docs and to increase the quality of the training of the PhD-students active within the programme. Forum Scientium will support the post-doctoral position with half of the salary (max 20 000 SEK per month) up to a maximum of one year.
Daniel Aili receives scholarship from K&A Wallenberg
Daniel Aili has received not only the Forum Scientium prepostdoc scholarship, but also a postdoc sholarship from The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. It is the same scholarship that Peter Nilsson received three years ago. It includes two years abroad plus three years as you return. More below in Swedish.Stiftelsen har för femte och sista gången utlyst Stipendier för postdoktorala studier i gränsöverskridande Mikro/NanovetenskapProgrammet avser postdoktorala studier för den fysiker, kemist, biolog, medicinare eller teknikvetenskapare som avser att förnya sin forskning genom vetenskapligt gränsöverskridande postdoktorala studier inom mikro/nanoområdet. Programmet prioriterar därför biologer/kemister/medicinare som avser att vidga sitt kunnande inom fysik/teknik och tvärtom.2008 års stipendiater:Daniel Aili, Austrian Research Centers, Wien och Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
Forum Scientium Seminar November 26, 2008
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Linden, Entrance 65, Campus US. The presenters are Isa Lindgren, Åsa Svensson, John Olsson and Paula Linderbäck AbstractsList of FS seminars
Tino Ebbers receives 2.2 milj SEK from VR
Tino Ebbers has since his PhD-exam 2001 first worked at Philips in the Netherlands, and then as a postdoctoral research fellow at Clinical Physiology, Linköping University. The support from the Swedish Research Council will be used to do research on the next generation of tools for the analysis of blood flow in heart and blood vessels.
Björn Granseth receives 3.4 milj SEK from VR
Björn Granseth has since his PhD-exam 2003 had first a post-doc position and then a postdoctoral research fellow position at the Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK. Currently he is conducting research in Japan. He has earlier received a LiU-fo.ass-position. He will from 1 January 2009 also receive support from the Swedish Research Council during three years. 260 young researchers applied and only 30 received the support.More info (in Swedish)
News on Former Scientium members
Vesa Loitto has since October 1, 2008, started to work as a senior scientist in Molecular Toxicology at AstraZeneca, Södertälje.Tobias Nyberg is since some time back in the academic career. He is now researcher at KTH in Prof Hans von Holsts group in Neuronics doing research on implants. He will also continue his co-operation with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT), Japan.Link to more info on present place of employment of Former Scientium
Forum Scientium Post Doctoral Support
The second offer of postdoctoral supports to “exceptionally good” PhDs within Forum Scientium to continue their research at Linköping University. The post-doc supports aim at promoting the future career for the post-docs, and to promote twinning among Forum Scientium members. The deadline for applications is Friday November 14, 2008. Announcement
Forum Scientium Seminar October 29, 2008
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla. The presenters are Patricia Wennerstrand, Cecilia Johansson, Daniel Kanmert AbstractsList of FS seminars
Christmas Poster session with banquette
December 17 we will have our yearly Christmas Poster Session with Banquette. Participation in the Poster Session is mandatory. The preliminary programme is:13.15-15.00 Lecture on how to improve your oral presentations, Planck, Physics House, Valla15.15-17.00 Poster Session, Entrance Hall, Physics House, Valla19.00- Banquette, Bragg, Physics House, Valla
Yearly follow-up
The yearly follow-up will be held during November. If you still have not booked a time contact Stefan.
Ingemar Lundström Symposium October 8-9
During two days we will have a symposium with world leading scientist. The symposium is held in Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla. Programme can be found at here
Dissertation October 3
Daniel AiliThursday October 3, 2008, kl 10.15, Planck, Physics house, Campus Valla"Polypeptide-based nanoscale materials" Summary and Full textYou can also listen to an interview made by the Swedish Radio (in Swedish) InterviewNy Teknik (in Swedish) Article
Dissertation October 2
Christian UlrichThursday October 2, 2008, kl 10.15, Planck, Physics house, Campus Valla"Electric fields for surface design and chemical analysis" Summary and Full text
Forum Scientium Seminar October 1, 2008
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Linden, Entrance 65, Campus US. The presenters are Linnéa Selegård, Caroline Skoglund, Satish Moparthi, Camilla Skoglund AbstractsList of FS seminars
Dissertation September 27
Jenny WalldénSaturday September 27, 2008, kl 09.00, Berzelius, Campus US"Studies of immunological risk factors in type 1 diabetes" Summary and Full text
Dissertation September 26
Olof AnderssonFriday September 26, 2008, kl 10.15, Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla"Imaging surface plasmon resonance" Summary and Full text
Dissertation September 19
Jenny CarlssonFriday September 19, 2008, kl 10.15, Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla"Interaction Studies in Complex Fluids with Optical Biosensors" Summary and Full textOpponent: Kjell Janné, Uppsala University
Nominated for Centres of Excellence in Higher Education 2008
Forum Scientium has passed the first step in the evaluation for the nomination for Centres of Excellence in Higher Education 2008. The last step is an interrogation that will be done October 21, 2008. More information (in Swedish) can be found at Högskoleverket
Dissertation September 12
Henrik PeterssonFriday September 12, 2008, kl 10.00, Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla"Multivariate Exploration and Processing of Sensor Data - applications with multidimensional sensor systems" Summary and Full textOpponent: Johan Trygg, Umeå Universitet
Dissertation September 5
Patrik NygrenFriday September 5, 2008, kl 10.15, Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla"Structural and Functional Studies of De Novo Designed Peptides at Surfaces" Summary and Full textOpponent: Prof Martin Malmsten, Dep of Pharmacology, Uppsala University
Forum Scientium Seminar September 3
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla. The presenters are Mikael Chéramy, Tobias Ekblad and Fredrik Agholme AbstractsList of FS seminars
Att komma igång och sedan bli klar i tid
(Basic Management of Research Projects. The course is given in Swedish this time)Denna kurs skall Forum Scientiums doktorander följa någon gång under sina första två år.Innehåll• Att komma igång rätt med ett längre arbete.• Uppställning av måldokument om projektplanering.• Näringslivets projektmetoder: PBS, WBS och OBS. Miniriskanalys. Konsekvenshantering. Milstolpeplan. Tidsplaner. Intressentanalys. Ansvarskort. Framgångskriterier.• Effektiv problemlösning. Enkla kreativa tekniker.• Samverkan med andra, kommunikation och hantering av meningsmotsättningar.• Samspel med projektets beställare/handledare.• Personlig effektivitet: att vara en effektiv akademiker.• Hantera egen och andras stress i projektvardagen.Kurstillfällen hösten 2008: onsdagarna 22 okt, 12 nov och 3 dec kl 9.30-16Applications:Görs till Lena Sjöholm, IEI, via e-post till lena.sjoholm@liu.seMaxantalet är 20 personer. 12 av platserna går i första hand till Forum Scientium, 8 platser går i första hand till LiTH (ej Forum). I mån av plats så kan även andra doktorander erbjudas plats. Platserna fördelas efter den som först anmäler sig via e-post till Lena. Sista datum för anmälan är den 31 augusti.
Summer conference 2008
August 20-22 the traditional Forum Scientium summer conference is localised at Rimforsa Strand. The programme includes poster presentations by all PhD-students, short presentations by all new (10) Forum members, and invited seminars:- Maria Jenmalm (Docent at IKE Paediatrics, Experiences from her research career abroad and at LiU)- Peter Nilsson (Fo.ass at IFM Biochemistry, About how to be motivated in your research)- Ronney Wiklund (Awapatent AB, Linköping, Introduction to patent issues)- Michael Lofthagen (Syntagon AB, Södertälje, How to start your own company)- Samuel Svensson (AstraZeneca AB, Södertälje, Differences in research between company and academy)
Forum Scientium Postdoc Support
Forum Scientium has decided to offer postdoctoral supports to:Andreas Eriksson, IMH PharmacologyDaniel Aili, IFM Molecular Physics andVeronika Borutinskaite, IKE Medical Microbiology PhDs within Forum Scientium that now can continue their research at Linköping University. The support should be used to promote the future career for the post-docs and to increase the quality of the training of the PhD-students active within the programme. Forum Scientium will support the post-doctoral position with 240 000 SEK per year up to a maximum of two years.
Forum Scientium Seminar June 11
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Eken, Entrance 65, Campus US. The presenters are Timmy Fyrner, Anna Kivling, Linda Rattfält, Lars Faxälv AbstractsList of FS seminars
Dissertation June 3
Andreas ErikssonFriday June 3, 2008, kl 13.00, Aulan i Hälsans hus, Entrance 16, Campus US"Platelet Adhesion to Proteins in Microplates"Opponent:Docent Håkan Wallén, Inst för Kliniska Vetenskaper, Danderyds Sjukhus, Karolinksa INstitutet, Stockholm
Study visit Munich, Germany, June 3-7
During the study visit research intensive companies and research departments were visited. For more info see:
Dissertation May 30
Karin SörgjerdFriday May 30, 2008, kl 14.00, Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla"Molecular Aspects of Transthyretin Amyloid Disease" Summary and Full textOpponent: Prof Joel Buxbaum, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, La Jolla, USA
Dissertation May 21
Karin WermelinWednesday May 21, 2008, kl 13.00, Elsa Brännströms sal, Campus US"Surface bound bisphosphonate for implant fixation in bone" Summary and Full textOpponent:Prof. Jan Eirik Ellingsen, Oslo Universitet, Oslo
Forum Scientium Seminar May 14
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Planck, Physics house, Campus Valla. The presenters are Lan Bui, Anna Rydén, Erik Martinsson, Karin Vretenberg Öberg AbstractsList of FS seminars
Dissertation May 14
Veronika Viktorija BorutinskaiteOnsdagen den 14 maj 2008, kl 09.00, Linden, Campus US"Characterization of proteins involved in differentiation and apoptosis of human leukemia and epithelial cancer cells" Summary and Full text
Forum Scientium Post Doctoral Support
Forum Scientium can now start one of the activities mentioned already in the proposal of Forum Scientium more than ten years ago. This regards the offer of postdoctoral supports to “exceptionally good” PhDs within Forum Scientium to continue their research at Linköping University. The post-doc supports aim at promoting the future career for the post-docs. Forum Scientium will support the post-doctoral position with 240 000 SEK per year up to a maximum of two years.
Dissertation April 25
Christer Ahlström25 April 2008 09:00 in Elsa Brändström, Southern Entrance, Campus US"Nonlinear phonocardiographic signal processing" Summary and Full text
Former Scientium members new LiU research assistants
The former Forum Scientium members Peter Nilsson and Björn Granseth have received positions as LiU research assistants. They will through this get extra funding from LiU during some years to start up new research groups. Peter Nilsson has recently returned from a post-doc at the Institut für Neuropathologie, Universitätshospital Zürich, Switzerland. Björn Granseth has since his exam 2003 had first a post-doc position and then a research assistant position at the Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK. Currently he is conducting research in Japan. Forum Scientium have visited him twice during his period in Cambridge.Also Anki Brorsson who we visited at our latest Cambridge visit 2006 have received a LiU research assistant position. Anki Brorsson was earlier a PhD-student at Nalle Jonsson's lab in Umeå. Read more (in Swedish) LiU research assistants
Forum Scientium Seminar April 16
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Eken, Entrance 65, Campus US. The presenters are Jonas Carlsson, Anne Lahdenperä, Christer Ahlström, Pernilla T Eliasson AbstractsList of FS seminars
Dissertation April 4
Anngelica Jarl, Molecular Biotechnology, will defend her licentiate thesisMolecular Probes as Protein Analysis Tools in BiotechnologyApril 4, 2008, at 9:30 in Planck, FysikhusetOpponent Ph.D. Maria Swartz, Linköpings universitet
Forum Scientium Seminar March 19
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla. The presenters are Sofie Nyström, Sebastian Schultz, Stephen Macken and Pernilla M Eliasson AbstractsList of FS seminars
Forum Scientium Seminar Feb 20
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Linden, Entrance 65, Campus US. The presenters are Joel Hedlund, Jenny Walldén, Christian Ulrich, Yvonne Johansson AbstractsList of FS seminars
Dissertation Feb 15
Anders Bresell15 February 2008 10:15 in Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla"Characterization of protein families, sequence patterns, and functional annotations in large data sets" Summary and Full text
Luminita Balau (Savitchi)
Luminita Balau (Savitchi) have defended her PhD dissertation and has now a post-doc position at the Department of Biotechnology, Division of Wood Biotechnology at KTH, Stockholm
Forum Scientium Seminar Jan 23
The time for the seminar is 15.00-17.00, and the place Planck, Physics House, Campus Valla. The presenters are Cecilia Andrésen, Mikael Pihl, Daniel Aili, Inger Hallberg AbstractsList of FS seminars
Forum Scientium receives funding from the Swedish Research Council
The Swedish Research Council has announced that Forum Scientium will get funding during five years, in total 12.5 million SEK! This is an acknowledgement of the work that has been done within Forum Scientium, first during the start-up 1996 and then continuously during 11 years. We would not have got this new funding if we had not continued to be a dynamic doctoral programme. Especially all PhD-students contributing with new ideas through the Student Council have been vital to Forums success!Read more: Press release from VR (in Swedish)
