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Kjeldgaard Lectures

Kjeldgaard Lectures in Molecular Biology
organised by the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

The Kjeldgaard Lecture series is a series of lectures by internationally renowned scientists in all fields of genetics and molecular, structural and cellular biology. The lecture series is organised by the Seminar Committee at the department.

Spring 2025

Tuesday 7 Januar 2025

Schraga Schwartz
Schwartz Lab, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovet, Israel
The secret building blocks of RNA: From decoding to therapeutic harnessing

Autumn 2024

Thursday 7 November 2024

Anne Bertolotti, Ph.D., FMedSci
Joint Head of the Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Therapeutic manipulations of phosphatases and kinases controlling protein quality control systems: From the bench, to the clinic and back

Wednesday 25 September 2024

Steve Finkbeiner 
Gladstone Institute, UCSF, San Francisco, USA
Disentangling complex biology to create blueprints for CNS disease interventions with stem cells, robotics and AI

Spring 2024

Wednesday 15 May 2024

Myriam Charpentier
Cell and Developmental Biology Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK 
Integration mechanism of nuclear calcium signaling in plant
 

Friday 22 March 2024

Professor Erin Schuman
Max-Planck Institut for Brain Research, Germany
Protein synthesis at the synapse

Wednesday 28 February 2024

Professor Katja Petzold
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Title: RNA structural switching and its impact on function revealed by NMR

Autumn 2023

Wednesday 13 December 2023

Prof. Mads Albertsen, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University
Title: Illuminating the Microbiome of Denmark through DNA sequencing of 10.000 samples

Friday 15 September 2023

Elena Conti, Structural Cell Biology Department, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Munich
Title: To degrade or not to degrade: a structural biology perspective of RNA homeostasis

Tuesday 19 September 2023

Björn Schumacher, Institute for Genome Stability in Aging and Disease, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne
Title: Genome Stability in aging and inheritance: new insights from C. elegans

About Niels Ole Kjeldgaard

The lecture series was named after the founder of the department Niels Ole Kjeldgaard (1926-2006).

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