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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

Wednesday 5 February 2025

Malcolm Bennett
Plant Sciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, UK
Lessons from underground: discovering how roots sense soil stresses 

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

About Niels Ole Kjeldgaard

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

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