CeMiSt Lectures and Talks

09.10.2024
By Professor Klas Flärd from Department of Biology at Lund University.
Klas works to understand how molecules of a cell govern such essential and complex functions like cell division, cell polarity, determination of cell shape, and cell differentiation, with a focus on cell and developmental biology of bacteria. His group works primarily with model organisms of the genus Streptomyces – a large group of Gram-positive soil bacteria that are renowned for their prolific secondary metabolites, including a wide range of antibiotics and other products.

03.09.2024
Dr. Ramunas Stepanauskas’ research has been focused on environmental single-cell genomics technology and infrastructure development, metabolisms of uncultured microorganisms, and the interplay between microbial ecology and evolution in complex microbiomes.
Dr. Ramunas Stepanauskas, Senior Research Scientist, Director of the Single Cell Genomics Center, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.

20.06.2023
Three talks on on interactions of plasmids, phages and bacteria presented by:
Alison Buchan, Dr, Carolyn Fite Professor of Microbiology, University of Tennessee
Mathias Middelboe, Professor of Marine Viral Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen
*Paul Fogg, Dr, Sir Henry Dale Senior Research Fellow, University of York, Department of Biology and York Biomedical Research Institute

24.02.2022
CeMiSt lecture by Prof Jos Raaijmakers, head of the Microbial Ecology Department at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and Professor at the Institute of Biology at Leiden University, on the genomic & functional characterization of beneficial microorganisms associated with roots of wild relatives of crop species grown in the center of origin.

14.10.2022
The three talks address different aspects of the ecological roles of natural products or secondary metabolites or specialized metabolites, given by:
 Joseph Pawlik, Frank Hawkins Kenan Professor of Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington
 Paul Jensen, Professor of Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
 Manuel Liebeke, Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology, Bremen

01.10.2021
CeMiSt Lecture by Manuel Liebeke, head of the Metabolic Interactions group at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Germany, on Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Fluorescence Microscopy, powerful tools to address the technical challenge of linking metabolite production to symbiont and host cells in mixed communities and study spatial metabolomes of symbioses in situ.

24.05.2019
CeMiSt invited talk by Roberto Kolter, Professor of Microbiology, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School : a general talk on a very personal interpretation on the history of microbiology as a way to build towards presenting his own views on the future of the discipline.

10.05.2019
CeMiSt invited talk by Paul R. Jensen, Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California San Diego on marine actinomycete genus Salinispora, which has been recovered from ocean sediments collected around the globe, and which has been proven to be a rich source of natural products with drug potential.

15.03.2018
1st CeMiSt international symposium:
Multi-omics of the soil microbiome by Janet K. Jansson, Chief Scientist, Biology Pacific Northwest, National Laboratory US
Extreme drug discovery: Obtaining novel pharmacophors from extreme environments by Marcel Jaspars, Professor, University of Aberdeen
* Gene clusters in fungi: Functional and genomic analysis by Claudio Scazzocchio, Visiting Professor, Imperial College London