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Recent news
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New mechanism to detoxify oxygen radicals
2018-06-28
Superoxide is a reactive oxygen species that causes damage to proteins, lipids and DNA and is implicated in many diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative disorders.
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Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to investigate sepsis
2018-06-27
By diagnosing infections in a simple and effective way many human lives can be saved. Mats Nilsson, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Stockholm University/SciLifeLab, and his research group have now been granted more than 1 million SEK by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a method for examination of children with sepsis.
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Robert Daniels have been awarded Teacher of the Year 2018
2018-06-27
Robert Daniels at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics will be appointed teacher of the year 2018 for his creativity in teaching, which ables his students to experience and test different biochemical processes.
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A new puzzle piece to control the aging and age-related diseases
2018-06-27
A basic discovery of how the cellular functions are connected to control aging is presented in the journal Cell Metabolism. The study shows that an increasingly deteriorating communication between the cells' organelles is an important cause of aging. The discovery is the result of a collaboration between five research groups at the Universities of Stockholm and Gothenburg including the research group of Martin Ott at DBB.
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Astrid Gräslund at DBB has been awarded the prestigious Bror Holmberg-medal
2018-05-24
Astrid Gräslund, Professor Emeritus in Biophysics at Stockholm University, has been awarded the prestigious Bror Holmberg-medal for her outstanding research to map the processes that cause proteins to fold incorrectly in the brain and form senile plaques in for example, patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The ceremony takes place at the Chemical Association, Lund University on the 24th of May. (further info in Swedish)
Events calendar
- 14 Aug Advanced Cryo-Net Workshop "Model building and refinement using cryo-EM maps"
- 24 Aug Pre-dissertation/Lunch seminar: Sibel Ciftci Title TBA
- 27 Aug Sjöstrand Annual Lecture in Structural Biology: Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC Lab, Cambridge "Career discussion with students and postdocs"
- 27 Aug Sjöstrand Annual Lecture in Structural Biology: Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC Lab, Cambridge "Termination of translation in bacteria and eukaryotes"
- 05 Sep Chemistry Section Seminar: Prof. Viji Sarojini, University of Auckland, NZ (UANZ) "Transforming Chemistry Education for Sustainability”
- 07 Sep Dissertation: Federico Elias-Wolff "A computational approach to curvature sensing in lipid bilayers"
Notice Board
- Höstupptakt för medarbetare 4:e september 2018-06-29
- UTLYSNING: L'Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science-priset 2018-06-20
- Vinnova: Innovationer för ett hållbart samhälle - 2018 2018-06-20
- Vinnova: Kompetenscentrum 2020 2018-06-20
- Two upcoming courses in neutron diffraction - open for PhDs, postdocs, researchers, MSc-Students 2018-06-19
