Latest news and events
Latest News from the Partnership
2020.03.19 | Publication, Knowledge exchange
Do your neighbours have a noisy love life? Consider yourself lucky that you are not a fruit fly! Anne von Philipsborn’s group has discovered that female fruit flies sing by pulsed wing vibrations while they are copulating.
The new study, published yesterday in Nature Communications, was led by experts in behavioural genetics and circuit neuroscience in Drosophila at DANDRITE. The researchers’ findings on Drosophila sexual behaviour are important for understanding the complexity of neurocircuitry and behavioural genetics. In this article, first author of the paper…
2020.03.04 | Publication, Knowledge exchange, People
A recent publication by NCMM studied how the ER stressor drug thapsigargin and analogues for cancer-related therapies induce cell death in human cancer cells.
A recent publication by Lindner et al. entitled; “Cell death induced by the ER stressor thapsigargin involves death receptor 5, a non-autophagic function of MAP1LC3B, and distinct contributions from unfolded protein response components” studied how the ER stressor drug thapsigargin and analogues for cancer-related therapies induce cell death in…
2020.02.25 | People , Knowledge exchange
Introducing FIMM Group Leader Andrea Ganna
Andrea Ganna is a FIMM-EMBL Group Leader at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland at the University of Helsinki. He specializes in statistical genetics and epidemiology. In this article Andrea shares his research interests and explains how deep learning approaches and artificial intelligence can be used to leverage information from large…
2020.02.13 | Publication, Knowledge exchange, Research news
Yonehara group discovers a new function of a specific type of retinal nerve cells and uncovers a nerve network that transmits visual information from retinal nerve cells into the cerebral cortex.
The new study, published this week in Nature Communications, was led by the neural circuitry team at DANDRITE. The researchers’ findings are important for understanding the mechanisms on how visual perceptions arise within the brain. In this article, first author of the paper, PhD-student at DANDRITE Rune Nguyen Rasmussen, sheds a light on their…
2020.01.27 | People , Knowledge exchange
Meet Associate Professor Sandra Lopez-Aviles, NCMM, University of Oslo
Dr Sandra Lopez-Aviles joined NCMM in 2011. Her research focusses on understanding the mechanisms controlling cell cycle progression. In this profile article, Dr Lopez-Aviles discusses her group's current focus on the role of protein phosphatases in cell cycle regulation, as well as the potential translational impact of this work.
2020.01.09 | People , Knowledge exchange
Introducing Group Leader Esa Pitkänen
Esa Pitkänen is a FIMM-EMBL Group Leader at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland at the University of Helsinki. He specializes in computational cancer genetics, machine learning and bioinformatics. In this interview Esa shares his keen interests and sheds a light on how machine learning and computational analyses can be applied to…
2020.01.07 | News from the management, People
The Nordic EMBL Partnership is now seeking PHD students in Molecular Medicine
As part of the joint Nordic EMBL Partnership call for PhD students, we are seeking outstanding candidates for PhD positions at DANDRITE, FIMM, NCMM and MIMS.
2019.12.19 | News from the management, People
Scientific Manager for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS)
An exciting new position at MIMS
2019.12.12 | People , Conference
PhD students from the Nordic EMBL Partnership node NCMM, attend EMBL PhD symposium in Heidelberg
Nine PhD students from various NCMM groups attended this year's EMBL PhD Symposium in Heidelberg, Germany. Two students presented flash talks as part of the main program, and Karolina Spustová from the Gözen group was awarded a prize for the best poster.
2019.12.10 | Awards
Poul Nissen receives the Lundbeck Foundation's professor grant
The Lundbeck Foundation is awarding grants worth DKK 232 million (USD 34 million) to six leading neuroscientists. The LF Professorships programme is the Foundation’s largest grant allocation to date.
Upcoming Partnership Events
- Thu 16 Apr
- 18:00-18:00 | Oslo, Norway
4th Oslo Epigenetic Symposium. POSTPONED
The conference brings together leading scientists in the field of Epigenetics. Our goal is to highlight the latest advances in epigenetics, nuclear architecture and chromatin regulation. - Fri 24 Apr
- 14:15-15:15 | Aarhus, Denmark
Joint DANDRITE-Biomedicine/ Neuroscience Lecture
Joint DANDRITE-Biomedicine/Neuroscience Lecture with Nobel laureate in Psychology or medicine 2014 Dr Edvard Ingjald Moser. Dr Edvard Ingjald Moser will give a talk on "Space and time: Internal dynamics of the brain's entorhinal cortex" - Mon 04 May
- 08:00-17:00 | Lectures at KBC and laboratory demonstrations at UCEM, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
TEM sample preparation practical course part II (1.5 ECTS)
TEM sample preparation course part II – Chemical fixation, high pressure freezing, plastic embedding and staining methods including practice on ultra-microtome sectioning, TEM imaging and an introduction to (Focused Ion Beam) FIB-SEM and electron tomography. - Tue 05 May
- 09:00-18:00 | Aarhus, Denmark
Neuroscience Day 2020 - "Flowing Neuroscience" - CANCELLED
NeuroCampus Aarhus is hosting Neuroscience Day 2020. This year’s focus will be “Vascularization and flow in the CNS”. The talks will give perspectives on the crucial importance of adequate vascularization and flow in the CNS. Changes in perfusion – from molecular to macroscopic levels - results in a large number of diseases. - Tue 19 May
- 08:30-16:00 | Helsinki, Finland
NSHG-PM 2020. POSTPONED
2nd Biennial Conference of the Nordic Society of Human Genetics and Precision Medicine at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM in Helsinki, Finland. - Tue 02 Jun
- 08:00-17:00 | Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Cryo-EM sample preparation and data collection
The purpose of the course is to prepare and train our users in sample preparation methods, introduce users to the image data acquisition workflow, expand knowledge about cryo-EM methods and learn how to use cryo-EM.(Registration TBA) - Thu 18 Jun
- 09:00-13:15 | Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
EMDS 2020; Macrophages and Dendritic Cells in Infection and Inflammation: Molecular Mechanisms and Roles in Pathology
The 34th Annual Conference is for scientists interested in basic and clinical aspects of monocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells and other myleoid cells in man and experimental animal models.
News on publications
2020.02.03 | Publication, Knowledge exchange
Assistant professor Joseph Lyons coauthors milestone paper in Nature on lysosome function.
New article published in Nature entitled “ATP13A2 deficiency disrupts lysosomal polyamine export” sheds light on a defective lysosomal polyamine exporter (ATP13A2) that represents a lysosome-dependent cell death pathway that may be implicated in several neurodegenerative disorders including Kufor-Rakeb syndrome – a rare form of inherited…
2020.01.31 | Publication, Knowledge exchange, People
New publication for NCMM researchers: novel insights into cell death-inducing signals activated by ER stress
The new study, published this week in the open access journal Cell Communication and Signaling, was led by the autophagy team at NCMM.
2019.11.08 | Publication, Knowledge exchange
Targeted Gene Modification in Animal Pathogenic Chlamydia
Researchers at Umeå University (Sweden), in collaboration with researchers at the University of Maryland and Duke University (USA), now for the first time successfully performed targeted gene mutation in the zoonotic pathogen Chlamydia caviae.
2019.10.30 | Publication, Knowledge exchange, People
New article from Irep Gözen: how did the first cell division event take place?
NCMM group leader Irep Gözen recently published a perspectives article in ACS Nano, where she presents a new hypothesis for how cells were first able to divide on the early earth.
2019.10.14 | Publication, Research news, Knowledge exchange, People
Yonehera group at DANDRITE have identified a new circuit mechanism in mammalian retinal motion computation
Latest research from the group led by Keisuke Yonehara at DANDRITE has recently been published in peer-reviewed scientific journal “Current Biology”. The study is about the space-time wiring between a type of motion-sensitive cells that project to the brain for gaze stabilization and local excitatory cells in the mouse retina.
2019.09.11 | Publication, Research news
Research from the Sekulic Group provides new molecular insights into the structure and function of the centromer
New work from the group led by Nikolina Sekulic at NCMM has been published in EMBO Reports. The study sheds light on the structure of nucleosomes contained within the centromere; findings that will help to improve our understanding of the important molecular events that drive cell mitosis.
2019.07.28 | Publication
Miniaturized version of ribosome found in microsporidia
A research team lead by MIMS/SciLifeLab research group leader Jonas Barandun uses cryo-electron microscopy to provide near atomic details of the smallest known eukaryotic cytoplasmic protein synthesis machine, the microsporidian ribosome.
2019.06.13 | Publication
DrugComb, a one-stop solution to all your cancer drug combination data analysis needs
Assistant Professor Jing Tang, a principal investigator of the Network Pharmacology group at FIMM and at the UH Faculty of Medicine has led the development of DrugComb, an open resource for harmonizing cancer drug combination studies. Dr. Tang hopes that DrugComb would become a collaborative data analysis platform that would bring forth more…
2019.03.15 | Publication
Drug combination sensitivity scoring facilitates the discovery of synergistic and efficacious drug combinations in cancer.
The study was conducted by research groups lead by Jing Tang at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE) and the Faculty of Medicine and Caroline Heckman at FIMM. The results were recently published in PLOS Computational Biology.
