Previous events
Fall 2025
2025-12-01 to 2025-12-05 PhD Course
CML PhD Courses with Andrew Docker
Visiting researcher Andrew Docker (Cambridge University, UK) taught a one-week-long PhD course (worth 1.5 credits) about 'Recognition, Assembly, Function: Supramolecular Chemistry in the Chemical Mechanisms of Life'.
2025-11-27 CML Symposium
CML Symposium with three invited speakers
Andrew Ewing (Gothenburg University): Nanoscale measurements of nano vesicular subcompartments and stress granules
Dina Grohmann (Regensburg University): Understanding the second language of RNAs – insights from RNA modification landscapes and the human RNA silencing machinery
Gijs Kooij (Amsterdam UMC): Bioactive lipid mediators in Multiple Sclerosis pathogenesis
2025-09-25 CML Symposium
CML Symposium with three invited speakers
Per-Olof Syrén (KTH): Enzyme Engineering and Design for Green Chemistry applications
Layara Akemi Abiko (University of Basel): Under Pressure, Empty, and Biased: Understanding G Protein-Coupled Receptors through NMR Spectroscopy
Andrew Docker (Cambridge University): Chalcogen and Halogen Bonding Interactions for Molecular Recognition and Catalysis
2025-09-01 to 2025-09-12 PhD Courses
Visiting Prof. Andreas Kirschning (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany) taught two one-week-long PhD courses (worth 1.5 credits each).
Course 1 (September 1-5): Catalysis in nature – Natural organocatalysts & transition metal catalysts
Course 2 (September 8-12): The world of secondary metabolism – How natural products are made in nature
2025-08-15 Seminar
'Worms, spheres and hydrogels - Insights into the fascinating world of structurally diverse polymer materials through NMR and complemetary tools'
Speaker: Ann-Christin Pöppler (Würzburg University, Germany)
Spring 2025
2025-06-25 Summer School Research Symposium
Research symposium with summer school speakers
Speakers:
Christophe Farès (MPI for Coal Research, Germany)
Brian Crane (Cornell University, USA)
Janne Ihalainen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Björn Wallner (Linköping University, Sweden)
Alan Chen (University of Albany, USA)
Arwen Pearson (Hamburg University, Germany)
2025-06-23 to 2025-06-26 CML Summer School
CML Summer School - Dynamics from atoms to cells
Lectures:
Erdinc Sezgin: 'Physics of cells as a fundamental mechanism of life: from chemical biology probes to advanced imaging'
Christophe Farès: 'NMR(t): Magnetic Resonance Along the Fourth Dimension'
Björn Wallner: 'Exploring Protein Structures, States, and Dynamics with AI'
Alan Chen: 'MD Simulations: How molecules dance when no one’s watching'
Arwen Pearson: 'Planning a time-resolved structural biology experiment'
Brian Crane: 'The principles of photobiology'
2025-04-23 CML Lectures
1st annual CML Lectures - Biomolecular Interactions
Speakers:
Elena Seiradake: 'Molecular mechanisms in cortical development'
Ylva Ivarsson: 'Towards a motif map of the human proteome'
Craig Wheelock: 'Multi-modal imaging of oxylipins in human airways'
2025-04-08 Seminar
The revolving power of fast magic-angle spinning: structural dynamics of membrane proteins (and more) by solid-state NMR
Speaker: Guido Pintacuda (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
Fall 2024
2024-10-31 Medicinal chemistry lectures
by visiting scientists from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof He Huang: "Discovery and Functional Study of Novel Protein Post-translational Modifications"
Prof Weibo Yang: "Modular Biomimetic Strategy Enables Macrocycles Synthesis and Their Application in Medicinal Chemistry"
2024-10-17 Seminar
Discovering and measuring metabolism in human cells and tissues using isotope tracing
Speaker: Roland Nilsson (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
2024-10-07 Seminar
How anaerobic microbes make and break methane: structural biology & mechanism of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase
Speaker: Stephen Ragsdale (University of Michigan Medical School, USA)
2024-10-04 Seminar
Protein kinetics and small molecule effects in bacterial signalling
and neurodegeneration studied by NMR
Speaker: Christian Griesinger (MPI of Multidisciplinary Natural Sciences, Germany)
2024-09-16 to 2024-09-27 PhD Courses
Visiting Prof. Andreas Kirschning (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany) taught two one-week-long PhD courses (worth 1.5 credits each).
Course 1 (September 16-20): Chemobiosynthesis
Course 2 (September 23-27): Origin of Life
Spring 2024
2024-06-25 Seminar
Non-Uniform Sampling: A way to sample data more efficiently
Speaker: Sven Hybert (Harvard Medical School, USA)
2024-06-19 Seminar
RNA in Action: Bring RNA Structure to Life
Speaker: Qi Zhang (University of North Carolina, USA)
2024-06-12 Mini-Symposium
Speakers:
Maija Dambrova (Riga Stradiņš University, Latvia)
Henning Kirst (University of Cordoba, Spain)
Nicole Strittmatter (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Tina Dominguez Martin (University of Cordoba, Spain)
Christian Janfelt (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
2024-06-12 Q&A
Career advice Q&A for centre PhD students and postdocs
Speakers: Tina Dominguez Martin & Henning Kirst (University of Cordoba, Spain)
2024-04-12 Inauguration
Inauguration of 'Chemical Mechanisms of Life'
Speakers:
Ingela Lanekoff (Head of CML steering board)
Anders Hagfeldt (Vice-chancellor, UU)
Charlotte Platzer Björkman (Vice-rector of TekNat, UU)
Mattias Marklund (Secretary general, VR)
Sebastian Westenhoff (CML steering board)
Saskia Rughöft (CML coordinator)