Previous events

Spring 2025

2025-06-25 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

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)