Artist: Ina Schuppe Koistinen, source: inasakvareller.se

The NDPIA Microbiota and Health course for PhD-students or postdocs will be held at Aspenäs Herrgård just outside Gothenburg, Sweden on November 14-18, 2022.

The course presents an overview of human microbiomes in health and disease and discusses methods for microbiome studies and data analysis. In particular, the course lectures discuss the microbiota associated with the human gut, genitourinary tract, mouth and skin as well how these microbial interactions shape the human body.

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Registration for the Visualize your Science autumn course 2022 is now open to NDPIA members.

Only 5 spots available!

• Where: ONLINE
• When: September 13 – November 18
• Registration deadline: September 11

All NDPIA members who have taken the course improved their design skills and highly recommend it!

Read more about the course and how to register here

Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR) in partnership with the Medical Research Council (MRC UKRI) are hosting a workshop on antibiotic resistance.

The deadline for submitting an abstract has passed but you can still register to attend the online workshop on 9 June 2022, 13.00-17.20 (CEST).

Read more here

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

NDPIA Director of Studies Dr. Edmund Loh and his group are looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to work on a project on RNA-mediated pili regulation in the meningococcus.

The Edmund Loh Lab is focusing on RNA-mediated molecular mechanisms that are involved in bacterial pathogenesis. The pathogen of research is Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus) and we utilise a wide variety of genetic, cell biological and biochemical methods and techniques. The research in Dr. Loh’s group focuses on the regulation of sRNAs and their gene expression patterns during various biological stress conditions.

Read more about the position and how to apply here

Welcome to the 19th Smögen Symposium on Virology!

It is a pleasure for the Organizing Committee to announce that the 19th symposium will be held at Smögens Hafvsbad, Smögen, Thursday August 25 to Saturday August 27, 2022 with the possibility to participate online as well.

The scientific as well as the social agenda will be very much like previous Smögen meetings. This year we will have the pleasure to listen to, and discuss with Dr Michael Worobey, Dr Timo Vesikari, and Dr. Karen Mossman on the subjects of virus origins, vaccines, and viruses evading the immune defence.

Kristina Nyström, Niklas Arnberg och Johan Nordgren

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