A new NDPIA course on zoonotic infections will be organized at Uppsala University 24-27 October 2016. The course will provide a broad view of zoonotic bacterial (1 ECTS) and parasitic (1 ECTS) infections and touch upon epidemiological and molecular mechanisms of zoonotic infections. It will also provide a platform for informal meetings for researchers in the field of zoonotic infections.
Registration deadline: 7 October, 2016.
As a result from feed-back from participants at the second NDPIA Network Meeting in Gothenburg in April this year, an open NDPIA LinkedIn group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8522449) has been established with the aim of facilitating networking among NDPIA participants and between NDPIA members and other scientists studying infections and/or antibiotics. All NDPIA members have received an invitation to join this new LinkedIn group. Everybody who joins the group can invite relevant (non-NDPIA) persons to the group. Initially no activities will be announced via the group (this is done as before via www.ndpia.se and via the NDPIA Facebook group).
As previously announced, this 1 ECTS combined lecture course and experimental workshop on model systems for studying microbial infections will be organized via the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) at Umeå University 22-25 August, 2016.
A series of lectures will describe and discuss the use of: C. elegans; zebrafish; chicken embryos; cell cultures, including organotypic models – organoids; mice; as well as in vivo imaging methodology, for studies of infections and host responses. The experimental workshop will include laboratory work demonstrating the use of C. elegans, zebrafish and chicken embryos for studies of bacterial infections.
Registration deadline: 10 June, 2016.
Link to additional information and registration
(for both NDPIA and non-NDPIA members)
A 1 ECTS combined lecture course and experimental workshop on model systems for studying microbial infections will be organized via the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) at Umeå University 22-25 August, 2016.
A series of lectures will describe and discuss the use of: C. elegans; zebrafish; chicken embryos; cell cultures, including organotypic models – organoids; mice; as well as in vivo imaging methodology, for studies of infections and host responses.
The experimental workshop will include laboratory work demonstrating the use of C. elegans, zebrafish and chicken embryos for studies of bacterial infections.
A maximum of 18 participants will be admitted for the complete course and experimental workshop. Additional participants may register for the lecture course only.
Registration deadline: 10 June, 2016.
Link to additional information and registration
(for both NDPIA and non-NDPIA members)
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The second network meeting of the National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics (NDPIA) was held in Gothenburg 11-12 April on the theme “Microbiota in Health and Disease”. The meeting started off with an introduction to NDPIA and international partners from Norway (Norwegian Research School in Infection Biology and Antimicrobials, IBA) and Germany (Helmholtz Center for Infection Research as well as the International Leibniz Research School). Participants got to know each other via an early speed-dating session and could engage in deeper scientific discussions at the two poster sessions and via additional networking opportunities during the meeting. There were also short presentations by nine NDPIA programme participants (selected from submitted abstracts) in addition to four lectures focusing on microbiota by invited speakers. The final session was dedicated to input from NDPIA participants regarding follow-up of the meeting, suggestions for future activities to be organized by/with support from NDPIA and with respect to further networking among NDPIA participants.
Three poster awards of 5 000 SEK each, to be used for participation in a national/international conference or for a research visit, were presented to the PhD students Johan Bengtsson-Palme (Dept. of Infectious Diseases at University of Gothenburg) and Malin Alsved (Dept. of Design Sciences at Lund University) and to Dr. Marius Linkevicius (Dept. of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology at Uppsala University) – congratulations!
The meeting was appreciated both for its lectures/presentations and network opportunities. In particular the speed dating, where each and everyone got the chance to initiate contacts with all the other participants during a two hour session, was highlighted during this second network meeting of NDPIA.
The local hosts Ingrid Bölin and Carl-Fredrik Flach at the University of Gothenburg are greatly acknowledged for organizing the successful meeting!
Link to programme with presentations
Link to take home message about “explainartist” – how to share knowledge creatively, described by PhD student Ajibola Omokanye, University of Gothenburg (www.explainartist.org).