Conferences and symposiums Microbial pathogenesis, antimicrobial development, and RNA biology symposium in honor of Staffan Normark’s Birthday

12-09-2025 Add to iCal
Campus Solna Eva and Georg Klein lecture hall, Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen 9, Stockholm

Join us for a one-day symposium organized by the KI Infection network on 12th September, focusing on infection biology research by Nobel laureate and world-renowned international researchers

Program

10:00-10:05 Opening remarks by the organizers

10.05-10.40 Scott Hultgren, Washington University, US "Molecular Blueprint for antibiotic-sparing therapeutics to transform treatment of infectious diseases"

10.40-11.15 Fredrik Almqvist, Umeå University, Sweden "Disarming Fusobacterium nucleatum: Development of FadA Inhibitors to Enhance Immunotherapy and Reduce Tumor Burden in Colorectal Cancer"

11.15-11.50 Matthew Chapman, University of Michigan, US "Connecting the Fiber Between Neurodegenerative Disease and the Microbiome"

11.50-12.25 Kimberly Kline, University of Geneva, Switzerland "Pathogenesis of Enterococcal biofilm-associated infection"

12.25-13.00 BREAK

13.00-13.35 Jörg Vogel, University of Würzburg, Germany "Asobiotics: Programmable antisense oligomers for selective targeting of microbes and phages"

13.35-14.10 Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany "The journey towards the CRISPR-Cas genome editing revolution – The power of microbiology"

14.10-14.45 Elaine Tuomanen, St Jude´s Children Research Hospital, Memphis, US "How the pneumococcus rewires prenatal brain development"

14.45-15.00 BREAK

15.00-15.45 Mathias Hornef, University of Aachen, Germany "Neonates are not small adults, postnatal establishment of intestinal host-microbial homeostasis"

15.45-16.20 Sebastian Suerbaum, Max von Pettenkofer Institute, LMU Munich, Germany "Genome and methylome variation in the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori"


Organizers:
Georgios Sotiriou, Edmund Loh and Birgitta Henriques-Normark KI Infection Biology Network