Conferences and symposiums SciLifeLab Spotlight Seminar - Arnaud Krebs
The SciLifeLab Spotlight seminar is a high-profile seminar series that aims to invite leading scientists making a major impact in the field of biosciences to come to present their ongoing research at Campus Solna.
The intention is to promote an active intellectual environment at Campus Solna via networking with excellent national and international researchers to fuel new ideas and foster collaborations.
Spotlight Seminar 14 February
Arnaud Krebs (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany)
Seminar Title: Transcription regulation, one molecule at a time
Background
Arnaud Krebs runs a lab in functional genomics at EMBL with a focus on the study of gene regulation mechanism.
They developed a new method to perform single-molecule footprinting (SMF), a methodology to quantify protein–DNA contacts at the level of single DNA molecules and were able to quantify the patterns of occupancy of transcription factors. The lab also revealed principles about the combinatorial action of transcription factors at regulatory regions. They also revealed that the the binding of TFs on individual DNA molecules is influenced by DNA methylation.
The lab has a strong reputation to study the multiple layers of regulatory information by developing high-throughput experimental and computational strategies.
Meet-the-speaker Fika
After the seminar a small group of PhD students and PostDocs (~10-12 people) are invited to join a fika with the speaker. This is a great opportunity to ask questions about their science and careers. Click here for sign up sheet. Please register for the meet-the-speaker fika before 26 February. Email the SciLifelab PhD&PostDoc Council if you don't manage to sign up for the fika via the form.
Host Seminar: Eva Brinkman (eva.brinkman@scilifelab.se)
Host Meet-the-speaker fika: SciLifelab PhD&PostDoc Council (phd-council@scilifelab.se)
Read more about the SciLifeLab SpotLight seminar series here