UNIK Summer Meeting 2012

The annual Summer Meeting took place on 11th-12th June with more that 60 scientists and students participating. This year's venue was Toruplund Inn near Hundested 

The program of the Summer Meeting can be seen below.

Program                                           

MONDAY                                                                                                                                    

8-9: Arrival and breakfast

 

9-9.30 Welcome by Birger Lindberg Møller (incl ‘the social tree’)

9.30-11.30: Session 1: The UNIK HOT POT: The furnace of alloying disciplines for new technologies

Introduction to session by Seong Wook Yang

Presenters: Tomas Laursen, Maria Wadsäter, Aparajita Singha, Pratik Shah, Simon Gregersen, Lisa Theorin

9.30-10.30: Tomas Laursen, Maria Wadsäter, Aparajita Singha,

10.30-10.45: Coffee break

10.45-11.45: Simon Gregersen, Lisa Theorin

 

11.45-12.15: Pre-Lunch UNIK cross-disciplinary Meet and Greet

 

12.15-13.45: LUNCH

13.45-15.45: Session 2: Light driven biosynthesis

Introduction to the session by Björn Hamberger and Poul Erik Jensen

Presenters: Poul Erik Jensen and Björn Hamberger. Poster presentations: Lærke Marie Münter Lassen, Thiyagarajan Gnanasekaran, Agnieszka Zygadlo-Nielsen, Johan Andersen-Ranberg

13.45-14.45:

Poul Erik Jensen: Redirecting of electrons for biosynthetic pathways – status and perspectives for new pathways in cyanobacteria and chloroplasts.

Björn Hamberger: Discovery of novel pathways to high-value plant metabolites and engineering of production platforms.

 

14.45-15.45: Coffee/tea and cake with poster session with posters from: 

Lærke Marie Münter Lassen, Thiyagarajan Gnanasekaran, Agnieszka Zygadlo-Nielsen and Johan Andersen-Ranberg. 

 

15.45-16.45: Creative Group Workshop (social activity)

 

Appx 17-19: Free time

19: Dinner

 

Evening activities 

 

TUESDAY

7.30-9: breakfast (buffet) 

9-9.05: Welcome to day 2

9.05-11.20: Session 3: Nanowire arrays for biological applications
Introduction to session by Karen Martinez

Presenters: Karen Martinez, Jesper Nygård, Trine Berthing, Sara Bonde, Katrine R. Rostgaard

9.05-10.15:

Karen Martinez: Nanowire arrays as emerging tools for biological applications
Jesper Nygård: Nanowire arrays and Bionanoelectronics
Trine Berthing: Interface of living cells with nanowire arrays

10.15-10.30: coffee break

10.30-11.15: Session 3 continued

Sara Bonde: Delivery in cells using nanowire arrays: status of the electrically contacted nanowire arrays
Katrine R. Rostgaard: Nanowire arrays as tridimensional protein arrays

 

11.15-11.20: short break

11.20-12.30: Synbio-ethics dialogue session (Sune Holm)

 

12-13: LUNCH

13-15.30: Session 4: Synbio-Neuroscience & GPCR: Protein-Lipid Dynamics

Introduction to session by Søren Rasmussen

Presenters: Christian Billesbølle, Nadia Cherouati Rose, Jannik Larsen, Simon Erlendsson, Signe Mathiasen, Sune Klamer Jørgensen, Randi Westh Hansen

13-14.20:
Christian Billesbølle: Fluorometric Characterization of a Bacterial Neurotransmitter Transporter Homologue 

Nadia Cherouati Rose: Reconstitution of Bacterial Neurotransmitter Transporter Homologue into nanodiscs for structural analysis by SAXS

Jannik Larsen: Observation of heterogeneities in the lipid composition of individual nanoscale liposomes

Simon Erlendsson

14.20-14.35: Coffee break

14.35-15.30: Session 4 continued

Signe Mathiasen: Highly accurate quantification of the oligomerization of the β₂ adrenergic receptor using FRET

Sune Klamer Jørgensen: Development of an Assay to Measure Single Proton Pump Activity in Single Vesicles with Single Molecule Resolution 

Randi Westh Hansen: Towards surface investigation of the Kappa Opioid Receptor function

 

15.30-16: Conclusions and outlook

If you have any questions, please contact project coordinator Emil Polny: epolny@life.ku.dk