HERM Seminar series

The Center for Hematology and Regenerative Medicine (HERM) at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH) organizes a seminar series with invited outstanding researchers/scientists in the fields of hematology, immunology and regenerative medicine. The seminar series provides great opportunities for researchers at different levels to interact with world-leading experts in the related fields.

Mondays at 12:00-13:00*

*(exceptions apply)

The seminars are hybrid - hosted online and on site, unless otherwise stated.

Attend on site

Most HERM seminars take place in Gene in Neo, 5th floor, Blickagången 16, KI Campus Flemingsberg. A sandwich will be available for the 40 first participants.

Note! See the schedule for any changes of venue.

Attend online

Zoom link will be sent out by email prior to each seminar. Contact Nicole Marquardt at HERM for the Zoom invitation. 

Please note that Zoom links will only be forwarded to email addresses that indicate affiliation to a higher educational institution such as a university.

Contact

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Nicole Marquardt

Senior Research Specialist

HERM seminars fall 2024

26 August

Title: Improving hematological diagnostics using computational flow cytometry and AI

  • Speaker: Professor Yvan Saeys, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ugent, Cancer Research Institute Ghent, Belgium.
     
  • Host: Maaike Jongen, HERM, MedH, KI.

9 September

Title: Haematopoietic stem cell development in mice and humans

  • Speaker: PhD, Professor Alexander Medvinsky, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh
     
  • Host: Vanessa Lundin, HERM, MedH, KI.

16 September

No seminar.

23 September

Germline predisposition to myeloid neoplasia: the prototype of DDX41 and general implication for allogeneic HSCT

  • Speaker: PhD, M.D. Carmelo Gurnari, University of Rome Tor Vergata.
     
  • Host: Magnus Tobiasson, HERM, MedH, KI.

30 September

Single cell signaling profiling by mass cytometry for early therapy response evaluation in leukemia

  • Speaker: PhD, Professor, M.D. Bjørn Tore Gjertsen, Department of Clinical Science at the University of Bergen.
     
  • Host: Hong Qian, HERM, MedH, KI.

7 October

Title: Oxygen and the immune response

14 October

Title: RNA Pseudouridylation: An Odyssey in Translation Control during Development and Disease

  • Speaker: Associate Professor Cristian Bellodi, Head of the RNA and Stem Cell Biology group at Lund University, Sweden.
     
  • Host: Pedro Moura, HERM, MedH, KI.

4 November

Title: Enhancing T Cell Therapies for Cancer via Precision Genetic Engineering

25 November

Title: Antigen-specific human T cells targeting microbes and tissue antigens

  • Speaker: Dr. Antonino Cassotta, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Switzerland.
     
  • Host: Yenan Bryceson, HERM, MedH, KI.

28 November - Extra HERM Seminar at 15:00

Title: New insights in T cell development

  • Speaker: Professor Sophie Hambleton, Newcastle University Translational and Clinical Research Institute
     
  • Host: Yenan Bryceson, HERM, MedH, KI.

2 December

Title: Designing a Synthetic Killer based on a Natural Template

  • Speaker: Professor Karl-Johan Malmberg, Oslo University Hospital, Institute for Cancer Research, Dept. of Cancer Immunology.
     
  • Host: Nicole Marquardt, HERM, MedH, KI.

16 December

Title: Deciphering & re-wiring T cell differentiation for next-generation cell therapies

  • Speaker: Christoph Heuser-Loy, PhD, Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy, Division of Functional Immune Cell Modulation, Regensburg, Germany.
     
  • Host: Yenan Bryceson, HERM, MedH, KI.

HERM seminars spring 2025

13 January

Title: Transitions of oligodendroglia to immune-like states in neuroinflammation and multiple sclerosis: Insights from single-cell and spatial omics

20 January

Title: TBA

  • Speaker: Luca Vago, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano, Italy.
     
  • Host: Magnus Tobiasson, HERM, MedH, KI.

27 January

Title: TBA

  • Speaker: Anna Schurich, PhD, Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK.
     
  • Host: Nicole Marquardt, HERM, MedH, KI.

17 February

Title: TBA

  • Speaker: Axel Hyrenius-Wittsten, Lund University's Cancer Centre (LUCC), Lund, Sweden.
     
  • Host: William Nyberg, HERM, MedH, KI.

17 March

Title: TBA

  • Speaker: David Bryder, Division of Molecular Hematology (DMH), Lund University.
     
  • Host: HERM, MedH, KI.

24 March

Title: TBA

  • Speaker: Leo Scheller, ETH Zurich.
     
  • Host: Yenan Bryceson, HERM, MedH, KI.

5 May

Title: TBA

9 June

Title: TBA

  • Speaker: Dorina Avram, Moffitt Cancer Center.
     
  • Host: Yenan Bryceson, HERM, MedH, KI.
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09-12-2024