Activities for the Infection Biology Network
KI Infection Biology Network Seminars
Seminars & Events for 2025
Symposium September 12, 2025, Georg and Eva Klein Hall, Biomedicum, KI
"Microbial pathogenesis, antimicrobial development, and RNA biology
symposium in honor of Staffan Normark’s Birthday"
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
Previous events
Monday June 9th 2025
"Bacterial meningitis: Mechanisms of neuronal damage and new therapeutic approaches to prevent it."
Speaker: Federico Iovino (Department of Neuroscience)
When: Monday June 9th
Time: 13h00
Where: Biomedicum room D1012
Monday June 2nd at 13.00
"Multifaceted Proteomics for Deciphering Antibiotic Targets, Mechanism of Action, and Resistance"
Speaker: Amir Ata Saei (Department of Microbiology Tumor and Cell Biology)
Team webpage: https://saeilab.com/
Where: Biomedicum room A0812
Date, time and venue: 5th May, 13.00, Christina Larsdotter seminar hall, Solna campus
Professor Mart Krupovic<, Institut Pasteur, France Mart Krupovic - Research - Institut Pasteur
Title: Viruses of archaea: the friendly side of the virosphere
Biosketch:
Mart Krupovic is the Head of the Archaeal Virology Unit in the Department of Microbiology at Institut Pasteur of Paris, France. He received his Ph.D. in 2010 in General Microbiology from the University of Helsinki, Finland. His current research focuses on the diversity, origin, and evolution of the virosphere, trying to decipher deep evolutionary connections between distantly related virus groups, with the goal of understanding the global organization of the virus world. As part of this effort, his group focuses on the archaeal virosphere, one of the least explored parts of the global virome. The research on archaeal viruses includes exploration of their diversity in different environments, characterization of structurally diverse virions, and study of molecular mechanisms of virus-host interactions. Dr. Krupovic serves as an editor or on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals and is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, European Academy of Microbiology and Academia Europaea.
Publications:
Baquero DP, Medvedeva S, Martin-Gallausiaux C, Pende N, Sartori-Rupp A, Tachon S, Pedron T, Debarbieux L, Borrel G, Gribaldo S, Krupovic M. Stable coexistence between an archaeal virus and the dominant methanogen of the human gut. Nat Commun. 2024; 15(1):7702.
Krupovic M, Dolja VV, Koonin EV. Virome of the last eukaryotic common ancestor and eukaryogenesis. Nat Microbiol. 2023; 8(6):1008-1017.
Medvedeva S, Sun J, Yutin N, Koonin EV, Nunoura T, Rinke C, Krupovic M. Three families of Asgard archaeal viruses identified in metagenome-assembled genomes. Nat Microbiol. 2022; 7(7):962-973.
Contact:
Matti Sällberg, matti.sallberg@ki.se
Contact for any questions about the infection network: Edmund Loh Edmund.loh@ki.se and Jens Karlsson jens.karlsson@ki.se
KI Infection Retreat 2025 29-30th of September
Location: Yasuragi
Register online here for the retreat
Abstract submission information:
Abstracts are sent to Jens.karlsson@ki.se no later than 31st of May. Every student and postdoc are required to send in an abstract. The abstract should be submitted in the form of a structured abstract using the template below.
Download the abstract submission template (word file)