OUH research seminar, Monday, December 4th 14:30 The challenges of discovering new antibiotics
Welcome to the next Oslo University Hospital (OUH) research seminar entitled:
The challenges of discovering new antibiotics
Time: Monday, December 4th at 14:30–16:00
Place: Red Auditorium, Rikshospitalet, Sognsvannsveien 20, Oslo
Speakers: Kirsten Skarstad, Magnar Bjørås and Pål Rongved.
Programme:
| 14:30 | Short introduction Karianne Wiger Gammelsrud, Department of Microbiology, OUS and University of Oslo (UiO). |
| 14:40 | Screening for new antibiotics targeting bacterial replication proteins and the finding of a non-fluoroquinolone topoisomerase inhibitor Kirsten Skarstad, Department of Microbiology, OUS (group leader of the group “DNA replication and chromosome dynamics”) |
| 15:05 | New antimicrobial peptides
Magnar Bjørås, Department of Microbiology, OUS (group leader of the group “Cellular responses to DNA damage”) and Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| 15:30 | The discovery of a metallobetalactamase inhibitor
Pål Rongved, Institute of pharmacy, UiO (group leader of “SYNFAS” and member of “Centre for Integrative Microbial Evolution”) |
| 15:55 | Closing remarks |
Meeting’s organizer and chairwoman: Karianne Wiger Gammelsrud, Department of Microbiology, OUS and UiO.
Everybody is welcome!
Meeting announcements and information: www.med.uio.no/klinmed/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/andre/ous-seminarer
On behalf of the organizing committee for OUS research seminars
Alexandre Corthay (committee leader)