SciLifeLab Day Gothenburg 2023

SciLifeLab Day – Gothenburg

Date: April 17, 2023
Location: Wallenberg conference centre
Registration deadline: April 5

The Gothenburg Site of SciLifeLab is happy to welcome the research community in Gothenburg and beyond to this kick-off. Meet with the established site, researchers, local and national infrastructures; interact with the SciLifeLab capabilities: Precision Medicine, Pandemic Laboratory Preparedness and Planetary Biology; learn about the Data Centre services, the Data Driven Life Science program and much more.

Exhibition, poster session and mingle

Show your research in a poster and take the opportunity to discuss how you can implement SciLifeLab's advanced technologies with the infrastructure experts! Or just visit the exhibitions or posters from the infrastructure units to learn what services they can offer you.

Main program

08:30   Coffee & Registration

09:00   Plenary Session

• 9:00 Welcome words, Carina Mallard, Univ. of Gothenburg, and Ann-Sofie Cans, Chalmers Univ. of Technology
• 9:10 "Overview of SciLifeLab: Technology- and data-driven life science", Olli Kallioniemi, Director SciLifeLab
• 9:25 "SciLifeLab infrastructure in the overall infrastructure landscape in Sweden", Annika Jenmalm Jensen, Infrastructure Director SciLifeLab
• 9:35 SciLifeLab Gothenburg – Site Presentation, Elisabet Carlsohn, Site Director, and Maria Smedh, Site Coordinator
• 9:45 User success story 1: "High-resolution NMR Spectroscopy reveals the activation and allosteric regulation of the pro-apoptotic HtrA2 protease", Björn Burmann, Univ. of Gothenburg
• 10:05 User success story 2: "The fecal metabolome as a biomarker for gastrointestinal diseases", Lena Öhman, Univ. of Gothenburg

10:25   Coffee break

• 11:00 "SciLifeLab & Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS)", Margit Mahlapuu, Univ. of Gothenburg

• 11:10 "National services for data and bioinformatics within DDLS and SciLifeLab", Stephan Nylinder, NBIS, and Sara El-Gebali, SciLifeLab Data Centre

• 11:30 "Data Science Nodes - a local perspective on the new national research infrastructure services for data-driven life science", Thomas Svensson, NBIS and Chalmers Univ. of Technology
• 11:40 User success story 3: "Spatial multiomic studies of the human thymus", Viktoria Hennings, Univ. of Gothenburg
• 12:00 User success story 4: "Mucin utilization by gut microbiota - recent advances on characterization of key enzymes", Ana Sofia de Jesus Vaz Luis, Univ. of Gothenburg
• 12:20 "Training and lifelong learning from SciLifeLab - the SciLifeLab Training Hub and the DDLS research school", Nina Norgren, SciLifeLab Training Hub, and Ulrika Wallenquist, SciLifeLab/Uppsala University
• 12:40 User success story 5: "In vivo imaging of brain function in zebrafish", Lars Westberg, Univ. of Gothenburg

13:00   Lunch

14:00   Parallel Sessions for the capabilities (see detailed program below)

• Pandemic Laboratory Preparedness
• Planetary Biology
• Precision Medicine 

15:30    Exhibition and poster session

Mingle, food and wine from 16:00 

~17:30     End of program

Parallell sessions program