Guest lecture by Peter Agre
[Announced 30 November 2003]

Monday 15 December 2003 at 10.15, guest lecture in Auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrups hus (Universitetsbiblioteket) by Nobel leureate in chemistry 2003, professor Peter Agre at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA on the subject:

Aquaporin Water Channels — From Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine

Norwegian-French mini symposium on rare neurodegenerative diseases and neurogenetics
[Announced 28 November 2003]

Friday 12 December - Saturday 13 December 2003 at Ullevål University Hospital.

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Physiological role for water channels in the brain identified
[Announced 6 November 2003]

Researchers at the Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience (CMBN) has published a study that identifies a physiological role for the brain's water channels, previously known to be involved in the pathophysiology of brain edema (Amiry-Moghaddam et al., PNAS February 2003). The data indicate that water channels play a permissive role in the handling of the K+ ions that are released from active neurons.

• Amiry-Moghaddam M, Williamson A, Palomba M, Eid T, De Lanerolle NC, Nagelhus EA, Adams ME, Froehner SC, Agre P, Ottersen OP (2003) Delayed K+ clearance associated with aquaporin-4 mislocalization: Phenotypic defects in brains of alpha-syntrophin-null mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 100, 13615-13620. Abstract PDF

Special edition of Tell'Us
[Announced 11 September 2003]

The Research Council of Norway has recently published a special edition of the magazine Tell'Us about the Norwegian Centres of Excellence. CMBN is presented in an article called "Brainstorming". Read more at RCN's website.

Guest lecture by Stanley C. Froehner
[Announced 28 August 2003]

Wednesday 10 September 2003 at 14.00, guest lecture in the new auditorium 13, Domus Medica:

Professor and Chair Stanley C. Froehner, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, will give a lecture with the title:

The Dystrophin Complex: a Scaffold for Signaling Proteins at Membrane Specializations

Guest lecture by Shankar Subramaniam
[Announced 20 June 2003]

Tuesday 24 June 2003, at 11.30, guest lecture in auditorium A3.3067 (Molecular Microbiology) at Rikshospitalet:

Shankar Subramaniam, University of California at San Diego & San Diego Supercomputing Center, will give a lecture with the title:

Postgenome Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

In addition, Subramaniam will give the following three lectures, all in the lunch room at the Department of Anatomy:

• 25 June, 13:00: Structuring biological data: ontologies and interoperability
• 26 June, 13:00: Integrated analysis of diverse biological data
• 27 June, 10:00: Query, analysis and modeling via the web browser interface - the middle layer

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Lecture by Dr. med. Axel Sandvig
[Announced 20 May 2003]

Monday 2 June 2003, at 11:00, lecture in the lunchroom, Department of Anatomy:

Dr. med. Axel Sandvig, will give a lecture with the title:

Semaphorins: a role in CNS regeneration?

Guest lecture by Professor Etienne Herzog
[Announced 2 April 2003]

Thursday 3 April 2003, at 14:00, guest lecture in auditorium A3.3067 at Rikshospitalet:

Professor Etienne Herzog, from Institut Mondor de Medecine Molecularire (IM3), France, will give a lecture with the title:

Molecular properties of vesicular glutamate transporters

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Publication on water channels in the brain
[Announced 10 March 2003]

Researchers at the Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience (CMBN) publishes new findings about the water channel protein AQP4 in the brain:

• Amiry-Moghaddam M, Otsuka T, Hurn PD, Traystman RJ, Haug FM, Froehner SC, Adams ME, Neely JD, Agre P, Ottersen OP, Bhardwaj A (2003) An alpha-syntrophin-dependent pool of AQP4 in astroglial end-feet confers bidirectional water flow between blood and brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 100, 2106-2111. Abstract Full text PDF
• Nyoppdaget protein kan redde liv. Aftenposten, 10 March 2003.
• Water in the brain, Nature Reviews Neuroscience (Highlights), 4, 247. (PDF)

Guest lecture by Professor Raymond Dingledine
[Announced 6 March 2003]

Thursday 13 March 2003, at 12.00-13.30, guest lecture in (nye) auditorium 13 at Domus Medica:

Professor Raymond Dingledine, Professor and Chairman at the Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, will give a lecture with the title:

Text data mining in the interpretation of microarray studies of epileptogenesis

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Publication on RNA repair
[Announced 20 February 2003]

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience (CMBN) publishes evidence of RNA repair:

• Aas PA, Otterlei M, Falnes PØ, Vagbø CB, Skorpen F, Akbari M, Sundheim O, Bjørås M, Slupphaug G, Seeberg E and Krokan HE (2003) Human and bacterial oxidative demethylases repair alkylation damage in both RNA and DNA. Nature. 421, 859-863. Abstract Full text PDF
• Begley TJ and Samson LD (2003) Molecular Biology: A fix for RNA. Nature (news and views), 421, 795-796. Full text PDF
• UiO-forskere i Nature: Kan bedre kreftbehandling. Apollon+ Forskningsnytt på nettet, 20 February 2003.
• Norsk gjennombrudd i Nature. Nyheter fra forskningsrådet, 21 February 2003.
• Oppdaget ukjent sykdomsforsvar. forskning.no, 27 February 2003.
• Proteiner reparerer skader i arvestoffet. Nyheter fra Rikshospitalet, 5 March 2003.

Research seminar in molecular biology and neuroscience
[Announced 10 February 2003]

CMBN announces a research seminar (forskerkurs) in molecular biology and neuroscience on 14 and 15 May 2003.

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