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Distinguished Guests Seminar Series

UCMR invites prominent international researchers to visit Umeå University. When they come here, they also give an open lecture in the frame of the Distingusihed guest seminar series.

Lectures 2025

Matthew Chapman
27 June: UCMR Distinguished Guest Seminar — Matthew Chapman

Matthew lectures on functional and pathogenic amyloid formation.

Lectures Autumn 2024

Matthew Fisher, Professor of Fungal Disease Epidemiology,  Imperial College London School of Public Health
17 October: UCMR Distinguished Guest Seminar — Matthew Fisher

Matthew lectures about fungal pathogens and future risks for the global life-support system.

15 November: UCMR Distinguished Guest Seminar: Matthew Bogyo

Matthew lectures on chemical probes for imaging cancer and infectious diseases.

Lectures Spring 2024

Kim Orth, professor HHMI/UT Southwestern Medical Center
16 May: UCMR Distinguished Guest Seminar: Kim Orth

Kim lectures on virulence factors in bacteria that provide molecular insight into eukaryotic signaling systems

Professor Emma Thomson.
29 May: UCMR Distinguished Guest Seminar: Emma Thomson

Emma Thomson lectures on AAV2 and immune dysregulation in children with unexplained hepatitis.

Lectures Autumn 2023

Felix Randow, DGSS
23 November: UCMR Distinguished Guest Seminar: Felix Randow

Felix Randow from Cambridge University lectures on how cells defend their cytosol against invasive bacteria.

Frank van Kuppeveld, DGSS
22 September: UCMR Distinguished Guest Seminar: Frank van Kuppeweld

Frank van Kuppeveld from Utrecht University lectures on picornavirus replication and virus-host interactions.

Lectures spring 2023

Herbert Waldmann, Distinguished Guest Seminar Series
1 June: Distinguished Guest Seminar Series: Herbert Waldmann

Professor Herbert Waldmann lectures on pseudonatural products.

Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Stanford University
24 March: Distinguished Guest Seminar: Christine Jacobs-Wagner

Stanford Professor Christine Jacobs-Wagner lectures on the unusual biology of the Lyme disease agent.

Lectures autumn 2022

Edwards Egelman, University of Virginia
18 October: Distinguished Guest Seminar Series: Edward Egelman

Professor Edward Egelman lectures on powerful methods developed in Cryo-EM of biological complexes.

professor Johannes Krause
24 November: Distinguished Guest Seminar Series: Johannes Krause

Professor Johannes Krause lectures via Zoom on origin of the Black Death and genetic history of the plague.

Previous Distinguished Guest Seminars

Previous lectures within the UCMR Distinguished Guests Seminar Series are listed here.

Latest update: 2026-09-02