GPMLS Retreat 2021

The 2021 GPMLS was held at Harpan on the 24th of September.

©Kristinn Ingvarsson

©Kristinn Ingvarsson

Program

Retreat Harpan Conference Hall, Norðurljós

24^th of September 2021

9.30 – 10.00 Light breakfast and mingle

10.00 – 10.15 Welcome address and introduction

Berglind Ósk Einarsdóttir, post-doc and project manager of GPMLS

10.15 – 10.25 Introduction of GPMS (Graduate Program in Medical Science)

Sæmundur Rögnvaldsson, PhD student and project manager of GPMS

10.25 – 11.30 Session 1: Student presentations (8 min presentation + 4 min discussions)

Chair: Sara Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Adjunct, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences

Sara Þöll Halldórsdóttir, PhD student. Dep. of Medicine

Title: Towards the mechanistic understanding of precocious differentiation in pathogenesis of Kabuki Syndrome 1

Supervisor: Hans Tómas Björnsson.

Thejus B Venkatesh, PhD student. Dep. of Medicine

Title: Role of Rhox genes during germ cell specification

Supervisor: Erna Magnúsdóttir.

Eva Dröfn Benjamínsdóttir, MSc student. Dep. of Medicine

Title: Chemotherapy-induced bystander effect

Supervisor: Þórarinn Guðjónsson

Kristrún Ýr Holm, PhD student. Dep. of Pharmaceuticals

Title: Search for novel biomarkers for early breast cancer diagnosis by targeted protein assay

Supervisors: Margrét Þorsteinsdóttir and Sigríður Klara Böðvarsdóttir.

11.30 – 12.20 Invited speaker: Henry Alexander Henrysson, Philosopher

I Think Therefore I Care: Ethical Thinking in the Age of Alternative Facts

12.20 – 13.40 Lunch La Primavera (4^th floor Harpan)

13.40 – 14.45 Session 2: Student presentations (8 min presentation + 4 min discussions)

Chair: Sigurður Rúnar Guðmundsson, Imaging Core Facility Manager at BMC

Sveinn Bjarnason, PhD student. Dep. of Biochemisty

Title: Conformational dynamics of pioneer factor Sox2 during nucleosome remodelling

Supervisor: Pétur Orri Heiðarsson

Hilmar Örn Gunnlaugsson, PhD student. Dep. of Medicine

Title: Towards a mechanistic understanding of neuronal dysfunction in Kabuki syndrome

Supervisor: Hans Tómas Björnsson.

Karen Kristjánsdóttir, PhD student. Dep. of Medicine

Title: Epitranscriptomic Regulation of DNA Repair Genes

Supervisor: Stefán Þ. Sigurðsson

Hólmfríður Þórarinsdóttir, MSc student. Dep. of Medicine

Title: The role of azithromycin in affecting cellular changes in lung epithelial cells during mechanical ventilation

Supervisor: Þórarinn Guðjónsson.

14.45 – 15.00 The future of molecular life science in Iceland

Professor Eiríkur Steingrímsson, Dep. of Medicine Univ. of Iceland

15.00 – 15.20 Break – Refreshments in front of Norðurljós

15.20 – 16.10 Session 3: Student presentations (8 min presentation + 4 min discussions)

Chair: Bylgja Hilmarsdóttir, Clinical Scientist at Dep. of Pathology LSH

Matthías Már Valdimarsson, MSc student. Dep. of Biochemistry

Title: tba

Supervisors: Eiríkur Steingrímsson and Pétur Orri Heiðarsson

Anna Margrét Gunnarsdóttir, MSc student. Dep. of Medicine

Title:The effects of cancer drugs on Prostate cell lines with Mesenchymal Phenotype

Supervisors: Þórarinn Guðjónsson and Jón Þór Bergþórsson

Kirstine Nolling Jensen, PhD student. Dep. of Medicine

Title: Natural killer cells in the resolution of inflammation

Supervisors: Jóna Freysdóttir and Ingibjörg Harðardóttir

16.10 – 16.30 Break – Refreshments in front of Norðurljós

16.30 – 17.30 Career move – Ragnhildur Káradóttir

Professor at University of Cambridge and University of Iceland

17.30 – 17.35 Closing remarks

18.00 Welcome drink and dinner at Björtuloft (6^th floor Harpan)