Time in the programme is Central European Time (CET), e.g. Stockholm, Umeå
Note! The programme is under construction, preliminary and subject to change
DAY 1: Tuesday 10 November
8.30 Registration and poster mounting Coffee
SESSION 1: OPENING and KEYNOTE LECTURE I (Chair: tba)
9.00 Welcome Stefan Björklund Scientific Coordinator of KBC
9.05 Opening KBC DAYS 2026 TBA
9.15 RECEM, national research school on future cement materials TBA
9.25 KEYNOTE LECTURE I: TBA Prof. Claus Ropers Director, Department of Ultrafast Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
10.20 Smile & Recharge
10.15 Coffee
SESSION 2: NEW FACULTY MEMBERS, AWARD and GRANT RECIPIENTS from KBC (Chair: tba)
10.40 TBA Sun Nyunt Wai Department of Molecular Biology, UMU, Recipient of the Bo and Barbro Hammarström Prize at Umeå University for 2026
10.55 TBA Leonard Blaschek Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, SLU
11.10 TBA José Davila Velderrain Department of Molecular Biology, UMU
11.25 TBA Susan McEvoy Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, SLU
11.40 TBA Markus Ludwig Department of Physics, UMU
12.00 Lunch
SESSION 3: KEYNOTE LECTURE II and PhD and FORSKARASPIRANT PROGRAMME STUDENT PRESENTATIONS (Chair: tba)
13.00 Elevator talk presentations (2 min each), Part 1
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13.10 KEYNOTE LECTURE II: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Energy Currents of Life Prof. Ville R. I. Kaila Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
13.55 Elevator talk presentations (2 min each), Part 2
tba
INTERACTION / POSTER SESSION
14.05 Poster presentations by PhD and Forskaraspirant Programme students and research infrastructures and coffee
SESSION 4: NEW FACULTY MEMBERS, AWARD and GRANT RECIPIENTS from KBC (Chair: tba)
15.00 TBA Juan Alonso-Serra Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, SLU
15.15 Application of human organoid models for the study of emerging pandemic respiratory viruses Meaghan Flagg Department of Clinical Microbiology, The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), UMU
15.30 TBA Yanjun Zan Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, and Integrated Science Lab (IceLab), UMU
15.45 Breaking the membranous refuge of Chlamydia Barbara Sixt Department of Molecular Biology, UMU and recipient of ERC Consolidator Grant
16.00 TBA Andrew Magee Department of Molecular Biology, Integrated Science Lab (IceLab), The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), UMU
16.15 TBA Lars Österlund Department of Chemistry, UMU
16.30 Poster viewing and mingling before the dinner starts
Art Workshop and Social Activity: “Dynamics unfolded”
18.00 Dinner - Announcement of the student presentation prize winners - Announcement of the KBC Employee of the Year
DAY 2: Wednesday 11 November
8.30 Coffee
SESSION 5: KEYNOTE LECTURE III and NEW FACULTY MEMBERS from KBC (Chair: tba)
9.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE III: The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition Prof. Jordi Bascompte Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
9.45 TBA Abdul Kareem Valiya Kadavu Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, SLU
10.00 TBA Adam Frew Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, UMU
10.15 Coffee
SESSION 6: RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE INFORMATION (Chair: tba)
10.30 tba
12.00 Posters by Research Infrastructures and standing lunch
SESSION 7: UMEÅ POSTDOC SOCIETY (UPS) (Chair: tba)
13.30 Programme is organised by UPS
15.30 Concluding remarks Stefan Björklund Scientific Coordinator of KBC - Announcement of photo contest winner
