From: 2024-01-22 14:15 to 2024-01-23 15:00
Place: Lecturehall KC:A
Contact: emma [dot] sparr [at] fkem1 [dot] lu [dot] se

COMMONS KICK-OFF January 22-23, 2024. Kemicentrum, Lund 

COMMONS is a Center of Excellence funded by the Swedish Research Council, with the theme "Commonalities in biomembrane and biomolecular interactions”. The overarching aim of COMMONS is to provide a multifaceted scientific environment focusing on unifying physicochemical processes of key importance for the function of cellular membranes and biomolecules. The COMMONS Center brings together methodological and theoretical expertise from Lund University, Chalmers and Copenhagen University, and will serve as host for a Graduate School and a Visiting Professor program to attract experts from a broad field of biomembrane and biomolecular sciences. 

January 22, Opening of the COMMONS Center (Lecture hall KC:B) 

• 14.15 Welcome & Opening of the Center Mattias Marklund (Secretary head natural and engineering sciences, the Swedish Research council) Emma Sparr (Lund University) 
• 14.35 Commonalities in biomolecular interactions Lennart Lindfors (Astra Zeneca) Big Molecules and Small Particles Toumas Knowles (Cambridge University, UK) Title to be announced 
• 15.25 Coffee break 
• 15.55 Memorable experiments and scientific insights Fredrik Höök, Sara Linse, Martin Malmsten, Emma Sparr, Håkan Wennerström 
• 16.45 Interdisciplinary scientific communication Khashayar Naderehvandi (Writer, Editor and PhD in Artistic Practice) Göran Dahlberg (Editor and Writer) Julia Ravanis (Writer, Editor and PhD candidate in History of Technology) 

• 17- Mingle

  January 23. COMMONS Start-up meeing (Lecture hall KC:B) 

• 9.00 Four COMMONS PI’s raises some scien2fic ques2ons and challenges that might benefit from being addressed within the COMMONS network Panel discussion? 
• 10.00 Coffee break 
• 10.30 Academic Forum and essayis2c wri2ngs (Fredrik Höök, Daniel Midtvedt, Julia Ravanis) 
• 11.00 COMMONS ac2vi2es. Presenta2ons and group discussions 
• 12.00 Lunch break 
• 13-15 COMMONS PI’s: Planning and organiza2on of the Center (KC:L) 
• 13-15 All others: Lab tour