Event Details

Immunology Seminar

September 2nd at 14-15 (Finland time)

Virtual event

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Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér, University of Turku, Institute of Biomedicine, Medicity Research Laboratory, Flagship InFLAMES and Karolinska Institutet: Rewiring of the Mitochondrial Electron Transport chain as a Driver of Immunity and Cancer

Register for the Immunology Seminar Series email list to get calendar invitation to the online seminar: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/D29C32AA6E8A2F7A

Host: Professor Riitta Lahesmaa ( rilahes@utu.fi )

Immunology seminar series is jointly organised by the Finnish Society for Immunology, InFLAMES Flagship and Turku Bioscience. For further information contact Anne Lahdenperä  ( ankahy@utu.fi ) or Riitta Lahesmaa ( rilahes@utu.fi ), University of Turku.

Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér is a Professor of Immunovirology at the University of Turku since 2025 and Professor of Immunology since 2022, where she leads the Immunometabolism research group within the InFLAMES Research Flagship and serves as Director of the Infection and Immunity Unit. She has also been a Professor of Medical Microbial Pathogenesis at Karolinska Institutet since 2008, where she leads the Cellular and Molecular Immunology research group, part of the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis Unit at the Department of Medicine, Solna, and is Head of the Unit.

Her research focuses on human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), immunometabolism, inflammation, cancer, and antiviral therapies. She has published over 149 original research articles, authored 29 reviews, six book chapters, and holds nine patents.

Söderberg-Nauclér has supervised 19 PhD theses and 32 postdoctoral researchers and currently supervises nine PhD students and five postdocs. She has held several prestigious positions in Sweden, including a research position in Molecular Virology at the Swedish Medical Research Council (2008–2014) and an Academic Scientist position in Medicine at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2004–2008). In 2016, she was invited by then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to join the Cancer Moonshot Project’s expert panel.