MiMage - Role of Mitochondria in Conserved Mechanisms of Ageing

MiMage - Role of Mitochondria in
Conserved Mechanisms of Ageing


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		Prof. Dr. Heinz D. Osiewacz Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Inst. of Molecular Biosciences Max-von-Laue-Str. 9 D-60438 Frankfurt Germany

Participant 8: Göteborg University, Sweden

Göteborg University College was established in 1891 with the help of private donations. The first classes were held by seven professors teaching seven subjects to twenty-one students, four of whom were women. In 1907 it became an independent University college with the same status as the two national Universities of Uppsala and Lund. Göteborg University was formally founded in 1954 through the amalgamation of this college with the Medical college, which had been established in 1949.

Today, Göteborg University has about 40,000 students, a staff of well over four thousand, and almost as many part-time teachers. There are approximately 70 departments in all, many of which rent facilities in old stone buildings and other properties in the centre of town. Several new University buildings have resulted in increased centralisation of the campus so now most of the departments are located in the city centre. This has made Göteborg University a truly urban University.

Partner Professor Thomas Nyström

Profile of the group

The subject matter of Professor Nyström’s interests include: Defence against oxidative damage in ageing cells, global regulatory circuits activated to defend against macromolecular deterioration, links between mitochondrial activity and oxidative damage to proteins and links between translational fidelity and oxidation of aberrant proteins. The research group directed by Dr. Nyström has extensive record in the area of gene expression, signal transduction, proteomics, and microbial physiology analyses and the research is well established in the international scientific world. He is a member of the Göteborg Yeast Center, which has been awarded a grant by the European Commission to be a Marie Curie Training Site for yeast research.