RESEARCH SEMINARS. The faculty seminar series Sahlgrenska Academy Science Seminars has been running for more than two years. Now it’s time to fill the program for Spring 2023, starting on January 19th. The seminars are held in Lecture Hall Arvid Carlsson or meeting room Birgit Thilander and digital through Zoom Webinars, Thursdays 15-16, and researchers and teachers within Sahlgrenska Academy departments are hereby invited to submit suggestions of speakers. Speakers…
Sahlgrenska Academy Science Seminars to begin – suggest additional speakers
RESEARCH SEMINAR. In September, Sahlgrenska Academy’s new series of research seminars will start – Sahlgrenska Academy Science Seminars (SAS-seminars). The seminars will initially be held over Zoom. When the pandemic has passed, SAS-seminars will be held on site in the Arvid Carlsson lecture hall every Thursday at 3 p.m. SAS-seminars is run by the Council for Research Questions (FOR) with the support of Professor Ruth Palmer. She was also one…
Many seminars are now canceled
COVID-19. Many of the seminars planned before the outbreak have been canceled. This applies, among other things, to the ethics seminar that was planed to be held on March 26, which now is postponed until fall. The Medical Hill Seminars series, the Gothenburg Medical Association’s Wednesday meetings and the series Forskarsnabben are also temporarily canceled. Canceled seminars (list updated March 17 at 11am): March 17 Martin Hultman: Varför tas inte…
A nuanced seminar about experimental animal research
RESEARCH ETHICS. When the public opposes animal experiments, higher education institutions need to educate both the public and decision makers about why animal experiments are still needed. Through information, we can avoid laws and regulations enacted by decision makers that make biomedical research more difficult and place obstacles in the way of opportunities for finding new ways to treat diseases. Christer Säfholm from Karolinska Institutet, who recently lectured at the…
Good research is a cornerstone of all research – well-attended seminar
RESEARCH ETHICS. Those selling unethical and unscrupulous services targeted at researchers are so numerous and so active that the situation has to be described as widespread industrial cheating. Associate Professor Stefan Eriksson made this point during his seminar on publishing ethics and co-authorship, which drew a large audience in the Birgit Thilander assembly room on Tuesday. Here you can see the slides from the seminar (Swedish only): https://gubox.box.com/s/2pl9wcmjfedie7f8yvov5evl546gs0kn The first seminar…