Gro Anita Stamsås, Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, will defend her PhD thesis ”Regulation of expression, purification and structural determination of the cross-wall splitting protein PcsB in Streptococcus pneumoniae”, on 27 April 2015.
Norwegian title of thesis:
"Regulering av ekspresjon, rensing og strukturbestemmelse av PcsB enzymet, som kløver septal cellevegg hos Streptococcus pneumoniae"
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
"An introduction to bacterial peptidoglycan hydrolases: function and regulation"
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence:
Monday 27 April 2015 at 12:15
Biotechnology Building, Library, Campus Ås
Supervisors:
Professor Leiv Sigve Håvarstein, NMBU Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (Main supervisor)
Dr. Daniel Straume, NMBU Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (Co-supervisor)
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Head of Research, Dr. André Zapun, Institute for Structural Biology (IBS), Grenoble, France
Second opponent: Dr. David Ian Roper, University of Warwick, UK
Coordinator: Professor emeritus Ingolf F. Nes, NMBU Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science
The doctoral thesis is available for public review at the NMBU library.
Thesis number 2015:8, ISSN 1894-6402, ISBN 978-82-575-1265-1