2^nd September at 14:00-15:00
Online event
in Zoom

Professor Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér, University of Turku
Learning from Human Cytomegalovirus: Rewiring of the Mitochondrial Electron Transport chain as a Driver of Immunity and Cancer

Host: Riitta Lahesmaa (rilahes@utu.fi)

Link to join the seminar online: https://utu.zoom.us/j/67095922726

The Immunology Seminar Series is jointly organised by the Finnish Society for Immunology, InFLAMES Research Flagship, and Turku Bioscience Centre. For further information and inquiries please contact: Anne Lahdenperä (ankahy@utu.fi) or Riitta Lahesmaa (rilahes@utu.fi).

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.