BIOCENTER OULU DAY 2014 BLOOD - Juice of Life Time Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Place Auditorium 101A in the Main Building of the Medical Campus, Aapistie 5A, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Registration Teija Luoto, e-mail teija.luoto@oulu.fi tel. 029448 6103 by March 17, 2014. Biocenter Oulu scientists and students register to contact persons in research groups Information Ritva Saastamoinen, e-mail ritva.saastamoinen@oulu.fi, tel. 029448 6102 Credits Certificate of participation will be written. Transportation There will be bus transportation from Linnanmaa to Aapistie 5A.The bus will leave at 8.30 hrs at door J from Linnanmaa and return at 17.15 hrs from Aapistie 5A to Linnanmaa Chairpersons Susanna Kaisto, Prateek Singh and Lisette Van Tassel PROGRAMME SESSION 1: Opening and Keynote on Blood bank's vital donation to research (Chair: Lisette Van Tassel) 09.00 - 09.05 Opening remarks Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Biocenter Oulu 09.05 - 09.15 Welcome Prof. Johanna Myllyharju, Scientific Director of Biocenter Oulu 09.15 - 09.20 Welcome Prof. Seppo Vainio, Director of Biocenter Oulu Graduate School 09.20 - 10.00 "The blood bank as a novel laboratory for epidemiology and pathophysiology research" Prof. Edward L. Murphy BSRI, San Francisco, USA 10.00 - 10.35 Coffee at the exhibition area (35 min) SESSION 2: Blood vessels: The Basis for Hemostasis and Homeostasis (Chair: Susanna Kaisto) 10.35 - 11.15 "Protein Disulfide-Isomerase - a vascular response to injury signal that triggers thrombus formation" Dr. Christoph Reinhardt CTH, Univ. Med. Center of the Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz, Germany 11.15 - 11.55 "The vascular endothelium: An angiocrine gatekeeper of tissue homeostasis and regeneration" Prof. Dr. Helmut Augustin Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany 11.55 - 13.25 Lunch break and exhibition (1 h 30 min) SESSION 3: Leukemia: The rise of the malfunctional white blood cells (Chair: Lisette Van Tassel) 13.25 - 14.05 "Studies in Myeloid leukemia" Prof. Mary Frances McMullin Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland 14.05 - 14.45 "The molecular background of LGL leukemia and association with autoimmune disorders" Prof. Satu Mustjoki Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 14.45 - 15.25 Coffee at the exhibition area (40 min) SESSION 4: Biotechnology: Not all in vein (Chair: Prateek Singh) 15.25 - 16.05 "Biofabrication to create 3D scaffolds - On the way to tailor-made artificial blood vessels" Prof. Dr. Günter Tovar IGVP, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany 16.05 - 16.45 "Shapes of red blood cells" Dr. Ales Iglic Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia 16.45 - 17.00 General discussion and concluding remarks
******************************** Teija Luoto, Secretary Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu P.O. Box 5000 FI-90014 UNIVERSITY OF OULU, FINLAND Street address: Aapistie 5A, 90220 OULU, FINLAND Tel +358 29448 6103, Fax +358 8 537 5111 e-mail: teija.luoto@oulu.fimailto:teija.luoto@oulu.fi BIOCENTER OULU URL: http://www.oulu.fi/biocenter (Internal mail: 5BIOCENTER)