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
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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.fi
BIOCENTER OULU URL: http://www.oulu.fi/biocenter
(Internal mail: 5BIOCENTER)