Dear all,
Please see the BCO day 2022 program.
In case you have any questions, I am happy to address them.
Best, Aleksi Sutinen
BIOCENTER OULU DAY 2022 Miraculous matter: Recent advances in neuroscience Time: Wednesday April 27, 2022 at 8.30-16.10 Place: Leena Palotie Auditorium 101A in the Main Building of the Medical Campus, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Chairpersons: Aleksi Sutinen and Abhishek Singh PROGRAMME Session 1: Glial cells in brain homeostasis 08.30-08.40 Opening remarks Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Biocenter Oulu 08.40-08.50 Welcome Prof. Johannes Kettunen, Director of Focus Institute Biocenter Oulu 08.50-09.25 Šárka Lehtonen, UEF, FIN "Role of glial cells in Parkinson's Disease" 09.25-10.00 Julia Edgar, University of Glasgow, UK "Oligodendrocytes in axonal health'" 10.00-10.05 10x Genomics, Jouni Rantanen 10.05-10.45 Coffee at the exhibition area Session 2: Novel Approaches in Neurodegeneration 10.45-10.50 Promega, Rasmus Sörensen "Maxwell - your tool for perfect nucleic acid purification" 10.50-11.25 Vesa Kiviniemi, UO, FIN "Novel Imaging Techniques in Alzheimer's disease Research" 11.25-12.45 Lunch break and exhibition Session 3: Brain Clearance Pathways 12.45-12.55 Finnadvance, Prateek Singh 12.55-13.30 Roxana Carare, University of Southampton, UK "Role of extracellular-matrix in brain clearance" 13.30-14.00 Coffee at the exhibition area 14.00-14.35 Iben Lundgaard, Lund University, SWE "Brain wide clearance system-Glymphatic System" Session 4: Neurodegenerative Disorders and Therapeutic Interventions 14.35-15.15 Heikki Tanila, UEF, FIN "Recent advances in Alzheimer's Disease Research" 15.15-15.55 Mart Saarma, University of Helsinki, FIN "Neurotrophic Factors and their therapeutic applications" 15.55-16.10 General discussion and concluding remarks