Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

 8.30-8.40     Opening remarks 

Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Biocenter Oulu 

 8.40-8.50     Welcome 

Prof. Johannes Kettunen, Director of Focus Institute Biocenter Oulu 

 8.50-9.30     KEYNOTE: “Towards functions and phenotypes: leveraging multi-omics in prostate cancer research.” 

Leena Latonen, University of Eastern Finland 

 9.30-10.15   Coffee at the exhibition area  

 

Session 1: Insights into genomics and metabolomics 

 10.15-10.20 Sponsor spot 

 10.20-10.50 “Better brain health with human cellular models – from molecular signatures to function.” 

Helena Kilpinen, University of Helsinki 

 10.50-11.20 “The lipidome in psychosis. How can metabolomics be used to understand  underlying mechanisms of disease?” 

Alex Dickens, University of Turku 

 11.20-11.25 Sponsor spot  

 

11.25-12.55 Lunch break and exhibition 

 

Session 2: Advances in proteomics 

 12.55-13.00 Sponsor spot 

 13.00-13.30 “Ubiquitination and ADPribosylation: post-translational crosstalk.” 

Gerbrand J. van der Heden van Noort, LUMC, the Netherlands 

 13.30-14.00 “Uncovering ADP-ribosylation signaling pathways: implications for PARP7 in cancer.” 

Michael O. Hottiger, University of Zurich, Switzerland  

 

14.00-14.40 Coffee at the exhibition area  

 

Session 3: Digital health sciences 

 14.40-14.45 Sponsor spot 

 14.45-15.15 “Wearable-Measured Activity, Sedentary, and Sleep Behaviors and Health.”

Vahid Farrahi, University of Dortmund, Germany  

 15.15-15.45  “Deep phenotyping for translational medicine.” 

Juha Salmitaival, University of Oulu