Dear all,

Biocenter Oulu invites everybody to a symposium on Monday February 10th (10.2.2020)

get to know about Biocenter Oulu activities and what is has to offer.

Newly selected research groups for period 2020-2023 will present their research activities.

Please find the program below and hopefully we get many interested participants to attend.

Best regards,

Johannes Kettunen and Lauri Eklund

BCO Groups 2020-2023 Symposium

Monday 10 February 2020, in lecture hall K101, Aapistie 7, starting at 9.30 hrs

PROGRAMME

9.30-10.00 Opening words

Johannes Kettunen, Scientific director, Biocenter Oulu

Lauri Eklund, Core Services director, Biocenter Oulu

10.0-10.15 Mika Ala-Korpela and Johannes Kettunen: Extensive molecular profiling of systemic metabolism to understand and prevent cardiometabolic diseases (FMED)

10.15-10.30 Lauri Eklund and Vesa Kiviniemi: Neuro-ocular clearance pathways - Mechanisms and clinical applications (FBMM and FMED)

10.30-10.45 Simo Hosio and Denzil Ferreira: ICON: Interventions and Contextual Understanding for Low Back Pain Research (ITEE) (Faculty of information technology and electrical engineering)

10.45-11.00 Thomas Kietzmann: Cellular Compartments and New Molecules Interacting in Hypoxia-Signaling and Associated Diseases (FBMM)

11.00-12.15 Lunch break

12.15-12.30 Jukka Hakkola and Janne Hukkanen: Environmental xenosensor PXR as a disease mechanism and therapeutic target in metabolic diseases (FMED)

12.30-12.45 Peppi Karppinen: Cellular oxygen sensors and other 2-oxoglutarate-dependent enzymes as novel treatment targets for diseases (FBMM)

12.45-13.00 Risto Kerkelä and Juhani Junttila: Genetic causes and molecular mechanisms of myocardial fibrosis (FMED)

13.00-13.15 Jouni J. K. Jaakkola and Maritta S. Jaakkola: Molecular and environmental basis for asthma in a changing climate (FMED)

13.15-13.30 Petri Kursula: Structural biology of the formation and disease of the multilayered myelin membrane (FBMM)

13.30-13.45 Lari Lehtiö: Structure, Function and Inhibition of Human ADP-ribosyltransferases (FBMM)

13.45-14.15 Coffee

14.15-14.30 Johanna Myllyharju: Key enzyme regulators of the hypoxia response and collagen synthesis as therapeutic targets (FBMM)

14.30-14.45 Katri Pylkäs and Robert Winqvist: Inherited breast cancer susceptibility: novel factors, cellular mechanisms and disease modelling (FMED)

14.45-15.00 Justus Reunanen: Secreted vesicles of the human intestinal microbiota in health and disease (FMED)

15.00-15.15 Gonghong Wei and Aki Manninen: Transcription factor cistromes decode prostate cancer risk loci (FBMM)

15.15-15.45 Closing words and general discussion

Teija Luoto, Management assistant

Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu

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Street address: Aapistie 5A, 90220 Oulu, Finland

Mail address: P.O. Box 5000, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland

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