Welcome to listen our distinguished speakers!

Biocenter Oulu is the oldest bioinstitute in Finland and we are celebrating our 25th anniversary on August, Thursday 25th and Friday 26th, 2011, in Auditorium 101A of the Main Building at Medical Campus, University of Oulu, Aapistie 5A, Oulu, Finland. Please find enclosed the program as pdf file and at the end of this e-mail. Program is also available on our web pages http://biocenter.oulu.fi/ The symposium lectures are open to everyone and no pre-registration is required. During coffee breaks, coffee & tea and pastry is served in the lobby.

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Kind regards, Teija ******************************** 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 8 537 6103, Fax +358 8 537 6115 e-mail: teija.luoto@oulu.fi BIOCENTER OULU URL: http://www.biocenter.oulu.fi (internal mail: 5BIOCENTER)

BIOCENTER OULU 25TH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM Programme Time August 25 & 26, 2011 Place Auditorium 101A of the Main Building at Medical Campus, University of Oulu, Aapistie 5A, Oulu, Finland Thursday, August 25, 2011 - time: 12.00 - 16.40 hrs Science Policy 12.00-12.15 Lauri Lajunen Rector, University of Oulu 12.15-12.30 Hans Söderlund Professor, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Chair of the University of Oulu Senate 12.30-12.50 Marja Makarow Chief Executive, European Science Foundation “The European, Nordic and Finnish research areas” 12.50-13.10 Riitta Mustonen Vice President, Research, Academy of Finland “Current issues at the Academy of Finland” 13.10-13.30 Eero Vuorio Professor, Director, Biocenter Finland “Biocenter Finland - bridging national and European research infrastructures” 13.30-14.00 Coffee break 14.00-14.20 Erja Heikkinen Counsellor of Education, Ministry of Education and Culture “Greetings from Ministry of Education and Culture” “Research and education with societal impact: BCO 25 years” 14.20-14.40 Reijo Vihko Professor, former Scientific Director of Biocenter Oulu ”Views on commercialisation of research results” Bioscience 14.40-15.10 Kai Simons Professor, Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany “Why is the lipid composition of cell membranes so complex?” 15.10-15.40 Hartmut Oschkinat Professor, Dr., FMP, Berlin, Germany “Structural investigations on small heat shock proteins and the ABC-transporter ArtMP by NMR and SAXS” 15.40-15.55 Johanna Myllyharju Scientific Director of Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu “Closing remarks” 15.55-16.40 Tour of the facilities

Friday, August 26, 2011 - time: 8.30-16.30 hrs Bioscience 8.30-9.00 Taina Pihlajaniemi Vice Rector, Provost for Science and Research, University of Oulu former Scientific Director of Biocenter Oulu “Collagen XIII - a novel neuromuscular junction component” 9.00-9.30 Karl Tryggvason Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden former Scientific Director of Biocenter Oulu “The renaissance of basement membrane proteins” 9.30-10.00 Seppo Ylä-Herttuala Director, Biocenter Kuopio, University of Eastern Finland “Applications of viral gene transfer technology” 10.00-10.30 Coffee break 10.30-11.00 Kari Alitalo Academy Professor, University of Helsinki “Growth factors and inhibitors of tumor angiogenesis and lymphatic metastasis” 11.00-11.30 Jyrki Heino Professor, Director, BioCity Turku, University of Turku “Structural basis of collagen receptor regulation” 11.30-12.00 Mart Saarma Academy Professor, University of Helsinki “Novel neurotrophic factors for neurodegenerative diseases” 12.00-12.45 Lunch break 12.45-13.15 Irma Thesleff Professor, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki “Cell communication and the development of ectodermal organs” 13.15-13.45 John Eriksson Professor, BioCity Turku, Åbo Akademi “Intermediate filaments in signaling and survival” 13.45-14.15 Tomi Mäkelä Professor, Director, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki “Kinase signaling linking metabolism and growth control” 14.15-14.45 Coffee break 14.45-15.15 Olli Kallioniemi Professor, Director, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki “Translating cancer biology research towards personalized medicine” 15.15-15.45 Olli Silvennoinen Professor, Institute of Medical Technology, University of Tampere “New insights into regulation of cytokine signalling” 15.45-16.15 Lauri Aaltonen Academy Professor, Director, Biocentrum Helsinki, University of Helsinki “Hereditary predisposition to cancer” 16.15-16.30 Johanna Myllyharju Scientific Director of Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu “Closing remarks”