BIOCENTER OULU DAY 2023 Tools of life - approaches for solving biochemical mysteries

Time Wednesday May 17 2023 at 8.30-16.00 Place Leena Palotie Auditorium 101A in the Main Building of the Medical Campus, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Chairpersons Maiju Uusitalo and Jeena Ainikkal Velayudhan

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 "Data-driven approaches to study context-specific human cell signalling" Dr Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, Cambridgeshire, UK (Online) 9.30-10.15 Coffee at the exhibition area

Session 1: Data collection tools 10.15-10.20 Nordic BioSite, Anni Laari 10.20-10.50 "Circulating tumor DNA for the follow-up of cancer patients" Dr Valérie Taly, Univ. Paris Descartes, France 10.50-11.20 "Interdisciplinary Approaches in Biomedical Research: A Perspective from the Frontlines of Protein, Polymer, and Nanoparticle Simulations" Dr Rajendra Bhadane, Univ. Turku, Finland 11.20-11.25 Genevia Technologies Oy, Thomas Liuksiala 11.25-12.55 Lunch break and exhibition

Session 2: Data analysis 12.55-13.00 Promega Biotech AB, Katja Ahokas 13.00-13.30 "Analysis of large-scale genomics data to provide new insights into genetic disorders" Prof. Dr Christian Gilissen, Radboud UMC, Nijmegen, NL 13.30-14.00 "How much of protein space will AlphaFold illuminate?" Dr Nicola Bordin, UCL, London, UK 14.00-14.40 Coffee at the exhibition area

Session 3: Databases 14.40-14.45 NanoString Technologies Europe Limited, Alexandra Brandt 14.45-15.15 TBD Dr Maxim Tsenkov, EMBL-EBI, Cambridgeshire, UK 15.15-15.45 "Structure Predictions Transform Protein Family Classification" Dr Alex Bateman, EMBL-EBI, Cambridgeshire, UK (Online) 15.45-16.00 General discussion and concluding remarks

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