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

Teija Luoto, Management assistant

Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu

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