Dear all,
On next Thursday May 16, 15.15-16, in F101
we will have a Kontinkangas Research Seminar by Prof. Irit Sagi
from Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. The title of her presentation is
“Harnessing anti-matrix remodeling biological inhibitors to decipher cancer and inflammatory molecular mechanisms”.
More about her research interests
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/dept/irb/IritSagi/. Prof. Sagi is also the Vice President for Innovation & Technology Transfer at Weismann Institute of Science.
Coffee is served during networking session 20 min before the presentation time.
Welcome everybody! No registration required.
Organized by Biocenter Oulu and Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programme.
Please, check at the end of this message the seminars still to come. One additional ad-hoc seminar on May 25 by Stefan Krauss, and another new on June 7 by Prof Donald Gullberg, organised with Profi6 Fibrobesity
research theme.
See also below the programme for Biocenter Day 2023
Tools of life - approaches for solving biochemical mysteries, organized by HBS-DP doctoral researchers.
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
KONTINKANGAS RESEARCH SEMINARS
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May 24,
Note! Wednesday 10.15-11, F101 |
Ben Wielockx Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
Oxygen sensing in health and disease |
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May 25, 15.15-16, F202 |
Stefan Krauss Institute of Medical Biology University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital, Norway |
Organoids |
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June 1, 15.15-16, F101 |
Alexander Hoischen Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
Long-read genomics – new insights in rare disease research |
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June 7,
Note! Wednesday 9.15-10, F101 |
Donald Gullberg Department of Biomedicine and Centre for Cancer Biomarkers, Norwegian Centre of Excellence, |
New advances in fibroblast biology |
Pirkko Huhtala, PhD
Coordinator
Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu
e-mail:
pirkko.huhtala@oulu.fi
tel: +358-294 486101, + 358-40 1897467
Street address: Room 476B, Aapistie 5A, FIN-90220 Oulu
Mailing address: PO Box 5000, FIN-90014 University of Oulu, Finland