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

 

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

May 25, 15.15-16, F202

Stefan Krauss

Institute of Medical Biology

University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital, Norway

Organoids

June 1, 15.15-16, F101

Alexander Hoischen

Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Long-read genomics – new insights in rare disease research

 

June 7, Note! Wednesday 9.15-10, F101

Donald Gullberg

Department of Biomedicine and Centre for Cancer Biomarkers, Norwegian  Centre of Excellence,
University of Bergen, Norway

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

www.oulu.fi/biocenter