Dear All,

Welcome to follow the presentations of the BCO groups 2024-2027.

Place: Leena Palotie sali 101A, Aapistie 5A

Date: Thursday 18 January 2024 starting at 9.00 until 15.45 hrs.

The registration is for the coffee service and the lecture is open to everyone.

The closing date for the registration is Thursday 11.1.2024.

https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/4B01FE17A0B1E358

PROGRAMME

9.00 Morning coffee

9.30-10.00 Opening words

Johannes Kettunen, Scientific director, Biocenter Oulu

Lauri Eklund, Core Services director, Biocenter Oulu

10.00-10.15 Mika Ala-Korpela and Ville-Petteri Mäkinen:

Innovative multi-domain metabolomics paradigm to disrupt metabolic health profiling and to improve cardiometabolic disease prevention

10.15-10.30 Jane Zhi Chen:

The essential role of Th17/Treg cells in inflammation and tumorigenesis

10.30-10.45 Lauri Eklund and Vesa Kiviniemi:

Waste clearance in the brain: Pathophysiology in Alzheimer’s disease and novel treatment strategies

10.45-11.00 Jian-An Huang and Vahid Farrahi:

Digital Raman assay for single-molecule protein sequencing in single live cells

11.00-12.15 Lunch break

12.15-12.30 Peppi Karppinen (Koivunen):

Oxygen and 2-oxoglutarate sensing enzymes as novel therapeutic targets in metabolic, neurological and other disease

12.30-12.45 Thomas Kietzmann:

Beyond hypoxia-inducible factors: New molecules interacting in hypoxia-signaling and metabolism

12.45-13.00 Lari Lehtiö:

Activation mechanisms and inhibition of human mono-ADP-ribosyltransferases

13.00-13.15 Aki Manninen and Gonghong Wei:

The ECM control of the prostate cancer genome

13.15-13.30 Eija Pirinen and Karl-Heinz Herzig:

Mitochondrial targeting strategies for the treatment of obesity and metabolic diseases

13.30-13.45 Katri Pylkäs:

Deciphering inherited breast cancer susceptibility- Integrating diagnostic and novel genomic approaches

13.45-14.15 Coffee

14.15-14.30 Lloyd Ruddock:

Identification and molecular characterization of novel pathways for disulfide formation

14.30-14.45 Simo Saarakkala and Miia Jansson:

Novel Raman-based reagent-free diagnostics for arthritic disease

14.45-15.00 Terhi Tapiainen and Justus Reunanen:

Gut microbiome in obesity from birth to adulthood

15.00-15.15 Aleksei Tiulpin, Jani Tikkanen and Mika Nevalainen:

Low-cost screening for future cardiovascular disease incidence with opportunistic CT

15.15-15.45 Closing words and general discussion

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards, Teija

Teija Luoto, Management assistant

Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu

Tel. +358 2 9448 6103

Street address: Aapistie 5A, 90220 Oulu, Finland

Mail address: P.O. Box 5000, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland

URL: http://www.oulu.fi/biocenter

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