Dear all,

unfortunately, the Kontinkangas seminar on March 27 by prof Elisabeth Tanner is cancelled.

Time and venue	Speaker(s)	Title
March 27, 15.15-16 F202	Elizabeth Tanner School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK	Developing Bone Replacement Composites
April 3, 15.15-16 F202	Ian Mills Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, UK	Reflections on prostate cancer research
April 10, Leena Palotie Hall, 101A 8.30-16	Biocenter Day	Mode the Code – Innovations in Gene Therapy See separate programme below
May 8, 15.15-16 F202	Juha Väyrynen Research Unit of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu	Insights into colorectal cancer classification: morphology meets molecular biology
June 4-6, Linnanmaa	47th Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Conference (AIS2025) Shaping the Future in the Era of Polycrisis	https://app.eventos.fi/ais-conference-2025/website/496, registration required, Separate programme

Note the Biocenter Day on April 10.

Mode the code – innovations in gene therapy

Time                                               Thursday April 10, 2025, at 8.30-16.00

Place Leena Palotie Auditorium 101A in the Main Building of Kontinkangas Campus,

University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Chairpersons                           Ruwandi Abeysekara, Saurabh Singh Dhakar, Johanna Helenius

PROGRAMME

	8.30-8.40	Opening remarks Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Biocenter Oulu
	8.40-8.50	Welcome Prof. Johannes Kettunen, Director of Biocenter Oulu
	8.50-9.30	KEYNOTE Seppo Ylä-Herttuala, UEF, Finland
	9.30-10.15	Coffee at the exhibition area
Session 1: Gene editing
	10.15-10.20	Sponsor spot
	10.20-10.50	"Cancer-safe cell and gene therapy platform". Kirmo Wartiovaara, University of Helsinki, Finland
	10.50-11.20	“Balancing efficacy and safety in lentiviral vector-mediated hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy”. Eugenio Montini, SR-Tiget, Italy
	11.20-11.25	Sponsor spot
	11.25-12.55	Lunch break and exhibition
Session 2: Delivery
	12.55-13.00	Sponsor spot
	13.00-13.30	“Blood derived applications of Nanofibrillated cellulose for future chronic wound treatment”. Marjo Yliperttula, University of Helsinki, Finland
	13.30-14.00	“Folding of DNA and mRNA Origami for Controlled Translation and Viral Vector Packaging”.  Mauri Kostiainen, Aalto University, Finland
	14.00-14.40	Coffee at the exhibition area
Session 3:  From bench to bedside
	14.40-14.45	Sponsor spot
	14.45-15.15	“Cancer gene therapy with oncolytic viruses: a learning cycle between the laboratory and patients”. Akseli Hemminki, University of Helsinki, Finland
	15.15-15.45	“Matritools: a collection of open access methods to study the matrisome in the omics era”. Valerio Izzi, University of Oulu, Finland
	15.45-16.00	General discussion and concluding remarks

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