Time

Wed 01.06.2022 at 09:00 - Wed 01.06.2022 at 12:00

Location

Leena Palotie Hall, Aapistie 5A, 90220 Oulu or via Zoom

This event gathers European INFRAFRONTIER partners together to present their recent achievements in biomedicine and technological advances in modeling human diseases. The event aims to disseminate the knowledge gained from INFRAFRONTIER activities to the biomedical community ensuring effective access to the most recent disease models and analyzing methods in the field. https://www.oulu.fi/en/events/infrafrontier-seminar-recent-advances-human-disease-modeling

Registration by Wed 25th May via this registration form. 

PROGRAMME

09:00 - 09:05 Opening words, Reetta Hinttala, Associate Professor (tenure), PEDEGO, University of Oulu

09:05 - 09:30 Humanized mice model of Sars-Cov-2 infection as a translational approach to evaluate the efficacy of therapeutic candidates and decipher the mechanism of COVID19 pathology, Ana Zarubica, PhD, Scientific Coordinator of COVID19/Respiratory Infection Task Force CIPHE, France

09:30 - 09:55 Dissection the complexity of host Susceptibility to type 2 diabetes development, Prof. Fuad A. Iraqi, Genetics of Complex Traits Research, Tel Aviv University, Israel

09:55 - 10:20 TANC2: an NDD risk gene with medical comorbidities, Sabine Hölter-Koch, PhD, Behavioral Neuroscience Team, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

10:20 - 10:50 COFFEE BREAK

10:50 - 11:15 A pipeline for the study of neuronal interaction with tumor cells in mouse models of glioblastoma based on fluorescent biosensors and intravital multiphoton microscopy, Prof. Fabio Mammano, PhD, M.Phil., University of Padova, Italy (remote)

11:15 - 11:35 AI supported data analysis in phenotyping, Elida Schneltzer, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

11:35 - 12:00 A new perspective from rat models for a better understanding of cognitive dysfunction in Down Syndrome, Yann Herault, PhD, Institut Clinique de la Souris, France

Organized by Biocenter Oulu, FibroHealth and Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programme, University of Oulu; Academy of Finland and Federation of Finnish Learned Societies.

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