Dear all,

Here below you will find some updates for the Autumn 2025 programme of Kontinkangas Research Seminars and other events. Note! on Thursday October 9th there will be two seminars separated by an additional coffee break. The latter seminar is organized with Profi6 Fibrobesity.

 

Welcome everybody! No registration required.

Coffee is served during networking session 20 min before the presentation time.

Field specific credits can be earned according to UniOGS recommendations (attendance at scientific seminars for 10 hours: 0,5ECTS)

If you would like to have separate discussions with the speaker, please contact Teija.luoto@oulu.fi who will set up the meeting time.

Organized by Biocenter Oulu, Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programme and Fibrobesity.

 

Kontinkangas Research Seminars Autumn 2025, and other events, draft 1509

 

Time and venue

Speaker(s)

Title

September 25

15.15-16

F202

Derek Logan

SciLifeLab and Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Lund University, Sweden

The amazingly versatile ATP-cone domain and its role in ribonucleotide reductase regulation

October 2

ad hoc seminar

15.15-16

F202

Wilma Sabetta

Institute of Bioscience and BioResources and

Fabrizio Cillo

Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection

National Research Council of Italy, Bari, Italy

The intriguing world of plant nanovesicles: regulators of defense responses and actors in cross-kingdom communications

October 6

11.45-13

338B Kieppi 3rd fl.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

Separate programme

October 9

F202

15.15-16

 

 

 

16.15-17

John Richard

SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, USA

Coffee break

Manuel Tena Sempere Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Córdoba, Spain

Substrate-Driven Protein Conformational Changes in Catalysis by Nature’s Most Proficient Enzymes

 

 

 

Hypothalamic control of body weight: Insights into mechanisms and new therapeutic options of obesity

October 16

15.15-16

F202

Matthew Jones

Peninsula Medical School 

University of Plymouth, UK

Links between extracellular matrix adhesion and the cell cycle

October 23

15.15-16

F202

Jian Ye
School of Biomedical Engineering,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Single-molecule Raman detection of metabolites and toxins

November 13

15.15-16

F202

 

Tejesvi Mysore

Research Unit of Clinical Medicine,

Faculty of Medicine

University of Oulu

Early-Life Bacteriome, Mycobiome, and Extracellular Vesicles

November 26

Wednesday!

15.15-16

F202

 

Anne-Marie Malfait and Rachel Miller

Rush University Medical Center, Division of Rheumatology, and Department of Internal Medicine,

Rush University, Chicago, USA

TBA

December 5

15.15-16

F101

 

Ralf Brandes

Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology,

Goethe University Frankfurt,

Germany

Novel aspects of redox-control of endothelial metabolism

December 15

12.30-15.30

101A Leena Palotie Hall

 

BCO Discovery of the Year

Separate programme

 

 

Kind regards

Pirkko Huhtala

 

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