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10.4. MRC Oulu - Exploring the Science World
Time
14.00 – 18.00, Thursday, April 10, 2014
Place
Lecture hall 7 (R-floor), Oulu University Hospital, Kajaanintie 50
Information Mirja Peltola (mirja.peltola@oulu.fi)
Credits Certificate of participation will be written
No pre-registration.
In this event Medical Research Center Oulu (MRC Oulu) is introduced. MRC Oulu –Exploring the Science World includes presentations of the MRC Oulu Focus Area research groups and speeches
under a topic "Comments and expectations on MRC Oulu".
Seminar homepage:
http://www.oulu.fi/mrc/node/25010
Timetable with the list of eminent speakers and their topics in pdf-format:
http://www.oulu.fi/sites/default/files/seminars/MRCOulu_Exploring_the_science_world.pdf
A map to the lecture hall 7:
http://www.oulu.fi/sites/default/files/seminars/map_LS7_0.pdf
PROGRAMME
14.00 – 14.10 Opening remarks,
Heikki Huikuri, Director of the MRC Oulu
Part One: MRC Oulu Focus Area Research Groups,
Chairman: Petri Lehenkari
14.15 – 14.25 Prof. Tero Ala-Kokko: Severe sepsis: pathophysiology, diagnostics, epidemiology and outcome
14.30 – 14.40 Prof. Heikki Huikuri: Risk Profiles of Sudden Cardiac Death
14.45 – 14.55 Prof. Sohvi Hörkkö: Humoral immune response to epitopes shared by microbes and oxidized LDL: the role of mucosal immune system and ‘in utero programming’ in atherosclerosis
15.00 – 15.10 Prof. Jouni Jaakkola: Genes and environmental exposures in the etiology and prognosis of adult asthma and its subtypes
15.15 – 15.25 Prof. Tuomo Karttunen: Gastrointestinal disorders: diagnosis, prognosis, treatment
15.30 – 15.40 Prof. Risto Kerkelä, Prof. Jukka Hakkola: Molecular mechanisms of cardiotoxicity and hepatotoxicity
15.45 – 15.55 Prof. Kari Majamaa: Genetic, physiological and clinical aspects of brain development and degeneration
16.00 – 16.10 Prof. Ulla Petäjä-Repo: G protein-coupled receptor folding and processing: mechanisms regulating active receptor levels
16.15 – 16.25 PhD Carolina Cavalcante Bitu (Prof. Tuula Salo):
Oral Tongue Cancer Invasion – Development of Novel Cancer Invasion Assays
16.30 – 16.45 Coffee break
Part Two: Expectations and comments on MRC Oulu,
Chairman: Heikki Huikuri
16.45 – 17.00 Jyrki Mäkelä, Education dean of the Faculty of Medicine
17.05 – 17.20 Taina Pihlajaniemi, Vice rector, Research
17.25 – 17.40 Hannu Leskinen,
Director of the Northern Ostrobothnia hospital district
17.45 – 18.00 Discussion, Closing Remarks: Petri Lehenkari, Chairman of the MRC Oulu Scientific Advisory Board
WELCOME!
Apologies for any cross posting.
Best regards,
Mirja Peltola
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Mirja Peltola, PhD
MRC Oulu-DP coordinator
Medical Research Center Oulu
tel:
0294 485447
e-mail:
mirja.peltola@oulu.fi