Dear all,

Next Thursday, October 9, there will be two seminars. First, at 15.15-16 in F202 Pharmacology, a seminar by SUNY Distinguished Professor John Richard, Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, USA.

The title of the seminar is “Substrate-Driven Protein Conformational Changes in Catalysis by Nature’s Most Proficient Enzymes”.

https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/chemistry/faculty/faculty-directory/richard.html

In addition, at 16.15-17 there is a seminar by Manuel Tena Sempere, Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Córdoba, Spain. The title of his seminar is “Hypothalamic control of body weight: Insights into mechanisms and new therapeutic options of obesity”.

https://ensigcon.utu.fi/people/manuel-tena-sempere/

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

See updated programme below. Note! Dr. Tejesvi Mysore´s seminar will be on Oct. 26, instead of Oct. 13 previously scheduled.

Time and venue	Speaker(s)	Title
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 26 15.15-16 F202	Tejesvi Mysore Research Unit of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine University of Oulu	Early-Life Bacteriome, Mycobiome, and Extracellular Vesicles
CANCELLED November 26 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

Pirkko Huhtala, PhD

Coordinator

Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu

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