Please note the upcoming Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programme course:
Mouse as a model in neuroscience research – basic concepts and disease modellinghttp://www.oulu.fi/sites/default/files/content/Neurohiiri_ilmoitus_11.10.18.pdf Time and place: November 28th and 29th at Kontinkangas Campus. Course overview: The course offers basic knowledge on brain anatomy and development, and gives an update of latest research findings and methods in the field. The translational aspects from mouse model-derived data to human disease are also considered. The course is aimed for students and researchers in medicine, biochemistry and molecular medicine, biology and other relevant fields. The lectures are open for all interested. Study credits: Participation in lectures 0.5 ECT and additional 0.5 ECT for poster. Registration: https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/D946C30E9BF4525B.par Coffee and snacks are served for registered participants. Registration open until 16.11.2018.
Day 1 (H1091, Dentopolis), Wednesday November 28th at 9:00-16:00 Session 1: Mouse brain anatomy and development Mikko Airavaara (Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE Unit, University of Helsinki) Juha Partanen (Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki) Parthiv Haldipur (Seattle Children's Research Institute, Center for Integrative Brain Research, University of Washington, USA)
Session 2: Glymphatic system and blood-brain-barrier Iben Lundgaard (The Department for Experimental Medicine, Lund University, Sweden) Vesa Kiviniemi (Research Unit of Medical Imaging Physics and Technology, University of Oulu) Oxana Semyachkina-Glushkovskaya (Interdisciplinary Center of Critical Technologies in Medicine, Saratov State University, Russia)
Day 2 (338B, Kieppi), Thursday November 29th at 9:00-16:00 Session 3: Mouse as a disease model Heikki Tanila (A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland) Tarja Malm (A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland) Fiona Francis (Institut du Fer à Moulin, École des Neurosciences de Paris Île-de-France, France) Afternoon: Poster session.
More information: salla.kangas@oulu.fimailto:salla.kangas@oulu.fi, anniina.hiltunen@oulu.fimailto:anniina.hiltunen@oulu.fi
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Best wishes, Mirja
----------------------------------------------------------- Mirja Peltola, PhD Coordinator Medical Research Center Ouluhttp://www.oulu.fi/mrc/
Coordinator Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programmehttp://www.oulu.fi/uniogs/dp/hbsdp
P.O.Box 5000, FIN-90014 University of Oulu, Finland (Aapistie 5A, Room 347B)
Tel: (+358) 0294 485447 Email: mirja.peltola @ oulu.fimailto:mirja.peltola@oulu.fi -----------------------------------------------------------