Dear all,

On Thursday October 17 we will have a Kontinkangas Research Seminar at 15.15-16 in F202. The speaker is Professor Dagmar Wachten from the Department of Biophysical Imaging, Institute of Innate Immunity, University of Bonn, Germany. The title of her presentation is “Shedding light on ciliary signaling in health and disease”.

More about her research interests:

We aim to understand how tissue ecosystems are maintained by cellular communication. We focus on the interaction of non-immune cells with immune cells, in particular with cells of the innate immune system.
A subcellular compartment that is important for sensing information from the environment and, in turn, changing cellular fate and function, is the primary cilium.
In general, cilia protrude from the surface of almost every mammalian cell and can be grouped into two major classes: a) primary cilia, which are immotile and b) motile cilia, which are also called flagella.
Ciliary dysfunction leads to severe diseases commonly referred to as ciliopathies. They comprise e.g. polycystic kidney disease, obesity, blindness, and infertility.
However, the signaling pathways controlling ciliary function are ill-defined. To study ciliary signaling with high spatial and temporal precision, we combine optogenetics and genetically-encoded biosensors with high-resolution microscopy, mouse genetics, and biochemistry. This multidisciplinary approach allows not only to investigate ciliary signaling but can be applied to any subcellular compartment to study its function with spatial and temporal resolution and investigate cell-cell communication during tissue development and homeostasis and the contribution of the innate immune system.

https://www.iiibonn.de/dagmar-wachten-lab/dagmar-wachten-lab-science

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 and Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programme

Kind regards

Pirkko Huhtala

Time and venue	Speaker	Title
September 12 15.15-16 P117	Wojciech Chrzanowski Nano-Bio-Characterization Facility, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Australia	Made by Cells for Cells: Harnessing Extracellular Vesicles for a Healthier and More Sustainable Future
September 26 15.15-16 F202	Reetta Hinttala Research Unit of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu	Early-onset neurological multiorgan diseases and their research models
October 3 8.30-16 101A Leena Palotie Hall	Biocenter Oulu Day	Revolutionising health with omics Separate Programme
October 4 Ad-Hoc seminar 10.00-11 F202	Katsuyuki Yugi Team Leader from the Laboratory for Integrated Cellular Systems, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan	Trans-omics: integration of multiple omic data on the basis of reaction kinetics
October 7 11.45-13, F202	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024	Separate Programme
October 10 15.15-16 F202	Julián Aragonés López Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain	Role of hypoxia inducible factors (HIFs)-dependent metabolism rewiring in tumor cell biology
October 17 15.15-16 F202	Dagmar Wachten Department of Biophysical Imaging, Institute of Innate Immunity, University of Bonn, Germany	Shedding light on ciliary signaling in health and disease
October 31 15.15-16 F101	Liisa Kauppi Systems Oncology Research Program, University of Helsinki	Measuring and exploiting defective DNA repair in epithelial cancers
November 21 15.15-16 F202	Jeroen Rouwkema Department of Biomechanical Engineering, University of Twente, The Netherlands	Chemical and mechanical perturbation of in vitro vascular network organization
November 28 13.15-14 P117 AND 15.15-16 F202	Outi Kilpivaara Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki Alexander Nyström Department of Dermatology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Germany	TBA Understanding the ECM through genetic diseases – prospects for wound healing and fibrosis therapies
December 12 14.15-16 101A Leena Palotie Hall	Valeria Orlova Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands  Simo Franssila Dept. of Chemistry and Materials Science and Micronova Nanofabrication Center Aalto University, Helsinki	Next-Generation Vascular Disease Models Using Patient-Derived Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs) TBA
December 17 12.30-15.30 101A Leena Palotie Hall	BCO Discovery of the Year	Separate programme TBA

Pirkko Huhtala, PhD

Coordinator

Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu

e-mail: pirkko.huhtala@oulu.fi

tel: +358-294 486101, + 358-40 1897467

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