Deal all,

Please note that the registration time for the biobank course is soon closing. Some minor updates to the program have been made:

http://www.oulu.fi/sites/default/files/content/Program%20of%20the%20BB-course%2019-20_11_2018%20version%2012_11_2018.pdf

 

best regards,

Pia

 

 

Pia Nyberg

Project Manager, PhD, Adjunct Professor/Docent

Northern Finland Biobank Borealis

 

Oulu University Hospital

Medical Research Center MRC

PO Box 10, 90029 OYS

 

Tel: +358-400-461 349

Email: pia.nyberg@ppshp.fi or pia.nyberg@oulu.fi

Learn more: https://www.ppshp.fi/Tutkimus-ja-opetus/Biopankki/Pages/Biobank-Borealis-briefly-in-English.aspx

 

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From: Mirja Peltola
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Subject: Course: Nov 19-20, Finnish Biobanks Aiding Fundamental Biomedical & Clinical Research

 

Training announcement

 

Finnish Biobanks Aiding Fundamental Biomedical & Clinical Research

 

Organizer:  Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programme, University of Oulu Biocenter Oulu and Borealis Biobank of Northern Finland (BB) & FinBB 

 

Time: 19-20.11.2018, Oulu University Medical School, Aapistie 5

Lecture hall: F101 (19.11.) and F202 (20.11.)

Credits: 0.5 study points

Registration until Nov 13 here >>

 

 

 

Link to programme in PDF-format >>

 

Monday 19.11.2018

 

09.00-09.10 Welcome and opening words by Seppo Vainio

09.10.09.20 University of Oulu greetings by Vice Rector Taina Pihlajaniemi

 

Session I. Value of the biobanks in medicine - Chair: Seppo Vainio   

09.20-09.45 Marco Hautalahti: The Finnish biobank cluster FinBB and the European BBMRI 

09.45-10.10 Anu Jalanko: National biobank effort - Finngen

10.10-10.40 Joakim Dillner: National and international collaboration via the biobanks

10.40-11.10 Sirpa Soini: The law and order in the biobank activities

10.10-11.30 Minna Mäkiniemi: Biobanks, the university hospitals and the ethical aspects

 

11.30-12.30 Lunch break & interactions:

 

Session II: Biobanks and Finnish neuro-, cancer and genome centers - Chair: Pia Nyberg

12.30-12.50 Ville Leinonen: Prospects in Neuroscience

12.50-13.10 Arto Mannermaa: The emerging Genome center

13.10-13.30 Jussi Koivunen: FICAN – the Finnish Cancer Center

 

13.30-13.50 Coffee, tea and interactions

 

Session III: Cohorts and biobanks - Chair: Heljä-Marja Surcel

13.50-14.00 Sylvain Sebert: Introduction to cohort studies *

14.00-14.45 Vincent Jaddoe: The European birth cohort network *

14.45-15.05 Tiina Wahlfors: Finnish Red Cross biobanks

15.05-15.30 Riitta Veijola: National cohorts to study diabetes 

15.30-15.55 Minna Ruddock: Northern Finland Birth cohorts

15.55-16.15 Heljä-Marja Surcel: Finnish Maternity Cohort (FMC) and Finnish registries

16.15-16.40 Johanna Uusimaa: Clinical research resources at the MRC Oulu: patient cohorts, samples and infrastructure

* (Joint programme with the course: Study design, Data processing and Epidemiology)

 

Summary of the biobank day and closing Seppo Vainio

 

Dinner for the speakers  19-

 

 

Tuesday 20.11.2018

 

08.30-09.00 Coffee, tea and interactions

 

Session IV: Biobanks in practice – Chair: Tiina Pekkala

09.00-09.20 Juha Näpänkangas: Digital pathology and the biobanks

09.20-09.40 Pia Nyberg: Borealis in the arena of the Finnish biobanks

09.40-10.00 Eila Suvanto: Case studies with the biobanks samples 

10.00-10.20 Lila Kallio: Auria Biobank - from discovery to feasibility studies

10.20-10.40 Johannes Kettunen: The genetics and the genome level BIG data in FinnGen

10.40-11.00 Antti Karlsson: Big (?) data analysis in healthcare

 

11.00-12.00 Lunch break and interactions

 

Session V: Biobanks and the health care digital era - Chair: Juha Röning

12.00-12.20 Marko Pylkkänen: The digital world of the Oulu University Hospital

12.20-12.50 Tarja Laitinen: The biobank related data hubs and the data lakes

12.50-13.20 Juha Röning: Can we be safe in the digital worlds – the ethics of the digits ?

13.20-13.45 Jussi Hiltunen: Visions for mass produced bioelectronics and biosensors

13.45-14.10 Tapio Seppänen: Digital medicine on site, in the body and in remote

 

Summary of the biobank days and closing Seppo Vainio

 

 

Best wishes,

Mirja

 

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Mirja Peltola, PhD

Coordinator

Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programme

 

P.O.Box 5000, FIN-90014 University of Oulu, Finland

(Aapistie 5A, Room 473B)

 

Tel: (+358) 0294 485447

Email: mirja.peltola @ oulu.fi

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