Dear all, On next Thursday May 16, 15.15-16, in F101 we will have a Kontinkangas Research Seminar by Prof. Irit Sagi from Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. The title of her presentation is "Harnessing anti-matrix remodeling biological inhibitors to decipher cancer and inflammatory molecular mechanisms". More about her research interests http://www.weizmann.ac.il/dept/irb/IritSagi/. Prof. Sagi is also the Vice President for Innovation & Technology Transfer at Weismann Institute of Science.

Coffee is served during networking session 20 min before the presentation time. Welcome everybody! No registration required. Organized by Biocenter Oulu and Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programme.

Please, check at the end of this message the seminars still to come. One additional ad-hoc seminar on May 25 by Stefan Krauss, and another new on June 7 by Prof Donald Gullberg, organised with Profi6 Fibrobesity research theme. See also below the programme for Biocenter Day 2023 Tools of life - approaches for solving biochemical mysteries, organized by HBS-DP doctoral researchers.

BIOCENTER OULU DAY 2023 Tools of life - approaches for solving biochemical mysteries

Time Wednesday May 17 2023 at 8.30-16.00 Place Leena Palotie Auditorium 101A in the Main Building of the Medical Campus, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Chairpersons Maiju Uusitalo and Jeena Ainikkal Velayudhan

8.30-8.40 Opening remarks Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Biocenter Oulu 8.40-8.50 Welcome Prof. Johannes Kettunen, Director of Focus Institute Biocenter Oulu 8.50-9.30 "Data-driven approaches to study context-specific human cell signalling" Dr Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, Cambridgeshire, UK (Online) 9.30-10.15 Coffee at the exhibition area

Session 1: Data collection tools 10.15-10.20 Nordic BioSite, Anni Laari 10.20-10.50 "Circulating tumor DNA for the follow-up of cancer patients" Dr Valérie Taly, Univ. Paris Descartes, France 10.50-11.20 "Interdisciplinary Approaches in Biomedical Research: A Perspective from the Frontlines of Protein, Polymer, and Nanoparticle Simulations" Dr Rajendra Bhadane, Univ. Turku, Finland 11.20-11.25 Genevia Technologies Oy, Thomas Liuksiala 11.25-12.55 Lunch break and exhibition

Session 2: Data analysis 12.55-13.00 Promega Biotech AB, Katja Ahokas 13.00-13.30 "Analysis of large-scale genomics data to provide new insights into genetic disorders" Prof. Dr Christian Gilissen, Radboud UMC, Nijmegen, NL 13.30-14.00 "How much of protein space will AlphaFold illuminate?" Dr Nicola Bordin, UCL, London, UK 14.00-14.40 Coffee at the exhibition area

Session 3: Databases 14.40-14.45 NanoString Technologies Europe Limited, Alexandra Brandt 14.45-15.15 TBD Dr Maxim Tsenkov, EMBL-EBI, Cambridgeshire, UK 15.15-15.45 "Structure Predictions Transform Protein Family Classification" Dr Alex Bateman, EMBL-EBI, Cambridgeshire, UK (Online) 15.45-16.00 General discussion and concluding remarks

KONTINKANGAS RESEARCH SEMINARS

May 24, Note! Wednesday 10.15-11, F101 Ben Wielockx Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Oxygen sensing in health and disease May 25, 15.15-16, F202 Stefan Krauss Institute of Medical Biology University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital, Norway Organoids June 1, 15.15-16, F101 Alexander Hoischen Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Long-read genomics - new insights in rare disease research

June 7, Note! Wednesday 9.15-10, F101 Donald Gullberg Department of Biomedicine and Centre for Cancer Biomarkers, Norwegian Centre of Excellence, University of Bergen, Norway New advances in fibroblast biology

Pirkko Huhtala, PhD Coordinator Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu e-mail: pirkko.huhtala@oulu.fimailto:pirkko.huhtala@oulu.fi tel: +358-294 486101, + 358-40 1897467 Street address: Room 476B, Aapistie 5A, FIN-90220 Oulu Mailing address: PO Box 5000, FIN-90014 University of Oulu, Finland www.oulu.fi/biocenterhttp://www.oulu.fi/biocenter