Dear all, Here below you will find some updates for the Autumn 2025 programme of Kontinkangas Research Seminars and other events. Note! on Thursday October 9th there will be two seminars separated by an additional coffee break. The latter seminar is organized with 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 recommendationshttps://www.oulu.fi/en/research/graduate-school/thesis-requirements-and-studies/study-requirements#accordion-control-recommendations-of-credits-for-different-activities- (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.fimailto:Teija.luoto@oulu.fi who will set up the meeting time. Organized by Biocenter Oulu, Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programme and Fibrobesity.

Kontinkangas Research Seminars Autumn 2025, and other events, draft 1509

Time and venue Speaker(s) Title September 25 15.15-16 F202 Derek Logan SciLifeLab and Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Lund University, Sweden The amazingly versatile ATP-cone domain and its role in ribonucleotide reductase regulation October 2 ad hoc seminar 15.15-16 F202 Wilma Sabetta Institute of Bioscience and BioResources and Fabrizio Cillo Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection National Research Council of Italy, Bari, Italy The intriguing world of plant nanovesicles: regulators of defense responses and actors in cross-kingdom communications

October 6 11.45-13 338B Kieppi 3rd fl. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 Separate programme 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 13 15.15-16 F202

Tejesvi Mysore Research Unit of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine University of Oulu Early-Life Bacteriome, Mycobiome, and Extracellular Vesicles November 26 Wednesday! 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

Kind regards Pirkko Huhtala

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