Do you want to hear how recent improvements in Biocenter Oulu research infrastructure can benefit your research?

Are you interested in what local Biotech companies are doing?

Do you want to know about different ways of university-company collaboration?

Welcome to the seminar entitled:

Biocenter Oulu research infrastructure –

Possibility for university-company collaboration

Time: January 15th 2014, at 9.00-12.15

Place: Lecture hall A101 (Department of Anatomy, Aapistie 7A)

Program: attached and below

Information and registration (for coffee): Anu Mursula, Project manager, anu.mursula(at)oulu.fi, latest January 10th

The seminar gives you also the opportunity to network with other bioscience professionals . The seminar is organized by the Research and Development Infrastructure for Biocatalysis – Strucbiocat –project. The project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund via the Council of Oulu Region. For more information about the project, please visit the website: www.oulu.fi/biocenter/strucbiocathttp://www.oulu.fi/biocenter/strucbiocat.

Program 8.45-9.00 Coffee 9.00-9.10 Opening Taina Pihlajaniemi, Professor, Vice Rector of University of Oulu 9.10-9.30 Strucbiocat Project Anu Mursula, Project manager, Biocenter Oulu 9.30-9.50 Company presentation Vesa Ruotsalainen, Research Scientist, Orion Diagnostica Oy 9.50-10.10 Enzymatic Chemistry at Pharmatory Heikki Hassila, R&D manager, Pharmatory Ltd. 10.10-10.45 Coffee and networking 10.45-11.05 Company presentation Ari Tolonen, CEO & CSO, Admescope Ltd 11.05-11.25 Food Safety and Microbial Detection Anna-Liisa Välimaa, Research Scientist, MTT Agrifood Research Finland 11.25-11.45 Collaboration possibilities between University and companies Maarit Jokela, Innovation manager, University of Oulu 11.45-12.00 Future perspectives of the Strucbiocat initiative Rik Wierenga, Professor, University of Oulu 12.00-12.15 Discussion and closing remarks

Anu Mursula, PhD

Project manager

Research and development infrastructure for structural biocatalysis - Strucbiocat

Biocenter Oulu and Department of Biochemistry

P.O.Box 3000

90014 University of Oulu

Finland

anu.mursula@oulu.fimailto:anu.mursula@oulu.fi

+358505748150