Dear all, we will have one additional seminar on Thursday Dec. 19 at 15-16 in F202. The speaker is Assistant Professor Jian Yan, Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. The title of his presentation is "Systematic Analysis of Transcription Factor Binding to Non-Coding Variants in the Human Genome". Time for Coffee and networking from 14.30 onwards. Welcome everybody!

Dr Yan received his BSc (in biological sciences) at Tsinghua University and MSc (in biotechnology) at University of Helsinki. He continued his PhD study in Prof. Jussi Taipale's lab at Karolinska Institutet, investigating molecular mechanism of transcriptional regulation in colorectal cancer cells. After obtaining PhD degree in 2014, Dr Yan moved to San Diego to study 3D genome organization and gene regulation as a postdoc fellow with Prof. Bing Ren at Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. After more than a decade of biological research training in Asia, Europe and America, he joined the Department of Biomedical Sciences in City University of Hong Kong, as a tenure track assistant professor in the fall of 2018, focusing on function of sequence variants in development of complex human diseases using state-of-the-art genomics tools.

You will find more about Dr. Yan´s research in https://www.cityu.edu.hk/bms/profile/jianyan.htm https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=BK2392MAAAAJ&hl=en Kind regards Pirkko Huhtala

Pirkko Huhtala, Ph.D. Coordinator Biocenter Oulu University of Oulu Mailing address: P.O.Box 5000, FIN-90014 University of Oulu Finland Street address: 476B, Aapistie 5A, FIN-90220 Oulu Tel. sis/int. 486101, ulk./Ext. 0294 486101 Tel. +358-294 486101 e-mail pirkko.huhtala@oulu.fimailto:pirkko.huhtala@oulu.fi www.oulu.fi/biocenterhttp://www.oulu.fi/biocenter