BIOCENTER OULU DAY 2021https://www.oulu.fi/uniogs/dp/hbsdp/biocenterouluday Disease on a dish - The Next Generation Approaches!https://www.oulu.fi/uniogs/dp/hbsdp/biocenterouluday

Time: Thursday 4th, 18th and 25th March 2021 starting at 14.00 Place: in zoom, link: https://oulu.zoom.us/j/67817168542 Join in with your full name or e-mail address. Programme in PDF >>>https://www.oulu.fi/sites/default/files/content/BCO%20Day%202021%20Prog_mp_updated%2026.2.2021.pdf

We will have our Biocenter Oulu Day 2021 event in zoom on three Thursday afternoons in March 2021 starting at 14.00 hrs.

The chat will be available for questions to the speakers and hosted by the session chairs. Please note that all the people, who will ask a question in the chat, will be participating to a lottery on that day and the prize is a lunch ticket at Aalto restaurant (Aapistie 1). We shall have this lottery on each day.

More artistic competition: Use your artistic skills and make a drawing, picture or illustration of one or more of the following categories:

* How do you interpret the "Disease on a dish" theme? * How does your work or project represent the theme of the day "Disease on a dish"? * Make a drawing inspired by one of the speaker's lectures. Please send your pictures or drawings to Samina by e-mail samina.kazi(a)oulu.fi by 26th March 2021 at the latest. The prize is lunch tickets and the best candidates will be chosen by the social team of the organisation committee and revealed on the Biocenter Day webpage on the 29th March, winners will be previously contacted by email.

Session 1: Thursday 4th March 2021 starting at 14.00 hrs (local time) Chairs: Surbhi Mishra and Samina Kazi Welcome by Johannes Kettunen, Scientific Director of Biocenter Oulu Prof. Knut Drescher, "Bacterial biofilm development and functions", Max Planck Institute, University Marburg, Germany Sponsor: Merck Life Science Oy: Marko Sankala "Merck Update" Prof. Dagmar Wachten, "Analyzing primary ciliary signaling using optogenetics", University of Bonn, Germany

Session 2: Thursday 18th March 2021 starting at 14.00 hrs (local time) Chairs: Anil Sohil and tbd Welcome by Lauri Eklund, Director of Biocenter Oulu, Research infrastructure services Dr Xavier Gidrol, "From Pancreatic Organoids-on-Chip to Diabete-on-Chip", CEA-Grenoble, France Sponsor: Qiagen Oy: Helge Lind "QIAcuity-next generation digital PCR using Nanoplates" Sponsor: Promega Oy: Katja Ahokas "Promega - 30 years of luminescence, sensitive and dynamic tools for science" 2nd speaker - tbd

Session 3: Thursday 25th March 2021 starting at 14.00 hrs (local time) Chairs: Sara Pereira Cruz and Susanna Koivuluoma Prof. Hans Clevers, "Organoids to model human disease", Utrecht University, the Netherlands Sponsor: Immuno Diagnostic Oy: Katja-Riikka Louhi "Printing life" Dr Haico van Attikum, "tbd", Leiden University, the Netherlands

Prizes for the best picture or idea presented by Social team

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Best wishes, Mirja ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mirja Peltola, PhD, BSc (Tech.) Koordinaattori | Coordinator Oulun yliopisto | University of Oulu Terveys- ja biotieteiden tohtoriohjelma | Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programme Tel. 0294 48 5447 PO Box 5000, FI-90014 OULUN YLIOPISTO (Aapistie 5A, Room 476B) www.oulu.fihttp://www.oulu.fi/yliopisto