Dear all, We will have a BCO seminar this week on Thursday October 10 at 15.15. The speaker is professor Christer Betsholtz from Dept. Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University and Dept. Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Div. Vascular Biology, Karolinska Institutet. The title of his presentation is "Pericyte-endothelial cell interactions in blood vessel development and disease".

You can find more information about professor Betsholtz´s research at http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1959&l=en and publications at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Christer+Betsholtz

The place is Leena Palotie Hall 101A, Medical Campus, Aapistie 5A. There is bus transportation from the Linnanmaa Campus Door J at 14.45 to Aapistie 5A, and back at about 16.15 from Aapistie 5A to Door J (Biochemistry). Coffee and pulla is served before the seminar for enjoyable networking.

The seminars are open to everybody and no registration is required. We encourage all the project leaders, coordinators, post docs and students to take advantage of this possibility and to participate in the seminars! Welcome!

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: 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