Dear all, On Friday October 7 at 9.15-10 in F101 a Kontinkangas Research Seminar by Professor Pirjo Nuutila from Turku PET Centre, Department of Endocrinology, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku. The title of her presentation is "Brown Adipose Tissue (BAT) in adult humans - what is learned since 2009?" Information about prof. Pirjo Nuutila´s research: In 2009 the work of professor Pirjo Nuutila and associate professor Kirsi Virtanen resulted discovery of brown fat and its role in metabolism. The article published on this discovery is one of the most widely read in the field, with more than 2,000 citations, and the discovery has spawned an entire field dedicated to understanding the role of brown fat in health. https://www.utu.fi/fi/ihmiset/pirjo-nuutila https://immunologiakeskus.fi/inflamesin-pirjo-nuutilalle-novo-nordisk-founda...

Coffee is served during networking session 20 min before the presentation time. Welcome everybody!

Kontinkangas Seminars Autumn 2022

Date and lecture room

Speaker Title October 7, 9.15-10 F101 Pirjo Nuutila Turku PET Centre, Department of Endocrinology, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku Brown Adipose Tissue (BAT) in adult humans - what is learned since 2009? October 11, 15.15-16 H1091 Pekka Katajisto Helsinki Institute of Life Science, HiLIFE Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki and Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet

Role of stem cell niche interactions and asymmetric divisions in aging October 20, 15.15-16 H1091 Eoin Cummins University College Dublin, School of Medicine, Ireland

Regulation of inflammatory signaling by the physiological gases O2 and CO2 November 3, 15.15-16 101A Sebastian Deindl Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University

Illuminating the regulation of gene expression at the single-molecule level November 17, 15.15-16 F202 Yael Nossent Department of Surgery and Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands

Change of Heart: the Epitranscriptome of Small Non-coding RNAs in cardiovascular disease December 1, 15.15-16 F101 Yvonne Reiss Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt Cancer Institute, Germany

Targeting the tumor microenvironment in malignant brain tumors December 8, 15.15-16 F202 Tarja Malm A.I.V Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland

Modeling brain diseases in human context December 13, 101A, 12-16 Note! BCO Discovery of the year Programme TBA

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