From: Kristian Koski kristian.koski@oulu.fi Sent: 22. helmikuuta 2019 11:48 To: fbmm@lists.oulu.fi; bco@lists.oulu.fi; LTK ltk-staff@oulu.fi; LTK-idm LTK-idm@oulu.fi Cc: Riitta Keiski riitta.keiski@oulu.fi; Johanna Panula-Perälä johanna.panula-perala@oulu.fi Subject: "Concepts in Biocatalysis" seminars during spring season...

Dear all, We will continue our lecture series "Concepts in Biocatalysis" with two lectures during this spring season. The first lecture will be given by a Docent Justus Reunanen on Wednesday March 20 at 10 am in the Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine (Aapistie 7A, Kontinkangas) in the lecture hall L101B. The second lecture is on Wednesday April 24 at 1 pm in the lecture room L101A and will be given by André Juffer. All the people working in the biochemistry, biotechnology or medical field, academic and non-academic, are warmly welcome to these seminars, so mark these days in your calendars! I will also organize coffee/tea and pulla for these events! :)

Justus Reunanen, Academy research fellow and a group leader in Biocenter Oulu, comes from the Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, University of Oulu, and the title of his talk is "Phage display in search of novel enzymes, ligands, and enzyme inhibitors". Dr. André Juffer is a group leader and a Biocomputing coordinator in Biocenter Oulu, and keeps his office in the Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu. The title of this talk is "Proton transfer in coarse grained molecular dynamics".

We initiated the seminar series during an ERDF StrucBioCat project (2012-2014; http://www.oulu.fi/biocenter/strucbiocat). These lectures have been given by scientists, either from academia or from biotech companies. The coming and the past lectures can be found under the following link: https://www.oulu.fi/biocenter/protein-crystallography/events. The aim of these lectures is to become better informed about recent developments in the biocatalysis research field and to get more collaboration between the biotech companies and the university researchers.

We are further improving our infrastructure with help of a new ERDF project "New technological solutions to enhance Biocenter Oulu services" -AutoBioCat (2018-2020) (https://www.oulu.fi/biocenter/erdf/autobiocat, contact person Outi Lampela). The improved infrastructure increases method development options and is a response to growing sample numbers. This infrastructure shall be introduced during 2019.

This is also a great opportunity for biotech companies to see our facilities at FBMM. We will be happy to provide a guided tour to show our updated research infrastructure.

Please forward this E-mail to persons that might be interested but are not in this list.

Please inform me, if you would like to have private discussion with Justus or André. This would be possible before or after their lectures.

With Best Regards,

Kristian

Kristian Koski, Ph.D.

Biocenter Oulu and

Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine,

University of Oulu,

Aapistie 7A,

90220 Oulu. Tel: 0294 48 1174