Monday, 11 September
11.30-21.00 Young Investigators' Meeting
Tuesday, 12 September
9.30-16.00 Young Investigators' Meeting
12.30-14.00 Nordic EMBL Partnership Coordination and Operations Team Meeting
14.30-16.00 Nordic EMBL Partnership Steering Committee Meeting
12.30-17.00 Group Leader Satellite Workshop
19.00-21.00 Main meeting, opening keynote lecture
Wednesday, 13 September
8.45-18.20 Main meeting
20.00- Gala dinner
Thursday, 14 September
9.00-15.30 Main meeting
12:30-14:00 Nordic EMBL Partnership Coordination and Operations Team Meeting with lunch, Radisson Blu Hotel, Meeting room: Aalto
14:30-16:00 Nordic EMBL Partnership Steering Committee Meeting, Radisson Blu Hotel, Meeting room: Aalto
12:30-17:00 Group Leader Satellite Workshop with lunch, Dipoli, Meeting room: Palaver
This satellite meeting will include both networking and training components. The main focus will be on sharing knowledge and identifying new collaboration possibilities. All partnership group leaders are encouraged to participate.
Group leader satellite workshop (final programme)
12:30-13:00 lunch (Sief)
13:00 – 14:00 Session I: Peer mentoring
13:00 – 13:30 EMBL Group Leader paths
13:30 – 14:00 ERC funding
14:00 – 15:00 Interactive networking
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:30 Collaborative scientific project development
16:30-16:50 Closing
Open discussion on future mentoring opportunities
Please note that there is no (joint) conference dinner organised on 12 September.
Main meeting, Kino Tapiola, street address: Mäntyviita 2, Espoo
19.00 Welcome reception with a glass of sparkling wine
19.30 Opening keynote: Chris Mason: Multi-omic and immunological dynamics of blood from cancer patients to astronauts
20.30- Networking and socializing
Venue: Dipoli, Lumituuli auditorium
8.00 Venue open. Registration and morning coffee with snack
8.45 Opening words from the organizers
Sessions chairs: Mari Kaunisto (FIMM) & Markus Vähä-Koskela (FIMM)
9:00 EMBL Deputy Director General Ewan Birney opens the Partnership meeting
9:30 Highlights from the Nordic EMBL Partners
Presentation & moderated panel discussion with the Institute Directors
10:20 Introduction of new NCMM Associate Director
Anthony Mathelier: Insights into disrupted gene regulatory programs in cancers
10:35 Introduction of new Head of the FIMM Technology Centre
Pirkko Mattila: FIMM Technology Centre: Current status and future directions
10:50 Introduction of new FIMM Director
Samuli Ripatti: Genetic risk in the service of disease prevention: lessons from biobank studies
11:05 EMBL Human Ecosystems Programme
Amy Foreman (EMBL-EBI): Human Ecosystems at EMBL - Towards a better understanding of how Environmental Exposures Impact Human Health
11:20 Group photo
11:45 Lunch and round table discussions
Session chairs: Andre Mateus (MIMS) & Ellen Bushell (MIMS)
13:00 Tandem talk 1
Björn Schröder (MIMS) & Anni Nieminen (FIMM): Using metabolomics to identify crucial signals between gut microbiota and host at the intestinal mucosal barrier
13:20 Introduction of new partnership group leader #1
Biswa Sahu (NCMM): Lineage-specific transcription factors and the role of non-coding regulatory genome in human cancer
13:35 Introduction of new partnership group leader #2
Mika Kontro (FIMM): Ex vivo venetoclax sensitivity predicts treatment response in acute myeloid leukemia
13:50 PhD student or postdoc #1
Magnus Ölander (MIMS): A multi-strategy approach to find new ways to treat Chlamydia
14:00 PhD student or postdoc #2
Tamara J. Luck (FIMM): Multi-modal analyses to better diagnose and treat solid tumors
14:10 Selected flash talks
14:40 Afternoon coffee & poster hanging
15:00 Poster session
Session chairs: Biswajyoti Sahu (NCMM) & Thomas Kim (DANDRITE)
16:00 Tandem talk 2
Anne-Marie F Connolly (MIMS) & Hanna Ollila (FIMM): Nordic study on long COVID (title to be confirmed)
16:20 Introduction of new partnership group leader #3
Laura Carroll (MIMS) - Leveraging publicly available genomic data for bacterial pathogen surveillance
16:35 Partnership group leader #4
Elisabeth Widén (FIMM): Sex-specific precision medicine – Understudied female health-related traits
16:50 PhD student or postdoc #3
Romana-Tabita Pop (NCMM): Integration of multi-omics data with gene regulatory networks in cancers
17:00 PhD student or postdoc #4
Martina Paoletta (MIMS): Development of a highly efficient and scalable CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing platform in the malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei
17:10 Break
17:30 Keynote speaker
Judith Zaugg-Romer, EMBL, Heidelberg: How do cells integrate extrinsic signals and intrinsic state? A systems epigenetics approach with focus on immune cells.
18:20 Closing words on the day from the organizers
20:00- Gala dinner
Vanha ylioppilastalo (City Centre)
Breakfast for the hotel guests and hotel check out
8:55 Opening words from the organizers
Session chairs: Taro Kitazawa (DANDRITE) & Charlotte Boccara (NCMM)
9:00 Tandem talk #3
Gilles Vanwalleghem (DANDRITE), Camila Vicencio Esguerra (NCMM): The transparent Zebrafish as a window into neurological diseases
9:20 Introduction of new partnership group leader #5
Charlotte Boccara (NCMM): Sleep: a new target for precision medicine
9:35 Introduction of new partnership group leader #6
Thomas Kim (DANDRITE): Molecular mechanisms of microglia transitions in Alzheimer's disease
9:50 PhD student or postdoc #5
Amalie Lykke Olsen (DANDRITE): LNP-mediated mRNA and CRISPR delivery for neurological applications
10:00 PhD student or postdoc #6
Adithi Sundaresh (FIMM): Single cell atlas of cortical neuron development in vitro
10:10 Coffee break
10:30 Selected flash talks
11:00 Poster session
12:00 Lunch
Session chairs: Helena Kilpinen (FIMM) & Anni Nieminen (FIMM)
13:00 Tandem talk #4
Johanna Lehtonen (NCMM) & Antti Hassinen: FIMM High Content Imaging and Analysis unit
Phenotyping rare neurological disease variants using high-content imaging
13:20 Introduction of new partnership group leader #7
Chao Sun (DANDRITE): Quantitative, Single-Molecule Approaches to the Synaptic Protein Machinery
13:35 PhD student or postdoc #7 - Cancelled
Ahmad Ali Ahmad (NCMM): Cryo-EM insights into the structure of the centromeric chromatin
Please note that the speaker had to cancel and this talk will be given by Group Leader Nicolina Sekulić.
13:45 PhD student or postdoc #8
Nanna Moller Jensen (DANDRITE): Combining PLA, 10x expansion, and STED microscopy for precise localisation of presynaptic alpha-synuclein pathology in Lewy body dementia
13:55 Afternoon coffee break
14:15 Closing keynote
Olli Kallioniemi: Technology- and data-driven life science at SciLifeLab: Implementation in molecular precision medicine
15:00 Reflections on the Nordic EMBL Partnership and Future Opportunities
Oliver Billker, Speaker of the Partnership
15:20 Closing words from the organizers
15:30 Departure