Bio­medicum Helsinki sem­inars

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR IS EXCEPTIONALLY ON TUESDAY AND IN LECTURE HALL 3!

Robert Fisher, Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA

"Transcriptional CDKs and phosphatases: druggable switches that keep Pol II on track"

Host: Matjaz Barboric
Student host: Andrii Bugai

Sakari Vanharanta, University of Cambridge, MRC cancer unit, Great Britain

“Deconstructing tissue-specific mechanisms of carcinogenesis”

Host: Satu Mustjoki
Student host: Moon Hee Lee

Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim, Germany

"Translational neurogenetics of psychiatric disorders"

Host: Castrén Eero
Student host: Elias Jetsonen

Robin Spiller, Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre and National Institute for Health Research, Great Britain

"Food intolerances in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: mechanisms and implications for gut microbiota"

Host: Willem M. de Vos
Student host: Jonna Jalanka

Nicolas Tournier, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot (CEA/SHFJ), Paris-Saclay University, France

"Demonstrating importance of membrane transporters in tissue distribution of drugs using clinical imaging techniques"

Host: Janne Backman
Student host: Helinä Kahma

James Olzmann, University of California, Berkeley, USA

"Lipid droplets and cellular lipid homeostasis"

Host: Elina Ikonen
Student host: Veijo Salo

Cancelled/postponed due to the Covid-19 global pandemic

Andrew John Lawrence, Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia

"Pharmacotherapy of alcoholism: novel mechanisms, such as muscarinic ligands"

Host: Esa Korpi
Student host: Lauri Elsilä

Cancelled/postponed due to the Covid-19 global pandemic

Ira Tabas, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

"Resolution of inflammation in atherosclerosis"

Host: Vesa Olkkonen
Student host: Hanna Ruhanen

No student lunch!

Cancelled/postponed due to the Covid-19 global pandemic

Pertti Panula, Department of Anatomy, University of Helsinki; Neuroscience Center, Finland

"Role of histamine in brain functions and disease"

Host: Esa Korpi
Student host: Diego Baronio

Cancelled/postponed due to the Covid-19 global pandemic

Geoffrey Aguirre, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA

"Melanopsin function in the human visual system"

Host: Maria Olkkonen
Student host: Lari Virtanen

WEBINAR

Kjetil Taskén (also joining Hege Russnes), Director of Inst. of Cancer Research Oslo Univ Hospital and Professor at Univ of Oslo, Norway

"IMPRESs-Norway: Improving public cancer care by implementing precision medicine in Norway"

Host: Tomi Mäkelä / iCAN Flagship

Join the Zoom webinar here on 27.4.2020 at 12.00 
 

WEBINAR

Tuomas Tammela, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

"Emergence of high-plasticity cell states as drivers of cancer progression"

Host: Pekka Katajisto / iCAN Flagship

Join the webinar here
4.5.2020
NB! Webinar time: 15.00-16.00

WEBINAR

Sara Wickström, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Finland

“Mechanical forces and the nucleus - regulation of cell fate and integrity”

Host: Tomi Mäkelä / iCAN Flagship

Join the Zoom webinar here on 11.5.2020 at 12.00

WEBINAR

Young Investigator talk

Kari Kurppa, Institute of Biomedicine and MediCity Research laboratories, University of Turku, Finland

"Targeting minimal residual disease following targeted cancer therapy"

Host: Juha Klefström

Join the Zoom webinar here on 18.5.2020 at 12.00

WEBINAR

Sten Linnarsson, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

"Population-scale testing can suppress the spread of COVID-19"

Hosts: Asko Järvinen and Kalle Saksela

Join the Zoom webinar here on 25.5.2020 at 12.00 

Can­celled/​​post­poned due to the Covid-19 global pan­de­mic

Nicholas J Proudfoot, University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

"Deciphering transcriptional complexity in the mammalian genome"

Host: Valentina Lenasi
Student host: 

WEBINAR

Nevan Krogan, Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,University of California and Director, Quantitative Bioscience Institute (QBI), San Francisco, USA

"A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map reveals targets for drug repurposing"

Host: Matjaz Barboric
Student host: Zhijia Wang

Join the Zoom webinar here on 8.6.2020 at 18.00  (link will be updated)
+ Extra 30 minutes talk session with students & postdocs after the webinar

Distinguished speaker:

Philipp Scherer, Touchstone Diabetes Center, University of Texas, Dallas, USA

"Adipogenesis and metabolic health"

Host: Kari Alitalo
Student host: Sinem Karaman

Stephen D. Miller, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA

"Pathogenesis and immunoregulation of autoimmune diseases"

Host: Tobias Freitag
Student host:

Medix Prize

Erwei Song, Sun Yat sen University, Guangzhou, China

"Tumor micro-environment and non-coding RNAs in cancer"

Host: Jeroen Pouwels
Student host: Rita Turpin

Jean-Marc Egly, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg, Alsace, France

"TFIIH at crossroad of DNA repair and transcription"

Host: Denis Kainov
Student host: Andrii Bugai

No seminar