Biomedicum Helsinki seminars

Cedric Blanpain, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

"Stem cell dynamic and plasticity during tissue homeostasis and regeneration"

Host: Sara Wickström
Student hosts: Kate Miroshnikova and Eman Elzeneini

Ruth Frikke-Schmidt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

"Shared risk factors for cardiovascular disease and dementia – epidemiologic, genetic and causal aspects"

Host: Katariina Öörni
Student host: Maija Ruuth

Michele de Luca, Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

"Regenerative medicine by somatic stem cells: the paradigm of epithelial stem cells"

Host: Sara Wickström
Student host: Leah Biggs and Karlo Skube

Young Investigator Talk:

Valentyn Oksenych, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim Area, Norway

"DNA double strand break response factors in early lymphocyte development"

Host: Denis Kainov
Student host: Andrii Bugai

No seminar

Roser Vento-Tormo, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK

"Mapping the female reproductive tissue one cell at a time"

Host: Sanna Vuoristo
Student host: Pauliina Paloviita

No seminar

Professor Tomasz Brzozowski, Jagiellonian University, Department of Physiology, Poland

"Local renin-angiotensin system in gastrointestinal health and disease"

Hosts: Heikki Vapaatalo and Riitta Korpela
Student hosts: Lauri Pasanen and Hanna Launonen

Scott Summers, University of Utah, USA

"Could ceramides be the new cholesterol?"

Host: Kati Öörni
Student host: Maija Ruuth

Yuanfang Guan, Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, USA

"AI in drug discovery"

Host: Jing Tang
Student host: Bulat Zagidullin

The seminar will be live-streamed here: http://videonet.fi/hy/20190325/

No seminar

Seminar cancelled

Raul Andino, University of California, San Fransisco, USA

”RNA virus evolution and pathogenesis”

Host: Kalle Saksela
Student host: Hasan Ugurlu

No seminar

No seminar

Seminar cancelled

Professor Owen J. Sansom FRSE FMedSci
Director, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Glasgow, UK

"Elucidating new ways to target downstream of KRAS mutation in colorectal cancer: metabolic and microenvironment targets"

Host: Thomas McWilliams
Student host: Fumi Suomi

Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly MD FMedSci FRS
Director, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit & Head of Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
Scientific Director, Cambridge NIHR Biomedical Research Centre
Hon. Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge     

"Molecular Mechanisms in Human Obesity and Insulin Resistance"

Host: Thomas McWilliams
Student host: Maeve Long

Joel Leverson, Scientific Director, AbbVie Oncology Development, USA

"Therapeutic induction of apoptosis in cancer by BCL-2 family inhibitors"

Host: Juha Klefström
Student host: Johanna Anttila

Felix Blankenburg, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

"From Tactile Perception via Working Memory to Decision Making and Action"

Host: Antti Pertovaara
Student host: Maksym Tokariev

Hanna Mikkola, Eli and Edythe Broad Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, USA

"Decoding human hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal"

Host: Kari Alitalo
Student host: Shentong Fang

Oscar Marin, King's College London, Great Britain

Diversity and plasticity in the assembly of cortical circuits

Host: Eero Castrén
Student host: Frederike Winkel

Claes Wollheim, University of Geneva, Switzerland

"The mitochondrial pore protein VDAC1 is a novel glucose-induced executer gene in type 2 diabetes"

Host: Timo Otonkoski
Student host: Väinö Lithovius

B. Matija Peterlin, University of California, San Francisco, USA

"Impact of HIV on eukaryotic biology: 3 eureka moments and a disappointment"

Host: Matjaz Barboric
Student host: Andrii Bugai

Alex K. Shalek, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES),MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Research field: single-cell RNA sequencing to study  how cells collectively perform systems-level functions

Hosts: Kari Alitalo and Sanna Toppila-Salmi
Student host: Salli Antila

Young investigator talk:

Dr. Tomás Ryan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Research field: Neuroscience, Memory, Engrams, Genetics

Host: Thomas McWilliams
Student host: Fumi Suomi

The seminar will be live-streamed here: https://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l37

Mathias Francois, University of Queensland, Australia

"Pharmacological modulation of SOX18 transcription factor activity in development and disease"

Host: Päivi Ojala
Student host: Silvia Gramolelli

Yasuhiro Murakawa, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan

"Dynamics and topology of human transcribed cis-regulatory elements"

Host: Juha Kere
Student host: Inka Häkkinen

Berend Snijder, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland

"Multiplexed image-based screening of patient tissues for systems immunology and oncology"

Host: Vilja Pietiäinen
Student host: Abel Szkalisity

Caroline Dive, CRUK, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

"Hunting cancer cells in the blood"

Host: Juha Klefström
Student host: Rita Turpin

Sander Kersten, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

"Regulation of lipid metabolism by Angiopoietin-like proteins"

Host: Vesa Olkkonen
Student host: Hanna Ruhanen

Matthias Fischer, University Children’s Hospital of Cologne, Köln, Germany

"Towards precision medicine in neuroblastoma"

Host: Andreas Scherer
Student host: Vesa Rahkama

David Huntsman, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

"Cell context, mutation, microenvironment and ovarian cancer control"

Host: Anniina Färkkilä
Student host: Julia Casado

Ritva Tikkanen, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany

"Novel therapies for Finnish Disease Heritage rare diseases"

Host: Iiris Hovatta
Student host: Mikaela Laine

Igor Adameyko, MedUni Vienna, Austria / Karolinska Insitute, Sweden

"Single cell transcriptomics, tissue stem cells and peripheral nerves"

Host: Satu Kuure
Student host: Hao Li

Daniel Choquet, University of Bordeaux, France

"Linking synapse nanoscale dynamics and function"

Host: Eero Castrén
Student host: Merve Fred

Francesco D'Aiuto, Eastman Dental Institute, University College London, UK

"Oral infections and cardiometabolic diseases"

Host: Pirkko Pussinen
Student host: Aino Salminen