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Bio­medicum Helsinki sem­inars

BMH seminar series is a prestigious weekly series targeting all 1800 researchers working in the Meilahti campus. To maintain the high status of BMH seminar series, the criteria for selecting a BMH speaker are very strict. Only speakers with high scientific quality and whose topic would generate significant audience interest across many different biomedical fields are considered.

Date and place: Mondays at 12.00, Biomedicum Helsinki, Lecture Hall 1
Student lunch: after the seminar, Meeting room 4, Biomedicum Helsinki

To suggest a speaker, please fill in the e-form.
Please see instructions for hosts and student hosts in Flamma (see the dropdown menu).

Additional information:
Coordinating team: bmh-seminar@helsinki.fi

  • Service coordinator Johanna Timmerbacka (tel. +358 50 375 5633)
  • Service coordinator Tiina Järvilehto (tel. +358 50 540 9529)

Scientific assessment team:
Sara Wickström and Jaan-Olle Andressoo

 

Sem­inar sched­ule

Previous years: 2018, 2019
Seminar archive: 2010-2019 in Flamma (only by UH username)
 

Current and upcoming schedule 2020:

Jan-21
Jan-27
Feb-3
Feb-10
Feb-17 Winter holiday
Feb-24
Mar-2
Mar-9
Mar-16
Mar-23
Mar-30
Apr-6
Apr-13 Easter Monday
Apr-20
Apr-27
May-4
May-11
May-18
May-25
Jun-1
Jun-8

Jan-21

Robert Fisher

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

Jan-27

Feb-17 Winter holiday

Winter holiday

No seminar

Feb-24

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

Mar-2

Mar-9

Mar-16

Andrew Lawrence

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

"Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors Mediate Alcohol-Seeking"

Host: Esa Korpi
Student host: Lauri Elsilä

Mar-23

Apr-6

Apr-13 Easter Monday

Easter Monday

No seminar

May-18

Rahul Satija, New York Genome Center and NYU Center for Genomics and Systems Biology

Research field: Development of statistical methods for single cell genomics

Host: Pirkko Mattila
Student host:

May-25

Georg E. Winter

Georg E. Winter, CeMM -Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, Austria

"Targeted Protein Degradation to disrupt Gene Control in Cancer"

Host: Matjaz Barboric
Student host: 

Jun-1

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

"Deciphering transcriptional complexity in the mammalian genome"

Host: Valentina Lenasi
Student host: 

Jun-8

Yavin Shaham, National Institute of Drug Abuse,  Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch, USA

"Neurobiological mechanisms of drug relapse"

Host: Petri Hyytiä
Student host: Mia Haaranen