Biomedicum Helsinki seminars

Jemeen Sreedharan, King's College London, UK

"TDP-43 gains function due to perturbed autoregulation in a knockin mouse model of ALS-FTD"

Host: Henna Tyynismaa
Student host: Rosa Woldegebriel

No seminar

Medix prize 2018:
Johanna Ivaska, Cell Adhesion and Cancer Biology, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku

"SHANKing talin and RAS to regulate cancer proliferation and migration"

Host: Vesa Olkkonen

Warwick Dunn, School of Biosciences, Mass Spectrometry, University of Birmingham, UK

"The importance of metabolites across the human life course: from analytical chemistry to biochemical mechanisms to translation"

Host: Vidya Velagapudi
Student host: Kenneth Nazir

Akihiro Kusumi, Kyoto University, and Visiting Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

"Signal transduction by metastable molecular complexes: findings by single-molecule tracking"

Host: Castrén Eero
Student host:

Kai Simons, Chief Executive Officer, Lipotype GmbH, Dresden, Germany

"Predicting health and disease from the human plasma lipidome"

Host: Samuli Ripatti
Student host: Pietari Ripatti

Zubaida Saifudeen, Tulane University School of Medicine, USA

"Metabolic Control of Nephron Progenitor Cell Fate"

Host: Satu Kuure
Student host: Kristen Kurtzeborn

No seminar

Karin de Visser, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

"The Genetic Makeup of Primary Breast Tumors Dictates Pro-Metastatic Systemic Inflammation"

Host: Jeroen Pouwels
Student host: Rita Turpin

Peter Horvath, Director, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academia of Science, Hungary
FIDIPRO researcher, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland

"Life beyond the pixels: image analysis and machine learning methods for single-cell analysis"

Host: Johan Lundin
Student host: Dmitrii Bychkov

Biomedicum Helsinki Day 2019

PROGRAM:

Presentations by three grant applicants:
Timo Carpén, Supervisor Antti Mäkitie: High TIMP-1 serum levels are associated with poor prognosis in HPV-negative squamous cell oropharyngeal cancer
Young Scientist's Grant 2018
Noora Pöllänen, Supervisor Eija Pirinen: Improving mitochondrial function in muscle tissue with vitamin B? - a new way to promote metabolic health?
Start-up Grant 2018
Panu Luukkonen, Supervisor Hannele Yki-Järvinen (1.3.2019- , Yale School of Medicine/ Gerald Shulman): Bioactive lipids dissociate steatosis and insulin resistance in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Biomedicum Helsinki Lecture 2018
Professor Satu Mustjoki, Hematology Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Medicum and Helsinki University Hospital, Comprehensive Cancer Center

"Immunogenicity of hematological malignancies and immunological effects of cancer therapy: links between bench and bedside"

Bente Frölund, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

"The quest for the elusive gamma -hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) receptor; An integrated medicinal chemical – molecular pharmacological approach"

Host: Esa Korpi
Student host: Lauri Elsilä

Young Investigator Talk:

Jörg Renkawitz, Biomedical Center (BMC), LMU Munich, Germany

"Leukocyte Navigation in Complex Microenvironments"

Host: Kari Vaahtomeri
Student host: Sawan Kumar Jha

Kivanc Birsoy, The Rockefeller University, New York, US

"Exploiting cancer nutrient dependencies for cancer therapy"

Host: Henna Tyynismaa
Student host: Pooja Manjunath

Clive Svendsen, Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute, USA

Research field: Neurology, Medicine, Biomedical sciences

Host: Merja Voutilainen
Student host:

Kim Jensen, Biotech Research & Innovation Center/ University of Copenhagen

Research field: Stem cell biology

Host: Kari Alitalo and Pekka Katajisto
Student host: Jenny Högström