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

CANCELLED

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

No seminar

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

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

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

"Resolution of inflammation in atherosclerosis"

Host: Vesa Olkkonen
Student host: Hanna Ruhanen

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

No seminar

Geoffrey Aguirre, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA

Research field: Human cortical organization and function for vision

Host: Maria Olkkonen
Student host: Lari Virtanen

Juanma Vaquerizas, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine Münster, Germany

"Chromatin conformation during early embryonic development"

Host: Sanna Vuoristo
Student host: Pauliina Paloviita

Alain Kohl, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, UK

"Neurotropic flaviviruses- the example of Zika virus"

Host: Alexander Plyusnin
Student host: Leonora Szirovicza

Jean-Michel Claverie, Aix-Marseille University School of Medicine, APHM, France

"Giant viruses"

Host: Mikael Skurnik
Student host: Mabruka Salem

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:

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: 

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

"Deciphering transcriptional complexity in the mammalian genome"

Host: Valentina Lenasi
Student host: 

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

"Neurobiological mechanisms of drug relapse"

Host: Petri Hyytiä
Student host: Mia Haaranen

Distinguished speaker:

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

"Adipogenesis and metabolic health"

Host: Kari Alitalo
Student host: Sinem Karaman

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, IGBMC, France

"TFIIH at crossroad of DNA repair and transcription"

Host: Denis Kainov
Student host: Andrii Bugai

No seminar