HiLIFE Monday seminars

The organizing teams the Biomedicum Helsinki and Viikki Monday seminars have joined forces to offer you science for lunch on Mondays! HiLIFE seminars continue the tradition of inviting outstanding, international scientists to present their work to the broad audience of the life science community.

Date: Mondays at 13.00 noon Helsinki time (time can vary, check the details of each seminar)
Place: Place can be found in the details of each talk

#hilifewebinars #bmhsem #viikkimon

Seminards are coordinated by a team of researchers and YPA services. Coordination team can be reached from hilife-seminars@helsinki.fi

Academic team:

Viikki: Arafath Kaja Najumudeen and ​​​​​Rose Thorogood
Meilahti: Helena Kilpinen and Anna Vähärautio
3.2.2025 Ylva Ivarsson

Professor Ylva Ivarsson, Uppsala University, Sweden

Towards a short-linear motif based map of the interactome

Ivarsson lab 

Host: Markku Varjosalo  @Varjosalo_Lab

Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68302510004

#bmhsem

10.2.2025 Avi Schroeder

Avi Schroeder, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Brain-Targeted Nanoparticles for Treating Parkinson’s Disease: Design Principles and Application

Schroeder Lab   @avischroeder

Host: Robert Luxenhofer   @luxenhoferlab

Hybrid seminar at 14.15-15.15:

Biocenter 2, Hall 1041, Viikinkaari 5

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68302510004

#viikkimon

13.3.2025 Hagen Tilgner

Assistant Professor Hagen Tilgner, Weill Cornell, NY, USA

Brain isoform expression at single-cell resolution in (developmental) time and (anatomical) space – and in neurodegeneration

Tilgner Lab

Host: Anna Vähärautio

Seminar at 15.45-16.30

Biomedicum 1, Hall 1, Haartmaninkatu 8

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17.3.2025 Grigory Genikhovich

Dr. Grigory Genikhovich, Univesity of Vienna, Austria

Evolution of germ layers and axial patterning: how a sea anemone spoiled our understanding of it

@genikhovich

Host: Arina Maltseva

Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Biocenter 2, Hall 2041, Viikinkaari 5

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68302510004

#viikkimon

 

31.3.2025 Claire Spottiswoode

Professor Claire Spottiswoode, University of Cape Town, South Africa

The natural history of a human-animal mutualism

Spottiswoode Lab

Hosts: Rose Thorogood and Deryk Tolman

Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Biocenter 2, Hall 2041, Viikinkaari 5

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68302510004

#viikkimon

 

7.4.2025 Christos Pliotas

Group Leader Christos Pliotas, University of Manchester, UK

Accessing uncharted membrane protein conformational ensembles by structural EPR spectroscopy

@PliotasGroup   @pliotasgroup.bsky.social

Host: Adrian Goldman

Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Biocenter 2, Hall 2041, Viikinkaari 5

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68302510004

#viikkimon

 

14.4.2025 Peter Cullen

Professor Peter Cullen, University of Bristol, UK

Molecular mechanisms of endosomal cargo recycling in human health and disease

Host: Markku Varjosalo  @Varjosalo_Lab

Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Biocenter 2, Hall 2041, Viikinkaari 5

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68302510004

#viikkimon

25.4.2025 Sergiu Pasca

Professor Sergiu Pasca, Stanford University, USA 

From Stem Cells to Organoids to Assembloids and Toward Building Human Circuits in Living Systems to Develop Therapeutics

Hosts: Teemu Aitta-aho and Suvi Laitinen

Hybrid seminar at 10.00:

Siltasairaala, Lecture Hall Töölö, Haartmaninkatu 4

Teams Link 

#bmhsem

 

28.4.2025 Sven Gould

Professor Sven Gould, Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany

The impact of endosymbiosis on life

The Gould Lab

Host: Sarah Butcher

Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Biocenter 2, Hall 2041, Viikinkaari 5

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68302510004

#viikkimon

5.5.2025 Peetra Magnusson

Associate Professor Peetra Magnusson, University of Uppsala, Sweden

Cerebral Cavernous Malformations Current Trends

Host: Rezai Jahromi Behnam

Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00

Biomedicum 1, Hall 3, Haartmaninkatu 8

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68302510004

#bmhsem

12.5.2025 Petter Brodin

Professor Petter Brodin, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Human immune variation and development

Brodin Lab  @BrodinPetter

Host: Roselydiah Makunja

Webinar at 13.00-14.00:

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68302510004

#viikkimon

 

19.5.2025 Thomas Mrsic-Flogel

Professor Thomas Mrsic-Flogel, Sainsbury Welcome Center, UCL, UK

Decision Making: From Brain-Wide Dynamics to Multi-regional Circuit Mechanisms

Mrsic-Flogel Lab

Host: Eero Castrén

Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68302510004

#bmhsem

26.5.2025 Lilach Sheiner

Professor Lilach Sheiner, University of Glasgow, UK

Keep it together! How >50 rRNA fragments create the Toxoplasma mitoribosome

Sheiner Lab

Hosts: Brendan Battersby and Alex Mühleip

Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Biocenter 2, Hall 1041, Viikinkaari 5

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68302510004

#viikkimon