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

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Seminars 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
18.8.2025 Teemu Miettinen

TBA

25.8.2025 Marija Kundakovic

Associate Professor Marija Kundakovic, Fordham University, New York, USA

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Iiris Hovatta

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1.9.2025 Breck Duerkop

Associate Professor Breck Duerkop, University of Colorado, USA

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 2, Hall 1041, Viikinkaari 5

Host: Emma Sheriff

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8.9.2025 Gosia Trynka

Group Leader Gosia Trynka, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Helena Kilpinen

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15.9.2025 Maria Lehtinen

Professor Maria Lehtinen, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Liisa Myllykangas

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22.9.2025 Cameron Ghalambor

Professor Cameron Ghalambor, Norwegian Univeristy of Science and Technology and Colorado State University

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 3, Hall 2402, Viikinkaari 1

Host: Ana Lindeza

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29.9.2025 Cyril Zipfel

Professor Cyril Zipfel, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Title: TBA

Time and place: TBA

Host: Maija Sierla

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6.10.2025 Medix Prize

MEDIX PRIZE OF THE MINERVA FOUNDATION 2025 - Award Ceremony and Lecture

Host: Caj Haglund

The Medix Prize by the Minerva Foundation is an important annual award for internationally high-level Finnish medical research. The Medix Prize is, in a manner of speaking, the Finnish championship for biomedicine. This year the Medix Prize will be awarded for the 38th time.

The Medix Prize is awarded by the University of Helsinki and is donated to the university by the Minerva Foundation, which funds the Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research at Biomedicum Helsinki.

Time: 13.00-14.00:

Place: Lecture Hall 2, Biomedicum, Haartmaninkatu 8

13.10.2025 Daniela Vallentin

Group Leader Daniela Vallentin, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Germany

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 1, Hall 1401, Viikinkaari 9

Host: Frederike Klein

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20.10.2025 Ethan Winkler

Assistant Professor Ethan Winkler, University of California San Fransisco, USA

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Behnam Rezai Jahromi

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27.10.2025 Luisa Pallares

 Group Leader Luisa Pallares, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tuebingen, Germany

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 2, Hall 1041, Viikinkaari 5

Host: Frédéric Guillaume

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3.11.2025 Alain Destexhe

Research Director Alain Destexhe, Institut NeuroPSI, CNRS Université Paris-Saclay, France

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Sheng H Wang

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8.12.2025 Robert Heathcote

Principal Investigator Robert Heathcote, University of Oxford, UK

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 2, Hall 2041, Viikinkaari 5

Host: Sandra Winters

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