HiLIFE Monday seminars

Research Scientist , Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Cell surface area-to-volume ratio as a physical limit to cell size and growth

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 2, Hall 1041, Viikinkaari 5

Host: Jette Lengefeld

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Professor , Fordham University, New York, USA

Epigenomic programming of brain plasticity and disease risk by ovarian hormones 

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Iiris Hovatta

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Associate Professor , University of Colorado, USA

Exploiting the Features of Mobile Genetic Elements to Identify Antiphage Defenses

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 2, Hall 1041, Viikinkaari 5

Host: Emma Sheriff

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Group Leader , Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK

Mapping variant effects across molecular modalities from eQTLs to morphodynamics and immune function

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Helena Kilpinen

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

Choroid plexus and CSF contributions to brain development and lifelong brain health

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Liisa Myllykangas

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

The relationship between plasticity and evolution in gene expression over time

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 3, Hall 2402, Viikinkaari 1

Host: Ana Lindeza

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Professor , University of Zurich, Switzerland

Roles and recognition of stress-regulated secreted signaling peptides

Time: 11.00-12.00

Place: Info Centre, Oppimistori, Viikinkaari 11

Host: Maija Sierla

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

Topic area of the lecture: Cancer biology

Read the media release 6.10.2024 from 

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

Group Leader , Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Germany

Neural mechanisms of vocal learning and production in songbirds

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 1, Hall 1401, Viikinkaari 9

Host: Frederike Klein

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Assistant Professor , University of California San Fransisco, USA

A translational journey to decode the human brain's vasculature

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Behnam Rezai Jahromi

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

Beyond averages: what can phenotypic variance teach us about adaptation to new environments

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 2, Hall 1041, Viikinkaari 5

Host: Frédéric Guillaume

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

A computational framework to link molecular changes to the emergence of activity changes at the whole-brain scale

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Sheng H Wang

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Professor Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, USA

Biomolecular  structure modeling beyond Alphafold: cryo-EM, RNA, and more

Time: 9.10-9.50

Place: Info Centre, Oppimistori, Viikinkaari 11

Host: Roselydiah Makunja

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