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

Academic team
Viikki: Arafath Kaja Najumudeen and Rose Thorogood
Meilahti: Helena Kilpinen and Anna Vähärautio

Website update in progress.

19.1.2026 Monica Sousa

Group Leader , University of Porto, Portugal

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 1, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Satu Kuure

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26.1.2026 Thomas Guillerme

NERC Independent Researcher Fellow, , University of Sheffield, UK

Bird beak evolution II: return to the island

Time: 14.00-15.00

Place: Biocenter 3, Hall 2402, Viikinkaari 1

Host: Emilie Ellis

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2.2.2026 Heather Mortiboys

Professor , Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, UK

Using patient derived cells in neurodegenerative disease research and drug discovery

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Amanda Sandelin

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9.2.2026 Inge S. Zuhorn

Professor , University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Title: TBA

Time: 11.00-12.00

Place: Biocenter 2, Hall 1041, Viikinkaari 5

Host: Shiqi Wang

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16.2.2026 Bryan Traynor

Senior Investigator , National Institute on Aging, NIH, USA

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Pentti Tienari

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23.2.2026 Tobin Hammer

Group Leader , University of California, USA

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 2, Hall 1041, Viikinkaari 5

Host: Anne Duploy

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9.3.2026 Yasin Dagdas

Professor , Heidelberg University, Germany

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 2, Hall 2041, Viikinkaari 5

Host: Ari-Pekka Mähönen

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12.3.2026 Allon Klein

Professor , Harvard University, USA

Title: TBA

Time:

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 1, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Anna Vähärautio

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16.3.2026 Carlo Rivolta

Professor , Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Switzerland

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Joni Turunen

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23.3.2026 Jennifer Geddes-McAlister

Professor , University of Guelp, Canada

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 2, Hall 2041, Viikinkaari 5

Host: Markku Varjosalo

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13.4.2026 Sybille Krauss

Professor , University of Siegen, Germany

MID1 as a key modulator of Huntington’s disease: Insights into its multifunctionality

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 2, Hall 2041, Viikinkaari 5

Host: Timo Myöhänen

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20.4.2026 Francesco Saverio Tedesco

Professor , Francis Crick Institute, University College, London, UK

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Marco Savarese

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27.4.2026 Sandra Telfer

Dr. , University of Aberdeen, UK

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 2, Hall 2041, Viikinkaari 5

Host: Daniel Dornan

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4.5.2026 Jing Chen

Professor , University of Chicago, USA

Blood Chemicals and Anti-tumor Immunity

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Satu Mustjoki

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11.5.2026 Shrike Y. Zhang

Associate Professor , Harvard Medical School, USA

Unconventional Additive (Bio)Manufacturing for Regenerative Medicine

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biocenter 2, Hall 2041, Viikinkaari 5

Host: Yinyin Bao

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18.5.2026 Alexander Bick

Associate Professor , Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Mikko Myllymäki

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1.6.2026 Robert E. MacLaren

Professor , University of Oxford, UK

Title: TBA

Time: 13.00-14.00

Place: Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Host: Maria Kaukonen

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