HiLIFE webinars - Spring 2023

The organizing teams the Biomedicum Helsinki and Viikki Monday seminars have joined forces to offer you science for lunch on Mondays! HiLIFE webinars 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 webinar)

Place: Link of place can be found in the details of each talk

Twitter #hilifewebinars #bmhsem #viikkimon

Webinars are coordinated by a team of researchers and YPA services.

Coordination team can be reached from 

Academic team: Leonardo Almeida-Souza, Jaan-Olle Andressoo & Anna Vähärautio

University of Helsinki STUDENTS please note: If you wish to obtain credits (DPBM, ILS students) from this webinar series, please rename yourself in Zoom with first name + last name (do not use nickname/user ID/student number/just first name). To participate in Meet the speaker session (DPBM students), please contact the student host.
6.2.2023 Kirill Martemyanov

Prof. Kirill Martemyanov, Department of Neuroscience; Scripps Biomedical Research, University of Florida, USA

Terra Incognita of Neuronal GPCR signaling

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Hybrid seminar at 14.15-15.15 Helsinki time (UTC+2 Eastern European time):

Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

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#viikkimon

 
27.2.2023 Maria Dornelas

Maria Dornelas, University of St Andrews, UK and Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Looking back on biodiversity change

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00 Helsinki time (UTC+2 Eastern European time):

Hall 2041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

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#viikkimon
6.3.2023 Lilian Carla Carneiro

Professor Lilian Carla Carneiro, Department of Biotechnology, Division of Microbiology, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil

Microbiological Analysis of Environmental and Human Samples: an outlook from Brazil

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00 Helsinki time (UTC+2 Eastern European time):

Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

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#viikkimon
13.3.2023 Simon Roux

PI, Simon Roux, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Viral ecogenomics: exploring viral diversity and virus-host interactions from metagenomes

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00 Helsinki time (UTC+2 Eastern European time):

Forest Sciences Building, hall 110 (ls B1), Latokartanonkaari 7

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#viikkimon
20.3.2023 Chiara Ambrogio

Group Leader, Associate Professor Chiara Ambrogio, University of Turin, Italy

Insights into KRAS biology to identify novel therapeutic strategies for cancer

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00 Helsinki time (UTC+2 Eastern European time):

Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

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#bmhsem
3.4.2023 Jochen Wolf

Professor Jochen Wolf, LMU Munich, Germany

Hybridization in Natural Populations

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00 Helsinki time (UTC+3 Eastern European summer time):

Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

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#viikkimon
17.4.2023 Jarno Mäkelä

Group Leader Jarno Mäkelä, Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki

Exponential growth on the cusp of DNA limitation in bacteria

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00 Helsinki time (UTC+3 Eastern European summer time):

Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

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#viikkimon
24.4.2023 Stephen Polyak

Research Professor , Virology Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Drug Combinations for Pandemic Response

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00 Helsinki time (UTC+3 Eastern European summer time):

Biomedicum 1, Hall 3, Haartmaninkatu 8

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#bmhsem
26.4.2023 Jason Sheltzer - Cancelled

CANCELLED

Assistant professor , Yale School of Medicine, USA

Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers

Seminar at 12.00-13.00 Helsinki time (UTC+3 Eastern European summer time):

Biomedicum 1, Seminar room 1-2, Haartmaninkatu 8

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8.5.2023 Ruth Paris

Associate Professor, , Boston University, USA

The Growing Together study: Testing a dyadic therapeutic parenting intervention for pregnant women and mothers with substance use disorder

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00 Helsinki time (UTC+3 Eastern European summer time):

Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

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#bmhsem
15.5.2023 Yavin Shaham

Senior investigator , Intramural Research Program, NIDA-NIH, Baltimore, USA

Animal models of drug relapse after voluntary abstinence: behavior and circuits

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00 Helsinki time (UTC+3 Eastern European summer time):

Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

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#viikkimon
22.5.2023 Melissa Pespeni

Associate Professor, Melissa Pespeni, Department of Biology, University of Vermont, USA

Mechanisms of resilience and resistance in the sea: integrative inquires into surviving global change using marine invertebrates as models

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00 Helsinki time (UTC+3 Eastern European summer time):

Hall 2041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

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#viikkimon

 
29.5.2023 Amy Moran

Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor Amy Moran, Oregon Health & Science University, Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, OR, USA

An unexpected role for androgens in cancer immunotherapy outcomes

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00 Helsinki time (UTC+3 Eastern European summer time):

Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

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#bmhsem
31.5.2023 Jocelyne DiRuggiero

Associate Professor, Jocelyne DiRuggiero, The Johns Hopkins University, USA

Molecular mechanisms in high salt, from cells to microbial communities

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00 Helsinki time (UTC+3 Eastern European summer time):

Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

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#viikkimon

 
5.6.2023 Anjali Kusumbe - Cancelled

Principal Investigator , Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

Vascular regulation of tissue regeneration and aging

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00 Helsinki time (UTC+3 Eastern European summer time):

Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

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#viikkimon
12.6.2023 Andrei Goga

Professor Andrei Goga, University of California, USA

Building a Better Cancer: Understanding Mechanisms that Drive the Growth and Metastasis of Aggressive Tumors

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Hybrid seminar at 12.00-13.00 Helsinki time (UTC+3 Eastern European summer time):

Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

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#bmhsem