HiLIFE webinars - Spring 2024

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

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 hilife-seminars@helsinki.fi

Academic team:

Viikki: Arafath Kaja Najumudeen and ​​​​​Rose Thorogood

Meilahti: Helena Kilpinen and 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.
15.1.2024 Frédéric Saudou

Professor , Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience, France

From Huntington Disease to neuronal transport: Vesicles have their on-board fueling and navigational systems to self-direct and detoxify the axon

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Student host: Yilin Kang

Hybrid seminar at 13.15-14.15:

Biomedicum 1, Hall 1, Haartmaninkatu 8

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5.2.2024 Rodrigo Cogni

Principal Investigator Rodrigo Cogni, University of São Paulo, Brazil

The antiviral effects of the symbiont bacteria Wolbachia in insects

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Biocentre 2, Hall 1041, Viikinkaari 5

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18.3.2024 Kevin Bath

Assistant Professor , Columbia University, New York, USA

Impact of early life adversity on neural and behavioral development: insights from a translational mouse model

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

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8.4.2024 Franziska Richter Assencio

Professor , University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany

Treatment of co-proteinopathies: should we target tau in Parkinson’s disease?

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Hybrid seminar at 13.15-14.15:

Biomedicum 1, Hall 1, Haartmaninkatu 8

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6.5.2024 Tamra Mendelson

Professor Tamra Mendelson, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA

Beauty and speciation in North American freshwater fishes

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

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20.5.2024 Alex Pigot

Principal Investigator , University College London, UK

Thresholds for biodiversity loss on a rapidly warming planet 

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Hall 2041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

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27.5.2024 Gilles Laurent

Professor , Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany

Brain dynamics and evolution: explorations of sleep and camouflage

Hybrid seminar at 12.00-13.00:

Place: Hall 2041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

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3.6.2024 Paul Workman

Professor , Institute of Cancer Research, London UK

Two long personal journeys in the discovery of precision cancer medicines: The AKT inhibitor capivasertib and the HSF1 pathway inhibitor NXP800

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Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

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17.6.2024 Andrew Hattersley

Professor , University of Exeter, UK

Key insights into the development and function of the pancreatic beta-cell from studying genetically modified humans

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Biomedicum 1, Hall 1, Haartmaninkatu 8

13.15-14.00

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