HiLIFE Webinars Fall 2022

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. These prestigious seminars are organised by teams of researchers and attended by life science area students, post docs and scientists from the university and partner organisations.

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 hilife-seminars@helsinki.fi
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.

29.8.2022 Julia TCW

Assistant professor Julia TCW, School of Medicine, Boston University, USA

Cholesterol and matrisome pathways dysregulated in astrocytes and microglia

Host: Liisa Myllykangas

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

Hall 3, Biomedicum, Haartmaninkatu 8

Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/67985748419

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12.9.2022 Medix prize

Medix Prize Award Ceremony and Lecture

​​Topic area of the lecture: Mechanism of function of antidepressant drugs

Link to media release 12.9.2022

Host: Vesa Olkkonen

Hybrid seminar at 12.15-13.00 Helsinki time (UTC+3 Eastern European summer time): 

Lecture Hall 2, Biomedicum, Haartmaninkatu 8

Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/67985748419

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19.9.2022 Dani Dumitriu

Assistant Professor Dani Dumitriu, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, USA

The resilient mouse brain: from dendritic spines to circuits to wholebrain connectomics

@theDOORlab

Host: Tuomas Aivelo

Hybrid seminar at 15.00-16.00 Helsinki time (UTC+3 Eastern European summer time):

Biocenter 2, Hall 1041, Viikinkaari 5

Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/67985748419

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26.9.2022 Jacob T. Robinson

Associate Professor Jacob T. Robinson, Rice University, USA

Magnetic technologies for battery-free bioelectronics and neuromodulation

Host: Nelson Totah

Robinson research group

@JTRobinsonlab

Join the webinar here:https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/67985748419

at 15:00 - 16:00 Helsinki time (UTC+3 Eastern European summer time)

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3.10.2022 Silvia Cappello

Group Leader Silvia Cappello, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany

Extracellular Signaling in Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Cappello research group

Host: Takashi Namba

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

Lecture Hall 2, Biomedicum, Haartmaninkatu 8

Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/67985748419

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10.10.2022 Ryan Flynn

Assistant Professor Ryan Flynn, Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital, USA

glycoRNAs: bridging the gap between glycobiology and RNA biology

Flynn research group

@raflynn5

Host: Ville Paavilainen

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

Biocenter 2, Hall 1041, Viikinkaari 5

Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/67985748419

#viikkimon

 

31.10.2022 Iruka Okeke

Professor Iruka Okeke, Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Insights from the genomes of bloodstream pathogens from Nigeria's Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System

@iruka_okeke

Host: Fred Asiegbu

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

Forest Sciences Building, Raisio hall, Latokartanonkaari 7

Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/67985748419

#viikkimon

8.11.2022 Biomedicum Helsinki Day

BIOMEDICUM HELSINKI DAY 2022
Tuesday, November 8, 2022, at 12.00-14.00

12.00-13.30
Hybrid seminar at Helsinki time (UTC+2 Eastern European time)

Lecture Hall 1, Biomedicum, Haartmaninkatu 8
Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/67985748419

13.30-14
Sparkling wine and Biomedicum Helsinki medal giving ceremony, Lobby C1

Presentations by 2022 Biomedicum Helsinki Foundation Grantees

Inga-Maria Launonen: Clinical applicability of highly multiplex t-CycIF imaging from clinical high-grade serous ovarian tumor samples in assessing the tumor-immune microenvironment

Markus Räsänen: TWIST1 regulates smooth muscle cell phenotype as a mechanism of coronary artery disease risk

Biomedicum Helsinki Foundation Prize 2022

on an exceptional recent scientific publication. Announcement and introduction of prize winner:
Professor Tomi Mäkelä

Short presentation by prize winner

Biomedicum Helsinki Lecture 2022

Director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM 

Professor Mark Daly 

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14.11.2022 Geert Kops

Professor Geert Kops, Hubrecht Institute/Oncode Institute, The Netherlands

Disjointed genomes: On chromosome segregation fidelity in health and disease

Kops research group

Host: Mikko Frilander

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

Info Centre, Oppimistori, Viikinkaari 11

Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/67985748419

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28.11.2022 Alexander Borodavka

Dr. Alexander Borodavka, University of Cambridge, UK

Putting the Spotlight on the Choreography of Viral RNAs

Borodavka Research Group

Host: Sarah Butcher

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

Biocentre 1, Hall 1401, Viikinkaari 9

Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/67985748419

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