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:
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.
Professor Juanma Vaquerizas, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences - Imperial College London, UK
Gene Regulatory Control in Human Spermatogenesis
Vaquerizas research group @vaquerizas_lab
Host: Sanna Vuoristo
Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:
Biomedicum 1, Hall 3, Haartmaninkatu 8
Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68326277457
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Senior scientist Andreas Roos, University Medicine Essen, Department of Neuropediatrics, Germany
Proteomic studies toward a better understanding of neuromuscular diseases
Host: Marco Savarese
Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:
Biomedicum 1, Hall 3, Haartmaninkatu 8
Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68326277457
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Professor Tamra Mendelson, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Beauty and speciation in North American freshwater fishes
Host: Sandra Winters, @SandraWinters22
Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:
Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5
Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68326277457
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MEDIX PRIZE OF THE MINERVA FOUNDATION 2023 - Award Ceremony and Lecture
Professor Timo Otonkoski, University of Helsinki and HUS New Children's Hospital, Biomedicum Stem Cell Centre Stem Cells and Metabolism Research Programme (STEMM)
Generation of fully functional pancreatic islets from stem cells
Host: Vesa Olkkonen
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 36th 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.
Hybrid seminar at 13.10-14.00:
Lecture Hall 2, Biomedicum, Haartmaninkatu 8
Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68326277457
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Associate Professor Alison Davis Rabosky, University of Michigan, USA
Pattern and process in convergent evolution: What can snakes tell us about phenotypic innovation?
Host: Nidal Karagic, @NidalKaragic @IntEvoBio
Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:
Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5
Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68326277457
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Professor Hans-Georg Kräusslich, Heidelberg University Medical School, Germany
The HIV-1 capsid as orchestrator of early replication
Host: Sarah Butcher
Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:
Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5
Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68326277457
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Professor John J. Foxe, Chair of the Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New York, USA
The hunt for translatable cross-species electrophysiological endophenotypes (neuromarkers) in rare monogenic neurodevelopmental disabilities
Foxe research group @JohnnyFoxe
Host: Zoia Kharybina
Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:
Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5
Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68326277457
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Group leader Sophie Janssens, VIB-UGent center for inflammation research, Belgium
Cholesterol metabolism at the decision point between homeostatic and immunogenic dendritic cell maturation
Host: Leonardo Almeida-Souza
Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:
Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8
Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68326277457
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Professor James Russell, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Introduced rodent management on islands
Host: Tuomas Aivelo, @aivelo @HelsinkiRats
Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:
Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5
Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68326277457
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Professor Han Brunner, Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Why we have the diseases we have
Host: Marco Savarese
Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:
Biomedicum 1, Hall 1, Haartmaninkatu 8
Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68326277457
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Principal Investigator Andrea Pauli, IMP Vienna, Austria
Fundamental principles during the egg-to-embryo transition
Pauli research group, @PauliGroup
Host: Claudius Kratochwil, @C_Kratochwil @IntEvoBio
Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:
Hall 2402, Biocentre 3, Viikinkaari 5
Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68326277457
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Toni Lyn Morelli, USGS Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, USA
The Science of Resistance: Climate Change Refugia, Species Vulnerability, and Translational Ecology
Host: Katja Rönkä
Hybrid seminar at 14.15-15.15:
Hall 2041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5
Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68326277457
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A.I. Virtanen Prize awarding ceremony
Professor Sara Wickström, STEMM Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland and Department of Cell and Tissue Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
How to build and maintain tissues?
Hybrid seminar on Friday 15.12.2023 at 15.15-16.15. followed by a toast
Registration is needed for this seminar, please register by 7.12.2023.
Small hall, Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33 (max. 200 participants)
Zoom: link will be sent for those who have registered