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 Frédéric Saudou, 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

@SaudouLab

Host: Anu Wartiovaara

Student host: Yilin Kang

Hybrid seminar at 13.15-14.15:

Biomedicum 1, Hall 1, Haartmaninkatu 8

Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/65074851967

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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

Cogni research group

Host: Camila Beraldo, @camilasberaldo

Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Biocentre 2, Hall 1041, Viikinkaari 5

Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/65074851967

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18.3.2024 Kevin Bath

Assistant Professor Kevin Bath, Columbia University, New York, USA

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

Host: Henrike Hartung

Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Biomedicum 1, Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8

Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/65074851967

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8.4.2024 Franziska Richter Assencio

Professor Franziska Richter Assencio, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany

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

Host: Timo Myöhänen, @MyohanenTimo

Hybrid seminar at 13.15-14.15:

Biomedicum 1, Hall 1, Haartmaninkatu 8

Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/65074851967

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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

Mendelson lab, @tamram

Host: Sandra Winters, @SandraWinters22

Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

Zoom:  https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/65074851967

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20.5.2024 Alex Pigot

Principal Investigator Alex Pigot, University College London, UK

Thresholds for biodiversity loss on a rapidly warming planet 

Pigot research group, @alex_pigot

Host: Marjo Saastamoinen, @Marjo__S

Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Hall 2041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

Zoom:  https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/65074851967

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27.5.2024 Gilles Laurent

Professor Gilles Laurent, 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

Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/65074851967

Hosts: Eero Castrén and Claudius Kratochwil

3.6.2024 Paul Workman

Professor Paul Workman, 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

@ICR_London

Host: Juha Saarikangas, @SaarikangasLab

Hybrid seminar at 13.00-14.00:

Hall 1041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5

Zoom:  https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/65074851967

#viikkimon

17.6.2024 Andrew Hattersley

HiLIFE seminar and Jubilee Symposium of Professor Timo Otonkoski

Professor Andrew Hattersley, University of Exeter, UK

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

Host: Timo Otonkoski

Biomedicum 1, Hall 1, Haartmaninkatu 8

13.15-14.00

Registerations by June 6th

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