UHBrain seminar series

The UHBrain seminar invites researchers around the world to present their findings and share knowledge. Come and hear top neuroscientists and discuss timely questions in the context of their research. Seminars are organized by Neuroscience Center (HiLIFE) and open to everybody.
2025

Spring

Thursday 30.1. at 15:00

Speaker: Professor Zoltan Molnar (University of Oxford, UK)
Title: Shadows of the Subplate – altered transient developmental circuits as an underlying cause of cognitive dysfunctions
Host: Kai Kaila
Place: Biomedicum 1, 5th floor, meeting room 7 or by zoom 

 

Monday 17.2. at 15:00

Speaker: Professor Jyrki Ahveninen (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School - Athinoula A. Martinos)
Title: Multimodal studies on attention and working memory in auditory networks
Host: Satu Palva
Place: Biomedicum 1, p-floor, lecture hall 1-2 or zoom

Meeting ID: 662 0474 4637,  Passcode: 822109

 

Thursday 20.3. at 15:15

Speaker: Professor H.J. (Harm) Krugers (University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences)
Title: Molecular and Cellular Signature of Stress and Early Life Trauma
Host: Sari Lauri
Place: Biomedicum 1, p-floor, seminar room 1-2 or zoom

Meeting ID: 95 8659 0904, password: 850711

 

Thursday 8.5. at 15:00

Speaker: Professor Dimitri Van De Ville (Neuro-X Institute, EPF Lausanne and University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Title: Brain Networks & Graph Signal Processing: A Perfect Fit
Host: Satu Palva
Place: Biomedicum 1, p-floor, meeting room 8-9 or zoom

Meeting ID: 692 5186 6651, password: 481723

 

Thursday 22.5. at 14:15

Speaker: Professor Csaba Adori (Stockholm University, Department of Molecular Biosciences & Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neuroscience, Sweden)
Title: Cytoarchitecture and cellular tau pathology of the human locus coeruleus revealed by cutting-edge 3D immuno-imaging
Host: Nelson Totah
Place: Biomedicum 1, p-floor, meeting room 8-9

 

Wednesday 25.6. at 15:15

Speaker: Professor Kozo Kaibuchi (Fujita Health University, Japan)
Title: TBA
Host: Takashi Namba
Place: Biomedicum 1, p-floor, meeting room 8-9 and zoom

2024

Autumn 2024

Wednesday 21.8. at 12:00

Speaker: Professor Kate Jeffery, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK
Title: Unweaving the cognitive map
Host: Satu Palva
Place: Biomedicum 1, P-floor, meeting room 8-9 or by zoom 

Zoom link (Meeting ID: 656 0573 8455, Passcode: 323940)

Thursday 26.9. at 15:15

Speaker: Professor Petra Wahle, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Title: Activity-dependent growth of dendrites and axons of cortical interneurons
Host: Sari Lauri
Place: Biomedicum 1, P-floor, meeting room 8-9 or by zoom

Zoom link (Meeting ID: 619 1649 6407, Passcode: 954565)

Wednesday 2.10. 15:15

Speaker: Professor Nikki Crowley, Penn State Neuroscience Institute, US
Title: Prefrontal cortical peptide rewiring during alcohol misuse
Host: Nelson Totah
Place: Biomedicum 1, P-floor, meeting room 8-9 or by zoom

Zoom link (Meeting ID: 616 4551 0407, Passcode: 307694)

Monday 14.10. 13:30

Speaker: Professor Ofer Yizhar, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Title: Insights into early-life social behavior from new inhibitory optogenetic tools
Host: Satu Palva
Place: Biomedicum 1, P-floor, meeting room 8-9 or by zoom

Zoom link (Meeting ID: 657 9381 8368; Passcode: 306428)

Thursday 7.11. 15:15

Speaker: Professor Stéphanie Baulac, Paris Brain Institute, France
Title: Brain mosaicism in epilepsies with cortical malformations
Host: Takashi Namba
Place: Biomedicum 1, P-floor, seminar room 3 or by zoom

Zoom link (Meeting ID: 675 5929 7692, Passcode: 813948)

Thursday 21.11. 15:00

Speaker: Professor Simon Hanslmayr, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Title: Neural mechanisms of episodic memory: Implications for Neurotech
Host: Satu palva
Place: Biomedicum 1, P-floor, meeting room 8-9 or by zoom

Zoom link (Meeting ID: 650 7265 3987, Passcode: 513942)

 

Spring 2024

 
Thursday 8.2. at 15:00

Speaker: Francesca Calabrese, University of Milan, Italy
Title: Rethinking resilience as floating between a stable state and a veiled vulnerability: the role of brain metabolism
Host: Eero Castrén / Anaïs Virenque
Place: Biomedicum 1, meeting room 3 or by zoom

Wednesday 8.5. at 15:00

Speaker: Paolo Medini, Umeå University, Sweden
Title: Microcircuit basis of (multi)sensory processing: role of synaptic inhibition in vivo.
Host: Eero Castrén 
Place: Biomedicum 1, meeting room 3 (P-floor) or by zoom

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/68288618696?pwd=bkMwTzBHRGc2Z1lReWhJRFJNNVM1dz09

Meeting ID: 682 8861 8696, Passcode: 653100

Wednesday 15.5. at 11:00

Speaker: Xiaosi Gu, Center for Computational Psychiatry, Mount Sinai, New York, US
Title: Computation as a bridge between cells, circuits, and therapeutics
Host: Satu Palva
Place: Biomedicum 1, P-floor, meeting room 8-9 or by zoom

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/61987119691?pwd=ZWxDaEo0eU42VmYzN2wwenRBZVA2UT09

Meeting ID: 619 8711 9691, Passcode: 880409

Friday 24.5. at 10:00 

Speaker: Ryohei Iwata, VIB & KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, Belgium
Title: Intrinsic Mechanisms of Human Neuronal Neoteny: Mitochondria Set Developmental Tempo
Host: Takashi Namba
Place: Biomedicum 1, seminar room 3 or by zoom

https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/62036608874?pwd=QmpGZ2g2bXFwbVFyRTQ2UmppM0x6QT09

Meeting ID: 620 3660 8874, Passcode: 612795

Thursday 6.6. at 9:00

Speaker: Professor B. Jill Venton, Department Chair and Thomas Jefferson Professor of Chemistry, University of Virginia
Title: Electrochemical tools for measuring dopamine and adenosine in the brain
Host: Vassilis Stratoulias
Place: Viikki Biocenter 2, seminar room 2004 (Opetusapteekki) or by zoom

Zoom link (Meeting ID: 656 4823 4290; Passcode: 274242)

Friday 14.6. at 13:30

Speaker: Su-Chun Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Title: Human Stem Cells for Neuroscience Discovery and Therapeutic Development
Host: Jari Koistinaho
Place: Haartmaninkatu 8, Biomedicum 1, P-floor, meeting room 8-9 and by zoom

Zoom link 

Monday 17.6. 15:00

Speaker: Xin Tang, Harvard Medical School & Boston Children's Hospital, US
Title: Neuronal Chloride Transporter KCC2: Critical Roles in Brain Health and Disease
Host: Claudio Rivera
Place: Haartmaninkatu 8, Biomedicum 1, P-floor, meeting room 8-9 or by zoom

zoom link (Meeting ID: 631 0914 0702; Passcode: 290398)

 

2023

Autumn 2023

 
Thursday 17.8.at 14:00

Speaker: Hiroshi Kawasaki, Professor, Advisor to the President of University, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University
Title: Investigation of the mechanisms underlying the development and evolution of the mammalian brain using gyrencephalic carnivore ferrets
Host: Claudio Rivera
Place: Biomedicum 1, meeting room 3 or by zoom

Friday 29.9. at 14:00

Speaker: Mariagrazia Grilli, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Title: Multifaceted neural stem cell and glia dysfunction in CNS disorders; a pharmacologist's perspective
Host: Takashi Namba
Place: Biomedicum 1, seminar room 3 or by zoom


https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/62923122440?pwd=RkFtVTFDNk5ETjhVdGRpMFluNkdqdz09
Meeting ID: 629 2312 2440, Passcode: 761830

 

Spring 2023

Friday 27.1. at 15:00

Speaker: Marat Minlebaev, Postdoctoral researcher, PhD, MD. Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée (INMED), Marseille, France
Title: Functional organization of subcortical heterotopia and somatosensory cortex in Eml1 and RhoA mice models
Host: Anastasia Ludwig
NOTE: Time: 15-16. Biomedicum 1, seminar room 3

Friday 3.2. at 14:00

Speaker: Juan Pablo Lopez, Assistant Professor, Karolinska Institute, Sverige
Title: The neurobiology of stress-related psychiatric disorders and their treatment
Host: Iiris Hovatta
NOTE: Biomedicum 1, seminar room 3 or by zoom

Wednesday 15.3. at 14:00

Speaker: Andrew Greenhalgh, PhD, Research Fellow, Manchester University, U.K.
Title: Investigating the neuroimmunology of concussion
Host: Vassilis Stratoulias
NOTE: Biomedicum 1, seminar room 1-2 or by zoom

Monday 27.3. at 14:00

Speaker: Yoichi Sekita, Department of Biosciences, Kitasato University School of Science, Japan
Title:
Host: Juzoh Umemori/Eero Castrén
NOTE: Biomedicum 1, seminar room 3 or by zoom

Friday 14.4. at 14:00

Speaker: Victoria Puig, Mar Institute for Medical Research, Barcelona, Spain
Title: Prefrontal-hippocampal neural dynamics as biomarkers of cognitive impairment and rescue in brain disorders
Host: Satu Palva
NOTE: Biomedicum 1, seminar room 1-2 or by zoom

Thursday 25.5. at 16:00

Speaker: Steven Proulx, PhD, Group leader. Bern University, Theodor Kocher Institute (TKI), Switzerland
Title: The drainage of cerebrospinal fluid: new insights into lymphatic clearance pathways
Host: Francesco Noé/Claudio Rivera
NOTE: Thursday at 16-17. Biomedicum 1, meeting room 3 or by zoom

Friday 9.6.at 14:00

Speaker: Ron Stoop, Centre for Psychiatric Neurosciences (PCN), UNIL, Switzerland
Title: How oxytocin makes us "tick": its role in fear, escape and their modulation by social behavior
Host: Eero Castrén
NOTE: Biomedicum 1, seminar room 3 or by zoom

Friday 16.6. at 14:00

Speaker: Huibert Mansvelder, Professor, Head of the Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research,  VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Title: Cortical neuronal diversity supporting human cognition
Host: Nelson Total
NOTE: Biomedicum 1, seminar room 3 or by zoom

Tuesday 20.6. at 14:00

Speaker: Irune Guerra San Juan, Ph.D researcher. Vrije University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Title: Defining the role of Cytoskeletal pathways in  ALS pathogenesis
Host: Olli Pietiläinen
NOTE: Biomedicum 1, meeting room 8-9 or by zoom