Research seminars 2019-2024

In ad­di­tion to mul­tidiscip­lin­ary sleep research, we aim the education of health care pro­fes­sion­als and stu­dents, which will in­clude a monthly research sem­inar fo­cus­ing on sleep.
SleepWell Research Seminars in autumn 2024

Thu 21 November 2024 at 10.00-11.00 Cancelled
Dr. Julia Stone, The University of Melbourne.

Thu 19 December 2024 at 15.00-16.00
Presentations by Vinko Palada and Tomi Rantamäki research groups

Past seminars
18 September 2024 
Professor Luana Colloca (MD, PhD, MS) Dept Pain and Translational Symptom Science, University of Maryland 
“Placebo effects: From sociodemographic aspects to sleep”

29 August 2024 

Presentations by Tiina Paunio research group:
  1. PhD Johanna Liuhanen
    Genetic risk for schizophrenia and psychomotor vigilance performance after sleep deprivation.
  2. PhD student, RN, MHC Tuula Tanskanen
    Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) in schizophrenia – a Randomised Controlled Trial.
Presentations by Eija Kalso research group:
  1. PhD student, Jaakko Ilola
    Sleep, circadian preference, and nightmares of Finnish tertiary pain clinic patients. 
  2. MA Psych, PhD Teemu Miettinen
    Childhood adversities and sleep
     
30 May 2024 
Assistant Professor Franz Weber, University of Pennsylvania
Cortical regulation of REM sleep
 
25 April 2024
Prof. Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, University of Oxford
Local and global aspects of sleep regulation
 
21 March 2024 
Doctoral Researcher Daniel Persson
Cerebrospinal fluid flow and the glymphatic system – visualized with MR and SPECT/PET imaging”
 
29 Feb 2024 
MHSci, doctoral researcher Heta Helakari:
Brain pulsations during sleep
 
18 Jan 2024 
Prof. Tiina Paunio
Clinical guidelines for treatment of Insomnia - Europe & Finland
 
21st December at 15.00-16.00
SleepWell Research Seminar Christmas Special: PI's Annual Summary – Year 2023 wrapped 
 
23rd November 
Matias Rusanen, M.Sc. Junior Researcher, Sleep Technology and Analytics Research (STAR) Group, Department of Technical Physics, University of Eastern Finland
Diagnostic Imaging Center, Kuopio University Hospital
"Innovative Tools for Sleep Research and Diagnostics: Machine Learning and Beyond by STAR Group"
 
26th October
Sofie de Sena, PhD Student, UH, BABA Center / Sampsa Vanhatalo group

"NAPPA (NAPping PAnts): Measuring Infant Sleep Behaviours in a Home Setting" 

 

21st September at 15.00-16.00
Hanna Antila, Doctor of Philosophy (Pharm.), Master of Science (Pharm.), Postdoctoral Researcher at the at the Laboratory of Dr. Tuomas Lilius, RPU/INDIVIDRUG, UH

"Mechanisms of sleep disturbances - role of noradrenaline"
 
20th April 2023 
Nadia Hejazi, M.D (Neurology, Circadian Biology), Experimental Therapeutics & Pathophysiology Branch, National Institutes of  Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Title: Sleep in treatment resistant depression (TRD)

 

23rd March 2023
Isabel Morales-Munoz, PhD in Neuroscience, Assistant Professor in Psychology at the University of Birmingham
Title: Sleep in childhood - Findings from the Child Sleep cohort

 

6th February 2023
Tsvetan Serchov, PhD, HDR, Charge de Recherche, CNRS 
Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience (INCI)

Title: The mPFC molecular clock modulates the development of depression-like phenotype and rapid antidepressant response

 

26th January 2023
Heikki Tanila, MD, prof, Translational neuroscience, University of Eastern Finland
Title: The mouse sleep cycle: much shorter than we have thought so far

15th December 2022

Sleep & Mind (Anu-Katriina Pesonen group)

Risto Halonen, PhD in psychology and prof Anu-Katriina Pesonen

Recent experimental studies on acute stress and sleep

Sleep & Pain (Eija Kalso group):



Matti Ahlström, Resident in neurology, MD, PhD-student

Sleep disorders in patients with cerebral small vessel disease

 

24th November 2022

Lab of Neurotherapeutics (Tomi Rantamäki group):

Stan Rozov, Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Pharmacy

Rebound electroencephalographic responses to nitrous oxide exposure in men

Vinko Palada group:

Vinko Palada, Dr. rer. nat., Translational Pain Research, Principal Investigator

Effects of spared nerve injury on sleep architecture and circadian rhythmicity in mice

 

27th October 2022 

Henna-Kaisa Wigren, University Lecturer in Neurobiology, coPI, Sleep Team Helsinki, Tarja Stenberg group


Juvenile social isolation and sleep -preliminary results



Maija Koskinen, PhD, Postdoctoral researcher, Neurogenomics Lab, Iiris Hovatta group 

Sleep fragmentation-induced anxiety - preliminary results

 

22nd September 2022

Sleep and health (Tiina Paunio group)

Johanna Liuhanen (PhD student, University of Helsinki and Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare)

Chandreyee Roy (Ph.D. in Statistical Physics, Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University)

Paavo Laitinen (M.Sc. in Exercise Physiology, PhD student)

 

2nd June 2022 

Riikka Huhta, Dr


Sleepiness and traffic accidents

 

21th April 2022

Timo Leppänen, Professor


Sleep Revolution – towards enhanced and personalized diagnosis and management of sleep apnea

 

24th March 2022 Zoom

Juulia Paavonen, Docent

Development of infant sleep

 

24th February 2022 Zoom

Matias Palva, Professor

Roles of brain criticality in regulating neuronal communication and repertoires of brain states

 

20th January, 2022 Zoom

Outi Linnaranta, MD, PhD (THL)

Clinical correlates of disrupted circadian rhythm in bipolar disorders

16th December, 2021 Zoom
Sleep and health (Tiina Paunio group)

Sonja Sulkava, D.Med.Sc. specialising in medical genetics
Psychological Distress, Insomnia and risk of dementia - Methodological considerations
Paavo Laitinen, M.Sc. (Exercise Physiology)
Sleep and overnight memory consolidation in patients with schizophrenia


18th November 2021 Zoom

Eija Kalso, Professor, Department of Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Sleep problems in chronic pain
Vinko Palada,  Dr.rer.nat, Academy Research Fellow, Department of Physiology & SleepWell Research Program
Circadian regulation of pain and analgesia


21st October 2021 Zoom
Sleep Team Helsinki (Tarja Stenberg group) 

Sarah Steffens, MSc in Neuro­bi­o­logy, PhD can­did­ate
Sleep/wake and microglial morphology
Henna-Kaisa Wigren, University Lecturer in Neurobiology, coPI
Do horses have sleep problems?


16th Septem­ber 2021 Zoom
Anu-Katriina Pesonen group
"Sleep & Mind - developments of sleep lab methods"

Risto Halonen, PhD student, psychologist
Slow oscillation-spindle coupling and overnight metaphor retention
Anu-Katriina Pesonen, Leader of BA and MA programs of psychology  and Liisa Kuula, Postdoctoral Researcher
REM-sleep deprivation in sleep lab


19th August 2021 Zoom
Tomi Rantamäki, Associate Professor, Laboratory of Neurotherapeutics
Physiological basis underlying antidepressant-induced transactivation of TrkB receptors


29th April 2021 Zoom
Nils Sandman, Senior Researcher, University of Turku 
Nightmares during COVID-19 lockdown


25th March 2021 Zoom
Samuel Jones, Postdoctoral researcher
The genetics of sleep and chronotype: findings from large biobank studies

Sam’s interests lie in identifying the genetics of sleep disorders and circadian rhythms through genetic association studies in large population-based cohorts, to better understand the causal links between sleep characteristics and disease, particularly mental health and metabolic disorders. His research also focusses on the analysis sleep and circadian metrics derived from accelerometer to establish their utility in predicting health outcomes. Currently, he is 1) investigating the genetic factors behind circadian variability in blood biochemistry and cell counts in large population-based cohorts and 2) is deriving measures and investigating the health effects of “circadian disruption” in a large accelerometer dataset.


18th February 2021 Zoom
"How to present science for general public"

Henna-Kaisa Wigren, University Lecturer
Myth 1: "We all need equal amount of sleep"
Tarja Stenberg, Docent
Myth 2: "Sleep is only for the brain"
Tiina Paunio, Professor
Myth 3: "It is enough to mind the mind"


28th January 2021 Zoom
Sleep and Mind (Anu-Katriina Pesonen group) 
"Skin surface temperature as an indicator of circadian rhythm - from practical points to mathematical modelling"

Practicalities are presented by 
Liisa Kuula, Postdoctoral Researcher
Anu-Katriina Pesonen, Leader of BA and MA programs of psychology
Mathematical modelling is presented  by
Jari Lipsanen, University Instructor

10th December 2020 Zoom

Sleep Team Finland (Tarja Stenberg group)

Henna-Kaisa Wigren (University Lecturer)

Combining expertise within the Sleepwell: Pilot data from the "Social Defeat Stress and Sleep” -project



Sarah Steffens (MSc in Neurobiology, PhD candidate)

The impact of insufficient sleep and diurnal rhythmicity on microglial morphology

22nd October 2020 Zoom

Eija Kalso's research group 

Vinko Palada (Postdoctoral reseacher)

Circadian regulation of the comorbidity cycle between sleep, anxiety and neuropathic pain

Sleep and Mind (Anu-Katriina Pesonen group) 

Ilona Merikanto (Postdoctoral reseacher)

Increase in eveningness and insufficient sleep among adults in population-based cross-sections from 2007 to 2017

17th September 2020 Zoom

Laboratory of Neurotherapeutics 

Tomi Rantamäki (Associate Professor)

Laboratory of Neurotherapeutics (Tomi Rantamäki group)

Stanislav Rozov (Postdoctoral Researcher)


Shared molecular and electrophysiological signatures of ketamine and nitrous oxide action

14th May 2020 Zoom

Eija Kalso group

Reetta Sipilä (PhD)

Sleep in women treated for breast cancer and how it associates with pain?

Teemu Miettinen (MPsych)

Sleep problems - a distinctive factor among pain patients?

Hanna Harno (MD PhD)  

Sleep problems relating to mild traumatic brain injury

23rd April 2020 Zoom

Sleep and Health (Tiina Paunio group)

27th February 2020 Haart­man In­stitute

Neurogenomics Laboratory (Iiris Hovatta group) and Sleep Team (Tarja Stenberg group)

16th January 2020 Haart­man In­stitute

Sleep & Mind (Anu-Katriina Pesonen group) and Laboratory of Neurotherapeutics (Tomi Rantamäki group)

12th Decem­ber 2019 Haart­man In­stitute

Research Professor Timo Partonen, The Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare (THL)

Influence of light exposure on sleep, mood and circadian rhythms

14th Novem­ber 2019 Haart­man In­stitute

Docent Tarja Stenberg, Research Program Unit, SleepWell program

Sleep and health and the influence of stress, gender and aging

24th Oc­to­ber 2019 Haart­man In­stitute

Professor Tea Lallukka, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki

Associations of sleep and health functioning with the premature exit from paid employment: repeated measures latent class analysis

25th Septem­ber 2019 Biomedicum

Christina Schmidt, Uni­versity of Liége, Bel­gium 

Age-related changes in sleep-wake regulation

Her research explores the involvement of sleep-wake regulation on human cognition. She uses multidimensional approaches combining cognitive methods, neuroimaging, electrophysiology and chronobiological paradigms, mainly in healthy individuals.

Peter Meerlo, Uni­versity of Gronin­gen, Neth­er­lands

Sleep, brain plasticity and memory

His research focuses on the phylogeny and ecology of sleep. He is especially interested in the role of sleep in neuronal plasticity & memory formation, the consequences of restricted/disrupted sleep and the effects of stress on biological clocks and circadian rhythmicity.