FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE
SPRING SEMINARS 2017
on Thursdays at 12.00 in Presidentti auditorium,
BioCity, Tykistökatu 6, Turku – unless otherwise stated
OF
SPRING SEMINARS 2017
JANUARY
APRIL
Thursday, January 12th
Prof. Wouter de Laat, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands:
“ The use of 3C technologies to study the shape and function of the genome and
enable new applications in DNA diagnostics”
Host: Subhash Tripathi ([email protected])
Thursday, January 19th
Prof. Jussi Taipale, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska
Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden:
”Systems biology of cancer”
Host: Jukka Westermarck ([email protected])
Thursday, January 26th
Dr. Marco Fritzsche, MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute for
Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK:
“Cytoskeletal actin dynamics underpin immunological synapse formation”
Host: Pieta Mattila ([email protected]) U
FEBRUARY
FRIDAY, February 10th at 10 o’clock
Prof. Carl-Henrik Heldin, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Science for
Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden:
“Signaling via receptors for TGFβ – possible targets for tumor therapy”
Host: Anna Knittle ([email protected])
MARCH
Thursday, March 2nd
Academy Prof. Virpi Lummaa, University of Turku, Turku, Finland:
“Births, deaths and natural selection in contemporary Finland”
Host: Jyrki Heino ([email protected])
Thursday, March 30th
Prof. Henk Stunnenberg, Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud
University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands:
“Epigenomics uncovers dysregulated regulatory pathways”
Host: Riitta Lahesmaa ([email protected])
FURTHER INFORMATION
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E-mail: [email protected]
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TURKU BIONET
SEMINAR CALENDAR
http://www.biocity.turku.fi
ORIGINAL IMAGE BY TOMI SUOMI (Elo group / Computational
Biomedicine, Turku Centre for Biotechnology). Network
of human individuals. Edges of the graph are defined
computationally based on various clinical measurements
(e.g. blood counts), reflecting the similarity of the subjects.
Individuals receiving specific treatment are coloured red.
Thursday, April 6th
Prof. Dietrich Kabelitz, Department of Immunology, University Hospital
Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany:
“γδ T-cells: An immune cell population at the cross-road of innate and adaptive
immunity”
Host: Jorma Määttä ([email protected])
Thursday, April 20th
IN PHARMACITY AUDITORIUM, ITÄINEN PITKÄKATU 4
At 12 o’clock
Prof. Hongquan Zhang, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology and
Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology and Tumor Biology, School of Basic Medical
Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Peking, China:
“Integrin-interacting proteins Kindlins: biology and related diseases”
Host: Jyrki Heino ([email protected])
And at 13 o’clock
Prof. Brian C. Freeman, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University
of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA:
“Molecular chaperones regulate the chromatin landscape. Is it time to move?”
Host: Lea Sistonen ([email protected])
MAY
Thursday, 4th
Prof. Benjamin G. Neel, Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone
Medical Center, New York, USA:
“New tricks for old protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs)”
Host: Jukka Westermarck ([email protected])
Thursday, 11th
Prof. Gordon G. Wallace, ARC Centre of Excellenxe for Electromaterials Science,
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia:
“3D Bioprinting. Printing parts for bodies.”
Host: Stefan Willför ([email protected])
Thursday, 18th
Prof. David F. Stern, Department of Pathology, Yale University, New Haven, USA:
“Attacking and preventing treatment-selected resistance to cancer signaling drugs”
Host: Klaus Elenius ([email protected])
FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE SEMINARS ORGANISED BY
Advanced Bioresources and Smart Bioproducts – Towards Sustainable Bioeconomy; Biomaterial and Medical
Device Research Programme; Computational and Molecular Methodologies for Life Sciences; Diagnostic
Technologies and Applications; Lifespan of Cardiovascular, Inflammatory, Endocrine & Metabolic Disorders ‐
LIFESPAN; Receptor Programme; Translational Infectious Disease and Immunity Research Programme
Doctoral Programme in Biology, Geography and Geology (BGG, UTU)
Doctoral Programme of Clinical Investigation (CLIDP, UTU)
Doctoral Programme in Molecular Life Sciences (DPMLS, UTU)
Drug Research Doctoral Programme (DRDP, UTU)
Finnish Doctoral Program in Oral Sciences (FINDOS, UTU)
National Doctoral Programme in Informational and Structural Biology (ISB, ÅAU)
Turku Doctoral Programme in Molecular Biosciences (MolBio, ÅAU)
Turku Doctoral Programme of Molecular Medicine (TuDMM, UTU)