Upcoming FoS events
BioCity Turku arranges every semester Frontiers of Science (FoS) seminars, which brings BioCity Turku researchers together to listen to prominent international scientists.
All seminars are on Thursdays at 12:00. On-site only, no recording nor broadcasting. Coffee and sandwich served at 11:45, first come first served!
February 2026
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Avner Schlessinger
5th February at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Avner Schlessinger, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA AI-guided discovery of conformation-specific [...]
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Mohamed Bentires-Alj
12th February at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Mohamed Bentires-Alj, University of Basel, Switzerland Breast Tumor Heterogeneity and Metastasis: From Mechanistic Insights to [...]
March 2026
Frontiers of Science: Dr. Evangelia Petsalaki
5th March 2026 at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Dr. Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, UK Network-based approaches for studying context-specific signalling Host: Tomi Suomi [...]
April 2026
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Arthur J. Ragauskas
9th April at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditoroium, BioCity Prof. Arthur J. Ragauskas, The University of Tennessee, USA From the forest to fuel tank [...]
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Paul Timpson
16th April 2026 Onsite event in Presidentti auditoroium, BioCity Prof. Paul Timpson, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia Intravital imaging of cancer and drug responses [...]
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Kristian Strømgaard
23rd April at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Kristian Strømgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Targeting receptor complexes with therapeutic peptides Host: Pekka [...]
May 2026
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Edward Holmes
7th May at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Edward Holmes, University of Sydney, Australia Metagenomics in One Health – from detection to [...]
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Sussan Nourshargh
21st May at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Sussan Nourshargh, Queen Mary University of London, UK Neutrophil breaching of microvessels: Regulation & [...]
September 2026
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Miguel Soares
10th September 2026 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Dr. Miguel Soares, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Portugal Metabolic adaptation as a defence strategy against [...]