Lifespan of the immune system – from basic education to curing the cancer Immune response is essential for host defense to microbes, environmental triggers, ourselves [...]

Receptor Programme Seminar Adj. Prof. Maria Vartiainen, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki Actin' on Transcription Host: Jukka Ali-Nikula (juilal@utu.fi) Maria Vartiainen studied molecular biology at [...]

Prof. Gareth Inman, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK TGF-beta signalling and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma progression

Title: Liquid biopsy approaches in brain metastasis research Hosts: Harri Härmä (harri.harma@utu.fi) and Jukka Westermarck (jukka.westermarck@bioscience.fi) Biography: PhD from University of Helsinki in 2000. Group leader since [...]

Pasi Kankaanpää (Euro-BioImaging) Part of Basic Concepts of Bioimage Analysis Course Contents: Fundamentals of image analysis Quantitative microscopy workflow Available image analysis software Image analysis [...]

Turku Doctoral Programme in Molecular Medicine (TuDMM) and the Finnish Euro-BioImaging Node is happy to announce a course “Basic Concepts of Bioimage Analysis” taking place [...]

From genetic studies to understanding autoimmune diseases   Cisca Wijmenga, University of Groningen: “Of man and microbes: the power of population-based cohort studies” Sebo Withoff, [...]

Dr. Sergiu Ivanov, IBISC, Univ Évry, Paris-Saclay University, France Sequential Reprogramming of Biological Network Fate Host: Ion Petre   Coffee at 13:45 Dr. Sergiu Ivanov [...]

Finnish Association for the Study of Obesity and Lifespan Research Programme Joint Spring Seminar Obesity research in Turku: Multifaceted research approaches to understand the multifaceted [...]

Prof. Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen, University of Turku Host: Jyrki Heino (jyheino@utu.fi)   Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen is a Professor in medical cell biology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of [...]

Wolfgang Peti, University of Arizona Substrate Specificity of Protein Phosphatases - towards a systems biology understanding of phosphorylation Salam Al-Karadaghi, Lund University Frataxin: Iron storage [...]

Thomas Faux will present the following article: Bravo González-Blas et al. cisTopic: cis-regulatory topic modeling on single-cell ATAC-seq data. Nat Methods. 2019 Apr 8. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-019-0367-1 [...]

Kati Kemppainen (Sahlgren lab): Introduction to the Cell Fate Lab Maria Georgiadou (Orion Pharma): Making the transition - how to become a scientist in the [...]

Spring Seminar Event – Prostate Cancer: 13-13.05 Maria Sundvall – Opening and introduction 13.05-13.25 Peter Boström “Treatment of localized prostate cancer” 13.25-13.45 Heikki Minn “Molecular [...]

Prof. Lars Juhl Jensen, Disease Systems Biology Program, University of Copenhagen: Using text mining in biomedical databases Coffee at 10:45 https://biocityturku.fi/research-programmes/computational-and-molecular-methodologies-for-life-sciences-complifesci/seminars/ Lars Juhl Jensen started [...]

Prof. Christopher Quince, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK Host: Leo Lahti (leo.lahti@utu.fi)

Andrea Mari, CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Pisa, Italy Patricia Iozzo, CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy Host: Professor Pirjo Nuutila (pirjo.nuutila@utu.fi ) Coffee and [...]

Prof. Jos A.G. van Strijp, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands Host: Outi Salo-Ahen (osalo@abo.fi)

Dr. Michael Courtney, Group Leader of the Neuronal Signalling Lab, Turku Bioscience, University of Turku and Section Leader of the Turku Screening Unit Shining a [...]

Vladislav Lysenkov will present the following article: McRae JF, et al. Prevalence and architecture of de novo mutations in developmental disorders. Nature. 2017 Feb 23;542(7642):433-438. [...]