27^th November at 12:00
Onsite event
in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity
Autumn 2025 program

Dr. Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, UK
Network-based approaches for studying context-specific signalling

Host: Tomi Suomi (tomi.suomi@utu.fi)

Coffee and sandwich served at 11:45, first come first serve!

Six PhD researchers and early-career postdocs are welcome to have a lunch and discuss with Dr. Petsalaki after the seminar. This is a great possibility to learn hosting skills in a friendly environment and create connections for future. Everyone is welcome to join, BioCity Turku will offer the lunch.

If you got interested, please send an email to biocityturku@bioscience.fi

Evangelia Petsalaki’s research group studies human cell signalling in healthy and disease conditions. The group uses interdisciplinary approaches, including data-driven network inference, modelling of cell processes and data integration, to understand how different environmental or genetic conditions affect cell signalling responses leading to diverse cell phenotypes. Their long-term aim is to create whole-cell signalling models, to better understand cell functions and disease. Evangelia has a PhD in structural bioinformatics from EMBL and the University of Heidelberg (2009) and did her postdoctoral work at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada (2010-2016).

Selected publications

Comprehensive evaluation of phosphoproteomic-based kinase activity inference. Müller-Dott S, Jaehnig EJ, Munchic KP, Jiang W, Yaron-Barir TM, Savage SR, Garrido-Rodriguez M, Johnson JL, Lussana A, Petsalaki E, Lei JT, Dugourd A, Krug K, Cantley LC, Mani DR, Zhang B, Saez-Rodriguez J. Nat Commun. 2025 May 22;16(1):4771

PhosX: data-driven kinase activity inference from phosphoproteomics experiments. Lussana A, Müller-Dott S, Saez-Rodriguez J, Petsalaki E. Bioinformatics. 2024 Nov 28;40(12):btae697

An unbiased ranking of murine dietary models based on their proximity to human metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). Vacca M, …, Feigh M, Yunis C, Bedossa P, Stewart M, Cater HL, Wells S, Schattenberg JM, Anstee QM; LITMUS Investigators; Tiniakos D, Perfield JW, Petsalaki E, Davidsen P, Vidal-Puig A. Nat Metab. 2024 Jun;6(6):1178-119

Use of viral motif mimicry improves the proteome-wide discovery of human linear motifs. Wadie B, Kleshchevnikov V, Sandaltzopoulou E, Benz C, Petsalaki E. ‘Cell Rep. 2022 May 3;39(5):110764

General information

• You can download and save all the autumn 2025 FoS-seminars to your calendar from here: https://seafile.utu.fi/d/44a70f80ac1e46a9ad0a/
• Registration is not needed, participation list is circulated in the audience
• If you are a student and later wish to get a certificate of attendance from the Frontier of Science seminars, print out the seminar diary and after the seminar ask the BioCity coordinator to sign it https://seafile.utu.fi/d/44a70f80ac1e46a9ad0a/
• Please note that any audio or video recording of the seminars is strictly forbidden.
• Autumn 2025 image credits to Kari Kaunisto: Sahlberg family collections, Biodiversity unit, University of Turku