BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:849@biocityturku.fi DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251112T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251112T153000 DTSTAMP:20251110T062050Z URL:https://biocityturku.fi/events/immunocaps-guest-seminar-luke-oneill/ SUMMARY:IMMUNOCAPs Guest Seminar: Luke O'Neill DESCRIPTION:12th November at 14:30-15:30\nOnsite event\nin Säätiö lectur e room\, Medisiina D\n\nProfessor Luke O’Neill\, Trinity College Dublin\ , Ireland\nHow Mitochondria Control Cytokines\n\nThe seminar is open to ev eryone. Coffee and tea is served before the seminar from 14:00 onwards.\n\ n \n\nLuke O’Neill is Professor of Biochemistry in the School of Bioche mistry and Immunology\, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at Trinity C ollege Dublin\, Ireland. He is a world expert on innate immunity and infla mmation. He is listed by Thompson Reuters/ Clarivates in the top 1% of imm unologists in the world\, based on citations per paper. Professor O’Neil l is a co-founder of Sitryx\, which aims to develop new medicines for infl ammatory diseases. Another company he co-founded\, Inflazome was acquired by Roche in 2020 and is carrying out trials in Parkinson’s Disease\, Sev ere Asthma and Heart disease using new therapeutics based on his work.\n\n He was awarded the Royal Dublin Society / Irish Times Boyle Medal for scie ntific excellence\, the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal for Life Sciences\, the European Federation of Immunology Societies Medal\, the Landsteiner A ward from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Science Foundation Irel and Science Communicator of the Year award 2020\, for his media work durin g the COVID19 pandemic. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy\, EMBO ( European Molecular Biology Organisation) a Fellow of the Royal Society and holds Honorary Degrees from the Universities of Massachusetts and Bath.\n \nLuke has a weekly science slot with Pat Kenny on Newstalk and a weekly c olumn on science in the Sunday Independent. He has published several books including  Humanology: A Scientist’s Guide to our Amazing Existence\,  The Great Irish Science Book\, Never Mind the B*ll*cks\, Here’s the Sc ience (which won the An Post prize for best popular non-fiction book). In 2021 he published Keep Calm and Trust the Science: A Remarkable Year in t he Life of an Immunologist\, which is his diary covering the COVID-19 pand emic.   In 2023 he published To Boldly Go Where No Book has Gone Before\, with Penguin Random House. His books have been translated into 8 language s.\n\n \;\n\nSelected publications\n\nCarpenter S\, O’Neill LAJ. Fr om periphery to center stage: 50 years of advancements in innate immunity. Cell. 2024 Apr 25\;187(9):2030-2051. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.03.036.\n\n Murphy MP\, O’Neill LAJ.A break in mitochondrial endosymbiosis as a bas is for inflammatory diseases. Nature (2024) Feb\;626(7998):271-279. doi: 1 0.1038/s41586-023-06866-z. Epub 2024 Feb 7.\n\nPålsson-McDermott EM\, O ’Neill LAJ Gang of 3: How the Krebs cycle-linked metabolites itaconate\, succinate\, and fumarate regulate macrophages and inflammation. Cell Meta b. 2025 May 6\;37(5):1049-1059. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2025.03.004 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://biocityturku.fi/wp-content/uploads/a4-we bt-LukeOn-both@150x.jpg CATEGORIES:Other events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Helsinki X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Helsinki BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:EET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR