BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:804@biocityturku.fi DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251104T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251104T150000 DTSTAMP:20251024T115224Z URL:https://biocityturku.fi/events/immunology-seminar-10/ SUMMARY:Immunology Seminar: Alanko DESCRIPTION:4th November at 14:00-15:00\nOnline event\nin Zoom\n\nThe Scand inavian Society of Immunology Young Investigator Awardee \n\nJonna Alanko \, University of Turku\nDendritic cell navigation and self-generated chemo kine gradients\n\nHost: Professor Riitta Lahesmaa (rilahes@utu.fi)\n\nLink to join the zoom meeting: https://utu.zoom.us/j/63682411952\n\n \;\n\ nRegister for the Immunology Seminar Series email list to get calendar inv itation to the online seminar: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/D29C32A A6E8A2F7A\n\nImmunology seminar series is jointly organised by the Finnish Society for Immunology\, InFLAMES Flagship and Turku Bioscience. For furt her information contact Anne Lahdenperä  (ankahy@utu.fi) or Riitta Lahes maa (rilahes@utu.fi)\, University of Turku.\n\n \;\n\nPhD Jonna Alanko  is a Principal Investigator at the Turku Bioscience Centre\, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University\, and the winner of the Scandinavian Society for Immunology (SSI) Young Investigator Award 2025 from Finland. J onna completed her PhD in 2016 in Prof. Johanna Ivaska’s group at the Un iversity of Turku\, after which she conducted extensive postdoctoral resea rch abroad in Prof. Michael Sixt’s group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). After returning to Finland\, Jonna continued h er career as an InFLAMES Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Marko Salmi’s grou p until securing funding for her own research group (InstruFellow and Acad emy Research Fellow).\n\nJonna and her Immune Cell Navigation group inve stigate how immune cells—particularly dendritic cells—migrate and navi gate in response to different molecular cues\, using various live-cell mig ration setups (https://bioscience.fi/immune-cell-navigation/). Jonna’s p revious work revealed dendritic cell–generated CCL19 gradients as a prev iously unknown guidance mechanism\, and her group is now continuing this r esearch to open new avenues for understanding immune responses. Their rese arch aims to uncover the detailed mechanisms of leukocyte navigation\, wit h the ultimate goal of therapeutically manipulating these mechanisms to gu ide cells to desired locations\, such as toward tumors or away from autoim mune sites.\n\nSelected publications:\n\nAlanko\, J.\, Uçar\, M.C.\, Cani gova\, N.\, Stopp\, J.\, Schwarz\, J.\, Merrin\, J.\, Hannezo\, E.\, and S ixt\, M. (2023) CCR7 acts as both a sensor and a sink for CCL19 to coordin ate collective leukocyte migration. Sci Immunol 8\, eadc9584\, DOI:10.1126 /sciimmunol.adc9584\n\nUçar\, M.C.\, Alsberga\, Z.\, Alanko\, J.\, Sixt\, M. &\; Hannezo\, E. (2025) Self-generated chemotaxis of mixed cell pop ulations\, PNAS 122 (34) e2504064122\, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2504064122 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://biocityturku.fi/wp-content/uploads/2023/ 11/general-molecules-thumbnail.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