BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:333@biocityturku.fi DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20190606T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20190606T123000 DTSTAMP:20231013T062131Z URL:https://biocityturku.fi/events/lifespan-research-program-minisymposium / SUMMARY:Lifespan research program minisymposium DESCRIPTION:From genetic studies to understanding autoimmune diseases\n&nbs p\;\n\nCisca Wijmenga\, University of Groningen: “Of man and microbes: t he power of population-based cohort studies”\n\nSebo Withoff\, Universit y of\, Groningen\, Netherlands: “Coeliac Disease on a Chip”\n\nIris Jo nkers\, University of Groningen\, Netherlands: “Beyond GWAS - Understand ing How Genetically Associated Regions Contribute to Coeliac Disease”\n\ n \;\n\nHost: Academy Professor Riitta Lahesmaa ( rilahes@utu.fi )\n\n  \;\n\nCoffee and cookies are served at 10 am.\n\n \;\n\nSpinoza p rize winner Dr. Cisca Wijmenga is Lodewijk Sandkuijl Professor of Human Ge netics at the University of Groningen\, Netherlands and member of Netherla nds Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research is aimed at unravelin g the causal genetic factors of certain hereditary diseases. Her group has adopted a hypothesis-generating\, genome-wide approach\, and was able to make great progress on elucidating the genetic factors for celiac disease\ , intracranial aneurysms\, type 2 diabetes and celiac disease. They are no w working on systems genetics approaches towards understanding complex dis eases.\n\nLink to Prof. Wijmenga’s list of publications\n\n \;\n\nDr . Iris Jonkers is currently working as assistant professor at the Universi ty of Groningen. Dr. Jonkers received her PhD on the subject of X chromoso me inactivation from the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam\, the Netherl ands. She then worked at the Cornell University\, New York\, USA\, as a po stdoc in the group of professor John T Lis\, specializing in the regulatio n of gene expression. Dr. Jonkers is awarded several personal fellowships and grants\, including the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship\, the R osalind Franklin Fellowship and the NWO-ALW Vidi personal grant.\n\nLink t o Dr. Jonkers’s list of publications\n\n \;\n\nDr. Sebo Withoff is a ssistant professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Gron ingen. He studied Biology (specialization in Biochemistry) at the Universi ty of Groningen and in 1996 he obtained his PhD. He performed post-doc res earch in the Netherlands\, in the Dept. of Medical Oncology\, University M edical Center Groningen and in the lab of Dr. Inder Verma (Laboratory of G enetics\, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies\, La Jolla\, CA) and a s a staff scientist in the lab of Dr. Douglas Green (Department of Immunol ogy\, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital\, Memphis\, TN).\n\nLink to D r. Withoff’s list of publications\n\n \; CATEGORIES:BiocityTurku events LOCATION:#_LOCATIONNAME\, #_LOCATIONFULLLINE\, #_LOCATIONCOUNTRY X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=#_LOCATIONFULLLINE\, #_LOCA TIONCOUNTRY;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=#_LOCATIONNAME:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Helsinki X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Helsinki BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190331T040000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:EEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR