Upcoming events
Here are listed all upcoming life science related events relevant for those working in Turku campus.
If you are arranging an event and would like it to be posted here please contact biocityturku@bioscience.fi.
February 2026
PiF Friday Café
27th February at 13:00-14:00 Onsite event in MediCity Seminar Room 4009, office-side, MediCity, BioCity 4th floor Kaisa Rautaniemi (Advanced Imaging Core) & Mathew Nickel Maunu [...]
March 2026
Immunology Seminar: Bonelli
3rd March at 14:00-15:00 Online event in Zoom Michael Bonelli, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Title TBA Host: Riitta Lahesmaa (rilahes@utu.fi) Link to join the [...]
Frontiers of Science: Dr. Evangelia Petsalaki
5th March 2026 at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Spring 2026 program Dr. Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, UK Network-based approaches for studying context-specific signalling [...]
TechDigi TeamUp: Dialogues of Future Technologies
TechDigi TeamUp 11th March at 08:30-12:30 Onsite event in Cave auditorium, Visitor and Innovation Centre Joki The growing impact of emerging technologies and digitalisation across [...]
Finnish Proteomics Symposium 2026
12th-13th March Onsite event in Hotel Nuuksio, Espoo Finnish Proteomics Symposium brings together proteomics users and those interested in proteomics from Finland, the Nordic [...]
Single Cell and Spatial Omics Symposium (and course)
12th March Onsite event in Helsinki Biomedicum 1, Lecture Hall 1 (P floor) More info Symposioum registration is open until February 26th, 2026, or until the [...]
PET BASICS-course (PGS_1709-3007)
PET Basics course offers a broad overview to PET imaging and introduces participants to interdisci-plinary nature of PET research. Course includes basics of PET physics, radiochemistry, data analysis, research and clinical applications.
Health Campus Turku co-innovation workshop
23rd March at 12:00-16:00 Onsite event in TYKS Kompassisairaala, Kiinamyllynkatu 13 Flyer The language of the event is Finnish. Welcome to brainstorm new joint projects [...]
Infections and Immunity Seminar: Harvala
25th March at 13:15-14:00 Hybrid event in Blokki 1 and Zoom Spring 2026 program Heli Harvala, University of Turku Emerging arboviruses and blood safety [...]
April 2026
Immunology Seminar: Bock
7th April at 14:00-15:00 Online event in Zoom Cristoph Bock, Biomedical Sequencing Facility, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Title TBA Host: Riitta Lahesmaa (rilahes@utu.fi) Link [...]
Infections and Immunity Seminar: Kolehmainen
8th April at 13:15-14:00 Hybrid event in Lauren 2 and Zoom Spring 2026 program Pekka Kolehmainen, University of Turku Adaptive humoral and cellular immunity after [...]
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Arthur J. Ragauskas
9th April at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditoroium, BioCity Spring 2026 program Prof. Arthur J. Ragauskas, The University of Tennessee, USA From the forest [...]
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Paul Timpson
16th April 2026 Onsite event in Presidentti auditoroium, BioCity Spring 2026 program Prof. Paul Timpson, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia Intravital imaging and anti-fibrotic [...]
Infections and Immunity Seminar: Tauriainen
22nd April at 13:15-14:00 Hybrid event in Blokki 1 and Zoom Spring 2026 program Sisko Tauriainen, University of Turku Parechovirus infections in children Come [...]
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Kristian Strømgaard
23rd April at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Spring 2026 program Prof. Kristian Strømgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Targeting receptor complexes with therapeutic [...]
May 2026
Infections and Immunity Seminar: Marjomäki
6th May at 13:15-14:00 Hybrid event in Reseptori and Zoom Spring 2026 program Varpu Marjomäki, University of Jyväskylä Studies on antivirals and their functionalization into [...]
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Edward Holmes
7th May at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Spring 2026 program Prof. Edward Holmes, University of Sydney, Australia Metagenomics in One Health – [...]
Seminar: Prof. Shimon Sakaguchi
Host: Riitta Lahesmaa (rilahes@utu.fi) More information TBA
BioCity Turku Guest Seminar: Prof. Shimon Sakaguchi
12th May at 12:30-13:30 in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Coffee and sandwiches served at 12:15 Nobel laureate, Prof. Shimon Sakaguchi, University of Osaka, Japan Title TBA [...]
Immunology Seminar: Zitvogel
12th May at 14:00-15:00 Online event in Zoom Laurence Zitvogel, Paris-Saclay University, France Title TBA Host: Riitta Lahesmaa (rilahes@utu.fi) Link to join the seminar: https://utu.zoom.us/j/62383668582 [...]
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Sussan Nourshargh
21st May at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Spring 2026 program Prof. Sussan Nourshargh, Queen Mary University of London, UK Neutrophil breaching of [...]
June 2026
Immunology Seminar
9th June at 14:00-15:00 Online event in Zoom Speaker and title TBA Host: Riitta Lahesmaa (rilahes@utu.fi) Link to join the seminar: https://utu.zoom.us/j/64883693162 Register for [...]
August 2026
35th BioCity Symposium: Vision, expanded
27th-28th August 2026 Onsite event in Mauno Koivisto Centre, BioCity, Turku Save the date now in your agenda and stay tuned! Registration opens in March. [...]
September 2026
Frontiers of Science: TBA
24th September at 12:00 Onsite event in BioCity, Presidentti auditorium Speaker and title TBA Host: Klaus Elenius (klaele@utu.fi) More information TBA
October 2026
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Markus Linder
8th October at 12:00 Onsite event in BioCity, Presidentti auditorium Prof. Markus Linder, Aalto University, Finland Title TBA Host: Yagut Allahverdiyeva (allahve@utu.fi) More information TBA
Fronteirs of Science: Prof. William Stafford Noble
22nd October at 12:00 Onsite event in BioCity, Presidentti auditorium Prof. William Stafford Noble, University of Washington, USA Title TBA Host: Balazs Balint (babali@utu.fi) More [...]
November 2026
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Angela Falciatore
5th November at 12:00 Onsite event in BioCity, Presidentti auditorium Prof. Angela Falciatore, CNRS Sorbonne Université, France Title TBA Host: Yagut Allahverdiyeva (allahve@utu.fi) More information [...]
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Miguel Soares
12th November 2026 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Dr. Miguel Soares, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Portugal Metabolic adaptation as a defence strategy against [...]
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Gwendalyn Randolph
19 November at 12:00 Onsite event in BioCity, Presidentti auditorium Prof. Gwendalyn Randolph, University of Washington Title TBA Host: Sirpa Jalkanen (sirjal@utu.fi) More information TBA
December 2026
Fontiers of Science: Prof. Maria Sibilia
3rd December at 12:00 Onsite event in BioCity, Presidentti auditorium Prof. Maria Sibilia, Center for Cancer Researcher, Medical Univeristy of Vienna, Austria Title TBA Host: [...]