Upcoming FoS events
BioCity Turku arranges every semester Frontiers of Science (FoS) seminars, which brings BioCity Turku researchers together to listen to prominent international scientists.
All seminars are on Thursdays at 12:00. On-site only, no recording nor broadcasting. Coffee and sandwich served at 11:45, first come first served!
October 2025
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Maddy Parsons
30th October at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Autumn 2025 program Prof. Maddy Parsons, King’s College London, UK Imaging dynamics and mechanics in [...]
November 2025
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Silvia Giordano
6th November at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Autumn 2025 program Prof. Silvia Giordano, University of Torino Medical School, Italy Gastric cancer in [...]
December 2025
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Sara Wickström
4th December at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Autumn 2025 program Prof. Sara Wickström, University of Helsinki, Finland Mechanical regulation of cell states [...]
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Marco Demaria
11th December at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Autumn 2025 program Prof. Marco Demaria, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Heterogeneity in cellular senescence: [...]
February 2026
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Avner Schlessinger
5th February at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Avner Schlessinger, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA Title TBA Host: Parthiban [...]
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Mohamed Bentires-Alj
12th February at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Mohamed Bentires-Alj, University of Basel, Switzerland Title TBA Host: Jenny Pessa (jenny.pessa@abo.fi)
March 2026
Frontiers of Science: Dr. Evangelia Petsalaki
5th March 2026 at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Dr. Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, UK Network-based approaches for studying context-specific signalling Host: Tomi Suomi [...]
April 2026
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Arthur J. Ragauskas
9th April at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditoroium, BioCity Prof. Arthur J. Ragauskas, The University of Tennessee, USA Title TBA Host: Chunlin Xu (chunlin.xu@abo.fi) [...]
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Paul Timpson
16th April 2026 Onsite event in Presidentti auditoroium, BioCity Prof. Paul Timpson, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia Title TBA Host: Johanna Ivaska (joivaska@utu.fi)
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Kristian Strømgaard
23rd April at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Kristian Strømgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Title TBA Host: Pekka Postila (pekka.postila@utu.fi)
May 2026
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Edward Holmes
7th May at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Edward Holmes, University of Sydney, Australia Metagenomics in One Health – from detection to [...]
October 2026
Frontiers of Science: Prof. Miguel Soares
1st October 2026 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Dr. Miguel Soares, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Portugal Title TBA Host: Antonio Sousa (antonio.sousa@utu.fi) More [...]