Welcome to Viikki Campus for the seminars every Monday at 15:15. The lectures are also streamed via Unitube
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Organizer: Juha Saarikangas, juha.saarikangas@helsinki.fi, tel. +358 40 539 5894
Viikki Monday Seminars Spring 2019
Jan-07
Jason Munshi-South, Fordham University, USA
Evolution of life in urban environments: city-dwelling rodents as a case study
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Tuomas Aivelo
Jan-14
Carl G. Gahmberg, University of Helsinki
Leukocyte adhesion – a complex but fascinating molecular story
Leukocyte adhesion and signalling
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Juha Saarikangas
Jan-21
Simone Reber, Humboldt University, Germany
How Complexity Arises from Molecular Interactions
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Juha Saarikangas
Jan-28
Tara Hessa, Stockholm University, Sweden
Measuring co-tranlastional folding via arrest peptides
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Ville Paavilainen
Feb-04
Tracy Heath, Iowa State University, USA
Bayesian Phylogenetic Methods for Synthesizing Paleontological and Neontological Data
Dr. Tracy A Heath homepage
@trayc7
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Jacqueline Moustakas-Verho
Feb-11
Luca Jovine, Karoliniska Institutet, Sweden
Molecular Sex - How Sperm Binds to the Egg at the Atomic Level
Location: Auditorium 2041, Biocenter 2
Host: Pekka Katajisto
Feb-18
Anu Wartiovaara, University of Helsinki
Metabolic stress responses to mitochondrial disease: keys to mechanisms and treatment
Location: Auditorium 2041, Biocenter 2
Host: Juha Saarikangas
Feb-25
Dario Valenzano, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany
African killifishes shed light on the evolution and modulation of vertebrate lifespan
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Jukka-Pekka Verta
Mar-04
Luisa Figueiredo, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
African trypanosomes: masters of adaption to the environment
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Cory Dunn
Mar-11
Merja Voutilainen, University of Helsinki
Therapeutic effects of CDNF and its variants in neurodegenerative diseases
Regenerative Neuroscience
@MerjaVoutilain5
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Ville Paavilainen
Mar-18
Seth Bordenstein, Vanderbilt University, USA
The Microbial World of Animals
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Hosts: Anne Duplouy and Jonna kulmuni
Mar-25
Jan Roelof van der Meer, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
The evolution of evolvability in bacterial horizontal gene transfer
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Marko Virta
Apr-01
Luisa Cochella, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
Roles of miRNAs in animal development: lessons from C. elegans
Luisa Cochella homepage
@LCochella
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Cory Dunn
Melissa Caimano, University of Connecticut, USA
Understanding the RpoS sigma factor ‘Gatekeeper’ function for survival of Borrelia burgdorferi in ticks and mice
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Anamaria Balic
Apr-15
Roozbeh Kiani, New York University, USA
Computational properties and neural mechanisms of long-term integration of evidence for flexible decision-making
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Petri Ala-Laurila
Apr-29
Charles Delwiche, University of Maryland, USA
Colonizing the land: basal streptophyte transcriptomes and fundamental plant biology
Charles Delwiche homepage
@cdelwiche
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Jaakko Hyvönen
May-06
Adam Frost, UCSF, USA
How do mitochondria divide? A fresh look at a Dynamin-family GTPase
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Ville Paavilainen
May-13
Corrie Moreau, Cornell University, USA
Ants, Plants, and Bacteria: Symbiosis as a Driver of Evolutionary Diversification
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Sanja Hakala and Jacqueline Moustakas-Verho
May-20
Bernd Bukau, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Mechanisms of folding and assembly of newly synthesized proteins studied by ribosome profiling
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2
Host: Brendan Battersby
May-24
Jack Taunton, UCSF, USA
Chemical biology of proteostasis
Location: Auditorium 2041, Biocenter 2 at 12.00
Host: Ville Paavilainen
Jun-11
David Sabatini, MIT, USA
mTOR and lysosomes in growth control
Location: Infocenter Korona Auditorium 1 at 14:00
Host: Pekka Katajisto
Jun-17
Gregor Anderluh, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia
“Crucial role of sphingolipids in Nep1-like protein – plant membrane interactions”
Location: Auditorium 1041, Biocenter 2 at 14:00
Host: Tapani Viitala