We regret to inform you that due to the concerns in regard of the COVID-19 epidemic, the Viikki Monday Seminars scheduled between March - May 2020 have been cancelled.
Organizer: Juha Saarikangas, juha.saarikangas@helsinki.fi, tel. +358 40 539 5894
Mikko Taipale, University of Toronto, Canada
Engineering toxins for membrane receptor discovery
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Juha Saarikangas
Marjo Saastamoinen, University of Helsinki
Environmental stress in natural populations – from genes to communities
Life-history evolution
@Marjo__S
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Rose Thorogood
Leonardo Almeida-Souza, University of Helsinki
How to build an actin network at endocytic sites
Endocytic cytoskeleton biology
@Leonardo_ASouza
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Juha Saarikangas
Leopold Parts, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
Variation in gene essentiality in yeast and humans
Function of human DNA and its variation
@LeopoldParts
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Ville Mustonen
Torgny Näsholm, University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Nitrogen nutrition of boreal forests
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Heljä-Sisko Helmisaari
Jari Koistinaho, University of Helsinki
Modelling the role of astrocytes in brain diseases using human iPSC-derived cells
Biological Modelling of Human Brain and Mind in Disease - Jari Koistinaho
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Juha Saarikangas
Murat Eren, University of Chicago, USA
Mosquitoes, bacteria, and the hidden gems of the mobilome: a high-resolution microbial 'omics story
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Jenni Hultman
Maria Kasper, Karolinska Institut, Sweden
Molecular anatomy of skin during hair growth and regeneration
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Marja Mikkola
Chris Jiggins, University of Cambridge, UK
Constructive role for hybridisation in butterfly evolution
Chris Jiggins homepage
@mel_rosina
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Anniina Mattila
Geert Kops, Utrecht University, Holland
Disjointed genomes: On chromosome segregation fidelity in health and disease
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Mikko Frilander
Giulia Zanetti, University of London
Cryo-electron tomography studies of COPII-mediated membrane remodelling
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Sarah Butcher
Patrick Mehlen, Centre Léon Bérard, France
The dependence receptor notion: from an original mechansim of cell death to the clinical assessment in patients with advanced solid cancers
Dependence receptors, cancer and development
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Hosts: Mart Saarma / Merja Voutilainen
Tim Clausen, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
There is a MEG in ubiquitin waters
Molecular mechanisms of protein quality control
@clausen_lab
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Tommi Kajander
Eric Post, UC Davis, USA
The Arctic in a two-degree warmer world
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Elina Kaarlejärvi
John LaCava, European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, Netherlands
Driving biological discovery: An expanding toolkit for affinity proteomics
John LaCava homepage
@macro_momo
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Cory Dunn
Pawel Burkhardt, University of Bergen
The evolutionary origin of synapses and neurons
Burkhardt Group
@Pawel_Burkhardt
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Kaia Achim
Michael Kasumovic, University of New South Wales
Why we should all study (and play) video games - an exploration of human evolution and behaviour
Michael Kasumovic homepage
@mkasumovic
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Tuomas Aivelo
Gerhardt Schratt, ETH Zurich
Non-coding RNA function in synapse development, plasticity and behaviour
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Andrii Domanskyi
Éric Karsenti, Tara Expeditions and EMBL Heidelberg
Tara Oceans Expedition: Global data to explore plankton diversity, community changes and evolution
Éric Karsenti homepage
@TaraOcean_
Location: Viikki Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041
Host: Juha Saarikangas