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Organizer: Juha Saarikangas, juha.saarikangas@helsinki.fi, tel. +358 40 539 5894
Liam Dolan, University of Oxford, UK
"Development and evolution of land plant rooting systems"
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Ari-Pekka Mähönen
Shahid Naeem, Columbia University, USA
"Biodiversity as a Multidimensional Construct"
Locations and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Elina Roine
Detlev Arendt, EMBL, Germany
"The evolutionary origin of the nervous system: a cell type perspective"
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Tapio Heino
Olli Silvennoinen, University of Helsinki
"Regulation of cytokine signalling: A closer look at the JAK pseudokinase domain"
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Marja Mikkola
Jussi Jäntti, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
"Engineering biology: Opportunities generated by novel gene expression regulation tools"
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Juha Saarikangas
Joe Tsien, Augusta University, USA
"On the Brain’s Real-time Coding: From Spike-timing to Self-Information Neural Code"
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Giuliano Didio / Brain&Mind students
Mark Daly, University of Helsinki / Broad Institute
"Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine at FIMM: Local Translation and Global Discovery"
The Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Juha Saarikangas
Tara Hessa, Stockholm University, Sweden
"Measuring co-tralastional folding via arrest peptides"
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Ville Paavilainen
Michael Desai, Harvard University, USA
"Rapid Evolution in Microbial Populations"
Evolutionary Dynamics and Population Genetics
Location and time: Auditorium 2041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Teppo Hiltunen
Kari Alitalo, University of Helsinki
"Translational insights into vascular growth factors"
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Mart Saarma
Danijela Vignjevic, Curie Institut, France.
"Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion"
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Maria Vartiainen
Oliver Mühlemann, University of Bern, Switzerland
"Nonsense-mediate mRNA decay in human cells: mechanistic insights and biological importance"
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Mikko Frilander
Yana Kamberov, University of Pennsylvania, USA
"How to be human: uncovering the genetic drivers of human uniqueness and diversity"
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Marja Mikkola and Johanna Englund
Rose Thorogood, Universities of Helsinki and Cambridge
"Exploring gene-culture coevolution in the wild"
Location and time: Auditorium 2, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Juha Saarikangas
Maya Schuldiner, Weizmann Institute, Israel
"No organelle is an island - systematic characterisation of contact sites"
Functional genomics of organelles
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Ville Paavilainen
Jessica Polka, ASAPbio
"Transparency in scientific publishing: preprints and open peer review"
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Ville Paavilainen
Malin Parmar, Lund University, Sweden
"Developing a stem cell based therapy for Parkinsons Disease"
Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Andrii Domanskyi
Sara Wickström, University of Helsinki and the Max Planck Institute
"Regulation of stem cell fate through niche interactions and mechanical forces"
Stem cells and tissue architecture
Location and time: Auditorium 1041, Viikki Biocenter 2 at 15:15
Host: Juha Saarikangas