DPMM Doctoral Researcher Seminar Series
Doctoral Programme in Molecular Medicine (DPMM) Doctoral Researcher Seminar Series is a collaborative initiative between doctoral researchers from the A.I. Virtanen Institute and the Institute of Biomedicine, and aims to provide a platform for all DPMM researchers to present their research to a larger audience and also to collaborate.
In each monthly seminar, there will be a presentation from one doctoral researcher from AIVI and one from Biomedicine. Following each seminar, a small social get-together is organized for participants to continue the discussion in a more informal setting.
The seminars are open to everyone interested. For more information, please contact Doctoral researcher Johanna Matilainen (johanna.matilainen(at)uef.fi).
Welcome!
Schedule for spring 2024
Wednesday 12.6.2024 14:00-15:00 (3208 seminar room, Bioteknia1) host Konstantin Ivanov (Biomed)
PI seminar: Ville Paakinaho – Transcription factor crosstalk defines the role of glucocorticoid receptor in prostate cancer
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Past seminars
6.9.2023, 14:00 – 15:00 (SN300, Snellmania), host Johanna Matilainen (Biomed)
Valtteri Nurminen: “Mapping the Cellular Composition of Vascular Tissues Affected by Cardiovascular Disease Using Spatial Transcriptomics”.
Heli Jeskanen: “Mechanistic elucidation of Alzheimer′s disease-associated genetic variants”.
5.10.2023, 14:00 – 15:00 (3208 seminar room, Bioteknia 1), host TBA (AIVI)
Heidi Pulkkinen: “Gene Therapy for Coronary Artery Disease – BMP2 Gene Transfer in Ischemic Pig Myocardium”
Kseniia Bureiko: “Machine learning based modeling of transcriptional responses to glucocorticoid”
Wednesday 1.11.2023, 14:00 – 15:00 (SN210, Snellmania), host Konstantin Ivanov (Biomed)
Adriana Della Pietra: “Pro-nociceptive role of Piezo 1 channels and the anti-nociceptive effects of endocannabinoids in the trigeminal system implicated in migraine pain”
Andrea Hanel: “Impact of sex hormones on the developing immune system at single cell resolution”
Wednesday 8.11.2023 14:00-15:00 (SN300, Snellmania), host: Bernardo Moreira Soares
PI Seminar: Prof. Tarja Malm
Tuesday 5.12.2023, 14:00 – 15:00 (3208 seminar room, Bioteknia 1), host: Mireia Gomez-Budia
Nadine Huber: “Molecular mechanisms of synaptic dysfunction in frontotemporal dementia”
Ana Hernández de Sande: “Study of miRNA gene expression at single-cell resolution”
Wednesday 13.12.2023, 14:00-15:00 (3208 seminar room, Bioteknia 1), host: Sini Pitkänen (AIVI)
PI Seminar: Research Director Leena Latonen (Biomedicine) – “Multimodal view to cancer in time and space – dissecting molecular and tissue mechanisms of prostate cancer”
Wednesday 10.1.2024, 14:00-15:00 (SN210, Snellmania)
PI Seminar: Baran Aydogan (AIV Institute) –
Wednesday 17.1.2024 14:00-15:00 (SN300, Snellmania), host Heikki Kyykallio (Biomedicine)
Tomi Hietanen – “Assessing iPSC-microglia from FTD patients carrying the C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion”
Tero Sievänen – “The associations of circulating microRNAs and lifestyle habits with colorectal cancer incidence among Finnish Lynch syndrome carriers”
Wednesday 7.2.2024 14:00 – 15:00 (3208 seminar room, Bioteknia 1), host: Ahmed Mohamed (AIVI)
Mohammad Rezaie – “A P300 based BCI speller system with error correction capability”
Kim Lesch – “Balance assessment methods and application”
Wednesday 14.2.2024 14:00-15:00 (3208 seminar room, Bioteknia 1), host TBA (AIVI)
PI seminar: Einari Niskanen – TBA
Wednesday 6.3.2024 14:00-15:00 (SN210, Snellmania), host: Kaisa Mäki-Mantila (Biomed)
Lenka Dvorakova – “Whole brain responses to visual and auditory stimuli in anesthetized and awake mice enabled by a novel quiet fMRI”
Arindam Ghosh – “Network-driven assessment of efficacy and safety for identification of cancer drug combinations”
Wednesday 13.3.2024 14:00-15:00 (SN210, Snellmania), host: Bernardo Moreira Soares (Biomed)
PI seminar: Anna-Liisa Levonen – TBA
Thursday 4.4.2024 14:00-15:00 (3208 seminar room, Bioteknia 1), host TBA (AIVI)
Omar Narvaez Delgado – “Multidimensional diffusion-relaxation MRI: beyond the voxel resolution”
Sonja Koivukoski – “Unstained tissue imaging and virtual HE-staining of whole slide images”
Wednesday 10.4.2024 14:00-15:00 (3208 seminar room, Bioteknia 1), host TBA (AIVI)
PI seminar: Sanna Pasonen-Seppänen – “Dynamic interplay between stroma and cancer cells in tumor microenvironment“
Thursday 2.5.2024 14:00-15:00 (SN201, Snellmania), host: Johanna Matilainen (Biomed)
Sara Kälvälä – “Characterization of a novel midbrain organoid slice culture model for studying molecular mechanisms in synucleinopathies”
Roosa-Maria Willman – “TMEM106B in neurodegeneration and microglial function”
Wednesday 8.5.2024 14:00-15:00 (SN210, Biomed), host: Bernardo Moreira Soares (Biomed)
PI seminar: Juzoh Umemori – “Optical induction of neural plasticity for neuropsychiatry and neurodegenerative disorders”
Wednesday 5.6.2024 14:00-15:00 (3208 seminar room, Bioteknia 1), Sini Pitkänen (AIVI)
Sohvi Ohtonen – “Traffic-related diesel-exhaust particles impairs the lysosomal functions of human iPSC-derived microglia”
Kirsi Kainulainen – TBA