Seminar Program

All times are EET (UTC+2), Finnish time

Wednesday 24 February 2021

Please note that Wednesday’s program is for GenomMed and BioMEP early stage researchers only!

11:30-12:00 Testing connections

12:00-12:10 Opening, Heli Kaarniemi, Tiina Juurela (Center for Continuous Learning, UEF)

12:10-12.40 Talk & discussion “What does biotech industry offer and expect from doctoral degree level positions?”, Professor of Practice Juha Yrjänheikki, UEF and Aurealis Therapeutics

12:45-13:15 Lecture “Identification of personal competences”, Heli Kaarniemi (Center for Continuous Learning, UEF)

13:15- 14:45 “Recognizing transferable skills”, hands-on practice in small groups

14:45-15:00 Break

15:00- 16:30 Lecture “From personal skills to work opportunities?”, Tiina Juurela, Terhi Keltanen (Center for Continuous Learning, UEF)

16:30-17:00 Discussion “How can I advance my career right now?”

Thursday 25 February 2021

12:00-12:10 Welcome, Directors of GenomMed and BioMEP

12:10-12:55 Plenary lecture, Body on-chip systems for future personalized medicine, Prof. Jari Hyttinen, BioMEP, Tampere University

12:55-13:55 Session 1, Chairs: Natallie Kajevu and Jaakko Syrjälä

• • • Lenka Dvořáková, GenomMed, Dynamic functional connectivity assessment of  traumatic brain injury in rats
    • Flavia Scoyni, GenomMed, Non-coding RNAs network as potential therapeutic targets for central nervous system diseases
    • Barbara Genocchi, BioMEP, Simulation of astrocytic roles in neural networks and hyperactivity
    • Dao Nguyen, BioMEP, Trajectory Optimization for Robot Arm in controlling the stimulation coil in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

13:55-14:15 Break

14:15-15:30 Session 2, Chairs: Ratika Sehgal and Vahid Farrahi

• • • Lingwei Huang, BioMEP, Osteochondral modifications during the development of post-traumatic osteoarthritis in a rabbit model
    • Shuvashis Das Gupta, BioMEP, Developing novel micro-imaging tools to assess calcified cartilage: implications for better understanding of osteoarthritis
    • Simone Adinolfi, GenomMed, Nrf2 as regulator of metabolic pathways
    • Golestan Karami, BioMEP, Survival Time Prediction of Brain Tumor Patients by an end-to-end Attention-based multitask 3D CNN
    • Sumanta Samanta, BioMEP, Engineering Glycosaminoglycan Derived Hydrogels and Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

15:30-15:45 Break

15:45-16:45 Session 3, Chairs: Juan Miguel Valverde and Thomas Notermans

• • • Hannah Rostalski, GenomMed, Effects of the C9orf72 repeat expansion on neurodegeneration
    • Rebekka Wittrahm, GenomMed, Elucidating molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease-associated risk genes
    • Yike Huang, BioMEP, A DNA origami-based platform for characterizing aptamers
    • Aarthi Ravindran, GenomMed, Translating Ribosome Affinity Purification Identifies Markers of Atherosclerosis-Associated Smooth Muscle Cells

Friday 26 February 2021

12:00-12:45 Plenary lecture, Machine learning in neuroimaging, Prof. Jussi Tohka, GenomMed, University of Eastern Finland

12:45-13:45 Session 4, Chairs: Rebekka Wittrahm and Yike Huang

• • • Gustavo Orozco, BioMEP, Computational modeling of articular cartilage: predicting post-traumatic knee osteoarthritis
    • Thomas Notermans, BioMEP, Computational modeling of Achilles tendon biomechanics and mechanobiology
    • Juan Miguel Valverde, GenomMed, Rodent MRI brain segmentation
    • Joeri Kok, BioMEP, Biomechanical analysis of hip fracture risk prediction, prevention, and repair

13:45-14:00 Break

14:00-15:30 Session 5, Chairs: Simone Adinolfi and Shuvashis Das Gupta

• • • Vahid Farrahi, BioMEP,  How adults should distribute their time in the 24-hour day between sleep, sedentary behaviors, and physical activities for a more favorable cardiometabolic health profile? Findings from NFBC1966 device-based measurement of daily activities
    • Mustafa Beter, GenomMed, Epigenetic Modulation of Angiogenesis
    • Ratika Sehgal, GenomMed, Deciphering the systemic and molecular interactions of nutrient-related metabolites in individuals with NASH
    • Amir Esrafilian, BioMEP, An EMG-assisted Muscle-Force Driven Finite Element Analysis Pipeline to Investigate Multiscale Knee Joint Mechanics in Functional Movements: Towards a Rapid Multiscale Modeling Toolbox
    • Bhanu Prasad Bandlamudi, GenomMed, Disease modelling of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy using patient-derived iPSC-CMs
    • Rowmika Ravi, GenomMed, Exploring at molecular level in Finnish population – The Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, a thick heart wall disorder

15:30-15:45 Break

15:45-16:45 Session 6, Chairs: Flavia Scoyni and Dao Nguyen

• • • Jaakko Syrjälä, BioMEP, Phase coupling of neuronal oscillations in working memory
    • Natallie Kajevu, GenomMed, Systems biology—based drug repositioning to promote recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury: in vitro and in vivo validation
    • Ruhunur Özdemir, BioMEP, A connectivity study on anterior nucleolus of the thalamus deep brain stimulation surgery (ANT-DBS) in epilepsy
    • Nataliia Martyniuk, BioMEP, Resolving functional connections between visually guided behavior and the retinal signals in dim light