Seminar series
On this page you will find information on seminar series on topics of interest for ILS students.
Cell Biology Club
The Cell Biology Club seminar series will be organized on selected Thursdays at 14.15-15.30 in Zoom
Program Spring 2022:
7th of April
Hoiying Tsang (Hongxia Zhao’s group)
Title: Generation of liver organoids from human induced pluripotent stem cells as liver fibrosis and steatosis models.
5th of May
Reena Kumari (Pekka Lappalainen’s group)
Title: Functionally distinct tropomyosin-actin filaments control focal adhesion organization and dynamics
2th June
Leena Kontturi (Juha Saarikangas’s group)
Title: The role of endoplasmic reticulum in dendritic spine individualization
Bina Prajapati (Maria Vartiainen’s group)
Title: CCG-1423 derived inhibitors are general transcription inhibitors.
Organiser: Dr Hongxia Zhao
See also WebOodi: ILS-113 and ILS-114
Molecules Club
Molecules Clubs are up and running and organized in Zoom.
The Structural Biology and Biophysics (SBB) Molecules Club has been held monthly (since Autumn 2016), normally on Tuesdays 9.15-10 am, and feature the talks from Viikki campus research groups on molecular biosciences and structural biology and biophysics, as well as from invited guest speakers. The club is held in Biocenter 3 3rd floor, seminar room 3401 (unless otherwise specified). The meetings are open to all. Credits will be available for students on request (ILS-129 Molecules Club).
Updated programme in SBB MOLECULES CLUB wiki page
ILS-109 Stem cells and developmental biology journal club (former Developmental biology journal club)
The journal clubs are organized on selected Thursdays at 9-10.
All speakers and participants: please follow the instructions below when preparing your presentation. (Instructions coming soon.)
Presentation schedule spring 2022:
27.01. Pauli Tikka (Balic lab)
17.02. workshop: recent science advances
24.02. no seminar
03.03. Sonja Nykänen (Vuoristo lab)
10.03. Stem Cell seminar: different Zoom link! (sent in seminar notification e-mails)
17.03. Kaisa Ikkala (Michon lab)
24.03. Rishi das Roy (Jernvall lab)
31.03. no seminar
07.04. workshop: science popularisation
14.04. no seminar (Easter)
21.04. Claudius Kratochwil
28.04. TBA
05.05. Stem Cell seminar: different Zoom link! (sent in seminar notification e-mails)
Course Moodle for materials and info: https://moodle.helsinki.fi/course/view.php?id=38913
ILS-109 Instructions for participants.
Credits: maximum 2 ECTS
Organizer: Dr. Kaia Achim (kaia.achim(at)helsinki.fi)
Genome Club (ILS-130)
Genome Club is organized on selected Thursdays at 15:15 Biocenter 3, room 3402
Genome Club schedule
| Date | Presenter | Talk title | Lab affiliation |
| Oct. 21st | Alexander Lecomte | Comparison of intestinal phage populations present in the gut microbiota of Parkinson’s disease patients and control population. | Petri Auvinen |
| Nov. 25th | Wei Chang | “Detoxifying faba bean” | Alan Schulman |
| Dec.16th | Mariia Shcherbii | TBA | Mikko Frilander |
| Jan 20th | Ehsan Pashay Ahi | TBA | Craig Primmer |
| Feb17th | TBD | ||
| Mar 24th | TBD | ||
| Apr 21st | TBD | ||
| May 19th | Muktai Kuwalekar | Claudius Kratochwil | |
| June 23rd | TBD | TBD |
Credits: 1-2 credits, max 2 credits. Presentation equals to 1 ECTS. Participation in at least 20 seminars equals to 1 ECTS.
Organizer: Susana Garcia, susanamaria.garcia@helsinki.fi