Events

October 07

HiLIFE webinar / Biomedicum Helsinki seminar:MEDIX PRIZE OF THE MINERVA FOUNDATION 2024 - Award Ceremony and Lecture

Topic area of the lecture: Blood cancer cells evasion of killer cell therapy

 

Read the media release 7.10.2024 from https://minervafoundation.fi/news/

Host: Caj Haglund


The Medix Prize by the Minerva Foundation is an important annual award for internationally high-level Finnish medical research. The Medix Prize is, in a manner of speaking, the Finnish championship for biomedicine. This year the Medix Prize will be awarded for the 38th time.

The Medix Prize is awarded by the University of Helsinki and is donated to the university by the Minerva Foundation, which funds the Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research at Biomedicum Helsinki.


Start time: 07/10/2024 12:00
End time: 07/10/2024 13:00
Duration:
Location: Biomedicum1, lecture hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00290 Helsinki
Type: Seminar
Organization: Minerva Research Center
Contact person: cia.olsson@minervaitute.fi
October 09

Biostatistics drop-in workshop

Are you a researcher needing support with any statistical aspect of your work? The Biostatistics Consulting Service here at Meilahti Campus holds drop-in workshop sessions every other week to answer smaller questions about your analysis - solving a particular problem, how to get started, etc. We provide service in Finnish, English and Swedish.

 

The first workshop of this term is on Wednesday 9th October, at 13:00-15:00 in Biomedicum 2B, in the Olohuone on floor 6. Come whenever you can. Note that you may end up waiting a while for your turn, especially early on in the session. We aim to spend no more than 15 minutes with each customer.

 

Bring: 

·       your computer

·       your data

·       your questions

and we biostatisticians will be on hand to help and guide. 

 

Registration is not required, but you can help us prepare for your questions by filling in this form. The workshops are open to any researcher at the university's Medical Faculty, HUS or FIMM. 

The autumn's following sessions are planned for 23.10, 6.11, 20.11, 4.12 & 17.12.

 

For more in-depth questions, please book a one-on-one consultation session using this e-form where we will have time to go into more detail. 


Start time: 09/10/2024 13:00
End time: 09/10/2024 15:00
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Biomedicum 2, 6th floor lounge
Type: Other
Organization: Biostatistics Consulting Service
Contact person: biostat-consult@helsinki.fi
October 09

Special seminar by Daniel Capelluto

Structural and Regulatory Mechanisms of Endosomal Cargo Transporters

Daniel G. S. Capelluto

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, United States

Daniel Capelluto was trained in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sevilla, Spain. He has worked at Virginia Tech since 2011 and is currently an associate professor in biological Sciences. His research interest is in the biochemistry and structural biology of protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions.

Relevant publications:

Xiong, W., Roach, T.G., Ball, N., Corluka, M., Beyer, J., Brown, A.M., and Capelluto, D.G.S.* An internal linker and pH biosensing by phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate regulate the function of the ESCRT-0 component TOM1, Structure, in press (2024).

Tang TX, Hasan M., and Capelluto D.G.S.. Phafins are more than phosphoinositide-binding proteins. Int J Mol Sci 24(9), 8096 (2023).

Hasan M, Capelluto D.G.S. The PH domain and C-terminal polyD motif of Phafin2 exhibit a unique concurrence in animals. Membranes 12:696 (2022).

Roach T.G., Lång H., Xiong W., Ryhänen, S.J. and Capelluto D.G.S. Cargo trafficking or lipid signaling, a dilemma for TOM1. Front Cell and Dev Biol. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2021.643769 (2021).

Xiong W., Tang T-X., Littleton E., Karcini A., Lazar I.M., and Capelluto D.G.S.  Preferential phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate binding contributes to a destabilization of the VHS domain structure of Tom1. Sci. Rep., 9:10868 (2019).

Xiao S., Brannon M.K., Zhao X., Fread K., Ellena J.F., Bushweller J.H., Finkielstein C.V., Armstrong G., and Capelluto D.G.S. Tom1 negatively modulates binding of Tollip to phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate via a coupled folding and binding mechanism. Structure, 23: 1910-1920 (2015).





Start time: 09/10/2024 15:00
End time: 09/10/2024 16:00
Duration:
Location: Biomedicum 1, meeting room 8-9
Type: Seminar
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: helja.lang@helsinki.fi
October 11

Dissertation: Vignesh Srinivasan

Vignesh Srinivasan, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Medicine, Doctoral Programme in Biomedicine

Novel roles of the protein deubiquitinase USP14 in proteostasis regulation and cell stress responses

Opponent: Professor Nico Dantuma, Karolinska Institute
Start time: 11/10/2024 12:00
End time: 11/10/2024 14:00
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Haartman Institute, lecture hall 1, Haartmaninkatu 3, 00290 Helsinki
Type: Dissertation
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: vignesh.srinivasan@helsinki.fi
October 11

Disseration: Heta Huttunen

Heta Huttunen,  University of Helsinki, Faculty of MedicineDoctoral Program in Clinical Research
Endocrine and Genetic Determinants of Pubertal Timing and Growth in Pediatric Population

Opponent: professor Harri Niinikoski, University of Turku



Start time: 11/10/2024 12:00
End time: 11/10/2024 14:00
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Naistenklinikka, Seth Wichmann -sali, Haartmaninkatu 2
Type: Dissertation
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: heta.huttunen@helsinki.fi