Events

October 08

Dissertation: Jatta Salmela

​Jatta Salmela, Faculty of Medicine, Doctoral Programme in Population Health
Socioeconomic circumstances from childhood to adulthood and body mass index trajectories - A Finnish occupational cohort study

Opponent: docent Marjaana Lahti-Koski, Suomen Sydänliitto



Start time: 08/10/2021 12:00
End time: 08/10/2021 14:00
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Haartman Institute, lecture hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 3, 00290 Helsinki
Type: Dissertation
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: jatta.salmela@helsinki.fi
October 08

Dissertation: Robert Björkenheim

​Robert Björkenheim, Faculty of Medicine, Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research
Bioactive glass S53P4 scaffolds : a preclinical study of S53P4 scaffolds and their potential use as a bone graft substitute in an induced membrane technique

Opponent: Professor Gerhard Schmidmaier, University of Heidelberg



Start time: 08/10/2021 12:00
End time: 08/10/2021 14:00
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Töölön Sairaala, luentosali 1, Topeliuksenkatu 5
Type: Dissertation
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: robert.bjorkenheim@hus.fi
October 08

Dissertation: Kirsi Laukkanen

​Kirsi Laukkanen, Faculty of Medicine, Doctoral Programme in Integrative Biociences
Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma pathogenesis : extracellular vesicles, syncytin-1, and metabolites

Opponent: professor Veli-Matti Kähäri, University of Turku



Start time: 08/10/2021 12:00
End time: 08/10/2021 14:00
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Biomedicum1, lecture hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00290 Helsinki
Type: Dissertation
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: kirsi.laukkanen@helsinki.fi
October 08

Dissertation: Kul Shrestha

​Kul Shrestha, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Doctoral Programme in Integrative Biosciences
Tissue-specific genetic and epigenetic alterations in Mlh1 heterozygous tissues

Opponent: Associate Professor Francesca Cole, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas


Start time: 08/10/2021 13:00
End time: 08/10/2021 15:00
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Porthania PII, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki
Type: Dissertation
Organization: UH, Faculty of Bioogical and Environmental Sciences
Contact person: kul.shrestha@helsinki.fi
October 11

HiLIFE Webinar: Britt Koskella

Friends, Foes and Phages in the Phyllosphere

Britt Koskella is an Associate Professor in Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work explores the importance of the bacteria and viruses making up the microbiome in shaping plant health, ecology, and evolution. She received her BA from the University of Virginia in 2001 and her PhD from Indiana University in 2018, and subsequently held postdoctoral and independent research fellowships in both the US (funded by the NSF) and UK (funded by NERC) at Oxford University and the University of Exeter. She combines laboratory experimental evolution with studies of natural diversity to determine when and how phages impact microbial diversity, focusing primarily on the plant phyllosphere (above ground). More recently she has been exploring both how and why the microbiome associated with plants shapes pathogen establishment and disease progression, and has demonstrated that plant microbiomes can be selected upon to be better adapted to their hosts.  

Welcome to this exciting webinar!  
Camila Souza Beraldo
 
Selected publications
Debray, R., Herbert, R. A., Jaffe, A. L., Crits-Christoph, A., Power, M. E., & Koskella, B. (2021). Priority effects in microbiome assembly. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 1-13.

Hernandez, C. A., Salazar, A. J., & Koskella, B. (2020). Bacteriophage-Mediated Reduction of Bacterial Speck on Tomato Seedlings. PHAGE, 1(4), 205-212.

Koskella, B. (2020). The phyllosphere. Current Biology, 30(19), R1143-R1146.

Morella, N. M., Weng, F. C. H., Joubert, P. M., Metcalf, C. J. E., Lindow, S., & Koskella, B. (2020). Successive passaging of a plant-associated microbiome reveals robust habitat and host genotype-dependent selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(2), 1148-1159.

Start time: 11/10/2021 12:00
End time: 11/10/2021 13:00
Duration:
Location: remotely
Type: Webinar
Organization: Helsinki Institute of Life Science HiLIFE
Contact person: hilife-seminars@helsinki.fi