Events
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 next workshop is on Wednesday 19th March, 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 following sessions are planned for 2nd April, 16th April, 30th April, 14th May and 28th May.
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.
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Teaching Demonstrations of the Docentship Applicants
Docentship applicants give a demonstration of teaching skills as part of their application process. Demonstrations of teaching skills are open for all faculty members and students. Warmly welcome!
Program:
Minerva Seminar by Professor Matthew Grubb
Strikingly different neurotransmitter release strategies in dopaminergic subclasses
Professor Matthew
Grubb
Centre for Developmental Neurobiology
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN)
King's College London
London SE1 1UL, UK
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Dr Matthew Grubb is a professor at Kings College London where he leads his
research team. The lab is interested in activity-dependent neuronal maturation,
with special emphasis on glomerular circuits in the olfactory bulb and the axon
initial segment. Due to his seminal work in axon initial plasticity in past, he
will serve as an opponent for David Micinski´s defense after his seminar at 12.
Matt has been an inaugural Scholar of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence for
years 2014-2018, now being an active member of the alumni network.
Neuronal function is intimately tied to axodendritic polarity. Neurotransmitter
release, for example, is usually the role of the axon. There are widespread
exceptions to this rule, however, including many mammalian neuronal types that
can release neurotransmitter from their dendrites. In the mouse olfactory bulb,
closely related subclasses of dopaminergic interneuron differ markedly in their
polarity, with one subtype lacking an axon entirely. These axon-bearing and
anaxonic dopaminergic subclasses have distinct developmental profiles and
sensory responses, but how their fundamental polarity differences translate to
functional outputs remains entirely unknown. Here, we provide anatomical
evidence for distinct neurotransmitter release strategies among these closely
related dopaminergic subtypes: anaxonic cells release from their dendrites,
while axon-bearing neurons release exclusively from their intermittently
myelinated axon. These structural differences are linked to a clear functional
distinction: anaxonic, but not axon-bearing dopaminergic neurons are capable of
self-inhibition. Our findings suggest that variations in polarity can produce
striking distinctions in neuronal outputs, and that even closely related
neuronal subclasses may play entirely separate roles in sensory information
processing.
Prof. Grubb will be the opponent of MSc David Micinski’s PhD thesis “The Actin Cytoskeleton and Axon Initial Segment Function” in the Faculty Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki. The public examination will take place in Biomedicum Helsinki 1, lecture hall 3, Haartmaninkatu 8, Friday, March 21st, at 13:00.
Dissertation: Anniina Palm
Opponent: Professor Roy Kessels, Radboud University