Events

October 28

Dissertation: Maarit Ahava

​Maarit Ahava, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Medicine, Doctoral Programme in Biomedicine
Clinical microbiology in the time of COVID-19 : Evaluation and application of SARS-CoV-2 laboratory diagnostics

Opponent: docent Eeva Broberg, European Centre for Disease Prevention



Start time: 28/10/2022 12:00
End time: 28/10/2022 14:00
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Haartman Institute, lecture hall 1, Haartmaninkatu 3, 00290 Helsinki
Type: Dissertation
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: maarit.ahava@hus.fi
October 28

Dissertation: Pihla Tommiska

​Pihla Tommiska, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Hospital, Doctoral Program in Clinical Research
Chronic Subdural Hematoma - Epidemiology, Mortality and Risk of Recurrence

Opponent: professor, MD, MBA Isabelle M. Germano, Department of Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital

Start time: 28/10/2022 12:00
End time: 28/10/2022 14:00
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Töölön Sairaala, luentosali 1, Topeliuksenkatu 5
Type: Dissertation
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: pihla.tommiska@helsinki.fi
October 31

HiLIFE webinar / Viikki Monday Seminar: Iruka Okeke

Insights from the genomes of bloodstream pathogens from Nigeria's Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System 

Iruka Okeke is Professor of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and a Calestous Juma Science Leadership Fellow at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.  Her research group uses microbiology, genetic and genomic methods to investigate the mechanisms bacteria use to colonize humans, cause disease and gain drug resistance.  She also studies laboratory practice in Africa and contributes to collaborative genomic surveillance for antimicrobial resistance.  Iruka has authored several scientific articles as well as the books Divining Without Seeds:  The case for strengthening laboratory medicine in Africa (Cornell) and Genetics:  Genes, Genomes and Evolution (Oxford).  She is a Fellow of the Nigerian and African Academies of Science.   

Twitter: @iruka_okeke 


Welcome to this exciting seminar!  

Fred Asiegbu 


Selected publications: 

Okeke IN, Aboderin AO, Egwuenu A, Underwood A, Afolayan AO, Kekre M, Oaikhena AO, Odih EE, Omotayo HT, Dada-Adegbola H, Ogunleye VO, Ikhimiukor OO, Aanensen DM, Ihekweazu C. Establishing a national reference laboratory for antimicrobial resistance using a whole-genome sequencing framework: Nigeria's experience. Microbiology (Reading). 2022 Aug;168(8). doi: 10.1099/mic.0.001208. PMID: 35980376. 

Afolayan AO, Oaikhena AO, Aboderin AO, Olabisi OF, Amupitan AA, Abiri OV, Ogunleye VO, Odih EE, Adeyemo AT, Adeyemo AT, Obadare TO, Abrudan M, Argimón S, David S, Kekre M, Underwood A, Egwuenu A, Ihekweazu C, Aanensen DM, Okeke IN; NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Genomic Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance. Clones and Clusters of Antimicrobial-Resistant Klebsiella From Southwestern Nigeria. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Dec 1;73(Suppl_4):S308-S315. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab769. PMID: 34850837; PMCID: PMC8634535. 

Okeke IN. Twenty steps to ingrain power asymmetry in global health biomedical research. PLoS Biol. 2021 Sep 30;19(9):e3001411. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001411. PMID: 34591836; PMCID: PMC8483766. 

Monárrez R, Braun M, Coburn-Flynn O, Botelho J, Odetoyin BW, Otero-Vera JI, Quartey NKE, Peixe L, Aboderin AO, Okeke IN. A large self-transmissible resistance plasmid from Nigeria contains genes that ameliorate a carrying cost. Sci Rep. 2019 Dec 23;9(1):19624. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-56064-z. PMID: 31873110; PMCID: PMC6927977. 




Start time: 31/10/2022 13:00
End time: 31/10/2022 14:00
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Raisio Hall, Forest Science Building, Latokartanonkaari 7, Helsinki
Type: Seminar
Organization: Helsinki Institute of Life Science HiLIFE
Contact person: hilife-seminars@helsinki.fi
November 02

Metabolomics symposium

We’re pleased to invite you to face-to-face Metabolomics Symposium 2-3 November. See the full program below and the flyer attached!

 

PLEASE REGISTER HERE: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/119388/lomake.html

 

Students, come and earn credits!


SCHEDULE

Wednesday 2nd Nov MEILAHTI Biomedicum, Hall 3, Haartmaninkatu 8
9.15-9.20 Opening words by Prof. Teemu Teeri, PI of the Metabo-HiLIFE Metabolomics Platform

TOPIC 1 Metabolomics data analysis​
9.20-10.05 Hans Stenlund, Umeå University, SWE: “Chemometrics in Metabolomics – what, how and why”
coffee
10.30-11.15 Kati Hanhineva, UTU: “Notame-pipeline in food and nutritional metabolomics data-analysis”
11.15-12.00 Zhixu Ni, TU Dresden, GER: ”LC-MS based (epi)Lipidomics data analysis and integration workflows”

 

LUNCH (own expense) 

 

TOPIC 2 MS-based imaging - DESI & SIMS
13.30-14.15 John Fletcher, University of Gothenburg, SWE: “Secondary ion mass spectrometry – making the leap from semiconductors to biology”
14.15-15.00 Ingela Lanekoff, Uppsala University, SWE: "Quantitative mass spectrometry imaging with nano-DESI"
15.00-15.30 Wei Rao, Waters: "High resolution mass spectrometry imaging of metabolites with DESI and MALDI"
coffee
MS-based imaging - MALDI
15:45-16.15 Seppo Auriola, UEF: ”MALDI imaging mass spectrometry in ocular drug research”
16:15-16.45 Andras Kiss, Bruker: "MALDI Mass Spectrometry Imaging is more than pretty images"


Thursday 3rd Nov VIIKKI Biocenter 2, Hall 2041, Viikinkaari 5

TOPIC 3 LIPIDOMICS
9.15-10.15 Kim Ekroos, Lipidomics Consulting: “Lipidomics - A Central Field for Advancing Human Health”
coffee

10.45-11.15 Martjin Molenaar, Utrecht University, NL: "LION/web: a web-suite for lipidomics data analysis"

11.15-11.45 Satu Lehti, JYU: “High density cholesterol changes across menopausal change”
11.45-12.15 Cagakan Ozbalci, SCIEX: "Advancements for metabolomics and lipidomics workflows on ZenoToF 7600"

 

LUNCH (own expense)

 

TOPIC 4 FLUXOMICS AND METABOLIC PROFILING
13.30-14.30 Roland Nilsson, Karolinska Institutet, SWE: “Towards systematic metabolic flux analysis in human cells and tissues”
14.30-15.00 Jeffrey Barret, Nightingale: "Nightingale blood biomarkers and preventative health"

coffee 

15.30-16.00 Nyasha Munjoma, Waters: “Lipidomic and DESI imaging study of mouse liver extracts dosed with tyrosine kinase inhibiting drug”

16.00-16.45 Rahul Deshpande, Thermo Fisher Scientific: “From data to knowledge: Intelligence-driven workflow solutions for Metabolomics”

 


Students - ILS-149 course - 1 cr
Obligatory attendance to all 4 seminar topics during the 2-day symposium (signature required).
Writing of 4 learning diaries, 1 learning diary from each seminar topic (each 1 page long). Send the learning diaries to 
minna.holopainen@helsinki.fi


Metabolomics Symposium is organized by Viikki Metabolomics Unit (ViMU), FIMM Metabolomics/​Lipidomics/​Fluxomics Unit (FIMM Meta) and Helsinki University Lipidomics Unit (HiLIPID).

 

The symposium is sponsored by Waters.


Start time: 02/11/2022 09:00
End time: 02/11/2022 17:00
Duration: 8 hours
Location: Biomedicum1, lecture hall 3, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00290 Helsinki
Type: Symposium
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: Nieminen, Anni I
November 02

iCAN science seminar series

The many facets of liquid biopsy in aggressive B-cell lymphoma

​Prof. Sirpa Leppä, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer center:

Start time: 02/11/2022 12:00
End time: 02/11/2022 13:00
Duration:
Location: Biomedicum1, lecture hall 1, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00290 Helsinki
Type: Seminar
Organization: iCAN Flagship Team
Contact person: