Events
Cheese 'n' Wine event
Cheese 'n' Wine (CnW) is an open series of events organized by the University of Helsinki, where short speeches will be heard from innovative researchers, students, companies, and possibly innovation funding bodies. The event has been organized in Viikki three times in 2022 and, from January 2023, CnW events will be held approximately once a month, alternating on all UH campuses.
These events are intended for all researchers interested in innovation, students, companies, investors, financiers, third sector operators, as well as operators supporting innovation activities. The first event taking place in Meilahti campus will be held in English at Terkko Health Hub on February 16 from 2 to 4 pm.
Program:
13:30 Registration opens
14:00 Speeches
- Welcoming words by Chiara Facciotto (Innovation Ecosystems, Meilahti campus)
- Ville Paavilainen, Tenure Track Group Leader at the Insititute of Biotechnology (HiLIFE, University of Helsinki) and lead inventor of Integrated Secretion Solutions
- Jukka Planman, Biodesign 2021 Innovation Fellow (Aalto University) and Commercial Lead at hentoTouch
- Milla Koistinaho, Partner at Innovestor Life Science Fund
- Päivi Saavalainen, Group Leader at Folkhälsan Research Center (University of Helsinki) and CEO of SCellex
- Q&A
15:00 Networking and refreshments
16:00 End of the event
This event is organized in collaboration with Terkko Health Hub.
Dissertation: Hanna Tolonen
Opponent: docent Esa Heinonen, University of Turku
Dissertation: Vesa Jormanainen
Opponent: professor Juha Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland
HiLIFE webinar / Viikki Monday Seminar: Maria Dornelas
Maria Dornelas is a macroecologist studying biodiversity change in the Anthropocene. Her research includes synthesis of biodiversity data, theoretical ecology and empirical observations, and she has been conducting fieldwork in tropical seas for over 20 years. She co-leads the biodiversity time series database BioTIME. Maria is a Professor at Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews and at MARE, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Editor in Chief of the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography.
Twitter: @maadornelas
Welcome to this exciting seminar!
Selected publications:
Dornelas, Maria, et al. "Assemblage time series reveal biodiversity change but not systematic loss." Science 344.6181 (2014): 296-299.
Blowes, Shane A., Supp, Sarah, (…) & Dornelas, Maria "The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages.” Science 366.6463 (2019): 339-345.
Martins, Inês S., Maria Dornelas, Mark Vellend, and Chris D. Thomas. "A millennium of increasing diversity of ecosystems until the mid‐20th century." Global Change Biology 28, no. 20 (2022): 5945-5955.
Biostatistics drop-in workshop
The next workshop is on Wednesday 1st 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 next sessions are planned for 15.3, 29.3, 12.4, 26.4, 10.5, and 24.5. 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.
From the Biostatistics Team
Paula, Hanna & Olavi