Events

February 16

Cheese 'n' Wine event

You are cordially invited to join the first Innovation Cheese 'n' Wine event taking place in Meilahti campus. To join the event, please register here by February 13

 

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. 

 


Start time: 16/02/2023 13:30
End time: 16/02/2023 15:00
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Location: Terkko Health hub
Type: Other
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: chiara.facciotto@helsinki.fi.
February 17

Dissertation: Hanna Tolonen

​Hanna Tolonen, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Pharmacy, Doctoral Programme in Drug Research
Potential of Automatic Substitution of Biologics to Enhance Rational Use of Medicines in Finland

Opponent: docent Esa Heinonen, University of Turku




Start time: 17/02/2023 13:00
End time: 17/02/2023 15:00
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Biomedicum1, lecture hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00290 Helsinki
Type: Dissertation
Organization: UH, Faculty of Pharmacy
Contact person: hanna.tolonen@hus.fi
February 17

Dissertation: Vesa Jormanainen

Vesa Jormanainen, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Medicine, Doctoral Program in Population Health
Large-scale implementation of the national Kanta Services in Finland 2010-2018 with special focus on electronic prescription

Opponent:  professor Juha Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland



Start time: 17/02/2023 13:00
End time: 17/02/2023 15:00
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Haartman Institute, lecture hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 3, 00290 Helsinki
Type: Dissertation
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: vesa.jormalainen@hotmail.com
February 27

HiLIFE webinar / Viikki Monday Seminar: Maria Dornelas

Looking back on biodiversity change  

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. 

Dornelas research group 

Twitter: @maadornelas 

Welcome to this exciting seminar!  

Laura Antao 

 

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. 




Start time: 27/02/2023 13:00
End time: 27/02/2023 14:00
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Biocenter 2, Lecture Hall 1041, Viikinkaari 5
Type: Seminar
Organization: Helsinki Institute of Life Science HiLIFE
Contact person: hilife-seminars@helsinki.fi
March 01

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 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


Start time: 01/03/2023 13:00
End time: 01/03/2023 15:00
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Biomedicum 2, 6th floor lounge
Type: Other
Organization: Biostatistics Consulting Service
Contact person: biostat-consult@helsinki.fi