Tapahtumakalenteri

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Stem Cell Seminar

Arafath Najumudeen, Seyedehshima Naddafi

Spatially resolving the heterogeneity of intestinal epithelium in homeostasis and disease 

 

Rubén Torregrosa Muñumer, Mitochondrial metabolism as a regulator of human stem cell identity

 

Credits for students, ILS-008  

  

Please spread the word to your group members and others that might be interested. 
Aloitusaika: 23.04.2025 09:00
Lopetusaika: 23.04.2025 11:00
Kesto: 2 hours
Sijainti: Biomedicum 1, seminar room 1-2
Tyyppi: Seminar
Organisaatio: Centre of Excellence in Stem Cell Metabolism
Yhteyshenkilö: emilia.kuuluvainen@helsinki.fi
huhtikuu 24

Webinar by Pedro Andrade: Models of seizures and epilepsy: Translational challenge

Webinar

organized by ILAE Young Epilepsy Section Finland

A warm welcome to a webinar on Thursday 24th of April 2025 at 17:00 in Teams.

Topic: Models of seizures and epilepsy: Translational challenge

Speaker: Pedro Andrade, University of Eastern Finland

Pedro Andrade works as a basic scientist in University of Eastern Finland specializing in acquisition and analysis (sleep, seizures etc) of rodent EEG. Additionally, he is a clinical neurophysiologist thus having expertise both in clinical and research EEG settings.

 

https://uefconnect.uef.fi/pedro.andrade-de-abreu/

 

The seminar is organized by the ILAE Young Epilepsy Section Finland.

 

The event is open to everyone interested. No preregistration is needed.


Aloitusaika: 24.04.2025 17:00
Lopetusaika: 24.04.2025 18:30
Kesto: 1 hour 30 minutes
Sijainti: remotely
Tyyppi: Webinar
Organisaatio: ILAE Young Epilepsy Section Finland
Yhteyshenkilö: jenni.kyyriainen@uef.fi
huhtikuu 25

HiLIFE/Biomedicum Helsinki seminar by Professor Sergiu Pasca

From Stem Cells to Organoids to Assembloids and Toward Building Human Circuits in Living Systems to Develop Therapeutics
Sergiu P. Pasca, M.D.
Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor of Psychiatry
Uytengsu Family Director of the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program
Stanford University

Don’t miss the chance to hear one of the most innovative neuroscientists of our time sharing how his lab is pushing the boundaries of biology and medicine!

 

  1. Discover how assembloids are revolutionising human brain modelling – bridging developmental biology and clinical medicine to unlock new insights into the human mind.
  2. Be inspired by Professor Pasca’s journey – from his unwavering pursuit to understand incurable brain disorders to developing next-generation therapeutics as leader of the transformative lab at Stanford University.
  3. Experience cutting-edge innovation – explore how assembloids technology is being used to build functional neural circuits and complex tissue systems, pushing the boundaries of biomedical science.

Remember to invite all your lab members, colleagues and students too, this is THE LECTURE to be at this spring 😍

 

Students: Join for the lecture lunch with Prof Pasca afterwards, info here:  https://forms.gle/oL26JP2LEiYdDvm57 

 

See you all there! 

Teemu Aitta-aho, PI (teemu.aitta-aho@helsinki.fi)

Suvi Laitinen, student host (suvi.laitinen@helsinki.fi)


Cannot wait to be there? Read more of his work: Lab webpage https://www.pascalab.org/ 

 

For the last decade, Prof. Paşca and his team have made highly interesting findings and created state-of-art assembloid method that has wide relevance in the fields of neuroscience, medicine and developmental biology. Most recently their determined effort for understanding neuropsychiatric diseases yielded a next-generation therapeutic approach to treat Timothy syndrome (type of genetic severe autism) (publ 1)💫 A few years back, Prof. Paşca and his team very elegantly succeeded in creating a functional cortex-spinal cord-muscle assembloid (publ 2) and in vivo implantation of those cortical assembloids (publ 3). They also showed that cortical organoids maturation process matches post-natal stages of human brain (publ 4)🤩

 

Paşca obtained his medical degree in 2007 from Hatieganu School of Medicine, Romania and completed his post-doctoral studies in Stanford University where he studies brain disorder genetics by developing hiPS neuron models from patient skin samples. Currently, he is Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor of Psychiatry and Uytengsu Family Director of the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program at Stanford University.

 

Selected publications:

Publ 1. Antisense oligonucleotide therapeutic approach for Timothy syndrome

Xiaoyu Chen, Fikri Birey, Min-Yin Li, Omer Revah, Rebecca Levy, Mayuri Vijay Thete, Noah Reis, Konstantin Kaganovsky, Massimo Onesto, Noriaki Sakai, Zuzana Hudacova, Jin Hao, Xiangling Meng, Seiji Nishino, John Huguenard, Sergiu P. Pașca. Nature. 2024 Apr; 628(8009):818-825. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07310-6

 

Publ 2. Generation of Functional Human 3D Cortico-Motor Assembloids. Andersen J, Revah O, Miura Y, Thom N, Amin ND, Kelley KW, Singh M, Chen X, Thete MV, Walczak EM, Vogel H, Fan HC, Paşca SP. Cell. 2020 Dec 23;183(7):1913-1929.e26. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.11.017.

 

Publ 3. Maturation and circuit integration of transplanted human cortical organoids. Omer Revah, Felicity Gore, Kevin W. Kelley, Jimena Andersen, Noriaki Sakai, Xiaoyu Chen, Min-Yin Li, Fikri Birey, Xiao Yang, Nay L. Saw, Samuel W. Baker, Neal D. Amin, Shravanti Kulkarni, Rachana Mudipalli, Bianxiao Cui, Seiji Nishino, Gerald A. Grant, Juliet K. Knowles, Mehrdad Shamloo, John R. Huguenard, Karl Deisseroth & Sergiu P. Pașca. Nature. 2022 Oct 13; 610:319–326. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05277-w

 

Publ 4. Long-term maturation of human cortical organoids matches key early postnatal transitions. Gordon A, Yoon SJ, Tran SS, Makinson CD, Park JY, Andersen J, Valencia AM, Horvath S, Xiao X, Huguenard JR, Pașca SP, Geschwind DH. Nature Neuroscience. 2021 Mar;24(3):331-342. doi: 10.1038/s41593-021-00802-y.




Aloitusaika: 25.04.2025 10:00
Lopetusaika: 25.04.2025 11:00
Kesto: 1 hour
Sijainti: HUS SIltasairaala, Töölö luentosali STB3.03, Haartmaninkatu 4
Tyyppi: Seminar
Organisaatio: Helsinki Institute of Life Science HiLIFE
Yhteyshenkilö: hilife-seminars@helsinki.fi
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Dissertation: Anne Arola

Anne Arola, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Medicine, Doctoral Program in Clinical Research
Understanding the Heterogeneity of Cognitive Impairment in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: The Influence of Cognitive Reserve, Psychological Resilience and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms

Opponent: Professor Martine van Zandvoort, Utrecht University



Aloitusaika: 25.04.2025 12:00
Lopetusaika: 25.04.2025 14:00
Kesto: 2 hours
Sijainti: Haartman Institute, lecture hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 3, 00290 Helsinki
Tyyppi: Dissertation
Organisaatio: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Yhteyshenkilö: anne.arola@helsinki.fi
huhtikuu 25

Kliinisen mikrobiologian perjantaisarja

Infektiiviset uveiitit
Arja Laitinen, LT, silmätautien erikoislääkäri,
silmätautien klinikka, HUS

Aloitusaika: 25.04.2025 12:00
Lopetusaika: 25.04.2025 13:00
Kesto:
Sijainti: remotely
Tyyppi: Seminar
Organisaatio: HUS
Yhteyshenkilö: juulia.suominen@hus.fi