Tapahtumakalenteri
Minisymposium: ER Stress and Cellular Health: From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Advances
You are warmly welcome to a minisymposium focusing on ER stress on February 20th at 14-16 in Biomedicum, lecture hall 1. Coffee and “pulla” will be served at 13.30, so please register through this simple form: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/133415/lomake.html.
Dissertation: Hossam Montaser
Opponent: Professor Carmella Evans-Molina, Indiana University
Kliinisen kemian seminaarit
Tuija Männistö
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 26th February, 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 19th March (N.B. in 3 weeks, unusually!) , 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.
Special seminar by Prof. Sarah Lebeer
Prof. Lebeer is a research professor at the Department of Bioscience Engineering of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Her research focuses on the beneficial microbiome of humans, animals and plants, focusing on lactobacilli. Vaginal lactobacilli are key for women’s reproduction and health, but there has been a lack of in-depth understanding of the composition and function of the vaginal microbiome in healthy women to optimally design diagnostics and therapies.
In 2020, Prof. Lebeer obtained an ERC StG Grant (Lacto-Be) aiming to gain in-depth knowledge of the evolutionary history and ecology of lactobacilli. Within this ERC project, her team has launched the Isala citizen-science project to gain new insights in the ecology and role of vaginal lactobacilli for women’s health, but also to actively involve women to contribute with ideas on how to improve vaginal health and break some taboos together (https://isala.be/en). This project has won the communication award from the Young Academy and Royal Academy of Science of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 2021, and formed a basis for her recently awarded ERC Proof of Concept Grant.
Come and get inspired about citizen science, taboo breaking and the role of microbes in women’s health!
Selected publications by Prof. Lebeer
A citizen-science-enabled catalogue of the vaginal microbiome and associated factors. Lebeer S, et al. Nature Microbiology 2023 Nov;8(11):2183-2195.
Diversity in women and their vaginal microbiota.
Condori-Catachura S, Ahannach S, Ticlla M, Kenfack J, Livo E, Anukam KC, Pinedo-Cancino V, Collado MC, Dominguez-Bello MG, Miller C, Vinderola G, Merten S, Donders GGG, Gehrmann T; Isala Sisterhood Consortium; Lebeer S.
Trends Microbiol. 2025 Jan 20:S0966-842X(24)00328-7.
Riboflavin for women's health and emerging microbiome strategies.
Dricot CEMK, Erreygers I, Cauwenberghs E, De Paz J, Spacova I, Verhoeven V, Ahannach S, Lebeer S. NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes. 2024 Oct 18;10(1):107.