Tapahtumakalenteri
iCAN Science Seminar by Olli Kallioniemi
Olli Kallioniemi’s interest area is in
technology-, data-, and AI-driven precision medicine. He received his M.D. in
1984 and Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Tampere in Finland. After a
postdoctoral fellowship at UC San Francisco, he has had PI roles and professorships in Finland (Tampere,
Turku, and Helsinki), in the USA (NHGRI/NIH in Bethesda, MD and TGEN in
Phoenix, AZ) and in Sweden (Karolinska Institutet and SciLifeLab). He has
had several leadership roles, including serving as the founding director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine
Finland (FIMM) from 2007 to 2015 and as the Director of the Science for Life
Laboratory in Sweden (2015-2024, www.SciLifeLab.se).
Olli Kallioniemi is also
the founding director of the SciLifeLab & Wallenberg National Program for
Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) (www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/about/)
(until summer 2025). He is now
establishing a new research program at FIMM/HiLIFE at the University of
Helsinki focusing on data and AI in molecular medicine.
Olli Kallioniemi has 420 publications listed in PubMed and has been a
co-inventor of dozens of patents and patent applications. He is a member of the
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the European Academy of Cancer
Sciences, The Finnish Academy of
Science and Letters, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, and the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Dissertation: Pinja Kettunen
Opponent: Professor Søren Riis Paludan, Aarhus University
Teaching Demonstrations of the Docentship Applicants
Program:
12.40-13.10 PhD Ville Harjunen (field of docentship: Personality and Social Psychology) topic: Emootion, vuorovaikutus ja sanaton viestintä, target group: Soveltavan psykologian kandivaiheen opiskelijat.
13.10-13.20 Break
13.20-13.50 PhD Petros Papadopoulos (field of docentship: Molecular Medicine) topic: Developmental gene regulation: The human β-like globin genes; target group: Masters in Biomedicine.
13.50-14.00 Break
14.00-14:30 MD Erik Litonius (field of docentship: Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care) topic: Sydämenpysähdys ja elvytys; target group: Lääketieteen perustutkinnon aloittelevat opiskelijat.
SLEEPWELL Special seminar by Professor Janne Grønli
Disturbance of sleep and/or circadian rhythms can lead to health problems, including development of the metabolic syndrome, increased risk of heart disease, higher incidences of certain types of cancer, disrupted immune responses, and increased risk of suffering from a major depressive syndrome.
Professor Janne Grønli’s current research focuses on the relationship between stress (across the life span), sleep disturbances, circadian rhythms (like working nights or changes in hours with daylight) and mental and physical health, highlighting how circadian rhythms modulate physiology and behaviour, as well as how disrupting them in animal models can produce physiological and behavioral abnormalities that change an animal's susceptibility to further environmental or psychological stress.
It is hoped these animal models and clinical research trials will provide an understanding of how dysregulation of the body's timing interact to produce changes in behavior and physiology, and will potentially lead to new clinical interventions to alleviate some of the physical and mental health consequences of our modern lifestyles.