Organizer: Dr. Tommi Kajander. Email: firstname.lastname at helsinki.fi.
The Structural Biology and Biophysics (SBB) Molecules Club has been held monthly (since Autumn 2016), normally on Tuesdays (time to be updated), and feature the talks from Viikki campus research groups on molecular biosciences and structural biology and biophysics, as well as from invited guest speakers. The club is held in Biocenter 3 3rd floor, seminar room 3401 (unless otherwise specified). Now also the INSTRUCT-ERIC webinars are included for the students to obtain credits.
The meetings are open to all. Credits will be available for students. Further inquiries on obtaining credit units should be directed to your doctoral school (update: 1 ECTS can be obtained from 20 lectures or from a presentation in the series, 2 ECTS maximum per seminar series as per instructions from ILS). If you participate to Instruct-ERIC webinars, please remember to use your full name when participating, and ask for a proof of participation from the organizer or discuss with Tommi how to demonstrate your participation (describe major points of each presentation (e.g. half a page or short summary) as the prefered way).
INSTRUCT webinars: https://instruct-eric.eu/content/instructeric-webinar-series-structure-meets-function (more information later, contact Hanna Oksanen/Tommi Kajander). Please check the link for updates!
NOTE: INSTRUCT webinars are also recorded and are available on the INSTRUCT web page and can be watched any time - to get credits for these provide 0.5-1 page summary on each seminar talk. (you can obtain 1 credit by submitting ten seminar reports).
SPRING 2023
| Date | Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17.1. | 14-15:00 | Perttu Permi | Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä | ”Intrinsically disordered EPEC EspF exploits motif mimicry in high-affinity binding to N-WASP GBD and SNX9 SH3” |
| 14.2. | 14-15:00 | Vera Kovaleva | Saarma Lab, Institute of Biotechnology | "MANF regulates neuronal survival and UPR through its ER-located receptor IRE1α" |
| 14.3. | 14-15:00 | TBA | ||
| 31.3.* | 11-12:00 | Bernadette Byrne | Imperial College, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, London, UK | "Novel approaches to working with membrane proteins" |
| 18.4 | 14-15:00 | Michael Jeltsch | Faculty of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Biosciences | |
| 16.5. | 14-15:00 | Olli Silvennoinen | Institute of Biotechnology |
*NB Friday @11.00
AUTUMN 2022
| Date | Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24.8. | 16:15-17 | Carlos Oscar Sorzano | National Center of Biotechnology (CSIC), Madrid, Spain. | "The need for validation in single particle analysis and tools " |
| 20.9. | 14-15:00 | Catarina Paiva | ITQB NOVA, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal. | "Structure and Function of a Molecular Machine: The RuvBL1/RuvBL2 and its Role in the Large Macromolecular Complex PAQosome" |
| 25.10. | 14-15:00 | Thomas W. Bell | Department of Chemistry University of Nevada, Reno, USA | "The Signal Peptide as a New Drug Target" |
| 15.11. | 14-15:00 (webinar) | Lars-Anders Carlson | Dept of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, Umeå University, Sweden. | "In situ structural studies of the different replication strategies used by enteroviruses and alphaviruses" |
| 20.12. | 15:15-16:00 | Sergei Grudinin | Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LJK, Grenoble, France | "Predicting Protein Motions : From Physics to Machine Learning" |
SPRING 2022
The seminars will be held remotely via Zoom for the time being. The link will be sent before the seminar. Please remember to use your full name when participating.
INSTRUCT WEBINARS WIL CONTINUE AND CAN BE VIEWED (ALSO RETROSPECTICELY) AS PART OF MOLECULES CLUB -FOR CREDITS SEE ABOVE.
https://instruct-eric.eu/content/instructeric-webinar-series-structure-meets-function
| Date | Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25.1. | 9:15-10.00 | Samuli Ollila | Institute of Biotechnology | "Inverse Conformational Selection in Lipid−Protein Binding" |
| 15.2. | 9:15-10.00 | Miguel Cantero Riviejo | Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Autonomous University of Madrid | "Tracking of single particle halophile HCIV1 provides biomechanical information about its structural and chemical stability " |
| 22.3. | 9.15-10.00 | Xavier Prasanna | Vattulainen Lab, Department of Physics | “Role of seipin in lipid droplet biogenesis” |
| 26.4. | 10:00-11:00 | Lotta Happonen | Infection Medicine (BMC), Lund University, Sweden | "Quantitative proteomics and structural mass spectrometry to decipher host-pathogen interactions" |
| 10.5. | 12-13:30 | INSTRUCT Structure Meets Function Webinar 19 - Instruct-Spain | (register, link https://instruct-eric.org/events/structure-meets-function-webinar---instruct-eric-spain/) | |
AUTUMN 2021
The seminars will be held remotely via Zoom for the time being. The link will be sent before the seminar. Please remember to use your full name when participating.
INSTRUCT WEBINARS WIL CONTINUE AND CAN BE VIEWED (ALSO RETROSPECTICELY) AS PART OF MOLECULES CLUB -FOR CREDITS SEE ABOVE.
https://instruct-eric.eu/content/instructeric-webinar-series-structure-meets-function
| Date | Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25.8. | 11:00-12:00 | Sung-Jun Jung | Seoul National University, Republic of Korea | "Co- and post-translational translocation machineries can cooperate in membrane protein topogenesis in yeast ER membrane." |
| 14.9. | 12:30-14:00 | INSTRUCT-ERIC Webinar (follow the link above) / INSTRUCT Latvia | ||
| 13.10. | 13:00-14:00 | Ilona Rissanen | Institute of Biotechnology | "Antibody engineering in virus research" |
| 7.12 | 10:00-11:00 | Richard Lundmark | Department of Integrative Medical Biology (IMB), Umeå universitet, Sweden | “Mechanisms of protein-mediated membrane sculpting” |
SPRING 2021
The seminars will be held remotely via Zoom for the time being (UH covid19 instructions). The link will be sent before the seminar. Please remember to use your full name when participating, and send your student number to Tommi Kajander.
INSTRUCT WEBINARS CONTINUE THROUGH SPRING 2021 AND CAN BE VIEWED (ALSO RETROSPECTICELY) AS PART OF MOLECULES CLUB -FOR CREDITS SEE ABOVE.
https://instruct-eric.eu/content/instructeric-webinar-series-structure-meets-function DATES: 12.1., 17.2. (follow the link and announcenments for future dates)
| Date | Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19.1. | 10:00-11:00 | Lars Jeuken | Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK | "Respiratory membrane enzymes: Electrochemical systems for the study charge transport and redox catalysis" |
| 16.2. | 10:00-11:00 | Christos Pliotas | Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK | "Using PELDOR spectroscopy to investigate conformation and dynamics of membrane proteins with Ångstrom resolution" |
| 16.3. | 12:00-13:30 | INSTRUCT-ERIC Webinar (follow the link above) / EMBL | ||
| 20.4. | 9:15 | Shahid Rehan | Paavilainen Lab, Institute of Biotechnology | "Structural basis for substrate-selective modulation of ER protein import" |
| 18.5. | 15:00 | Johanna Syrjänen | Furukawa Lab, Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory | "Exploring the Molecular Architectures of Large Pore Channels" |
AUTUMN 2020
The seminars will be held remotely via Zoom. The link will be sent before the first seminar. Please remember to use your full name when participating, and send your student number to Tommi Kajander.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18.9. | 12:00-13:30* | INSTRUCT-ERIC Webinar (follow the link above) | ||
| 22.9. | 9:15 | Yixin Liu | Goldman Lab, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences | "Structural and functional investigation of the RET receptor tyrosine kinase” |
| 13.10. | INSTRUCT-ERIC Webinar (follow the link above) | |||
| 20.10. | 9:15 | Alesia Levanova | Poranen Lab, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences | ”Enzymatically synthetized 2'-fluoro-modified Dicer-substrate siRNA swarms for the inhibition of herpes simplex virus infection in vitro” |
| 11.10. | 12:00 | INSTRUCT-ERIC Webinar (follow the link above) | ||
| 17.11. | 9:15 | Sesilja Aranko | Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University | "From spider silk to biomaterials" |
| 15.12 | 12:00 | INSTRUCT-ERIC Webinar (follow the link above) | "SARS-Cov-2 talks" -structure meets function |
*note the longer webinar session
SPRING 2020
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
FROM 13.3.2020 onward the spring seminars are cancelled / post-poned due to the UH and general authorties instructions on the COVID19 response.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2.* | 9:15 | Amit Kumar | Leibniz Institute on Aging-Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany | "Structural investigations on heme-interacting proteins." |
| 25.2. | 9:15 | Aleksandra Stasiak | Butcher Lab, Institute of Biotechnology and Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences | ""Structural characterisation of Human Adenovirus binding to host cells"" |
| 24.3.** | 9:15 | Alesia Levanova | Poranen Lab, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences | CANCELLED |
| 21.4.** | 9:15 | Sesilja Aranko | Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University | CANCELLED |
| 26.5.** | 9:15 | Juha Huiskonen | CANCELLED |
**CANCELLED / POSTPONED TO LATER DATE.
*NB: Seminar 5th of Feb is on Wednesday
A list of past SBB molecule club series can be found here.