AUTUMN 2019

3.9. National structural biology meeting FINNBOX, see:

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Seminars

Date	Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
1.10.	9:15
5.11.	9:15	Sudeep Karki	Kajander Lab, Institute of Biotechnology	Structural biology and function of SALM synaptic adhesion proteins
3.12.	9:15	Giray Enkavi	Vattulainen Group, Department of Physics	Computational insights into the molecular mechanisms of cholesterol efflux from late endosomes

SPRING 2019

Date	Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
29.1.	9:15	Keni Vidilaseris	Goldman lab, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences	"Asymmetry in catalysis by Thermotoga maritima membrane-bound pyrophosphatase demonstrated by a non-phosphorous allosteric inhibitor."
26.2.	9:15	Ilona Rissanen	Huiskonen Lab, HiLIFE and Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences	"Hantavirus envelope architecture and antigenicity"
26.3.	9:15	Marco Casteleijn	VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND LTD	"Protein production services at VTT"
30.4.	9:15	Peter Sarin	Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences	“Connecting the dots: how post-transcriptional RNA modification modulates translation.”
28.5.	9:15	Prof. Juha Saarikangas	HiLIFE and Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences	”Understanding the molecular basis of aging phenotypes”

Date	Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
4.9.	9:15	Ausra Domanska	Butcher Lab, Institute of Biotechnology	"2.8 Å resolution cryo-EM structure of human parechovirus 3 in complex with Fab from a neutralizing antibody"
3.10	13:15	Dr. Lari Lehtiö	Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Univ. of Oulu	"DNA damage recognition mechanism of human PARP2"
6.11.	9:15	Jaakko Teppo	Varjosalo lab, Institute of Biotechnology and Drug Research Program, Faculty of Pharmacy	”Molecular atlas of postnatal mouse heart development”
13.12.	16:00	Dr. Roman Tuma	Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Rep.	"Polypeptide transport through bacterial membrane seen through a single molecule 'lens' "

Date	Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
31.1.	15:00	Prof. Inari Kursula	University of Bergen	Understanding Plasmodium gliding motility and invasion - new clues for fighting malaria.
27.2.	9:15	Antto Norppa	Frilander Lab, Institute of Biotechnology	Mutations in the U11/U12-65K protein associated with isolated growth hormone deficiency lead to structural destabilization and impaired binding of U12 snRNA
27.3.	9:15	Samuli Ollila	NMR / Iwai Lab, Institute of Biotechnology	Combining NMR experiments and MD simulations to study membranes and proteins
24.4.	9:15	Juho Kellosalo	Paavilainen Lab, Institute of Biotechnology	Discerning the role of Sec62 (and Sec63) in co-translational translocation
22.5.	9:15	Uwe Richter	Battersby Lab, Institute of Biotechnology	Dynamic biology by CryoEM

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
19-Sep	Dr. Giuseppe Balistreri	Dept. of Biosciences	Super-resolution nanoscopy to study protein-protein interaction and macromolecular complexes in live cells at single molecule resolution
10-Oct	Dr. Peter Würtz	Nightingale Health Ltd.	Metabolic biomarker profiling of heart disease and diabetes: from biobanks to clinical use
14-Nov	Tommi Kotila	Lappainen group, Institute of Biotechnology	Structural basis of actin monomer re-charging by cyclase-associated protein

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
17-Jan	Dr. Gabija Ziedaite-Ojala	Dept. of Biosciences	Single-molecule measurements of viral ssRNA packaging
14-Feb	Dr. Vivek Sharma	Institute of Biotechnology	Molecular dynamics simulations of respiratory complex I
14-Mar	Prof. Adrian Goldman	Dept. of Biosciences & Univ. of Leeds	Orphan Transporters from Mycobacterium
11-Apr	Prof. Ilpo Vattulainen	Dept. of Physics	Tiny but decisive: Cholesterol modulating membrane receptors and their physical environment
09-May	Dr. Veli-Matti Leppänen	Wihuri Research Institute	Structural basis of Tie2 receptor tyrosine kinase activation
06-Jun	Dr. James Geraets	Institute of Biotechnology	Unpicking the viral life cycle using cryo-EM