SBB Molecules Club past series
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
AUTUMN 2019
3.9. National structural biology meeting FINNBOX, see:
to register.
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” |
AUTUMN 2018
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' " |
SPRING 2018
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 |
AUTUMN 2017
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 |
Spring 2017
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 | 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 |