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Past events

2015

• ISB 2015 Students' Spring Meeting, 28-29 May at Labbnäs vacation home

2014

• ISB 2014 Winter School on November 24 - 27 at Levi.
• The 5th Annual BioStruct Conference 2014 on August 28th - 31st August 2014, Jægtvolden, Trøndelag, Norway.
• ISB 2014 Students' Spring Meeting on 8-9 May at Tvärminne Zoological Station

2013

• ISB 2013 Winter School on 9 - 12 December at Saariselkä.
• Turku BioNet course "Cancer Biology and Histopathology" in 11-12 November 2013.
• The 4th Annual Conference of The National Graduate School in Structural Biology - BioStruct (NordForsk NNBI network), at Jægtvolden in Trøndelag, Norway 29 August - 1 September 2013
• The 23rd Annual BioCity Symposium - "Non-coding RNAs in Biology and Medicine" 15-16 August 2013, Mauno Koivisto Centre, Turku.
• The 23rd Jyväskylä Summer School (JSS) 7th - 23th August 2013 University of Jyväskylä.
• ISB 2013 Students' Spring Meeting on 23 - 24 May at Nagu Gammelgård
• Turku BioNet course "Working life outside academia" on 17 April 2013; "Entrepreneurial skills" (TY Mikro building, Aud Externum). Organized by: BioCity Turku, DIA-NET, FPDP, FINDOS, ISB,OCCB, TDPCS & TuBS
• Turku BioNet goes to movies on April 10th, 2013, 14-16 in PharmaCity Auditorium (Pha1).
• Turku BioNet course "Working life outside academia" on 6 March 2013; "Project management" (PharmaCity Auditorium Pha1) Organized by: BioCity Turku, DIA-NET, FPDP, FINDOS, ISB,OCCB, TDPCS & TuBS
• Turku BioNet is organizing a course in January and February 2013: "Research Projects and Grant Applications" arranged by The BioNet (local and national) doctoral programmes: DiaNet, FPDP, FINDOS, ISB, OCCB, PeGaSoS, TuBS, Turku Doctoral P. of Clinical Sci., TuDMM. Lectures 16.1.2013 & 30.1.2013 and Workshops 23.1.2013 & 6.2.2013

2012

• ISB 2012 Winter School on December 10-13 at Saariselkä in Hotel Tunturi.
• A Turku BioNet one day workshop in PharmaCity auditorium. "From a picture to a publication picture", 14 December 2012, 10-15.30.One day workshop, jointly organized by Turku BioNet Doctoral Programmes, the Cell Imaging Core at Turku Centre for Biotechnology (CIC) and the Biomedicum Imaging Unit (BIU).
• Turku BioNet course: "Working life outside academia" on 6 November 2012 "Research in industry". The course is organized by: BioCity Turku, DIA-NET, FPDP, FINDOS, ISB, OCCB, TDPCS & TuBS.
• The 8th FinBioNet PhD Student Symposium: Revolutionary Bioscience-From Advanced Technologies to Personalized Medicine, in Tampere October 2-3 2012.
• Turku BioNet course: "Working life outside academia" on 28 September 2012; "How to recognise your own skills and possibilities" The course is organized by: BioCity Turku, DIA-NET, FPDP, FINDOS, ISB, OCCB, TDPCS & TuBS.
• The 3rd Annual Conference of The National Graduate School in Structural Biology - BioStruct, (NordForsk NNBI network) at Jægtvolden in Trøndelag, Norway 30 August - 2 September 2012
• The 22nd Annual BioCity Symposium - "Personal Genomics - From Technologies to Applications" 23-24 August 2012, Mauno Koivisto Centre, Turku.
• The 22nd Jyväskylä Summer School (JSS) 8th - 24th August 2012 University of Jyväskylä
• SYMPOSIUM: Signaling and Gene Expression in Immune System. Date: August 13-14, 2012, 08:45-17:45. Mauno Koivisto Centre Auditorium, Biocity, Turku, Finland. Organizers: Centre for Biotechnology/University of Turku, SYBILLA, SyMMyS. Sponsors: Turku Centre for Systems Biology,Turku Centre for Biotechnology, TUBS,FPDP, ISB, PGE, SIY, Program for Infection Biology and Infectious Diseases.
• The XXXIV Finnish NMR Symposium 13.6. - 15.6. 2012, at Harjattula Manor, Turku. Organized by the NMR Division of the Association of Finnish Chemical Societies, Department of Chemistry, University of Turku and the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Åbo Akademi University.The symposium is funded by ISB, Glycoscience Graduate School (GGS), National Graduate School of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology (GSOCCB).
• FINNBOX-X meeting 6 June 2012 in Turku. The 10th Annual Meeting of Finnish Crystallographic/Structural Biology groups. WWW-site http://www.sci.utu.fi/projects/biokemia/bioxlabs/
• ISB 2012 Students' Spring Meeting at Varala Sports Institute, Tampere on 28-29 May.
• A seminar called "7 secrets of highly successful PhD students" 13 January 2012 at 14:30-16:30 in ICT building, arranged by BioCity Turku and Turku BioNet (consist of national and local doctoral programmes) DIA-NET, FINDOS, FPDP-D, GSCS, ISB, NGSCI, OCCB, TuBS. 13 January 2012 at 14:30-16:30.

2011

• ISB 2011 Winter School at Ruka on December 12 - 15.
• The 7th FinBioNet PhD-student Symposium - "Five Senses & Science" Helsinki, University of Helsinki, November 22-23, 2011.
• ISB-NNBI course: "Chemometrics Course - How to analyze your multivariate data", 18th - 21st of October 2011 at Åbo Akademi University, Dept. of Bisciences, Biochemistry, Turku, Finland. Lecturer: Associate professor Åsmund Rinnan, The Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen. More information
• "Helsinki Chemical Biology Symposium" will be arranged in Helsinki on 18.10.2011, for Ph.D. students. Biomedicum University of Helsinki Organizer: Krister Wennerberg, Outi Monni, HBGS & ISB More information
• Turku BioNet Seminar Series on Immaterial rights and Patents Five Tuesday afternoons in October and November at 14-16 (4.10., 11.10., 18.10., 25.10. & 1.11.) More information
• The FinMedChem2011 Symposium, September 15-16, 2011 in Helsinki More information
• The 2nd Annual Conference of The National Graduate School in Structural Biology - BioStruct (NordForsk NNBI network), at Jægtvolden in Trøndelag, Norway 1-4 September 2011
• Course: BASICS IN INTERPRETATION OF MASS SPECTRA at Hotel Kiljavanranta, Nurmijärvi, 24.-26.8.2011 More information
• The 21st Annual BioCity Symposium - "Cell Dance - Cellular movements, choreography and partner recognition" 18-19 August 2011, Mauno Koivisto Centre, Turku.
• The 21st Jyväskylä Summer School (JSS) 8th - 19th August 2011 University of Jyväskylä
• NorStruct, in collaboration with SYSBIO, BioStruct and the PhD School in Molecular and Structural Biology, will arrange "Workshop in bioinformatics. Introduction to sequence and structure analysis" at The University of Tromsø, 21-22 June, 2011. More information.
• ISB 2011 Student's Spring Meeting will be at Seili on 26 - 27 May.
• The 11th SocBiN Conference (Society for Bioinformatics in the Nordic Countries) in Helsinki on 10-12 May 2011.
• 2nd Advanced Protein Characterisation and Crystallisation Course 2-6 May 2011, The Biocenter Finland Protein crystallisation unit, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki
• The 6th Joint Tartu-Turku-Tallinn Meeting, Tallinn, "Exploring Science and Culture", 11-13 May 2011. Program (PDF, 860 KB)
• Turku Bionet: "Final Count Down - Support for PhD Candidate" Monday 2 May 2011, 13:15-15:45 in SH auditorium, Turku University Hospital (TYKS). Organized by Turku Bionet: DDGS, FINSOS, GSCS, GSOCCB, ISB & TuBS.
• Turku Bionet: "Final Count Down - Final Phase PhD", Monday 28 March 2011, 13:15-15:45 in SH auditorium, Turku University Hospital (TYKS).

2010

• 7 secrets of highly successful phd students, arranged by BioCity Turku and Turku BioNet (some national and local graduate schools/doctoral programmes) DDGS, FINDOS, ISB, GSCS, GSOCCB, TBGS, TuBS. Friday 17 December 2010 at 13:00-16:00.
• Creativity in Research, 13.12.2010. Arranged together with some national and local graduate schools/doctoral programmes; DDGS, FINSOS, GSCS, TBGS and TuBS.
• ISB 2010 Winter School 7 - 10 December at Ruka.
• Course: Biological Applications of NMR Spectroscopy (4 credit points, 28 h lectures). The course focuses on biologically and biochemically interesting subjects of NMR spectroscopy. Week 48, 29.11-3.12, Turku. Organized by ISB and Graduate School of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology (GSOCCB) at University of Turku.
• Course: Applied NMR Spectroscopy (4 credit points, 20 h lectures + 8 h demonstrations) A good introduction to modern 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy with hands-on demonstrations. Lecturer Docent Jari Sinkkonen, University of Turku. Week 47, 22.11-26.11, Turku. Organized by ISB and Graduate School of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology (GSOCCB) at University of Turku.
• Frontiers of Science: Professor Ron Heeren, FOM Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Multi-modal molecular imaging in biomedicine: using a mass spectrometer as a microscope, 29 September 2010 at 12:00 Mauno Koivisto Auditorium, BioCity, Tykistökatu 6A, Turku.
  
  A "scientific evening" is organized after the FoS Seminar at Järvelän tila, by Littoistenjärvi, in Lieto near Turku, on Wednesday the 29th of September.
• The 6th FinBioNet PhD Student Symposium: Visionary Science, in Kuopio, September 9-10, 2010.
• Short course on G protein-coupled receptors, August 23-25th 2010, University of Helsinki, Viikki campus. The course is to be followed by an international Symposium about G protein-coupled receptors August 26-27th 2010.
• The 1st Annual Conference of The National Graduate School in Structural Biology - BioStruct (NordForsk NNBI network), at Jægtvolden in Trøndelag, Norway 26-29 August 2010
• The 20th Annual BioCity Symposium - "Viruses as Enemies and Friends" 19-20 August 2010, Mauno Koivisto Centre, Turku.
• ISB 2010 Students' Spring Meeting, 27 - 28 May
• Turku Bionet: "Scientist as a communicator- the tricks to get your message through", Friday 21 May 2010 at 13:00-17:00 in Pharmacity auditorium Pha1, Opening by Professor Mark Johnson, ISB. Organized by Turku Bionet: DDGS, GSCS, GSOCCB, ISB & TuBS. Program. Added 2010-06-10: Presentation slides by David Smith, Biotie Therapies Corp.
• Turku BioNet Afternoon for New Graduate Students 19.3.2010. Program (PDF)
• DDGS and ISB Seminar, Invited speaker Magali Mathieu, Head of crystallography CRVA, Sanofi-Aventis, Paris, France: "Structural biology in drug design at Sanofi-Aventis", Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 10:15
  PharmaCity Auditorium (Pha1)

2009

• ISB 2009 Winter School, Ylläs, 7-10 December 2009 (week 50) at Fontana Spahotel Ylläs Saaga
• Course in protein crystallisation, University of Helsinki, 4-6 November 2009
• The 19th Annual BioCity Symposium and The 9th Symposium of Finnish Cancer Institute - "Tumor Microenvironment in Cancer Progression" 20-21 August 2009, Mauno Koivisto Centre, Turku.
• ISB 2009 Students' Spring Meeting, Konnevesi Research Station (University of Jyväskylä), 27 - 28 May
• Center of Excellence in Cell Stress - Åbo Akademi University. Special symposium: "CHANNELING INTO CANCER SIGNALS" May 15, 2009 Mauno Koivisto Auditorium, BioCity, Tykistökatu 6B, Turku.
• The 5th Joint Tartu-Turku meeting, "The Future of Life Science" Tartu, 6-8 May 2009.
• Career planning course - Is there life after PhD? Turku, 20 March 2009.
• Coarse Graining Workshop 2009, Espoo, 28-30 January 2009.

2008 and earlier

• The ISB 2008 Winter School at Rukatunturi, Kuusamo, 8 – 11 December 2008.
• The 1st FinnProt Proteomics Student's Day, Turku, 27 November 2008.
• National Lipid Meeting, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, 4 September 2008.
• Imaging intracellular signalling in theory and practice, Kuopio, 1 - 5 Sept 2008.
• The 18th Annual BioCity Symposium - "Genes, chromatin and disease" 14-15 August 2008, Mauno Koivisto Centre, Turku.
• The XXII Paulo foundation symposium: INPEC Meeting 2008 in Biomedicine, Biobusiness, Directed Evolution, and Biotechnology, Naantali Spa Hotel in Naantali, 12-15.6.2008.
• The ISB Student Spring Meeting 2008 at Lammi Biological Station, 28 - 29 May 2008.
• Advanced large scale gene expression profiling - focus on miRNAs, ChIP-on-chip, and whole genome sequencing , workshop and minisymposium in Turku, 19 - 22 May, 2008.
• The ISB 2007 Winter School at Levi, in Hotelli Levitunturi, 10 - 13 December.
• FinBioNet PhD Student Symposium, Helsinki, 22-23 November 2007.
• Introduction to Structural Biology and Biophysics, University of Helsinki, starting at 24 September 2007.
• 48th International Conference on the Bioscience of Lipids, in Turku, 4 - 8 September 2007.
• The 17th Annual BioCity Symposium - "Agening" 23-24 August 2007, Mauno Koivisto Centre, Turku.
• The 17th Jyväskylä Summer School, August 8-24, 2007 Jyväskylä
• Targeting protein-protein interactions: Design Principles and Therapeutic Applications, June 14-15, 2007 Kuopio.
• Turku Bioimaging Kick-off Seminar, Turku, 11 June 2007.
• Seminar Program: Graduate School Forum Scientium in Linköping and ISB (pdf-file) Turku, 1 Jun 2007
• ISB 2007 students' spring meeting at Nagu Gammelgård 30 - 31 May
• Seminar concerning post-doctoral training abroad, ICT, Turku, 14 May 2007
• Molecular Modelling I 5.-9.3.2007, Kuopio
• Gromacs Workshop 27.2.-1.3.2007 at CSC, Espoo
• The ISB 2006 Winter School at Tahkovuori, in Sokos Hotel Tahkovuori, 11 - 14 December
• FinBioNet PhD symposium: "Life Sciences in Today´s Society", 9-10 October, 2006, Harjattula.
• Visualizing - Biology and Medicine through Proteomics, Turku, 25-27 September 2006.
• Signal Transduction in Neurodegeneration and Neurophysiology, 14 - 15 September, 2006, Kuopio.
• The 16th Annual BioCity Symposium - "Cell Stress" 24-25 August 2006, Mauno Koivisto Centre, Turku.
• Immunology in Drug Discovery and Development Minisymposium June 8, 2006, Mauno Koivisto Centre, BioCity Turku. Invitation to the poster session.
• A short course on the biophysical characterization of globular proteins in solution, 15, 17, 22 and 24 May, 2006, Helsinki. Course lecturer: Dr. Peter Kahn. Web-based registration
• ISB students' spring meeting 2006 on Seili 18 - 19 May
• The 4th Joint Tartu-Turku Meeting "Bioscience Today" Turku, May 10-11, 2006.
• TuBS-ISB Skiing for Ethics, 13-14 March 2006, Himos, Jämsä (pdf: 64kB). Prices for ski passes and equipment rental at Himos, check here (pdf: 39kB, only in Finnish).
• Molecular modelling 1 in Kuopio 6-10 March 2006
• The ISB 2005 Winter School, Saariselkä, 12-15 December 2005.
• FinBioNet PhD symposium: "Life and Science", Ellivuori, 6-7 October 2005.
• The 15th Annual BioCity Symposium - "Evolution and Genome in Biology and Medicine" 25-26 August 2005, Mauno Koivisto Centre, Turku.
• June 09-12, 2005 The Seventh Annual Nordic Bioinformatics Conference, Tartu, Estonia. For more information see: http://bioinfo.ebc.ee/bio2005/
• ISB students' spring meeting 2005 at Yyteri 30 - 31 May
• Minisymposium: Molecular Evolution of G-Protein Coupled Receptor, Turku, 11 March 2005.
• Course in Fluorescence in Bioanalytical Research, Mauno Koivisto Centre, Turku, 1-3 March 2005
• The ISB 2004 Winter School at Luosto 7 - 10 December 2004.
• Joint Proteomics and Systems Biology Symposium, 21-22.9.2004, Turku.
• New trends in Proteomics and Systems Biology Symposium, 20-21 September 2004, Mauno Koivisto Centre, Turku.
• FinBioNet PhD Symposium: "Interactions & Networks in Biology", Aulanko, 19-21 August 2004.
• ISB student's spring meeting 2004
• The 3rd Joint Tartu-Turku Meeting, Tartu, 18-19 May 2004
• Molecular Modelling I 18.-24.2.2004, Kuopio
• Course in Fluorescence in Bioanalytical Research 19.1-3.3 2004, Mauno Koivisto Centre, Turku
• The ISB 2003 Winter School, Rukatunturi, 8-11 December 2003 Preliminary Program (PDF: 59kB).
• Keys to Success - Intensive course on career planning 30.10.2003, Turku
• Bioinformatics - The Fifth Annual Nordic Bioinformatics Conference, on 22nd-24th May 2003, Helsinki
• BioTech03, on 24th-26th March 2003, Helsinki
• ISB 2002 Winter School, Pyhätunturi, 9-12 December 2002. (PDF: program, abstracts etc., Pictures)
• 5th Annual Symposium on Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, BioCity, Turku, 19.8.2002
• Joint Turku-Tartu Meeting, PharmaCity, Turku, 16-17.5.2002
• Modern Methods in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, Turku, March 18-20, 2002
• The ISB 2001 Winter School, Saariselkä, 10-13 December 2001.
• The 2nd Joint Tartu-Turku Meeting, PharmaCity, Turku, 16-17 May 2002.
• The 1st Joint Tartu-Turku Meeting, Tartu, 9-10 August 2001
• Course on 8th-11th May 2001, organized with CSC, Espoo
• The ISB 2000 Winter School, Ylläs, 11 - 14 December 2000.
• The 2nd Annual Symposium in Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics 1-3 December 1999, Caribia Spa Hotel, Turku
• ISB Meeting on 17th-19th May 1999, Parainen
• Intensive course on 7th-9th December 1998, Helsinki
• Intensive course on 25th-27th May, 1998, Dragsfjärd