National Doctoral Programme in
Informational and Structural Biology
ISB 2015 Winter School at Levi
The Winter School will take place on November 23 – 25 at Levi at Spa Hotel Levitunturi. See more information about the Kittilä municipality and the Levi ski resort (location on Google Maps).
Committee
The scientific organization committee for the 2015 Winter School is
- Polytimi Dimitriou, Åbo Akademi University
- Lari Lehtiö, PhD, University of Oulu
- Ulla Pentikäinen, PhD, University of Jyväskylä
- Ainoleena Turku, University of Helsinki
Feedback groups
Feedback sessions have been scheduled for oral and poster presentations by graduate students. The participants have been divided into groups and each group assigned to specific presentations. See the list of feedback groups.Program
Monday, November 23rd
- 10.15 Departure from Helsinki-Vantaa airport (AY 557)
- 11.45 Arrival at Kittilä airport
- 12.15 Bus (ISB) Kittilä airport - Levi (15 min)
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.30 Session I, chair Dimitriou Polytimi
- 15.30 Mark Johnson, Director of ISB
- 15.40 Invited speaker: Michio Murata, Osaka University, Japan: The chemistry department and membrane research at Osaka University
- 16.40 Oskar Engberg: Use of new phase-selective fluorophores to characterize lipid-induced lateral segregation in complex bilayers
- 17.05 Annika Ciragan: Structural and functional studies of the C-terminal domain of TonB from Helicobacter pylori
- 17.30 Coffee
- 18.00 Session II, chair Ainoleena Turku
- 18.00 Invited speaker: Erkki Soini, professor emeritus, University of Turku: A retrospective research review
- 18.45 Sanna Kreula: Transhydrogenase PntAB -Role in NAD(P)H cofactor redox homeostasis in prokaryotes
- 19.10 Soili Lehtonen: Artificial avidin-based receptors for a panel of small molecules
- 19.35 Elina Mäntylä: Parvoviral promoters are enriched with acetylated histones during active virus gene expression
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 20.00 - 22.00 Sauna
Tuesday, November 24th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 10.00 - 14.00 Thesis committee and project meetings
- 14.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session III, chair Ulla Pentikäinen
- 15.00 Invited speaker: Daniela Schuster, University of Innsbruck, Austria: Environmental chemicals disturbing hormone homeostasis: pharmacophore-based identification and examples
- 16.00 Dina Navia-Paldanius: Functional characterization of some novel and known serine hydrolases
- 16.25 Maria Salmela: Nonactivated alpha2beta1 integrins can bind large ligands and induce cell signaling
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 16.50 Coffee and poster session
- 18.00 Session IV, chair Lari Lehtiö
- 18.00 Lloyd Ruddock: Mechanisms and applications of disulfide bond formation in the cytoplasm
- 18.10 Leonor Carvalho: New insights into the specificity of mammalian copper amine oxidases
- 18.35 Ainoleena Turku: Screening for non-peptidic orexin receptor ligands
- 19.00 Jyrki Heino: Future cooperation among doctoral programmes
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 19.10 Poster final (selected 5 poster with 5 min presentations)
- 20.30 - 22.00 Dinner
Wednesday, November 25th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 10.00 Meeting regarding the future of national doctoral programmes (e.g. ISB)
- 10.30 Bus to Kittilä airport (15 min)
- 12.10 Leave for Helsinki (AY557)
- 14.35 Arrival at Helsinki-Vantaa airport
Online registration and abstract submission
Online registration and abstract submission are closed. The web service is kept online for use by event organizers.