National Doctoral Programme in
Informational and Structural Biology
ISB 2013 Winter School at Saariselkä
The Winter School will take place on December 9 – 12 at Saariselkä in Hotel Tunturi. See more information about the Inari municipality and Saariselkä (location on Google Maps).
Committee
The scientific organization committee for the 2013 Winter School is
- Tomi Airenne, PhD, Åbo Akademi University
- Nina Hakulinen, PhD, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus
- Helena Taberman, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus
- Matti Turtola, University of Turku
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
This is a preliminary program subject to possible minor changes.
Monday 9 December
- 10.05 Departure from Helsinki-Vantaa airport (AY 557)
- 11.45 Arrival at Ivalo airport
- 12.10 Bus (ISB) Ivalo airport - Saariselkä (30min)
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.30 Session I, chair Matti Turtola
- 15.30 Mark Johnson, Director of ISB
- 15.40 Invited speaker: Sebastian Maerkl, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland: Large-scale single cell analysis
- 16.40 Coffee
- 17.00 Session II, chair Nina Hakulinen
- 17.00 Invited speaker: Johanna Kallio, EMBL Hamburg c/o DESY, Germany: Research, Services and Future Prospects at EMBL Hamburg
- 18.00 Matti Turtola: NusG reduces RNA polymerase backward movements by zipping up the transcription bubble
- 18.25 Ainoleena Turku: Theoretical analysis of OX1 receptor and its interaction with activating and inhibiting molecules: Discovery of agonist for the OX1 orexin receptor
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 19.00 - 20.00 Poster session I
- 20.30 - 22.00 Sauna
Tuesday 10 December
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session III, chair Tomi Airenne
- 15.00 Invited speaker: Elspeth Garman, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom: Triumph over adversity: the structure determination of TBNAT
- 16.00 Kornelia Mikula: Interactions between E. coli immunoglobulin binding protein D and IgG Fc
- 16.25 Helena Taberman: Structure-function studies of enzymes in the oxidative pathway of D-galacturonate
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 16.50 Coffee
- 17.15 Session IV, chair Helena Taberman
- 17.15 Invited speaker: Anne Tuukkanen, EMBL Hamburg c/o DESY, Germany
- 18.15 Inkeri Kontro: SAXS studies of the surface (S)-layer of L. brevis reassembled on liposomes
- 18.40 Jonne Seppälä: Structural and functional effects of disease causing mutations in human filamins
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 19.10-20.00 Poster session II
- 20.30 - 22.30 Sauna
Wednesday 11 December
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session V, chair Vesa Hytönen
- 15.00 Shahid Rehan: Heterologous production of human equilibrative nucleoside transporter-1 (hENT1) using Pichia pastoris
- 15.25 Maria Ermakova: Flavodiiron proteins are distributed spatially to protect both photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation in filamentous heterocystous cyanobacteria
- 15.50 Max Lönnfors: The role of sphingomyelin head group tilting in cholesterol and ceramide interactions
- 16.15 Cecilia Hagert: Regulation of innate mechanisms operating through the mannose receptor leading to the development of arthiritis
- 16.40 ISB 2014 Students' Spring Meeting Information
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 17.00 Coffee
- 17.30 Poster final (selected 6 posters with 5 min presentations)
- 18.10 Session VI, chair Olli Pentikäinen
- 18.10 Bhanupratap Singh Chouhan: Early chordate origin of the human type integrin I domains
- 18.35 Piia Kokkonen: SIRT6 in vitro deacetylation assay substrates
- 19.00 Sanna Niinivehmas: PANTHER - Novel tool for Drug Discovery
- 19.25 Mark Johnson, Director of ISB
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 20.30 - 22.00 Dinner
Thursday 12 December
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 10.00 - 12.00 Meeting regarding future of national doctoral programmes, e.g. ISB
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 16.00 Bus to Ivalo airport (30 min)
- 18.15 Leave for Helsinki (AY472)
- 19.45 Arrival at Helsinki-Vantaa airport