Biocenter Oulu Day 2024: Revolutionizing health with omics

Biocenter Oulu Day gathers the bioscience and biomedicine researchers and clinicians together annually around a current scientific theme and a commercial exhibition of the sponsoring companies. The Biocenter Oulu Day is planned, organized and chaired by a team of committed doctoral researchers.
Biocenter Oulu Day 2024

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Time

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Venue location

Leena Palotie Auditorium 101A in the Kontinkangas Campus, University of Oulu

Location

Kontinkangas

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PROGRAMME

  • 8.30-8.40 Opening remarks. Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Biocenter Oulu.
  • 8.40-8.50 Welcome. Prof. Johannes Kettunen, Director of Focus Institute Biocenter Oulu.
  • 8.50-9.30 KEYNOTE: “Towards functions and phenotypes: leveraging multi-omics in prostate cancer research.” Leena Latonen, University of Eastern Finland.
  • 9.30-10.15 Coffee at the exhibition area

Session 1: Insights into genomics and metabolomics

  • 10.15-10.20 Sponsor spot
  • 10.20-10.50 “Better brain health with human cellular models – from molecular signatures to function.”Helena Kilpinen, University of Helsinki.
  • 10.50-11.20 “The lipidome in psychosis. How can metabolomics be used to understand underlying mechanisms of disease?” Alex Dickens, University of Turku.
  • 11.20-11.25 Sponsor spot
  • 11.25-12.55 Lunch break and exhibition

Session 2: Advances in proteomics

  • 12.55-13.00 Sponsor spot
  • 13.00-13.30 “Ubiquitination and ADPribosylation: post-translational crosstalk.” Gerbrand J. van der Heden van Noort, LUMC, the Netherlands.
  • 13.30-14.00 “Uncovering ADP-ribosylation signaling pathways: implications for PARP7 in cancer.” Michael O. Hottiger, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
  • 14.00-14.40 Coffee at the exhibition area

Session 3: Digital health sciences

  • 14.40-14.45 Sponsor spot
  • 14.45-15.15 “Wearable-Measured Activity, Sedentary, and Sleep Behaviors and Health.” Vahid Farrahi, University of Dortmund, Germany.
  • 15.15-15.45 “Deep phenotyping for translational medicine.” Juha Salmitaival, University of Oulu.
  • 15.45-16.00 General discussion and concluding remarks

Organizing Committee of BCO Oulu Day 2024:

Carlos Vela Rodriguez (Chairperson)

Qin Zhang (Chairperson)

Mulusew Yaltaye (Chairperson)

Ayman Hawash

Deepak Katta Jagannath

Sandra Vorimo

Yuan Zhang

Last updated: 17.9.2024