IMT Annual Research Day - IMT:n vuotuinen tutkimuspäivä

Program

08.25 Howy Jacobs
An overview of research in IMT 2007

Session 1: RNA, DNA and proteins
Chair - Alberto Sanz

08.30 Peter Martinsson
Do mitochondrial nucleoids mix in mammalian cells?

08.50 Juha Saarikettu
Studies of the multifunctional protein p100

09.10 Satumarja Stenman
Cereal enzymes: novel treatment for coeliac disease

09.30 Markku Kulomaa
Brave new avidins

09.50 Howy Jacobs (on behalf of Jaakko Pohjoismäki)
Mitochondrial DNA replication, recombination and cardiac ischemia

10.10 Coffee

Session 2: Stress and signals
Chair - Susanna Valanne

10.40 Anni Kleino
Pirk is a negative regulator of the Drosophila Imd pathway

11.00 Janita Thusberg
Genome wide analysis of pathogenic SH2 domain mutations

11.20 Marita Hiipakka
Vinexin family proteins as PAK2 substrates

11.40 Marek Babusiak
Proteomic, transcriptomic and phenotypic studies of Drosophila expressing the alternative oxidase (AOX)

12.00 Minna Niemelä
Identification of novel MEK1-interacting protein complex from cancer cells

12.20 Lunch break

Session 3: Genes and cancer
Chair - Katri Lindfors

13.30 Jukka Westermarck
Inhibition of protein phosphatase 2A in human malignancies

13.50 Kimmo Savinainen
Searching for amplification target genes in pancreatic cancer

14.10 Anssi Niemelä
Carbonic anhydrases in hereditary colorectal cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumors

14.30 Outi Saramäki
TMPRSS2:ERG rearrangement is an independent marker of good prognosis in prostate cancer

14.50 Coffee

15.20 Tiina Wahlfors
PALB2 mutations in Finnish prostate cancer patients

Session 4: IMT Founding Fathers
Chair - Jarmo Visakorpi

15.40 Olli Silvennoinen, University of California, San Francisco, USA
IMT and QB3

16.00 Kalle Saksela, University of Helsinki
Elvis at IMT and other snapshots from my first 25 years in science

16.20 Kai Krohn, Dermagene Oy
On serendipity

16.40 Olli Silvennoinen
Closing remarks

16.50 Poster Session with wine (Finn-Medi V, Café Ellipsi and lobby)

18.15 Award of prize(s) for best poster(s)

18.30 IMT Christmas Party