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                19   | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr. Michael A. Quilliam  | 
                 The Hunt for Red Tide Toxins: New Toxins, New Technologies  | 
                FoS  | 
              
              
                | Jan 23  | 
                13.00-16.15  | 
                   | 
                TuBS course on: BRUSH UP YOUR MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY:  Juhani Syväoja (University of Joensuu): Structure and Replication of  DNA, Mikko Frilander (University of Helsinki): RNAi and microRNAs | 
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                | Jan 26  | 
                12.00  | 
                 Professor Lucas Pelkmans  | 
                 Towards Systems Biology of Virus Entry and Endocytosis  | 
                FoS  | 
              
              
                | Jan 30  | 
                13.00- 16.15 | 
                  | 
                TuBS course on: BRUSH UP YOUR MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY:  Helena Kääriäinen (University of Turku): Chromosomes, Inheritance &  Disease, Mark Johnson (Åbo Akademi): Protein Structure  | 
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                | Feb 6  | 
                13.00- 16.15  | 
                   | 
                TuBS course on: BRUSH UP YOUR MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY: Jukka Westermarck (Turku Centre for Biotechnology): Cell Signalling, John Eriksson (University of Turku): Cell Death | 
                   | 
              
              
                | Feb 8  | 
                11.15 | 
                 Mikko Laukkanen  | 
                 SOD3-properties and use in gene therapy  | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | Feb 9  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr. Anthony Poole  | 
                 What Modern RNA Processing Tells Us About LUCA, the Last Universal  Common Ancestor of All Life  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | Feb 13  | 
                13.00- 16.15 | 
                  | 
                TuBS course on: BRUSH UP YOUR MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY: Jyrki Heino (University of Turku): Cell Adhesion, Lea Sistonen (Åbo Akademi): Principles of Eukaryotic Gene Regulation  | 
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                | Feb 13-15  | 
                10.00 | 
                  | 
                Hands-on Course on Microscopy, Flow Cytometry and Laser Microdissection 
                  13.2.-15.2.2006 | 
                  | 
              
              
                | Feb 14-May 23  | 
                  | 
                  | 
                A BIOMEDICAL POSTGRADUATE COURSE:  
                  NANOSTRUCTURE IMAGING BY MICROSCOPIC METHODS 
                Registration required, number of participants is limited to 9, accepted in the order of registration to Anne Johansson at PGS, amjohan@utu.fi   | 
                  | 
              
              
                | Feb 15  | 
                11.15 | 
                Kalle-Pekka Nera  | 
                 Transcriptional regulation of B cell function by Ikaros and Pax5  | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | Feb 16  | 
                12.00-15.30 | 
                  | 
                Proteomics and genomics in diagnosis of diseases -course
  | 
                  | 
              
              
                | Feb 16  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr. Kanury V. S. Rao  | 
                 Plasticity of the Signalling Network: Elegance in Chaos  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | Feb 28 | 
                  | 
                 Tero Vahlberg  | 
                Tilastolliset perusanalyysit SAS-ohjelmistolla - more information: 
                      http://www.med.utu.fi/hallinto/pgs/pgs-kurssit/kurssi3_2006.html  | 
                  | 
              
              
                | March 1  | 
                11.15 | 
                 Pekka Saikku  | 
                 Chlamydia pneumoniae - an update  | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | March 2  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Professor Massimo Santoro  | 
                 RET Signalling in Thyroid Tumors  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | March 8  | 
                11.15 | 
                 Varpu Marjomäki  | 
                 Studies of endocytic membrane traffick using Echovirus 1 and its receptor a2b1 integrin as model proteins  | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | March 9  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr. Evan Simpson  | 
                 Estrogens - the Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | March 10  | 
                9.00 | 
                  | 
                Neuroscience Finland 2006  
                  Neurotransmitter receptors and intracellular signalling pathways: From basic science to clinical application  | 
                  | 
              
              
                | March 15  | 
                11.15 | 
                Teija Aho | 
                Pim-kinase in cell survival | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | March 16  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Professor Christer Höög  | 
                 Meiotic Chromosome Organization and Segregation"  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | March 22  | 
                11.15 | 
                Linda Blomquist | 
                Multiple target detection of cytokines and phosphoproteins using the  
                  Luminex xMap technology
  | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | March 23-24  | 
                  | 
                  | 
                 PHENOTYPE CHARACTERIZATION OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED MOUSE MODELS:  
                  Cardiovascular System  | 
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                | March 23  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Professor David F. Stern  | 
                 EGF Family Receptor Tyrosine Kinases in Mammary Development and Breast Cancer  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | March 29  | 
                11.15 | 
                 Juhani Soini  | 
                 Custom microarrays for microbiology  
                  | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | March 31  | 
                9.15-16 | 
                  | 
                Farewell symposium: Martti Parvinen | 
                  | 
              
              
                | April | 
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                Clinical Virology -course,  registration: jane.marttila@utu.fi   | 
                  | 
              
              
                | April 5  | 
                11.15 | 
                 Sakari Jokiranta | 
                 Serum resistance of bacteria  | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | April 6  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Professor Anton Berns  | 
                 Mouse Models for Cancer  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | April 10  | 
                13-16 | 
                  | 
                BIO/ICT IDEA: Tuoteistamisen avulla asiakashyötyä ja liiketoimintaa (ilm. 6.4.menn. leena.nuotio@bioturku.com)  | 
                  | 
              
              
                | April 12  | 
                11.15 | 
                 Klaus Hedman  | 
                 Bioportfolio – the newly identified human ssDNA-virus microflora  | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | April 19  | 
                11.15 | 
                 Kai Lahtonen  | 
                 BioTurku and its activities  | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | April 20  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr. Anu Suomalainen Wartiovaara  | 
                 Mitochondria in the Spotlight of Neurodegeneration  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | April 26  | 
                11.15 | 
                  | 
                title open  | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | April 27  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr. Hákon Hákonarsson  | 
                 Genetics of Complex Diseases  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | April 28  | 
                9-15 | 
                  | 
                 Declining fecundity and increasing need for assisted reproduction -course  | 
                  | 
              
              
                | May | 
                  | 
                  | 
                New Trends in Proteomics  
                  (Carry Corthals)   | 
                  | 
              
              
                | May 4  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Professor John A. Jansen  | 
                 Engineering of Dental Tissues"  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | May 10-11 | 
                  | 
                  | 
                4th Joint Turku-Tartu Meeting  | 
                  | 
              
              
                | May 11  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr. Ruggero Pardi  | 
                 A Sense of Touch: Signal Transduction by Adhesion Receptors in Mammalian Cells  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | May 18  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr. Linda Wordeman  | 
                 Order from Chaos: The Control of Microtubule Dynamics and Chromosome Segregation in Living Cells  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | May 31  | 
                11.15 | 
                  | 
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                  | 
              
              
                June 1-2   | 
                  | 
                  | 
                 BALTIC SEA AREA WORKSHOP IN MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY  | 
                  | 
              
              
                June 
                5-6   | 
                  | 
                  | 
                PHENOTYPE CHARACTERIZATION OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED MOUSE MODELS : Bone and Cartilage   | 
                  | 
              
              
                | June 7  | 
                11.15 | 
                  | 
               | 
                  | 
              
              
                | June 8  | 
                8.30 | 
                  | 
              Immunology in Drug Discovery and Development Minisymposium  
                           
                      (poster invitation)   | 
                  | 
              
              
                | June 8 | 
                12.00 | 
                Professor Tomas Mustelin | 
                Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases in Immunity and Autoimmune Disease  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | June 14  | 
                11.15 | 
                  | 
               | 
                  | 
              
              
                | June 15 | 
                  | 
                  | 
                FINNBOXIV: Annual meeting of the Finnish structural biology and crystallography groups  | 
                  | 
              
              
                | June 26  | 
                11.15 | 
                  | 
               | 
                  | 
              
              
                | August 9  | 
                11.15 | 
                  | 
               | 
                  | 
              
              
                | August 14  | 
                  | 
                  | 
                TuBS Summer Celebration 2006  | 
                Turku Castle   | 
              
              
                | August 16  | 
                 10.15-12.00 and 13.15-15.00 | 
                  | 
                 | 
                  | 
              
              
                | August 24-25  | 
                  | 
                  | 
                The 16th Annual BioCity Symposium  
                  CELL STRESS   | 
                  | 
              
              
                | August 31  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Prof. Richard Vallee, USA  | 
                 Studies of the Smooth Brain Disease Lissencephaly Provide Insight into  Neural Stem Cell Migration and Mitotic Checkpoint Regulation  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | Sep 14  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr. Ruggero Pardi, Italy  | 
                 A Sense of Touch: Signal Transduction by Adhesion Receptors in Mammalian Cells  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | Sep 21  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr. Sanjeev Galande, India  | 
                 Bridging Signal Transduction and Chromatin Architecture: Role of  PDZlike Domain of SATB1 in Regulation of Global Gene Expression  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | Sep 28 | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr. Sarah Butcher, Helsinki  | 
                 Insights into Virus Structure and Assembly from Cryo-electron Microscopy  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | Oct 5  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Prof. Bernd Bukau, Germany  | 
                 Mechanisms of Molecular Chaperones  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | Oct 11  | 
                11.15 | 
                Dr. Yvonne Rosenberg, USA | 
                Production of Vaccines and Therapeutics in Plants 
                         
                  | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | Oct 12  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Prof. John P. Foreyt, USA  | 
                 Weight Loss That Lasts  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | Oct 19  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr.  Navin C. Khanna, India  | 
                 Infectious Disease Testing: an Indian Scenario  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | Oct 25  | 
                11.15 | 
                Pekka Vallittu | 
                 Development of fibre-reinforced composites for reconstructive medicine | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | Oct 26 | 
                9.00-15.30 | 
                  | 
                Molecular Mechanisms of Tissue Fibrosis  -course  | 
                  | 
              
              
                | Oct 26  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Prof. Tony Ng, UK  | 
                 From Single Cell to the Whole Proteome - the Basis of an Optical Imaging Approach to Understand Cancer Metastasis  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | Nov 2  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr. Mika Rämet, Tre  | 
                 Genome-wide Functional Analysis of Drosophila Immune Response  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | Nov 7  | 
                  | 
                  | 
                Nuclear receptors in health and disease  - Symposium  | 
                  | 
              
              
                | Nov 8  | 
                11.15 | 
                Carita Savolainen-Kopra | 
                Molecular epidemiology of human rhinoviruses  | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | Nov 9  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Prof. Frank E. Jones, USA  | 
                 Intracellular Signaling by the HER4/ERBB4 Cell-Surface Receptor - Unleashing the Killer Inside  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | Nov 15  | 
                11.15 | 
                Beate Sodeik,Germany | 
                 Herpes Simplex Virus - A hitch hiker's guide to the cell  | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | Nov 16  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr. Pekka Lappalainen, Hki  | 
                 Assembly of Contractile Actin Filament Structures in Mammalian Cells  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | Nov 17-19  | 
                  | 
                  | 
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                  | 
              
              
                | Nov 22  | 
                11.15 | 
                  | 
                  | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | Nov 27.-28.  | 
                  | 
                  | 
                 Phenotype Characterization of Genetically Modified Mouse Models "Mouse Genetics"  | 
                  | 
              
              
                | Nov 29  | 
                11.15 | 
                Pauliina Hartiala  | 
                 Interactions Between Borrelia and Human Dendritic Cells | 
                TIC | 
              
              
                | Nov 30  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Prof. William C. Hahn, USA  | 
                 Functional Genomic Approaches to Understand Human Cell Transformation  | 
                FoS | 
              
              
                | Dec 14  | 
                12.00 | 
                 Dr. Miikka Vikkula, Belgium  | 
                 Genetic Causes of Vascular Malformations  | 
                FoS |