University of Helsinki
A few members of the group visited the island of Seili in western Finland between the 17th – 19th of August, in order to attend the 2015 iteration of the Virus-Cell Interactions Symposium, held annually on the island.
A varied scientific programme was in store, interspersed with sauna and traditional Finnish games. It was a great opportunity to learn about the scientific challenges that our collaborators and colleagues at other universities had been pursuing recently, and also to make new connections with researchers from Finland and further afield.
Highlights included a keynote talk by Ari Helenius about interesting dodecahedron protein quaternary structures, and a boat trip around the archipelago.