The third Researcher Forum of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will take place on
11 June 2015 at Järvenpäätalo in Järvenpää* and is aimed at all researchers of the Faculty. The theme for the day is innovativeness in an academic work community. The day’s program is in English.

The program and schedule is as follows:

8:00 Bus transportation to Järvenpäätalo from Viikki EE-house (Mustialankatu 1)
09:00 Breakfast
Keynote speakers (Chair: Prof. Outi Vainio)
10:00 How innovations are born and how do they breed into success
(Professor, Docent, MD, PhD Reijo Salonen, Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Research and Development, and Chief Medical Officer at Orion)
11:00 Innovations are born out of intrinsic motivation
(PhD Frank Martela, Researcher, Aalto University)

12:00 Lunch break

13:00 Departments’ presentations (Chair: Prof. Thomas Spillmann)

• Iohexol and Indocyanin Green for Diagnostic Imaging and in vivo Testing of Organ Function – Thomas Spillmann, Professor
• Pet dogs as an animal model for studying diet-disease associations – Liisa Uusitalo, PhD, post doc, DOGRISK group
• A diet intervention study using dogs – Johanna Roine, PhD student, DOGRISK group
• DOGRISK: A databank of epi, FFQ and analyzed biological samples of phenotyped dogs – Anna Hielm-Björkman, Docent, PI, DOGRISK group
• The role of colostrum quality, development of intestinal microbiota and immunocompetence, in neonate piglet mortality – Shah Hasan, PhD student
• Effects of biopsy collection and cannulation on behaviour and welfare of sows – Jinhyeon Yun
  
  14:00 Coffee break<14:30 Departments’ presentations
• Genetic approaches for canine gene discovery – Maria Kaukonen, DVM, Ph Student (cancelled)
• Research possibilities with flow cytometry and cell sorting at the faculty of Veterinary Medicine – Tiina Pessa-Morikawa, PhD
• From hematoxylin to laser microdissection: histotechnical expertise and services @ EBIO – Mikael Niku, PhD
• Molecular Epidemiology of Listeria monocytogenes in the Dairy Farm
  Environment – Hanna Castro
• Bacterial Reverse Mutagenicity Assay (Ames test): principles and applications – Matthew Omoruyi

  
  15:30 Group work – instructions (Tiina-Kaisa Kukko-Lukjanov)
  17:00 – 19:00 Light dinner
  19:05 Bus transportation to Viikki

Wishing you a warm welcome!
On behalf of the organizing team Eeva, PR & Press Officer

*Järvenpäätalo location: http://www.jarvenpaatalo.fi/?pageid=5&parent0=5