2017

The 5th Researcher Forum of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will take place on 31st May 2017 at Poliisien kesäkoti/Police cabin in Lauttasaari* and is aimed at all researchers of the Faculty.

Multiculturalism and research – joining forces despite different backgrounds

Program:

Morning: Keynotes
8.30 Breakfast
9:00 Welcome by Olli Peltoniemi
9.15-10:15 Keynote 1: Professor Anja Nygren: Multiple encounters – diversified visions: Empirical research in a globalized world
10:15-10:30 Discussion
10.30-11:30 Keynote 2: Associate Professor Anna-Liisa Laine How diversity protects from disease and promotes science
11.30-11:45 Discussion
11.45 Lunch

Afternoon: Research group presentations
13.15 Research group presentations (about 5 min each)
14.45 Coffee break
15.15 Research group presentations continues (about 5 min each)

  Speaker: Title

  • Mariella Aalto-Araneda: Risk factors and stress tolerance of Listeria monocytogenes in food processing environments
  • Helka Heikkilä: Intra-articular botulinum toxin A in dogs – sharing expertise between Helsinki and Liverpool
  • Stanislav Khirug : Early stress and later life
  • Marie Verkola: Multiresistant bacteria in Finnish veterinarians – preliminary results
  • Katja Selby: Diversity in Clostridium botulinum research
  • Anna Boström: The back muscle size and composition in dogs with and without spinal cord compression
  • Short discussion (if the schedule permits)
  • Anna Valros: International efforts to save the pig tail
  • Atefeh Nasri: comparison of the estrogenic and toxic profiles of a natural (8-prenylnaringenin) and a synthetic (tartrazine) xenoestrogen in vitro and in vivo with special reference to their influence on meningioma in mice
  • Thomas Grönthal: Discriminating between bacterial strains using MALDI-TOF MS?
  • Anna Valldeoriola: Thermal imaging on dog emotions
  • Jenni Kaskela: Oiva: The Finnish food safety inspection result disclosure system
  • Shah Hasan: Role of colostrum quality in neonatal piglets’ mortality, survivability and gut microbita development
  • Short discussion (if the schedule permits)
  • Laura Hänninen: Sweet dreams are made of this – the evolution of international cattle sleep studies
  • Miia Kontturi: Nordic Ruminant Lameness Research Network
  • Tiina Kaarela: Brain in vitro
  • Maria Vilar: Drying-off practices in Finnish dairy herds
  • Magdy Adam: Medetomidine and MK-467 in sheep
  • Mirko Rossi: Genomic and molecular epidemiology, experimental evolution and glycobiology of Campylobacter spp.
  • Short discussion (if the schedule permits)
  • Anna-Mariam Kiviranta: Syringomyelia and craniocervical junction abnormalities in dogs
  • Eeva Mustonen: Sustainability and herd health in sheep production
  • NN:
  • Discussion

Evening: Social program

17:00 Functional recovery (Yin yoga): Hanna Dyggve
Meditation: Jonne Peltoniemi
18-01 Sauna; Light buffet supper (salad & bread)

Organizing team: Olli Peltoniemi, Outi Vainio, Miia Lindström and Tomi Taira.

*Venue: Poliisien kesäkoti (Police cabin),
Address: Kyyluodontie1 (after which follow the signs), Lauttasaari, Helsinki
See the location on the map.
How to reach Poliisien kesäkoti – instructions (only in Finnish).