End of the year for Viikki Women’s Life Science Network

We would like to thank you for your involvement in the network. We hope that you have enjoyed the activities and have gotten something useful out of it. We aim to continue to develop this initiative so all feedback and suggestions are welcome.
 
To thank you all and to celebrate the first year of operation, we would like to invite you to the last networking session this year on Wednesday 13th of December at 2pm in the BI lounge. We will celebrate it with some traditional Finnish glögi. Feel free to bring along any colleagues who do not know us yet. Please let us know by Tuesday 12th if you think you’ll make it for catering purposes.
 
Hope to see as many of you as possible there!
 
With best wishes,
Kira and Johanna
 
On behalf of the Viikki Women’s Life Science Network

Professor Lea Sistonen’s Lecture on Viikki Monday Seminar Series

We have a guest speaker, Professor Lea Sistonen from Åbo Academi University on January 8th Monday for the Viikki Monday seminar series.

On the same day, we are organising an networking coffee time where you can have a rather more casual occasion to talk with Professor Lea Sistonen.

Viikki Biocenter Monday seminar on  January 8th at 15:15-16:00, Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041

Speaker:          Lea Sistonen

 Title:                 Transcriptional memory and re-programming of gene expression in cell stress
         
Host:                Uwe Richter
 
Prof. Sistonen leads a laboratory at the Faculty of Science and Engineering and Centre of Biotechnology at Åbo Akademi University. After her post-doctoral studies in Rick Morimoto’s group at Northwestern University, she established herself as a world leader in the field of stress response regulation. Her work has been key for understanding how heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) transactivate heat shock protein networks to preserve cellular homeostasis. Her current research interest is to decipher the major HSF-related regulatory mechanisms under different stress conditions, including increased temperature, oxidative stress, and cancer. For this purpose, Prof. Sistonen’s group applies state-of-the-art methods to the analysis of transcriptional machineries in dynamic chromatin contexts.