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Turku · Finland · Est. 1992

Turku
Bioscience
Centre

An advanced core facility and research centre jointly hosted by the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University — where scientific infrastructure meets discovery.

Our Expertise. Your Discoveries.

Core Facilities

200+

Researchers

Host Universities

Research & Affiliated Groups

University of Turku

Åbo Akademi University

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NEWS

Call is now open for BioCity Turku research programs 2027-2031

June 10, 2026

Life science researchers on the Turku campus are invited to Read more

NEWS

Doctoral researcher position at Westermarck laboratory

May 18, 2026

The Westermarck Laboratory at Turku Bioscience Centre is accepting applications Read more

vacancy

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Early-career researchers invited to BioCity Pre-Symposium on 26 August. Registration is now open!

April 30, 2026

Doctoral researchers at BioCity Turku are organising a pre-symposium on Read more

BioCity Turku BioCitySymposium

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35th BioCity Symposium is arranged 27–28 August 2026. Registration is now open!

April 14, 2026

This year, BioCity Symposium is arranged on-site in Mauno Koivisto Read more

BioCity Turku BioCitySymposium

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EVENT

BioCity Turku Guest Seminar: Sasaki and Senda

August 20, 2026

20th August at 12:00-13:30 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Event details

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2nd BioCity Pre-Symposium

August 26, 2026

26th August at 13:00-17:00 Onsite event in Ministeri lecture hall Event details

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35th BioCity Symposium: Vision, expanded

August 27, 2026

27th-28th August 2026 Onsite event in Mauno Koivisto Centre, BioCity, Event details

EVENT

Sep

Immunology Seminar, Heidi Haikala

September 1, 2026

Immunology Seminar Series September 1st at 14-15 (Finland time) Virtual Event details

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Recent publications

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PFAS exposure modulates mitochondrial susceptibility in steatotic hepatocytes

João Marcos G Barbosa et al. Environ Int. 2026 May 29;213:110337. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2026.110337. Online ahead of print. Published May 30, 2026

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are highly persistent environmental pollutants that bioaccumulate in living organisms and are increasingly implicated in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease... Read more

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Early-life proteomic and microbiome features signal obesity risk across 26 years of follow-up

Angelica P Ahrens et al. mSystems. 2026 May 28:e0142425. doi: 10.1128/msystems.01424-25. Online ahead of print. Published May 28, 2026

Childhood obesity is rising globally. Yet, few studies have examined the microbiome and proteome in early childhood in relation to this outcome, and most are... Read more

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Clarifying the scope and capabilities of ROTS in differential expression analysis

Tomi Suomi et al. Bioinformatics. 2026 May 22:btag335. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btag335. Online ahead of print. Published May 24, 2026

SUMMARY: Recently, Anwar et al. introduced a method combining the ROTS reproducibility optimisation procedure with empirical Bayes variance estimation from limma. Here, we clarify several... Read more

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Wake-active brainstem GABA neurons signal sleep pressure by upregulating AMPA receptors to drive recovery sleep

Wei Ba et al. Curr Biol. 2026 May 19:S0960-9822(26)00529-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2026.04.059. Online ahead of print. Published May 20, 2026

How the brain compensates for sleep deprivation (SD) by generating recovery sleep (RS) is not understood. Using Ca²⁺ photometry, we identified a WAKE/rapid eye movement... Read more

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Joint modeling of longitudinal and time-to-event data for dynamic disease risk prediction using proteomics

Markus Lindén et al. Protein Sci. 2026 Jun;35(6):e70621. doi: 10.1002/pro.70621. Published May 18, 2026

Biomedical studies increasingly incorporate longitudinal data, enabling us to track individual disease processes over time at the molecular level, and to discover associations of the... Read more

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Association between infant and toddler gut microbiota composition and later executive functioning

Venla Huovinen et al. Dev Psychopathol. 2026 May 8:1-15. doi: 10.1017/S0954579426101527. Online ahead of print. Published May 8, 2026

CONCLUSIONS: Alpha diversity in infancy was negatively associated with preschool EF. Additionally, EFs differed between microbial groups based on dominant genera. Bacterial genera abundances were... Read more

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