Jochen M Schwenk is a Professor of Translational Proteomics at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. With a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Tübingen, Germany, Professor Schwenk conducts research at SciLifeLab in Solna since its inauguration in 2010.

Karoliina Hirvonen  from Riitta Lahesmaa lab defends her PhD thesis “Proteomics Insights into Type 1 Diabetes Development – Investigating Changes in Serum Proteome and the Role of Persistent Enterovirus Infection” on Thursday the 22nd of May 2025 at 12 pm in Arje Scheinin hall, 2nd floor, Dentalia, Turku. Her opponent is Professor Jochen Schwenk from Science for Life Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Inna Starskaia from Riitta Lahesmaa lab defends her PhD thesis “Early immune response in children developing type 1 diabetes” on Friday the 15th of May 2025. Her opponent is Professor Katri Lindfors from Tampere University.

14th May 2025 On-site event in Joki visitor and innovation centre   Open Science & Impact Festival 2025 will take place in Visitor and Innovation [...]

Tue Apr 15, 2025 at 19.00-19.45 Finland time (12pm - 12:45 pm EDT) Online event Dr. Robert Moulder, University of Turku: Targeted serum proteomics of [...]

CRISPR workshop registration is open

We are excited to share that doctoral researchers from Turku Bioscience Centre made a strong impression in the University of Turku’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) [...]

Welcome to the second Postdocs in Flames (PiF) Friday Café of the year next week, where we are happy to host PI, Docent Jukka Alinikula [...]

Jasmin Kaivola from the Ivaska lab successfully defended her PhD thesis "Biomechanical Tumour Matrix" on Friday the 29th of November 2024. Her opponent was Professor [...]

POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER 12th On-site event Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Ellen Rothenberg, California Institute of Technology, USA Epigenomic and gene regulatory network mechanisms controlling the [...]

Joanna Pylvänäinen will defend her doctoral thesis "Bioimage Analysis for Life Scientists: Tools for Live Cell Imaging" on Friday 26th of April at 13:00 in [...]

FM Aleksi Isomursu  defended his doctoral dissertation titled "Biomechanics of cancer cell motility" at the University of Turku on Friday, April 12, 2024 The opponent [...]

MSc Mukund Sharma defended his dissertation titled "Convergence of RAS and PP2A activities on chromatin repressor complexes" on Friday, March 22, 2024. Download the dissertation [...]

Turku Bioscience Genome Editing Core is organizing a workshop on generating knock-out and knock-in modification using CRISPR/Cas9 technology with in vitro ribonucleoprotein complex delivery. During [...]

  This year, BioCity Symposium is arranged on-site in Mauno Koivisto Centre, BioCity on 29–30 August 2024, with the title Unleashing the power of metabolism. [...]

February 29th at 12:00 On-site event Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Spring 2024 program Prof. Juha Klefström, University of Helsinki, Finland Of MYC, mitochondrial metabolism and death [...]

In the context of the 33rd BioCity Symposium (29-30 August 2024) the twentieth Elias Tillandz prize will be awarded for the best scientific paper published [...]

Frontiers of Science seminar program is ready for spring 2024. All seminars are on-site only at 12:00 in BioCity, Presidentti auditorium. Coffee and sandwich are [...]

Professor John Eriksson and his research team have received the prestigious Distinguished Innovator grant of 6 million DKK (approximately 800 000 euro) from Novo Nordisk [...]

Research-based knowledge is the basis for decision-making. Would you like to know how research results are used to influence science and knowledge management nationally and [...]

MSc Inês Alvito Félix defended her dissertation in Medical microbiology and immunology entitled “Ontogeny and function of adipose tissue macrophages” at the University of Turku [...]