Event Details

26th November at 12:00
Onsite event
in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity
Autumn 2026 poster

Prof. Maria Sibilia, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
The tumor microenvironment and different cell types in malignant progression

Host: Johanna Ivaska (joivaska@utu.fi)

Coffee and sandwich served at 11:45, first come first serve!

Six PhD researchers and early-career postdocs are welcome to have lunch and discuss with Prof. Sibilia after the seminar. This is a great possibility to learn hosting skills in a friendly environment and create connections for future. Everyone is welcome to join, BioCity Turku will offer the lunch.

If you got interested, please send an email to biocityturku@bioscience.fi

Maria Sibilia is a molecular biologist and has been head of the Institute of Cancer Research at the Medical University of Vienna since 2010. Her research focuses on how the immune system interacts with and influences tumor cells. A better understanding of the basic mechanisms involved in cancer development will enable more precise use of standard drug therapies. The aim of her research group is to develop cancer into a chronic disease in the long term.

Selected publications

Krauß D, Moreno-Viedma V, …, Fotakis G, Mohr T, Abramovich I, Mor I, Holcmann M, Bergthaler A, Haschemi A, Trajanoski Z, Winkler J, Gottlieb E, Sibilia M. EGFR controls transcriptional and metabolic rewiring in KRASG12D colorectal cancer. EMBO Mol Med. 2025 Jun;17(6):1355-1392

Sanlorenzo M, Novoszel P, …, Rappersberger K, Csiszar A, Sibilia M. Systemic IFN-I combined with topical TLR7/8 agonists promotes distant tumor suppression by c-Jun-dependent IL-12 expression in dendritic cells. Nat Cancer. 2025 Jan;6(1):175-193

De Sá Fernandes C, Novoszel P, Gastaldi T, Krauß D, Lang M, Rica R, Kutschat AP, Holcmann M, Ellmeier W, Seruggia D, Strobl H, Sibilia M. The histone deacetylase HDAC1 controls dendritic cell development and anti-tumor immunity. Cell Rep. 2024 Jun 25;43(6):114308

Novoszel P, Holcmann M, Stulnig G, De Sa Fernandes C, Zyulina V, Borek I, Linder M, Bogusch A, Drobits B, Bauer T, Tam-Amersdorfer C, Brunner PM, Stary G, Bakiri L, Wagner EF, Strobl H, Sibilia M. Psoriatic skin inflammation is promoted by c-Jun/AP-1-dependent CCL2 and IL-23 expression in dendritic cells. EMBO Mol Med. 2021 Apr 9;13(4):e12409

General information

• Registration is not needed, participation list is circulated in the audience.
• If you are a student and later wish to get a certificate of attendance from the Frontier of Science seminars (BKEM1020; UTU), print out the seminar diary and after the seminar ask the BioCity coordinator to sign it https://seafile.utu.fi/d/44a70f80ac1e46a9ad0a/
• Please note that any audio or video recording of the seminars is strictly forbidden.
• Autumn 2026 image credits to Samuel Svärd: Whole mount immunofluorescent staining of the mouse retina. Image acquired on 3i CSU-W1 Spinning disk with 10x objective.