Event Details

5th March at 12:00
Onsite event
in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity
Spring 2026 program

Dr. Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, UK
Network-based approaches for studying context-specific signalling

Host: Tomi Suomi (tomi.suomi@utu.fi)

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

Six PhD researchers and early-career postdocs are welcome to have a lunch and discuss with Dr. Petsalaki 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

Evangelia Petsalaki’s research group studies human cell signalling in healthy and disease conditions. The group uses interdisciplinary approaches, including data-driven network inference, modelling of cell processes and data integration, to understand how different environmental or genetic conditions affect cell signalling responses leading to diverse cell phenotypes. Their long-term aim is to create whole-cell signalling models, to better understand cell functions and disease. Evangelia has a PhD in structural bioinformatics from EMBL and the University of Heidelberg (2009) and did her postdoctoral work at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada (2010-2016).

Selected publications

Comprehensive evaluation of phosphoproteomic-based kinase activity inference. Müller-Dott S, Jaehnig EJ, Munchic KP, Jiang W, Yaron-Barir TM, Savage SR, Garrido-Rodriguez M, Johnson JL, Lussana A, Petsalaki E, Lei JT, Dugourd A, Krug K, Cantley LC, Mani DR, Zhang B, Saez-Rodriguez J. Nat Commun. 2025 May 22;16(1):4771

PhosX: data-driven kinase activity inference from phosphoproteomics experiments. Lussana A, Müller-Dott S, Saez-Rodriguez J, Petsalaki E. Bioinformatics. 2024 Nov 28;40(12):btae697

An unbiased ranking of murine dietary models based on their proximity to human metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). Vacca M, …, Feigh M, Yunis C, Bedossa P, Stewart M, Cater HL, Wells S, Schattenberg JM, Anstee QM; LITMUS Investigators; Tiniakos D, Perfield JW, Petsalaki E, Davidsen P, Vidal-Puig A. Nat Metab. 2024 Jun;6(6):1178-119

Use of viral motif mimicry improves the proteome-wide discovery of human linear motifs. Wadie B, Kleshchevnikov V, Sandaltzopoulou E, Benz C, Petsalaki E. ‘Cell Rep. 2022 May 3;39(5):110764

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, print out the seminar diary and after the seminar ask the BioCity coordinator to sign it https://seafile.utu.fi/f/0cd08ce7e61b419b88cb/
• Please note that any audio or video recording of the seminars is strictly forbidden.
• Spring 2026 image credits to Jan Kaslin: Motor neurons (green) and newly produced cells (red) are organized around the central canal (blue cells surrounding channel that crosses the image) in the adult zebrafish spinal cord. Image taken using Leica SP8 confocal microscope.