Turku Bioscience News

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    Dissertation Defence: Aleksi Isomursu

    April 4, 2024

    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 was Professor Adam J. Engler (University of California, United States), Read more

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    New Service at Protein Structure and Chemistry Core: Get Expert Help with AlphaFold2 for Protein Structure Prediction

    April 4, 2024

    Turku Bioscience's Protein Structure and Chemistry Core Facility now offers specialized AlphaFold2 modeling support to researchers needing accurate protein structure predictions. What’s Available? Custom AlphaFold2 modeling for your protein sequences. Expert guidance on interpreting results. Read more

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    New Service at Protein Structure and Chemistry Core: Crystallizations with microseeding

    April 4, 2024

    Use of crystal seed stocks in high-throughput crystallization screenings to improve the chances of crystal formation. Microseeds can be dispensed either during sitting drop or microbatch-under-oil setups. A state-of-the-art single-photon counting X-ray detector and a Read more

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    Protein quality control with mass photometry

    April 4, 2024

    An automated mass photometer that measures 14 samples in an hour has been installed in our facility as part of the Turku Protein Core. The instrument will help in assessing the quality of macromolecules, especially Read more

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    Dissertation Defence: Mukund Sharma

    March 18, 2024

    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 Abstract of the doctoral dissertation: Human cells contain specialized receptors Read more

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    33rd BioCity Symposium is arranged 29–30 August 2024. Registration is now open!

    March 15, 2024

      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. Registration is open until Friday, 16 August 2024.   Annual Read more

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    BioCity Turku collaborative research funding call 2024

    March 8, 2024

    BioCity Turku opens a funding call for researchers belonging to BioCity Turku research programs.   The funding is intended for truly new openings promoting research Read more

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    Immunology Seminar Series, Sirpa Jalkanen

    February 21, 2024

    March 5th online at 14 – 15 (Finland time) Sirpa Jalkanen, Professor, Academician, University of Turku: The thrill of searching and joy of finding Flyer Read more

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    BioCity Turku asks for proposals for Elias Tillandz publication prize winner during February 2024

    February 1, 2024

    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 in 2023 in Turku.   BioCity Turku asks for proposals Read more

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    Coffey lab awarded 360,000$ from Michael J. Fox Foundation to Improve Patient Diagnosis and Monitoring in Parkinson’s Disease

    January 24, 2024

    The lab identified that LRRK2, a kinase that plays a central role in familial and sporadic Parkinson’s Disease, controls the cellular machinery that is responsible Read more

    Turku Screening Unit Receives Funding to Establish Single Objective Light Sheet for longitudinal and dynamic screening of complex 3D cell systems

    January 21, 2024

    The Research Council of Finland awarded an infrastructure grant to the Turku Screening Unit as a part of the EU-OPENSCREEN-FINLAND consortium. The funding awarded to the Turku Screening Unit is to establish a single objective Read more

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    Frontiers of Science seminars will start the spring season on Thursday 2 February at 12:00

    January 12, 2024

    Frontiers of Science spring seminars are starting again. All seminars are on-site only at 12:00 in BioCity, Presidentti auditorium, if not stated otherwise. Coffee and Read more