Turku Bioscience News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frontiers of Science seminars will start on Thursday 1 February 2024

January 12, 2024

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 served before each seminar.   Frontiers of Science is a Read more

Distinguished Innovator Grant from Novo Nordisk to the research team of John Eriksson

January 8, 2024

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 to support their project titled, "Prevention of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases: Read more

Novo Nordisk Fonden funding to Westermarck and Ventelä teams to develop new cancer biomarker for clinical use

December 19, 2023

Different cancers have very different impact on the patient well-being. However, most of them are treated similarly, even though better treatment results could be achieved Read more