Form

Symposium

Credits

Certificate of participation will be written

Registration

Teija Luoto, e-mail teija.luoto@oulu.fi tel. (08) 537 6103, fax (08) 537 6115
by March 12, 2010. Biocenter Oulu scientists and students register to contact persons in research groups.

Information

Anthony Heape, Biocenter Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland
tel. (08) 537 6102, fax. (08) 537 6115, e-mail anthony.heape@oulu.fi

Time

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Place

Auditorium 101A in the Main Building of the Medical Campus,
University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Chairpersons

Sanna Junttila, Anthi Kelempisioti and Jenni Nikkilä

09.00 – 09.05

Opening remarks
Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Biocenter Oulu

09.05 – 09.15

Welcome
Professor Johanna Myllyharju, Scientific Director of Biocenter Oulu

09.15 – 09.20

Welcome
Professor Seppo Vainio, Director of Biocenter Oulu Graduate School

09.20 – 10.00

“Adipose Stem Cells - from Laboratory to Clinical Practice”
Dr. Susana Miettinen, Ph.D., Regea Inst. for Regenerative Medicine ,
Sr. researcher, group leader - Adult Stem Cell Research, Tampere, Finland

10.00 – 10.35

Coffee at the exhibition area (35 min)

10.35 – 11.15

“Pax3/Pax7 functions during development, Myogenic specification and cell cycle exit mechanisms”
Dr. Fredéric Relaix, Institut of Myology, Paris, France

11.15 – 11.55

“Integrin a7b1, a key integrin for muscle maintenance and repair?”
Professor Ulrike Mayer, Biomedical Research Centre, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK

11.55 – 13.25

Lunch break and exhibition (1 h 30 min)

13.25 – 14.05

“Cardiomyocytes from human iPS cells”
Dr. Katriina Aalto-Setälä, M.D., Ph.D., Regea Inst. for Regenerative Medicine, Cardiology Group, Tampere, Finland

14.05 – 14.45

“Tissue Engineering Strategies for Nerve Repair”
Dr. Paul Kingham
Integrative Medical Biology, Anatomy, University of Umeå, Sweden

14.45 – 15.25

Coffee at the exhibition area (40 min)

15.25 – 16.05

“Cartilage repair and tissue engineering”
Professor Mikko Lammi, Ph.D
Institute of Applied Biotechnology, University of Kuopio, Finland

16.05 – 16.45

“Stem and progenitor cells and the origins of cancer”
Dr. Matthew Smalley, The Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK

16.45 – 17.00

General discussion and concluding remarks