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The Joint Meeting of the Finnish Connective Tissue and Cell Biology Societies

15.2.2020

We had a great seminar of the Finnish Society for Cell Biology and Connective Tissue Society (from now on The Finnish Society for Matrix Biology) in Biomedicum, Helsinki on Thursday 13th. The Finnish Society for Cell Biology wants to thank all the speakers, participants and organizers for an amazing day!

The Joint Meeting of the Finnish Connective Tissue and Cell Biology Societies
Jarkko Koivunen and Elina Siljamäki opening the joint meeting of Finnish Connective Tissue Society and The Finnish Society for Cell Biology
Sylvie Ricard-Blum starting the first session
Johanna Ivaska (University of Turku): Adhesion regulated mechanotransduction in cancer
Eija Jokitalo from the University of Helsinki giving a lecture about endoplasmic reticulum structure, dynamics and function
Sponsor talk by Lauri Paasonen (UPM biofore)
Coffee break before the second session!
Janine Erler from the University of Copenhagen starts the second session by asking ”How cancer builds its home”
Sara Wickström from the University of Helsinki discussing mechanical forces and the nucleus
Aleksi Isomursu from the Ivaska Lab, University of Turku
Sanna Pasonen-Seppänen from the Institute of Biomedicine, University of Eastern Finland giving a talk about hyaluronan in tumor-stroma interaction
Diana Toivola from Åbo Akademi and University of Turku: Colonic epithelial cell intermediate filaments protect from colitis and colorectal cancer
Artemis Filippou from the University of Helsinki describing how the inhibition of anoctomin 1 induces apoptosis via downregulation of mcl-1 in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Valerio Izzi’s (University of Oulu) presentation about cancer matrisome and microenvironment finishes our awesome seminar
Scientific discussions continuing at dinner. Thank you all for participating our seminar!