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2019.12.12 | People , Conference
PhD students from the Nordic EMBL Partnership node NCMM, attend EMBL PhD symposium in Heidelberg
Nine PhD students from various NCMM groups attended this year's EMBL PhD Symposium in Heidelberg, Germany. Two students presented flash talks as part of the main program, and Karolina Spustová from the Gözen group was awarded a prize for the best poster.
2019.12.10 | Awards
Poul Nissen receives the Lundbeck Foundation's professor grant
The Lundbeck Foundation is awarding grants worth DKK 232 million (USD 34 million) to six leading neuroscientists. The LF Professorships programme is the Foundation’s largest grant allocation to date.
2019.11.18 | Research news, People
The FinnGen Research Project
The FinnGen Research project was launched in Finland in 2017 and is among the very first personalized medicine projects that combines genome information with digital health care data. Professor Aarno Palotie is a Research Director at FIMM and leads the FinnGen study. Palotie’s main focus is to better understand the genetic mechanisms in common…
2019.10.09 | People , Events
Science by the Seafront: researchers from around the world connected at the annual EMBL Partnership Conference “Perspectives in Translational Medicine”.
Hosted by EMBL Barcelona, located at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, the 3rd annual EMBL Partnership Conference took place from 25-27 September in Barcelona, Spain.
2019.09.09 | People , Research news
Elisabeth Widén, Group Leader, FIMM
Dr Widén is a physician by training, with an interest in genomics and the genetic contribution to complex diseases. Dr Widén initially focused her research on puberty and the genes that influence this process. In recent years, however, Dr Widén’s interest has now shifted towards implementing genomic research into medical practice.
2019.09.02 | People , Awards
Honorary doctorate 2019: Professor Mark Joseph Daly
Professor Mark Joseph Daly, Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), the Finnish node of the Nordic EMBL Partnership is awarded Aarhus University’s honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Health.
2019.08.21 | People , Research news
Behind the Scenes: Dr Sadegh Nabavi, Group Leader at DANDRITE
Nabavi’s group focuses on memory formation and consolidation at the synaptic and circuit levels. Recently, Dr. Sadegh Nabavi had his group leader position extended for a further four years. In our latest Behind the Scenes article, Dr Nabavi discusses his research and his curiosity and passion for neuroscience.
2019.08.20 | News from the management, People
15 exciting PhD positions as part of PROTON, a collaborative effort of 10 academic and 2 industrial partners, are now available.
PROTON is funded by the prestigious Horizon 2020-MSCA-ITN European training Network grant. The goal is to jointly train 15 PhD students in the field of proton transport and proton coupled transport. Two of the positions will be based with Professor Hartmut Luecke’s group at NCMM.
2019.08.01 | People , Research news, Publication
Researchers at DANDRITE and collaborative partners have used cutting-edge electron microscopy to reveal the first structures of the P4-ATPase lipid flippase; a crucial protein for cell viability
PhD-student Milena Timcenko and Assistant Professor Joseph A. Lyons give an insight into their recently published article in the renowned journal Nature “Structure and autoregulation of a P4-ATPase lipid flippase”.
2019.07.26 | People
NCMM-EMBL Group Leader Irep Gözen works within chemical life sciences, bionanotechnology and membrane systems
Dr. Irep Gözen has a PhD in chemistry from the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and was previously a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Vinothan Manoharan’s group at Harvard University. She joined NCMM as head of the Bionanotechnology and Membrane Systems Group in 2016. She also holds an adjunct associate professor position at the…
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News on publications
2019.11.08 | Publication, Knowledge exchange
Targeted Gene Modification in Animal Pathogenic Chlamydia
Researchers at Umeå University (Sweden), in collaboration with researchers at the University of Maryland and Duke University (USA), now for the first time successfully performed targeted gene mutation in the zoonotic pathogen Chlamydia caviae.
2019.10.30 | Publication, Knowledge exchange, People
New article from Irep Gözen: how did the first cell division event take place?
NCMM group leader Irep Gözen recently published a perspectives article in ACS Nano, where she presents a new hypothesis for how cells were first able to divide on the early earth.
2019.10.14 | Publication, Research news, Knowledge exchange, People
Yonehera group at DANDRITE have identified a new circuit mechanism in mammalian retinal motion computation
Latest research from the group led by Keisuke Yonehara at DANDRITE has recently been published in peer-reviewed scientific journal “Current Biology”. The study is about the space-time wiring between a type of motion-sensitive cells that project to the brain for gaze stabilization and local excitatory cells in the mouse retina.
2019.09.11 | Publication, Research news
Research from the Sekulic Group provides new molecular insights into the structure and function of the centromer
New work from the group led by Nikolina Sekulic at NCMM has been published in EMBO Reports. The study sheds light on the structure of nucleosomes contained within the centromere; findings that will help to improve our understanding of the important molecular events that drive cell mitosis.
2019.07.28 | Publication
Miniaturized version of ribosome found in microsporidia
A research team lead by MIMS/SciLifeLab research group leader Jonas Barandun uses cryo-electron microscopy to provide near atomic details of the smallest known eukaryotic cytoplasmic protein synthesis machine, the microsporidian ribosome.
2019.06.13 | Publication
DrugComb, a one-stop solution to all your cancer drug combination data analysis needs
Assistant Professor Jing Tang, a principal investigator of the Network Pharmacology group at FIMM and at the UH Faculty of Medicine has led the development of DrugComb, an open resource for harmonizing cancer drug combination studies. Dr. Tang hopes that DrugComb would become a collaborative data analysis platform that would bring forth more…
2019.03.15 | Publication
Drug combination sensitivity scoring facilitates the discovery of synergistic and efficacious drug combinations in cancer.
The study was conducted by research groups lead by Jing Tang at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE) and the Faculty of Medicine and Caroline Heckman at FIMM. The results were recently published in PLOS Computational Biology.
