Frontiers of Science is a long-running seminar series, celebrating over 25 years of bringing internationally acclaimed researchers to Turku. Organized by BioCity Turku, the series features world-leading scientists presenting their most recent discoveries and innovative ideas across diverse fields of life sciences.
The Frontiers of Science seminar program for autumn 2026 is now ready. All seminars will be held on Thursdays at 12:00 in Presidentti auditorium in the BioCity building. No registration is required, and coffee and sandwiches will be served at 11:45 on a first-come, first-served basis.
The seminars are intended for both researchers and students, and students can also collect ECTS credits by participating. Students wishing to collect ECTS credits should print the Seminar Diary and have it signed by the coordinator after each seminar.
More information here: https://biocityturku.fi/frontiers-of-science/
Autumn 2026 programme:
October 8th Prof.
Markus Linder, Aalto University, Finland
The biological future of materials science
Host: Yagut Allahverdiyeva (allahve@utu.fi)
October 22nd
Prof. William Stafford Noble, University of Washington, USA
Making sense of genomic and proteomic data with machine learning
Host: Balazs Balint (balazs.balint@utu.fi)
November 5th
Prof. Angela Falciatore, CNRS Sorbonne Université, France
Exploring marine diatom biodiversity through photobiology
Host: Yagut Allahverdiyeva (allahve@utu.fi)
November 12th
Prof. Miguel Soares, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Portugal Metabolic adaptation as a defence strategy against infection
Host: Antonio Sousa (aggode@utu.fi)
November 19th
Prof. Gwendalyn Randolph, Washington University School of Medicine, USA The 3 L’s converge: Lymphoid tissue, lymphatics, and lipoproteins
Host: Sirpa Jalkanen (sirjal@utu.fi)
November 26th
Prof. Maria Sibilia, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Harnessing innate immunity to treat metastatic cancer: From mechanisms to therapeutics
Host: Johanna Ivaska (joivaska@utu.fi)
December
10th Prof. Thomas Helleday, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Targeting cancer by oncogenic trapping: From bench to clinical trials
Host: Jukka Westermarck (jukka.westermarck@utu.fi)
Autumn 2026 image credits to Samuel Svärd (whole mount immunofluorescent staining of the mouse retina.)
