Frontiers of Science

February 5^th at 12:00
Onsite event
in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity
Spring 2026 program

Prof. Avner Schlessinger, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
AI-guided discovery of conformation-specific inhibitors for challenging protein targets
Host: Parthiban Marimuthu (Parthiban.Marimuthu@abo.fi)

More information TBA

Take a look at the Frontiers of Science updates from BioCity Turku web pages: https://biocityturku.fi/frontiers-of-science/

Coffee and sandwich at 11:45, first come first served!

Six PhD researchers and early-career postdocs are welcome to have a lunch and discuss with Prof. Schlessinger after the seminar. This is a great possibility to learn hosting skills in a friendly environment and create connections for future. Everyone is welcome to join, BioCity Turku will offer the lunch.

If you got interested, please send an email to biocityturku@bioscience.fi

General information

• You can download and save all the autumn 2025 FoS-seminars to your calendar from here: https://seafile.utu.fi/f/0cd08ce7e61b419b88cb/
• Registration is not needed, participation list is circulated in the audience
• If you are a student and later wish to get a certificate of attendance from the Frontier of Science seminars, print out the seminar diary and after the seminar ask the BioCity coordinator to sign it https://seafile.utu.fi/f/0cd08ce7e61b419b88cb/
• Please note that any audio or video recording of the seminars is strictly forbidden.
• Spring 2026 image credits to Mitra Amiri Khabooshan