Cellular transport mechanisms, active molecular systems and the dynamics of 2D materials at the Nanoscience Days in Jyväskylä
This year the annual meeting hosts 9 invited, prominent scientists around the world to give plenary lectures on topics of common interest to physicists, chemists and biologists. One of the conference's best-known speakers is professor of immunology Sirpa Jalkanen. She is one of the world's leading researchers in the field of lymphocyte trafficking mechanisms in the human immune system. Jalkanen has published nearly 400 peer-reviewed papers and has more than 10 patents on different discoveries in the fields of inflammation and cancer. She is an Academician of Science.
Jalkanen is a former professor of immunology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Turku, and currently she is the director of the National Flagship, InFLAMES. She has received several prizes and honours such as major medical prizes for example innovator prizes Anders Jahre, and Äyräpää. Jalkanen serves on the boards in three big Finnish foundations and is a co-founder and co-founder of two publicly listed biotech companies, BioTie Therapies and Faron Pharmaceuticals.
Jalkanen will lecture on the mechanisms regulating the traffic of leukocytes and cancer cells in the body.
Molecular systems and heterostructures
The conference will also feature a lecture by professor Nathalie Katsonis of the University of Groningen, where she leads a research group on of active molecular systems at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry. Katsonis' research is inspired by the supramolecular functional systems found in nature. She has pioneered transmitting directed molecular motion across length scales, and her achievements have provided the underpinnings for increasingly complex functionalities in dynamic and ultimately life-like supramolecular materials.
In 2018 Katsonis was awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant. Her talk will be about the motile behaviour of droplets as primordial compartments.
Professor Giulio Cerullo from the Department of Physics at Politecnico di Milano, will give a lecture on ultrafast dynamics of 2D materials and their heterostructures. Cerullo's research focuses on the physics and applications of ultrafast pulsed lasers, covering many different aspects. His current research interests include ultrafast spectroscopy and nonlinear microscopy. Cerullo's scientific articles have been cited more than 13 000 times.
A mix of seniors and young up-and-coming talent
Nanoscience Days provide a unique interdisciplinary environment to meet a wide range of experts from different fields of nanoscience, to be inspired and to generate new research ideas. The Nanoscience Days is now organized for the 19th time.
- What is special about this year's conference is that the lectures will be delivered by both already very distinguished scientists who have been in the field for a long time, as well as younger rising stars. The conference will feature lectures on atomic quantum dots and biophotonics, as well as on magnonics and molecular diversity," says professor Juha Muhonen from the Department of Physics at the University of Jyväskylä. Muhonen is chair of the Nanoscience Days this year.
All the speakers and their topics can be found on the Nanoscience Days website at jyu.fi/nsd.
The Nanoscience Centre (NSC) at the University of Jyväskylä is the largest interdisciplinary research centre in Finland, employing more than 140 researchers from the fields of biology, chemistry and physics.
Registration is open until September 15th.
For more information:
Pplease contact the Conference Chair, Professor Juha Muhonen, University of Jyväskylä, juha.t.muhonen@jyu.fi, tel. +358401905352
