Core Facility Services supporting Bioscience Research
When: October 9, 2026 at 9:00 am – 4:40 pm
Where: Alhopuro auditorium, Kiinamyllynkatu 10, Medisiina D, Turku, 20520
Event Details
The diversity of core facilities on the Turku campus supporting bioscience research has expanded in recent years. This event showcases the breadth of available services, and the role of European research infrastructures in the broader research support landscape available to individual researchers.
Presentations: Alhopuro Auditorium
Posters: Alhopuro Lobby
Open to All – please register for free at: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/EP/CF692F2C98F48173
Program
9:00 Welcome and Introduction, Michael Courtney, UTU
Session 1: Modelling Disease
9:10 Genome Editing Services
Genome Editing Core, Turku Bioscience, UTU & ÅAU Eleanor Coffey, ÅAU
9:20 iPS cells at TCDM
Institute of Biomedicine and TCDM, UTU Elisa Närvä, UTU
9:30 Zebrafish services for Drug Discovery
Zebrafish Core, Turku Bioscience, UTU Ilkka Paatero, UTU
9:40 in vivo drug lead testing at TCDM
Institute of Biomedicine and TCDM, UTU Petra Sipilä, UTU
9:50 Drug Discovery Services at the Turku PET centre
Turku PET centre, UTU & ÅAU Kari Kalliokoski, UTU
10:00 Infectious agent services at BSL2 to 3 in vitro and in vivo
Institute of Biomedicine, UTU Laura Kakkola and Janne Tynell, UTU
10:10 Drosophila services for Drug Discovery
Fly Unit, ÅAU Annika Meinander, ÅAU
10:20 Posters and Coffee (sponsored by DRD Doctoral Programme)
10:40 Session 2: Phenotyping, Mechanisms and Validation
10:45 Drug Discovery at the Advanced Imaging Core
Advanced Imaging Core, UTU & ÅAU, Guillaume Jacquemet, ÅAU
10:55 User Experience: A Drug Discovery Project using TEM
User of Electron Microscopy Core, Institute of Biomedicine, UTU, Hongbo Zhang, ÅAU
11:05 Cytometry for Drug Discovery
Cytometry Core, UTU ,Pia Rantakari, UTU
11:15 HT microscopy and Data Analysis for Phenotypic Screens
Screening Core, Turku Bioscience & Turku Screening Unit, UTU & ÅAU, Michael Courtney, UTU
11:25 MicroCT and Slide Scanning Services
Medisiina Imaging Centre, Institute of Biomedicine & TCDM, UTU, Jorma Määttä, UTU
11:35 Services at the Cell Core
Cell Core, Institute of Biomedicine, UTU, Sisko Tauriainen, UTU
11:45 Imaging the Metabolome
Metabolomics Unit, Turku Bioscience, UTU, Alex Dickens, UTU
11:55 Spatial and Single-Cell Omics for Drug Discovery
Single Cell Omics Core, Turku Bioscience, UTU, Ivana Mikocziova, UTU
12:05 Functional Genomics for Drug Discovery
Finnish Functional Genomics Centre, UTU, Minna Kyläniemi, UTU
12:15 Preclinical and Clinical Bioanalytical services under GLP
Bioanalytics Core, Institute of Biomedicine, UTU, Aleksi Tornio, UTU
12:25 Lunch (at own expense) and Posters
13:25 Session 3: Drug Targets
13:30 X-ray Structural Analysis for Drug Discovery
FINSTRUCT-UTU, UTU, Tassos Papageorgiou, UTU
13:40 Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory (SBL) Core Facility Services
FINSTRUCT-ÅAU, Tomi Airenne, ÅAU
13:50 Protein Production and Ligand Binding at the Turku Protein Core
Turku Protein Core, UTU, Jukka Westermarck, UTU
14:00 Drug Discovery at the Centre for Chemical and Molecular Analytics
Centre for Chemical and Molecular Analytics, UTU & ÅAU, Alex Dickens, UTU
14:10 Target Identification at the Proteomics Core
Proteomics Core, Turku Bioscience, UTU, Otto Kauko, UTU
14:20 Summary of the DDCB symposium 2026
DDCB, Biocentre Finland, Outi Salo-Ahen, ÅAU
14:30 Posters and Coffee (sponsored by DRD Doctoral Programme)
14:50 Session 4: Data Analysis Services
14:55 Services for Drug Discovery at the Medical Bioinfomatics Centre
Medical Bioinformatics Centre, Turku Bioscience, UTU, Hannu Mäkinen, UTU
15:05 Services for Drug Discovery at ÅAU Bioinformatics
BF Bioinformatics Unit, SBL, ÅAU, Jukka Lehtonen, ÅAU
15:15 Session 5: European Infrastructures supporting Drug Discovery
15:20 ELIXIR
Turku partner site of Elixir, UTU, Hannu Mäkinen, UTU
15:30 EuroBioimaging
Turku EuroBioimaging Hub, Pasi Kankanpää, EuroBioImaging
15:40 EU-Openscreen
Turku Screening Unit, Biocity Turku UTU/ÅAU Partner site of EU-Openscreen, Michael Courtney, UTU
15:50 INFRAFRONTIER (remote presentation)
Oulu partner site of Infrafrontier, University of Oulu, Reetta Hinttala, University of Oulu
16:00 BBMRI and Auria Biobank
Auria Biobank, Turku partner site of BBMRI , UTU & Wellbeing Services County of Southwest Finland (Varha), Lila Kallio, UTU
16:10 EATRIS
Turku partner site of EATRIS, UTU, Urpo Lamminmäki, UTU
16:20 Discussion
16:40 Close of meeting
