Photo: Satu Haavisto
Winter School
17th CIMO WINTER SCHOOL "Plasticity: From brain functions to cancer and nanoscience“
11 - 16 March 2013, Finland
The Centre for International Mobility CIMO organized the 17th Winter School for Russian and Ukrainian postgraduate students during 11 - 16 March 2013 at Tvärminne zoological station of the University of Helsinki.
The goal of the Winter School was to enhance the mobility of young researchers and postgraduate students between Finland and the participating countries and to increase the cooperation between the universities.
The 17th CIMO Winter School was multidisciplinary - not for a particular, narrow field of science, but rather for a scientific topic. This time, the school focused on plasticity in its many aspectsembracing topics from computer science, biochemistry, structural biology, nanoscience, cancer and cell biology, imaging, neuroscience and linguistics.
The school tended to stimulate active participation and discussion. The untraditional working method has been specially developed for the Winter School and it aims at enhancing the strength of participants’ own personal expertise, problem-solving capabilities, scientific presentation skills and creative mind.
Tentative themes of the days:
- Plasticity in the nervous system
- Brain, language and cognition
- Cell biology and cancer
- Nanoscience: from calculations and computation to biology
The teaching staff
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Professor Hannu Häkkinen, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Physics / Nanoscience Center
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Professor Jyrki Heino, University of Turku, Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry
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Dr Leonard Khiroug, University of Helsinki, Neuroscience Center
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Dr Juha Klefström, University of Helsinki, Genome-Scale Biology Programme and Institute of Biomedicine
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Professor Arto Mustajoki, University of Helsinki, Department of Modern Languages
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Dr Lauri Nummenmaa, Aalto University School of Science, O.V.Lounasmaa Laboratory / Brain Research Unit
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Professor Risto Näätänen, University of Tartu / University of Helsinki, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Cognitive Brain Research Unit
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Dr Satu Palva, University of Helsinki, Neuroscience Center
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Professor Pertti Panula, University of Helsinki, Neuroscience Center / Institute of Biomedicine
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Professor Asla Pitkänen, University of Eastern Finland, A.I.Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences
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Dr Robin Ras, Aalto University School of Science, Department of Applied Physics
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Professor Dage Sundholm, University of Helsinki, Department of Chemistry.
The addresses of the teachers´ web-sites are found in the "Final call for applications" -pdf.
Contact persons at CIMO
Centre for International Mobility CIMO
P.O. Box 343 (Hakaniemenranta 6)
00531 Helsinki
FINLAND
Phone +358 295 338 500 (switchboard)
Fax +358 9 753 1123