BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Helsinki X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Helsinki BEGIN:VEVENT UID:385@inflames.utu.fi DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250508T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250508T130000 DTSTAMP:20250429T101824Z URL:https://inflames.utu.fi/events/frontiers-of-science-prof-vytas-bankait is/ SUMMARY:Frontiers of Science: Prof. Vytas Bankaitis DESCRIPTION:May 8th at 12:00\nOnsite event\nin Presidentti auditorium\, Bio City\nSpring 2025 program\n\nProf. Vytas Bankaitis\, Texas A&\;M Univer sity\, USA\nPhospholipid transfer proteins: from the backwaters of cell bi ology to center stage in lipid signaling\nHost: Max Lönnfors (max.lonnfor s@abo.fi)\n\nCoffee and sandwich at 11:45\, first come first served!\n\n&n bsp\;\n\nSix PhD researchers and early-career postdocs are welcome to have a lunch and discuss with Prof. Bankaitis after the seminar. This is a gre at possibility to learn hosting skills in a friendly environment and creat e connections for future. Everyone is welcome to join\, BioCity Turku will offer the lunch.\n\nIf you got interested\, please send an email to bioci tyturku@bioscience.fi\n\n \;\n\nThe Bankaitis laboratory is interested in the regulatory interfaces between novel lipid-mediated signal transduc tion pathways and important cellular functions. The focus of their work is the phosphatidylinositol/ phosphatidylcholine transfer proteins (PITPs)\, a ubiquitous but enigmatic class of proteins. Ongoing projects in the lab oratory derive from a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses biochemi cal characterization of novel members of the metazoan PITP family\, and th e application of genetic\, molecular and biophysical approaches to detaile d structural and functional analyses of PITPs.\n\n \;\n\nSelected publ ications\n\nA novel bivalent interaction mode underlies a non-catalytic me chanism for Pin1-mediated protein kinase C regulation. Chen XR\, Dixit K\, Yang Y\, McDermott MI\, Imam HT\, Bankaitis VA\, Igumenova TI. Elife. 202 4 Apr 30\;13:e92884. doi: 10.7554/eLife.92884.\n\nPathak A\, Willis KG\, B ankaitis VA\, McDermott MI. 2024. Mammalian START-like phosphatidylinosito l transfer proteins - Physiological perspectives and roles in cancer biolo gy. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids. 2024 Oct\;1869(7):159529. d oi: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2024.159529\n\nYeh YT\, Sona C\, Yan X\, Li Y\, Patha k A\, McDermott MI\, Xie Z\, Liu L\, Arunagiri A\, Wang Y\, Cazenave-Gassi ot A\, Ghosh A\, von Meyenn F\, Kumarasamy S\, Najjar SM\, Jia S\, Wenk MR \, Traynor-Kaplan A\, Arvan P\, Barg S\, Bankaitis VA\, Poy MN. Restoratio n of PITPNA in Type 2 diabetic human islets reverses pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction. Nat Commun. 2023 Jul 17\;14(1):4250. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023- 39978-1.\n\nKhan D\, Nile AH\, Tripathi A\, Bankaitis VA. 2021. Emerging P rospects for Combating Fungal Infections by Targeting Phosphatidylinositol Transfer Proteins. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Jun 23\;22(13):6754. doi: 10.3390/ ijms22136754.\n\nXie Z\, Bankaitis VA. 2022. Phosphatidylinositol transfer protein/planar cell polarity axis regulates neocortical morphogenesis by supporting interkinetic nuclear migration. Cell Rep. 2022 May 31\;39(9):11 0869. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110869.\n\n \;\n\nGeneral information \n\n You can download and save all the spring 2025 FoS-seminars to your c alendar from here: https://seafile.utu.fi/d/44a70f80ac1e46a9ad0a/\n Regis tration is not needed\, participation list is circulated in the audience\n If you are a student and later wish to get a certificate of attendance f rom the Frontier of Science seminars\, print out the seminar diary and aft er the seminar ask the BioCity coordinator to sign it https://seafile.utu. fi/d/44a70f80ac1e46a9ad0a/\n Please note that any audio or video recordin g of the seminars is strictly forbidden.\n Spring 2025 image credits to T eemu Tuominen: Close up photograph of soil bacteria Streptomyces colonies border.\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://inflames.utu.fi/wp-content/uploads/banka itis400px.jpg CATEGORIES:Events in English,Tapahtumat END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Helsinki X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Helsinki BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T040000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:EEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR