Immunology Seminar

April 1st  at 14-15 (Finland time)

Virtual event

Osamu Takeuchi, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University: “mRNA Regulation in Immune Responses: The Role of Regnase-1 as a Key Brake in Immune Cells.”

Register for the Immunology Seminar Series email list to get calendar invitation to the online seminar: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/D29C32AA6E8A2F7A

Host: Professor Riitta Lahesmaa ( rilahes@utu.fi )

Immunology seminar series is jointly organised by the Finnish Society for Immunology, InFLAMES Flagship and Turku Bioscience. For further information contact Anne Lahdenperä  ( ankahy@utu.fi ) or Riitta Lahesmaa ( rilahes@utu.fi ), University of Turku.

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Osamu Takeuchi received his M.D. from Osaka University Medical School in 1995. After completing clinical training, he pursued a Ph.D. at Osaka University, where he studied innate immunity under Prof. Shizuo Akira. During his doctoral research, he identified that different Toll-like receptors (TLRs) recognize distinct microbial components. He then conducted postdoctoral training at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute under Prof. Stanley Korsmeyer. Following this, he returned to Osaka University as an assistant professor, where he investigated the functional roles of TLR signaling molecules and RIG-I-like receptors in infection. In 2012, he joined the Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences at Kyoto University as a full professor, later moving to the Graduate School of Medicine at Kyoto University in 2018. His current research focuses on RNA regulation in immune and inflammatory responses, with a particular emphasis on the role of Regnase-1, an RNase crucial for cytokine mRNA degradation.