Dear PIs of the Meilahti campus,

We welcome you to suggest top level international or Finnish speakers for the Biomedicum Helsinki Seminar Series.

The goal of the Biomedicum Helsinki Seminar Series is to showcase outstanding scientific research on a weekly basis to the students, post docs and senior scientists of biomedical and clinical sciences of the Meilahti campus.

Seminars take place every Monday at noon and are followed by a student lunch. Webinars can be arranged at other times, e.g. due to time difference. The webinars are also followed by a 30 minutes discussion between students and the speaker. The speaker's ccommodation (Sunday-Tuesday) and travel expenses are reimbursed (read more here).

Speaker suggestion to Biomedicum Helsinki Seminar Series

To suggest a speaker, please fill in this e-form.
The decision process will be done entirely within the e-form system, therefore no suggestions will be accepted by email.

What needs to be considered when submitting a BMH speaker suggestion

The main criteria for selection as BMH speaker include high profile, general interest, novelty and balance between scientific disciplines. Before submitting a speaker for BMH seminar series, we urge colleagues to first carefully consider whether the suggested speaker stands out as a high profile scientist with recent track record on scientific discovery or would she/he be more suited for special seminar, targeting a specialized scientific audience. Secondly, we recommend reading the instructions below. The decisions will be made on the basis of information provided via webform.

Please send your suggestions including:

1) A short description of the speaker and their research field with a link to an English webpage, if available.

2) Publications

· - Max 3-5 recent publications representative of the speaker's research and in which the scientist is the first or corresponding author. Only selected publications within the last 5 years are included. List full titles - including names of the authors, title and the year of publication.

· - List key papers from the speaker’s own laboratory marked as first or senior authorships. In case of other type of papers are listed, please clarify the speaker's role in the study. High impact is important but not sufficient if the speaker’s role in the paper remains unclear.

· - Please limit the number of reviews, the principle decision will be made on the basis of recently published original studies.

3) Merits of the speaker

· Please explain why the speaker or her/his recent discovery is interesting for a broad scientific audience. We generally prefer scientific discoveries over technical merits so pay attention in explaining the significance of the discovery. However, if the main emphasis is on technology, please explain what is the significance of the technology beyond specialized field. Since we have and wish to have more students and postdoc listeners, please indicate if the speaker is exceptionally motivational.

Host and student host instructions (see the dropdown menu): https://flamma.helsinki.fi/group/hilife/monday-seminars.

Obligatory information marked with *

Host

Host name

Research program / department / institution

E-mail ?

Student host

Student host name

E-mail

Suggested speaker

Speaker's name (firstname, family name)

Affiliation and country (will be published)

Preliminary title of the speech OR research field (will be published)

Contact e-mail for the speaker or her/his secretary

Speaker's web page / info page (will be published)

The host and the speaker will understand that the seminar organizer will publish a photo of the speaker in the BMH-seminar web page

The organizer may use any photo found in the Internet. If the speaker wishes that we use a specific photo, she/he should send the file to bmh-seminar@helsinki.fi as soon as the seminar date has been confirmed. You may also send a picture file using this form (first click the send the form button, then add the picture).
Please note that the picture file will be edited to a specific size and form.

Preferred date (please check the up to date seminar schedule). You may leave this empty, if you don't know the date.

Please estimate how large audience the speaker could attract

Estimation of audience	0-20 21-50 51-100 more than 100

Format of the seminar

Do you wish to arrange a webinar or live stream the seminar?	We wish to arrange a Zoom webinar We wish to invite the speaker to Finland and live stream the seminar from the lecture hall (using UniTube) We wish to invite the speaker to Finland and arrange a traditional seminar in a lecture hall (no streaming) The speaker has not yet accepted live streaming/webinar or we have not yet asked

Read the UniTube instructions! You can assign practicalities to the student host.

If you arrange a Zoom webinar, BMH seminar coordinators will handle the moderating. More info will be published in the August at the latest!

Description of the speaker

A short description of the speaker and their research field

Publications (3-5)

1. Publication

	First author	Last author	Other
Author

2. Publication

	First author	Last author	Other
Author

3. Publication

	First author	Last author	Other
Author

4. Publication

	First author	Last author	Other
Author

5. Publication

	First author	Last author	Other
Author

Merits of the speaker

Merits of the speaker, explaining why the talk would be important for the broad audience of Biomedicum Helsinki

Speaker category

Young Investigator Talk

If the suggested speaker is young investigator, she/he will be accepted with lesser merits.

Distinguished Speaker

This is a top speaker and only one speaker per season will be accepted to this category, with exceptionally high merits.
It is possible to arrange the seminar in any weekday, if the host is able to book the Biomedicum Lecture hall 1. Also the student lunch has to be arranged.

Please suggest a category for the speaker	No specific category Young Investigator Talk Distinguished Speaker

Photo of the speaker

If you wish to send a picture file of the speaker, check the box below. If you don't have the file now, you may send the picture file later by email to bmh-seminar@helsinki.fi.

Please note that the file should be in jpg-format and as large as possible (minimum 735x430 pixels).

Please do NOT send CV's or any other attachments!

Proceed

We thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

The BMH seminar team:
Sara Wickström & Jaan-Olle Andressoo (Scientific assessment)
Johanna Timmerbacka & Tiina Järvilehto (Coordinators)