You are warmly welcome to join our spring seminar in Helsinki and online 3.4.2025!
Registration is now open here!

Date: 3rd April, 2024
Venue: Ossian Lecture Hall, Folkhälsan main building, Topeliuksenkatu 20, 00250 Helsinki
8:30–9.00 Registration and coffee
9:00-9:10 Opening of the seminar, organizers
Session I: Biological rhythms rule our world
9.10–9.55 Keynote lecture: Origins of chronobiology: why does it matter and how is it relevant to obesity? Research professor Timo Partonen, THL
9:55-10:20 Evening chronotype associates with high weight and weight development in children, a shared presentation of Sohvi Lommi, Folkhälsan Research Center & Anna Abdollahi, University of Helsinki
10:20–10:40 A walk in Kirjailijapuisto – fresh air and glimpse of sun light
Session II: Sleeping like a caveman?
10:40-11:25 Preliminary results from sleep studies conducted on the Spanish population, Professor Rocio Barragan, University of Valencia
11:25-11:45 My chaotic life – a real-life experience, Katja Ihalainen
11:45-13:00 Lunch (own cost)
Session III: Does the timing of the meals matter?
13:00– 13:45 Keynote lecture: Eating around the clock: influence of meal timing on chronic disease Associate Professor Marie Pierre St-Onge, Columbia University
13:45-14:10 Timing of eating and obesity in adults and children, a shared presentation of Mirkka Maukonen, Folkhälsan Research Center and THL & Reetta Lehto, Folkhälsan Research Center
14:10-14:25 Weight loss therapies related to chronobiology, sponsor TBC
14.25– 14:55 Coffee break
Session 4: Internal clocks – ruling the body and mind?
14.55–15:25 The sleep–circadian interface is a window into mental disorders, Associate Professor Ilona Merikanto, University of Helsinki
15:25-15:55 Chronotype and Activity Behaviour: Insights into Cardiometabolic Health, Laura Nauha, University of Oulu
15.55-16.00 Closing remarks
The program may be subject to change.
The seminar is organized by a group of chronobiology researchers in collaboration with the Finnish Association for the Study of Obesity.
Please register and reserve your spot!
You will receive a confirmation of your registration and a link (if requested) after 26th March.
In any additional queries please contact the organizers: suomenlihavuustutkijat@gmail.com
