People – Kotaja Lab

Noora Kotaja, PhD
Principal Investigator

Professor of Molecular Medicine

Juho-Antti Mäkelä, PhD
Docent, senior scientist

Project: Regulation and function of spermatogonial stem cells in the maintenance of male fertility and epigenetic inheritance.

Simang Champramary, PhD
Postdoc

Project: Developing bioinformatics and computational biology tools for the studies on male germline-specific transcriptome regulation.

Keshav Thapa, PhD
Postdoc

Project: Long-read RNA sequencing of the male germ cell-specific ribonucleoprotein granules.

Signe Isacson, PhD
Postdoc

Project: Function of sperm small non-coding RNAs in the intergenerational transmission of epigenetic information.

Ammar Ahmedani, MSc
PhD Researcher

Project: Germ granules and the mechanisms of RNA regulation during spermatogenesis.

Lin Ma, MSc
PhD Researcher

Project: Characterization of the role of germ granules in transcriptome regulation using bioinformatics tools.

Samuli Laasanen, MSc
PhD Researcher

Project: Regulation and functional roles of sperm non-coding RNAs.

Sini Laasanen, BM
PhD Researcher

Project: Germ cell-specific RNAs and RNA regulatory proteins as diagnostic tools

Ruben Aju George, MSc
PhD Researcher

Project: Interplay between RNA methylation and germ granule-mediated RNA regulation.

Riikka Palimo, BSc
MSc Student

Maiju Rantamäki, BSc
MSc Student

Eva Savulkina, BSc
MSc Student

Samu Kallio
Trainee

Co-supervised PhD Students in Other Departments:

Anna-Riina Koskenniemi, Doctoral Student, co-supervised with Markku Kallajoki and Paula Vainio

ALUMNI (postdocs, PhD and MSc graduates):