People

Noora Kotaja, PhD
Principal Investigator

Professor of Molecular Medicine

Director of Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology Unit at the Institute of Biomedicine

Juho-Antti Mäkelä, PhD
Postdoc

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

Lin Ma, MSc
PhD Student

Project: Transcriptome analysis in male germ cells, characterization of the role of germ granules in transcriptome regulation.

Ammar Ahmedani, MSc PhD Student

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

Samuli Laasanen, MSc PhD Student

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

Sini Laasanen, BM
PhD Student

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

Riikka Palimo

MSc student

Maiju Rantamäki

MSc student

Alessia Di Pauli, MSc visiting PhD Student

Jasmin Lassila

MSc Student

Co-supervised PhD Students in Other Departments:

ALUMNI (postdocs, PhD and MSc degrees):

  • Elina Louramo, MSc 2024
  • Matthieu Bourgery, bioinformatician, 2020-2024
  • Olli Heikkinen, Medical Acvanced Studies thesis, 2024
  • Rauni Klami, MD, PhD 2024
  • Opeyemi Olotu, PhD 2023
  • Tiina Lehtiniemi, PhD 2023
  • Mari Lehti, postdoc, 2019-2022
  • Fatemeh Hajati, MSc 2022
  • Salli Kärnä, MSc 2021
  • Ram Prakash Yadav, PhD 2020
  • Matti Lahti, postdoc, 2017-2020
  • Elina Palonen, postdoc, 2018-2019
  • Margareeta Mäkelä, MSc 2020
  • Mari Lehti, PhD graduation 2016
  • Hanna Korhonen, PhD 2016
  • Freja Hartman, MSc 2016
  • Suvi Virtanen, MSc 2016
  • Matteo Da Ros, PhD 2015
  • Noora Hirvonen, MSc 2013
  • Karin Sostar, MSc 2013
  • Oliver Meikar, PhD 2013
  • Ram Prakash Yadav, MSc 2011