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