Sikha joins the lab as our new ImmuDocs doctoral researcher. Welcome to Turku, Sikha!
New recruits ready to work
Welcome to the lab, Silja, our new Master’s student, and Milla, our new research assistant!
We are recruiting!
We are recruiting! Looking for highly motivated Master’s thesis students and/or research assistants who would aspire to continue towards PhD in B cell biology in health and disease. See our add for more details.
Lysosomes and B cells on the spotlight
Our review on the role of lysosomes and lysosome-related organelles in B cells is now published in Journal of Cell Biology! Big thanks for Lab Yuseff for the enjoyable collaboration on this topic that is so close to our hearts!
To have a read click the link.
An overview of endosome maturation
New intern in sight!
We welcome Soumeya, all the way from Lyon, France, to carry our her Master’s thesis project with us this spring.
Best of luck!
Personal Funding to Amna
Congratulations to Amna for the continuous amazing work and securing yet another funding from the University of Turku Graduate School!
Paper out
Honored to collaborate with the amazing Ivaska lab on the powerful method of dynamic micropatterning. The work “Dynamic Micropatterning Reveals Substrate-Dependent Differences in the Geometric Control of Cell Polarization and Migration”, was published in Small Methods, last November.
You can check it here!
Congratulations to the authors involved!
10th Anniversary of Mattila lab
This year, Mattila lab reached 10 years of existence! Time flies! 10 years full of exciting science, new endeavors, and amazing people. Massive thanks to all the alumni as well as our current team for all of their efforts that made our lab what it is now, and let us believe in it now and in the future! ”Kippis” to the past and next 10 years!
We celebrated this milestone by enjoying the sauna + barbecue in our favorite, beautiful Villa Järvelä. 
Welcome, welcome
This summer we welcomed two new students in the lab!
Chiara Urban came to us for an Erasmus+ internship to get a heads-up to the world of B cells and microscopy before joining Julia Jellusova’s lab at TranslaTUM, Munich, as a PhD student later this winter.
Nil Fernández Mató, currently performing his BSc studies at the University of Barcelona, came to Turku as an Erasmus+ exchange student and joined our lab to help us in validation of various target proteins obtained in our proteomic studies.
Our most recent work is already online
Our work on identifying new players in B cell activation by proximity proteomics is out!
We used APEX2-mediated proximity biotinylation proteomics method to map the protein dynamics at the vicinity of the BCR during the first 15 minutes of antigenic activation. From the newly identified proteins, we demonstrated a role of SUMOylation in BCR signaling, identifying SUMO as a novel posttranslational modification regulating early B cell activation.
Check it out in here.