We are pleased to announce that our latest book chapter entitled “Isolation of the B Cell Immune Synapse for Proteomic Analysis”, has been published in The Immune Synapse: Methods and Protocols.
So if you are interested in testing or adapting the protocol, the method can be download here or you can contact us directly!
Congratulations to the people involved!
Methods Mol Biol. 2023; 2654:393-408. | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3135-5_25
Finally, we worked out a logo for the lab!!! All the credits go to our new intern Thomy! How cool does it look? 
Congratulations to Diogo for securing a 4-year fellowship from the Finnish Cultural Foundation! Super-duper well done, amazing!
A new intern in the lab! Thomy Garnier from Lyon, France, joined us for a 5-month internship as part of his MSc studies. He is working with Blanca to set-up dSTORM super-resolution imaging.
Congratulations to Blanca and Diogo for securing graduate school funding for the whole 2023 from TuDMM and InFLAMES!
This year’s third PhD defense from our lab was celebrated on September 31st! Congratulations, Marika Runsala (née Vainio), who successfully defended her thesis “Antigen processing and intracellular trafficking in B cells”. We are very grateful for Assoc. Prof. Zhi Jane Chen from the University Oulu , Finland, for accepting our invitation to serve as an opponent of Marika’s defense and guiding an insightful discussion on the topic.
The thesis can be found here.
All the best in the future endeavours, Marika!
Another little bird has spread her wings! Congratulation to our very own PhD graduate from Mattila lab, Sara Hérnandez-Pérez who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “B Cell Activation and Antibody Responses: The role of vesicle trafficking and Rab GTPases” on August 12th. We extend our warm gratitude to her opponent Professor Balbino Alarcón from Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBMSO-CSIC), Madrid, Spain, for accepting the invitation and providing such an insightful and broad discussion.
The thesis can be found here.
Sara is now starting as a posdoc on Pavel Tolar lab in the University College London – Division of Infection and Immunity (London, UK) to work on IgE BCR signalling and allergic responses.
All the best in the future endeavours!
Since last March, we have welcomed a new lab intern and a MSc student that will perform her thesis with us.
Anni Virtanen, currently undergoing her BSc in Biochemistry in UTU, has been a multitasking force around the lab helping in several projects and always eager to learn more and more.
Maria Tarczewska, currently performing her MSc studies in BIMA program, has been more focused on the extracellular vesicles projects and is very keen on expansion microscopy.
Welcome aboard and all the best!
Our Erasmus intern Özge Balci got accepted in the MSc programme of Biomedical Imaging (joint programme between University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University) with full scholarship! Moreover, she was also granted a Finnish Scolarship for the next 2 years as the top merit applicant of the programme.
Well done and keep up the good work!
