Sara Hernández Pérez, our former Erasmus intern, will pack her suitcases in Spain, fly to Turku and join the lab as a PhD student! Sara is supported by the EDUFI (CIMO) fellowship.
Baby in the lab! :)
A sweet baby boy was born in the end of August! Pieta will be on maternity leave and work mostly from home until early 2018.
Two new MSc students join the lab!
We welcome Rufus Vinod and Citarra Burrows, our new undergraduate/Master’s thesis students!
Lab visitor
Dr Cristina Scielzo from San Raffaele Scientific Institute (Milan, Italy) visits us in Turku.
Review out
Our review on the actin cytoskeleton and receptor signalling is out in JCB!
Kuokkanen E, Šuštar V, Mattila PK. Molecular control of B cell activation and immunological synapse formation. Traffic. 2015 Apr;16(4):311-26. doi: 10.1111/tra.12257. Epub 2015 Feb 20.
PubMed link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25639463
New Master’s student
We welcome Hanna-Maria Judin, who already worked with us for the summer, to start her Master’s thesis project in the lab.
New undergrad student
We welcome Katriina Palttila to join the lab for her polytechnic university final project.