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Personnel & Publications

Who we are

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Kirsi Ketola

Facility director

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Janne Capra

Laboratory engineer

User training and maintenance

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Hanna Grobe

Staff scientist

User training and image analysis

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Mikko Karjalainen

EAKR project manager

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Minna Turunen

Biomedical laboratory scientist

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Eija Rahunen

Senior laboratory technician

Recent publications

  • The protective PLCγ2-P522R variant mitigates Alzheimer’s disease-associated pathologies by enhancing beneficial microglial functions
    Journal of Neuroinflammation, Vol 22, 2025
  • High expression of miR-7974 predicts poor prognosis and is associated with autophagy in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer
    PLOS one, 2025
  • Secreted factors from M1 macrophages drive prostate cancer stem cell plasticity by upregulating NANOG, SOX2, and CD44 through NFκB-signaling
    OncoImmunology Vol 13, 2024
  • Platinum-based drugs induce phenotypic alterations in nucleoli and Cajal bodies in prostate cancer cells
    Cancer Cell International, Vol 24, 2024
  • Unstained Tissue Imaging and Virtual Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining of Histologic Whole Slide Images
    Laboratory Investigation, Vol 103, 2023
  • Dissecting the polygenic basis of atherosclerosis via disease-associated cell state signatures
    AJHG, Vol 110, 2023
  • Counts of hyaluronic acid-containing extracellular vesicles decrease in naturally occurring equine osteoarthritis
    Scientific reports, Vol 12, 2022

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