Ville Hietakangas

Nutrient sensing: How diet affects energy metabolism, growth and stem cell function
Ville Hietakangas

PhD
Professor of Gene Regulation
Group leader, MetaScale Centre of Excellence

Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences &
Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE
University of Helsinki

Key publications:

Mattila J, Viitanen A, Fabris G, Korzelius J, Hietakangas V. Stem cell mTOR signaling directs region-specific cell fate decisions during intestinal nutrient adaptation. Science Advances, 2024, 10:eadi2671.

van den Berg L, Kokki K, Wowro SJ, Petricek KM, Deniz O, Stegmann CA, Robciuc M, Teesalu M, Melvin RG, Nieminen AI, Schupp M, Hietakangas V. Sugar-responsive inhibition of Myc-dependent ribosome biogenesis by Clockwork orange. Cell Reports, 2023, 42: 112739.

Viitanen A, Gullmets J, Morikka J, Katajisto P, Mattila J, Hietakangas V. LAM – an image analysis method for regionally defined organ-wide cellular phenotyping of the Drosophila midgut. Cell Reports Methods, 2021, 1: 100059.