May 19th
Summer calls for a BBQ together!
April 30th
It is His birthday tomorrow, and of course we had to submit and pin up posters of how each of us imagined Him to be, in our hearts. Happy Birthday, Pekka! Many happy returns.
April 29th
Glad to hear that Afsana enjoyed her time at the cell biology and cancer course held at the Institut Curie last week! She was also nominated for the Best Speaker award! Wow!
April 19th
A festival to remember. We celebrated the success of publishing two first author papers of, Reena Kumari who got poached and couldn't show up, Andrea and Kostya (also semi-poached), Sarah's fellowship funding!! We also celebrated Shrikant's first-born too, we have been very excited to witness Shrikant embarking his journey into being a husband, and now, parenthood. Starting 2024 on a good note!!
March 15th
Mustio Manor was a fantastic place to be at, for our annual CoE meeting with the research groups of Johanna Ivaska, Ilpo Vattulainen, Pipsa Saharinen, and Sara Wickström. We have something exciting coming up from our on-going collaborations!
February 13th
Sarah Körber received her Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship funding! Congratulations, you deserve it, and we are proud of you.
December 11th
Gloria Asensio-Juarez has left our group after 3 months of research visit. You fit really well with our group, and we wish you nothing but the best for your final stretch before defending your doctoral thesis in Spain!
November 30th
Reena Kumari will be presenting a talk about our discovery on the functionally-distinct actin filament nanoscale layers at ASCB Boston on Sunday, Dec 3rd, 4:00pm M3. Join us for discussions at her poster too, at Exhibit Hall AB, Board No. B48, Dec 5th, Tuesday at 1:45pm. Have a blast!
October 12th
Reena Kumari has collected her Doctor of Philosophy diploma from the office today! It's official, we need to address her "Dr. Kumari" going forward.
September 13rd
Andrea Vizcaíno-Castillo will be presenting a poster at the Molecular Parasitology Meeting at Boston starting from this Sunday, till Thursday. Enjoy and have some fun there, Andrea! We are rooting for you.
September 11th
Gloria Asensio-Juarez from the research group of Miguel Vicente-Manzanares in Spain, is here to join us for 3 months for an exciting collaboration.
Parijat Biswas has joined our group as a Post-doc! We definitely need to have some beers with you soon!!
August 31st
Sarah Körber received the International Dictyostelium Graduate Award for her impression contribution to dictystelium research. Check out her Van Gogh art.
August 25th
A scientist, lab logo designer, artist, painter, climber, camper, cyclist, athletic runner, from our group has defended her thesis. Way to go, Reena!
August 1st
Sarah Körber has joined our group as a Post-doc! We look forward to getting to know you better (: