June 1st
Lotta couldn't resist herself and signed up to be our PhD student! Good lucks, you'll need it because things start to fail from this point onwards.
May 19th
Miina got poached by Pekka from his cell biology class to do her masters thesis with us!
May 18th
Pekka has been invited to give a talk at the AAIF 2025 meeting at Hungary which will happen between May 21-24th. Our PhD student, Shraman will also be giving a talk there too! Good job, Shraman!
May 16th
Weather is pretty good, we had a 50 km marathon and BBQ afterwards to gain back the calories.
May 10th
Jerry presented his preliminary PhD data at the GRC adhesion conference at Florence. He came back and couldn't stop talking about it.
April 14th
It's our Annual CoE retreat again, and it's at the Mustio Manor again too! Jerry gave a talk and of course it's about his favourite F-word. Formins.
April 2nd
Katha and Pekka gave a fantastic talk together at our BI seminar! Except that Katha fell sick and didn't make it. Pekka cosplayed as Katha.
December 31st
Thanks for your wonderful contributions and being with us thus far, Kostya. All the best!
December 14th
ASCB meeting at San Diego! This time, we have Afsana and Katha presenting their works there. Sarah is there to babysit while Jerry moonlights.
November 24th
Happy Birthday, mini-Shrikant! Oh wait, her name is Shrisha and she turned one! Many happy returns! (:
October 31st
Every halloween, we reveal our true selves. There was the one and only Gru, but too many minions at the halloween party unfortunately.
September 30th
Our annual restreat at Tallinn! The Lappalainen crew goes international, featuring the Leo's group from upstairs.
July 1st
We found a new sheep. Her name is Lotta Vahvaselkä. She has a pretty tough back, and will be doing her masters thesis with us.
May 19th
Summer calls for a BBQ together! Unlike the other parts of the world, summer occurs only for a day in a year.
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 (: