Group

Gerbera Laboratory is located at the Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland

We are part of the Viikki Plant Science Centre. Our research focuses on exploring the gene regulatory networks connected with inflorescence development and patterning as well as secondary metabolism. As our major tools we apply transgenic lines to discover gene functions. We have also produced an extensive RNASeq data covering both vegetative and generative tissues.

The group is jointly led by Prof. Teemu Teeri and Prof. Paula Elomaa. Contact: paula.elomaa (at) helsinki.fi, teemu.teeri (at) helsinki.fi.

PIs
Current members

Post docs: Feng Wang, Teng Zhang

Visiting:

PhD students: Lingping Zhu, Minhazur Rahman, Steven Taniwan

MSc students:  Xiaobo Cai,  Saku Mattila, Bishwajit Das, Jinghong Lu, Dalia Sultana, Feras Hadid, Mamunur Rashid, Mohamed Mosalam

Alumni members

Miia Ainasoja, PhD

Suvi Broholm, PhD

Xianbao Deng, PhD, associate professor

Hany El Sayed Bashandy, PhD

Tiina Harjunpää, PhD

Ykä Helariutta, PhD, professor

Jaana Hämäläinen, PhD

Juha Kontturi, PhD

Satu Koskela, PhD

Mika Kotilainen, PhD, docent

Roosa Laitinen, PhD, docent

Anja Lampio, PhD

Kean-Jin Lim, PhD

Ursula Malm, PhD

Merja Mehto, MSc

Leena Nevalainen, PhD

Tanja Paasela, PhD

Yan Peng Ng, PhD

Milla Pietiäinen, PhD

Eija Pöllänen, PhD

Elina Raukko, MSc

Anneke Rijpkema, PhD

Sari Tähtiharju, PhD, docent

Anne Uimari, PhD

Deyue Yu, PhD, professor

Yafei Zhao, PhD

Collaboration

Prof. Victor Albert lab, Univ. at Buffalo, USA

Prof. Dr. Annette Becker, Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen, Germany

Prof. Dr. Regine Claßen-Bockhoff, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Dr. Oriane Hidalgo, Kew Gardens, UK

Prof. Richard Immink, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Dr. Stefan Martens, Edmund Mach Foundation, San Michele all’Adige TN, Italy

Dr. Marek Mutwil, Max Planck Institute, Golm, Germany

Prof. Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, University of Calgary, Canada