Matjaž received his PhD in Molecular Biology from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and did his graduate work and postdoctoral training on controlling Pol II elongation with 7SK snRNP and P-TEFb with B. Matija Peterlin at University of California, San Francisco, USA. Read more on his work here. In his free time, he is doing the laundry.
E-mail: matjaz.barboric@helsinki.fi
Doctoral Programme in Integrative Life Science
Monika received her Master's degree in Biotechnology from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. Her work on engineering yeasts for production of high value chemicals brought her to study transcription and gene regulation. Her current research focuses on combinatorial targeting of transcriptional CDKs in cancer and the significance of RNA Pol II elongation factor for SARS-CoV-2 replication. When she is not weighing which mistery to solve in the lab, she can be spotted lifting weights in the gym.
E-mail: monika.macakova@helsinki.fi
Tina received her PhD in Molecular Biology from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and did her postdoctoral training on the transcriptional form of HIV-1 latency with B. Matija Peterlin at University of California, San Francisco, USA. Her research focuses on understanding how local topology of Pol II transcription machinery couples gene transcription with maturation of nascent RNA. In her free time, she practices atheism.
E-mail: valentina.lenasi@helsinki.fi
Programme in Biomedicine
E-mail: this.could.be.you@helsinki.fi