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19.6.2025

20.12.2024

28.11.2024 A PhD thesis from our laboratory has been publicly defended! MSc Pauliina Auvinen brilliantly defended her dissertation ”". The opponent was Dr Mariona Bustamante from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health and the custos was Professor Päivi Peltomäki, University of Helsinki.

15.5.2024 (in Finnish), docent Nina Kaminen-Ahola: Alkoholin vaikutus geenien säätelyyn ja kehitykseen

3.1.2023 

12.-14.9.2022 We participated in the EUFASD conference in Arendal, Norway, with a poster and a talk about our new research "Developmental pluripotency associated factor 4 (DPPA4) is a candidate gene for alcohol-induced developmental disorders" ()

30.3.2022 Environmental epigenetics in TERVEEMPI MAAILMA - Kuinka vastaamme globaaleihin terveysuhkiin? Nina Kaminen-Ahola: Ympäristön vaikutus terveyteen – epigenomi ympäristön ja geenien välissä. 2022, Gaudeamus.

2.2020 We are at Tiedekulma! Helsinki Health Week, Tuesday 4.2. at 17 o'clock, Tunnista terveysriskit: (in Finnish)

2.12.2019

21.11.2019 Our study Marjonen et al. "Early Maternal Alcohol Consumption Alters Hippocampal DNA Methylation, Gene Expression and Volume in a Mouse Model" is top 10% most-cited PLOS ONE papers of 2015!

18.10.2018 First PhD thesis from our lab is out! MSc Heidi Marjonen succesfully defended her doctoral dissertation "". The opponent was Dr Miguel Constância from the University of Cambridge (UK) and the custos was Professor Päivi Peltomäki from the University of Helsinki.

18.6.2018

19.4.2017 Our publication Marjonen et al. "rs10732516 polymorphism at the IGF2/H19 locus associates with a genotype-specific trend in placental DNA methylation and head circumference of prenatally alcohol-exposed newborns" by The Finnish Society for Alcohol and Drug Research

5.10.2017 Our study Marjonen et al. "rs10732516 polymorphism at the IGF2/H19 locus associates with a genotype-specific trend in placental DNA methylation and head circumference of prenatally alcohol-exposed newborns" was chosen to "Best of 2017" list of ESHRE publications

5.10.2017