People

Pyhäjärvi Lab loves trees

We are a happy bunch of forest-tree and science loving people!

Principal Investigator

Tanja is excited about evolution, population genetics, conifers, large genomes and Lapponian Herders! Tanja's CV

Post-doctoral fellows

Chedly Kastally is a post doctoral fellow working on demographic modelling, population genomic methods, pedigree analyses and is a skilled bioinformatician. He has his own Academy of Finland -funded project on population genomics of Ips typographus bark beetle.

Doctoral Researchers
Trainees, students, assistants
Visiting Scientists

Pengyan Zhou


I am interested in the environmental adaptation of forest populations during evolution. I work on finding evidence for local adaptation of plants at the genomic level, and also on association studies between phenotype and genotype.

Lab Therapist and Mascot

Uniaavan Sirni

Alumni

Kaarle Mäkelä, research assistant

Pihla Kuikka, research assistant

Alina Niskanen, post-doctoral fellow

Jaana Vuosku, post-doctoral fellow

Visa Kamppari, research assistant

Favour Mba, research assistant

Janina Koskinen, research assistant

Nietos Hietanen, research assistant

Ysaline Perraud, Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology

Christa Vilkki, research assistant

Senni Kanerva, research assistant

Chinenye Ebisi, research assistant

Ilona Kortelahti, Master's Student

Zhijun Zhang, Visiting Scientist

Milena Melnyk, trainee, HAN University