People

At the moment, the group led by Taina Lundell consists of two PhD students and one post-doctoral researcher.

In addition, we have master´s thesis students and research trainees working in our group.

Taina Lundell

 

University lecturer in Microbiology at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Docent, group leader, principal investigator in the Viikki Research Groups Organisation in Biosciences. Research activities include wood-decaying fungi, their enzymology, eco-physiology, genomics and transcriptomics.

Janina Österman-Udd

 

Doctor of Science (Agriculture and Forestry) in biotechnology. Research interests and expertise include molecular biology and bioinformatics related to genomics and transcriptomics in fungi, bacteria and plants. 

Eero Kiviniemi

 

Master of Science, doctoral student of MBDP (Doctoral programme in microbiology and biotechnology). Studying fungal production and utilization of bioactive natural compounds during wood decomposition and coping with environmental stress factors.

Maryam Qurashi

MSc, Doctoral researcher in MBDP (Doctoral Programme in Microbiology and Biotechnology). Interested in sustainable biotechnology, science communication and biotech entrepreneurship. Research interests involves bio-upcycling, biomass valorisation, and biobased production of commodity chemicals by microbial cell bio-factories. Studying the expression of fungal-produced secondary metabolites in microbial co-cultures, meta-transcriptomes of multispecies interactions, gene regulation and gene regulatory networks operating in the interactive fungi. 

Master´s thesis students and research trainees

Master's thesis students:

Research trainees: