Docent, Principal Investigator / Director of GM-unit
Satu studied biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Oulu, and completed her PhD at the medical faculty of University of Helsinki in 2007. She then moved to do the postdoc with Professor Frank Constantini at Columbia University Medical Center, after which she continued her research at the Institute of Biotechnology (University of Helsinki) with Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 2014 she was appointed as junior PI at BI, and in 2015 as a director of GM-unit at the Laboratory Animal Centre of University of Helsinki. Since the fall 2017 her lab has been located in the Faculty of Medicine and in the beginning of 2019 as a part of STEMM research program of Research Programs Unit.
email: Satu Kuure
Clinical fellow
Niklas is a pediatric surgeon interested in identifying clinically relevant markers that could be utilized for identifying the congenital kidney defect patients with the highest risk for renal and urinary track diseases.
email: Niklas Pakkasjärvi
Niklas Pakkasjärvi Researcher unique identifier (ORCID)
Senior scientist/molecular biologist
Yu-Chia is a highly experienced molecular biologist whose expertise is shared between GM- and Zebrafish-units. Yu-Chia develops and designs different new in vivo genome editing strategies to be implemented in rodents and fish. Her research background in neuroscience translates to regenerative biology in an innovative and exiting way.
email: Yu-Chia.Chen@helsinki.fi
PhD, postdoc
Tomas received his Master's degree at Charles University, Czech Republic, in the study program of Pharmacy. He continued his PhD research in Prof. Barbora Szotakova research group by studying the hepatotoxicity of terpenes and their effects on liver cells. Tomas is interested in generating new in vivo disease models for rare syndromes as they are vitally needed for development of novel therapeutic interventions.
email: Tomáš Zárybnický
PhD, postdoc
Otto received his Master's degree at University of Tampere, Finland, with major in molecular biology. He continued his PhD research in Dr. Marja Mikkola's research group by studying regulation of hair follicle development. Otto is interested in expanding his expertise to in vivo genome engineering, cancer and new model organism Acomys.
email: Otto Mäkelä
MSc-student
Julia completed her MSc degree at Translational Medicine program by doing her thesis project with Kuure lab. She is interested in embryonic derived Wilms tumor, which is the most common pediatric kidney cancer. Julia utilizes bioinformatic and genetic tools to identify similarities in MAPK/ERK-deficient and Wilms tumor progenitor to reveal new mechanisms driving defective kidney development leading to tumorigenesis.
email: Julia Koivula
Part-time research technician
Agnès is a research technician who started in private companies (Orion, Labsystems) and joined the University of Helsinki in 1997 (Steroid research lab/ Medical chemistry). From 2001, she has been member of Kidney Developmental Biology lab (Hannu Sariola’s group and later Satu Kuure’s group), taking care of the maintenance of the lab and participating in research work (genotyping, cell culture, DNA/RNA work, tissue dissection etc..). She also has been part-time in other labs such as Steroid reseach lab, Evo-Devo (Jukka Jernvall) and just started in BSCC (Timo Otonkoski). She loves dark chocolate and reading.
email: Agnés Viherä