HiLIFE Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology

Office: 5715 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: marjo.saastamoinen@helsinki.fi
Phone: + 358 50 448 4471

• life history ecology & evolution
• dispersal
• genotype-phenotype association
• phenotypic plasticity
• ecological immunology

Post-doctoral researcher

Office: 5413 (Biocenter 3)
Email: audrey.bras@helsinki.fi

Post-doctoral project : Spatio-temporal genetic variation of butterflies in relation to land use and recent population trends, parts of a newly established Centre for Ecological Genetics (EcoGenetics)

• Population genetics
• Landscape genomics
• Ecology and Evolution
• Human-driven environmental changes

Post-doctoral research

Office: 5716 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: carly.lynsdale@helsinki.fi

Postdoctoral project “Adaptive responses, physiological mechanisms and trans-generational effects of environmental stress”.

• life-history evolution
• sexual selection
• behavioural ecology
• animal physiology

Post-doctoral reseacher

Office 5205 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: mariana.piresbraga@helsinki.fi

Postdoc at both University of Helsinki and SLU Uppsala funded by the Swedish Research Council. This project combines reconstructed coevolutionary histories and species distribution modeling to predict future species interactions. My favorite study system are butterflies and their host plants.

• Evolution of species interactions
• Diversification
• Ecological networks
• Host-parasite interactions

Doctoral researcher

Office: 5607 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: Nadja.verspagen@helsinki.fi

PhD project “Insect stress tolerance across a latitudinal gradient”. Funded by the LUOVA doctoral programme (to NV, started in February 2020). Supervised by Marjo Saastamoinen and Michelle DiLeo.

• adaptive potential
• phenotypic plasticity
• latitudinal clines
• environmental stress

Doctoral researcher

Office: 5202 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: patrick.heidbreder@helsinki.fi

PhD project "Survival Under Warming Climate and Adaptive Potential of Hybridization". Funded by the LUOVA doctoral programme (Jan. 2023 - Dec. 2024). Supervised by Jonna Kulmuni and Marjo Saastamoinen.

• hybridization and speciation
• evolutionary genomics
• adaptive potential
• thermal performance

Coordinator

Lammi Biological Station
E-mail: suvi.ikonen@helsinki.fi

Doctoral researcher

Office: 5607 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: ulla.riihimaki@helsinki.fi

PhD project “Linking population trends to ecological performance in butterflies”. Funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation as a part of project “The missing link: unraveling the role of genetic variation of beneficial arthropods in agro-ecosystems" (to Marjo Saastamoinen as a co-PI).

• ecological performance
• genetic diversity
• population ecology
• land use & biodiversity