People working in the Arctic Microbial Ecology group
People
Jenni Hultman
Principal investigator, Docent in Microbiology
Office 3210 (Biocenter 1)
email: jenni.hultman@helsinki.fi
tel: +358-2941-57111, +358-50-4487041
My main research interest in molecular microbial ecology with special interest in warming arctic region. I endeavor to determine functions and interactions of the microbial communities in order to understand how microbes in the arctic soils respond to the warming on a molecular scale. In addition in my lab I want to understand how microbial activity and resulting GHG production, or consumption, are altered upon thaw and upon resulting increase in nutrients. My lab’s research is interdisciplinary, combining cutting edge high-throughput sequencing technologies, genetics of microorganisms, bioinformatics and development of new techniques to the study the genetic response of microbes to different environmental conditions.
Igor Pessi
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Arctic Microbial Ecology group
Department of Microbiology
PO BOX 56 (Viikinkaari 9)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Phone: +358-2941-59317
Email: igor.pessi at helsinki.fi
Eeva Eronen-Rasimus
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Arctic Microbial Ecology group
Department of Microbiology
PO BOX 56 (Viikinkaari 9)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Phone: +358-2941-59317
Email: eeva.eronen-rasimus at helsinki.fi
Sirja Viitamäki
PhD student in the Arctic Microbial Ecology group. My PhD is about functions and activity of soil microbial communities in the changing Arctic.
email: sirja.viitamaki@helsinki.fi
I am working on my MSc thesis on microbial genomes assembled from arctic soils in Rastegaissa, Norway.
aino.rutanen at helsinki.fi
tel +358-2941 59295
I am an intern in Arctic Microbial Ecology group and work on metagenomics and metatranscriptomics of Alaskan permafrost.