People

Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen, Professor in medical cell biology

Eeva-Liisa has a long track record in autophagy, in particular, in elucidating the fine structure of autophagosomes and autolysosomes using electron microscopy. She completed her PhD in 1993 at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, followed by postdoctoral work in Göttingen, Germany and Helsinki, Finland. Then she became an independent investigator in Dundee, Scotland. After that, she worked as a group leader in Kiel, Germany. In August 2005 she started as a University Lecturer at the Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki. Finally, 1st of November 2017 she started as a professor in medical cell biology at the Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Finland.

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Martin Lopez, postdoctoral researcher

Martin Alexander López studied molecular biology at the University in Vienna, Austria. He did his diploma thesis on the topic of RNA chaperone activity of intrinsically unstructured domains. Afterwards, he did his PhD at the University of Zürich in Switzerland. In his thesis Martin investigated the regulation of clock gene expression in inflammation.  He took a special interest in the protein CIRP (cold-inducible RNA binding protein) and its regulatory role in circadian gene expression. Subsequently, he joined the University of Liège as a postdoctoral researcher and investigated the interplay of the alternative NF-kB signalling pathway and circadian rhythms in liver homeostasis. In 2023 Martin joined our group and is investigating the molecular mechanisms of RAB24.

Mauricio Ramm, doctoral researcher

Mauricio completed his MSc at the University of Heidelberg in 2017 on experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. He joined the Eskelinen group in April 2018 as the first group member working at the University of Turku, Institute of Biomedicine. Mauricio is working on decipring the roles of the small GTPase RAB24 in neuronal cells. He is an early stage researcher in the Marie Sklodowska-Curie network DRIVE.

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Lav Tripathi, postdoctoral researcher

Lav completed his PhD at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India, in 2014. The thesis topic was the development of VLP based recombinant subunit vaccine candidates against dengue virus. Lav initially joined our group in order to facilitate the production of new antibodies against RAB24 protein. He then started a postdoctoral position and is investigating the molecular mechanisms of RAB24-mediated proliferation, adhesion and migration of cancer cells.

Hira Javed, MSc student

Hira did her bachelors degree in Biomedical Engineering from NED UET, Karachi, Pakistan. She has experience working as a trainee in a diagnostic lab and as a Biomedical Engineer in a medical center. Hira has finished the practical part of her MSc thesis in our group. Currently, she is writing her MSc thesis in Biomedical Imaging at Åbo Akademi University in Turku.

Johannes Tapio, MSc student

Johannes is pursuing an MSc degree in physiology and genetics at the University of Turku. He has finished the practical part of his MSc thesis in our group and is currently writing the MSc thesis.

Anson Antony, MSc student

Anson completed his BSc in advanced zoology and biotechnology from Loyola College, Chennai, India. Later he worked as an Intern at the International Centre for Excellence in Research Laboratory, National Institute of Health, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, before coming to Turku. He is currently pursuing his masters degree in molecular systems biology at the University of Turku, and he is doing his MSc thesis in our group.