Lab members

Arto Pulliainen, PhD, principal investigator
Rajendra Bhadane, PhD, senior researcher
Anbu Poosakkannu, PhD, senior researcher
Moona Sakari (nee Miettinen), MSc, doctoral researcher
Madhukar Vedantham, MSc, doctoral researcher
Sujit Kumar, MSc, doctoral researcher
Olli Laaksoaho, BSc, MSc student​
Abdula Habib, BSc, MSc student
Ida Schoultz, BSc, MSc student
Chiara Catalano Vinyals, BSc, MSc student
Mika Savisalo, technician

Lab alumni (post docs & thesis students):

Alaa Benkherouf, BSc, MSc thesis, 2022
Sakina Begum, BSc, MSc thesis, 2022
Rita Azevedo, PhD, post doc, 2020-2021
Lyydia Leino, BSc, MSc thesis, 2021
Katja Näreoja, PhD, post doc, 2019 (Ashok et al 2020 ACS Infectious Diseases)
Rita Pinto, BSc, MSc thesis, 2019
Tofayel Chowdhury, BSc, MSc thesis, 2018
Hanna Piitulainen, BSc, MSc thesis, 2017 (Gillespie et al 2015 mBio)
Elena Pennanen, BSc, MSc thesis, 2016

Lab alumni (project researchers & interns):

Vili Niinikoski
Arttu Laisi (Ashok et al 2020 ACS Infectious Diseases, Regier et al 2019 Parasites & Vectors)
Antti Kaatiala
Avlokita Tiwari (Ashok et al 2020 ACS Infectious Diseases)
Sami Lehto
Soheila Akhondzadeh
Lauri Pulkkinen
Ana Marta Lourenco