New Lab Members! We warmly welcome Lucie Bosquet, Leena Hölttä, and Minttu Lepistö to the lab. Lucie received her MSc in Molecular Biology…
Outlook article highlights our work in Genes & Development Our recent paper in Genes & Development has been featured in an Outlook article written by Professor Anita H. Corbett…
Yeast measure mRNA poly(A) tails with a “kinetic ruler” The first research paper from our lab uncovers a surprising mechanism for how the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae determines the length…
Arslan awarded EDUFI Fellowship Arslan Hanifi in our group has been awarded an EDUFI Fellowship from the Finnish Ministry of Education to support his…
Pre-print: A kinetic ruler controls mRNA poly(A) tail length Our study on Nab2-mediated polyadenylation control is now available as a pre-print in bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.01.651612v1 We propose a new type…
New lab members: Emil Aalto-Setälä and Hanifi Arslan We are excited to start the year by welcoming new members to the lab. Hanifi Arslan, with his background in…
Torben Heick Jensen speaks at the Frontiers of Science seminar We were delighted to host Torben Heick Jensen from Aarhus University, who delivered an engaging FoS talk on the diverse…
Paper out in EMBO J on modelling mRNA deadenylation rates We explored the process of mRNA degradation in yeast, focusing on the role of deadenylation (removal of polyA tails) in…
Farewells We said recently goodbyes to Beda and Emilie. Beda finished her MSc thesis with excellent grades and then moved to…
Grant from the Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation We thank the Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation for supporting our research on finding new antifungal drug targets.