Team

Matti Turtola (Principal investigator)

Biochemist and molecular biologist with keen interest in molecular machines and gene regulation.

Aada Välisaari (MSc student in Biochemistry)

Aada is doing her thesis work on mRNP biogenesis.

Emil Aalto-Setälä (PhD student in the Doctoral Programme of Molecular Life Sciences)

Emil’s expertise is on single-molecule studies of interactions between nucleic acids and molecular machines.

Hanifi Atif Arslan (PhD student in Biosciences and Drug Development Programme, Åbo Akademi)

Arslan has a background in pharmacy and now studies small-molecule coumpounds targeting mRNP biogenesis factors.

Leena Hölttä (BSc student in Biochemistry)

Leena is a lab intern with MSc in data science and interests in the origins of life.

Lucie Bosquet (MSc, project researcher)

Lucie is a molecular biologist studying post-transcriptional gene regulation in Candida albicans.