Turku Bioscience Centre

Turku Bioscience Centre is an advanced core facility and research centre hosted jointly by University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University.

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The Sigrid Jusélius senior researcher posts grant to Carlos Rogerio Figueiredo

December 15, 2025

The Sigrid Jusélius Foundation has awarded a four-year senior researcher grant of €700,000 to our affiliated group leader, Carlos Rogerio Figueiredo. The senior researcher grants are designed for adjunct professors (docents) or independent medical researchers Read more

funding grant Sigrid Jusélius

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Guillaume Jacquemet awarded the 2025 Chancellor’s Prize

December 15, 2025

Guillaume Jacquemet, a Group Leader at our centre, has been awarded the Chancellor’s Prize for young researchers at Åbo Akademi University. Jacquemet specialises in cell biology, cancer biology, and microscopy techniques, including super-resolution imaging, live-cell Read more

Awards Chancellor’s Prize for young researchers

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New Funding for our Centre’s Researchers

December 12, 2025

Warm congratulations to all for their funding! Cancer Foundation Finland Project grants Associate Professor, Docent, Guillaume Jacquemet and his group: €225,000 Professor Riitta Lahesmaa and her group €150,000 Docent Sami Ventelä and his group €100,000 Read more

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Sami Ventelä and Jukka Westermarck recognized by Medical Association Duodecim for their influential work.

December 11, 2025

Medical association Duodecim selects each year persons that have been most influential in the field of medicine. This year´s list included two group leaders from Turku Bioscience Centre, Docent Sami Ventelä and Professor Jukka Westermarck. Read more

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Immunology Seminar, Taija Mäkinen

February 3, 2026

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Immunology Seminar, Taija Mäkinen

February 3, 2026

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Immunology Seminar Series February 3rd at 14-15 (Finland time) Virtual event Taija Mäkinen, University of Helsinki: TBA Register for the Immunology Seminar Series email list to get calendar invitation to the online Event details

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Frontiers of Science: Prof. Avner Schlessinger

February 5, 2026

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Frontiers of Science: Prof. Avner Schlessinger

February 5, 2026

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5th February at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Avner Schlessinger, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA Title TBA Host: Parthiban Marimuthu (Parthiban.Marimuthu@abo.fi) More information about the speaker TBA Take a Event details

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Frontiers of Science: Prof. Mohamed Bentires-Alj

February 12, 2026

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Frontiers of Science: Prof. Mohamed Bentires-Alj

February 12, 2026

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12th February at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Mohamed Bentires-Alj, University of Basel, Switzerland Title TBA Host: Jenny Pessa (jenny.pessa@abo.fi) Take a look at the Frontiers of Science updates from BioCity Turku web Event details

Immunology Seminar Series

March 3, 2026

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Immunology Seminar Series

March 3, 2026

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Immunology Seminar Series March 3rd at 14-15 (Finland time) Virtual event Speaker: TBA Register for the Immunology Seminar Series email list to get calendar invitation to the online seminar: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/D29C32AA6E8A2F7A Host: Event details

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Frontiers of Science: Dr. Evangelia Petsalaki

March 5, 2026

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Frontiers of Science: Dr. Evangelia Petsalaki

March 5, 2026

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5th March at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Dr. Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, UK Network-based approaches for studying context-specific signalling Host: Tomi Suomi (tomi.suomi@utu.fi) Coffee and sandwich served at 11:45, first come first serve! Event details

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Research & Affiliate Groups

Collaborating across disciplines to drive innovative solutions and breakthrough discoveries.

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Publications

Annual publications showcasing impactful scientific contributions in leading international journals.

PUBLICATION

PhotoFiTT: a quantitative framework for assessing phototoxicity in live-cell microscopy experiments

Mario Del Rosario et al.

Nat Commun. 2025 Dec 13. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-66209-6. Online ahead of print.

Published on December 13, 2025

Phototoxicity in live-cell fluorescence microscopy can compromise experimental outcomes, yet quantitative methods to assess its impact remain limited. Here, we present PhotoFiTT (Phototoxicity Fitness Time Read more

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A resource to empirically establish drug exposure records directly from untargeted metabolomics data

Haoqi Nina Zhao et al.

Nat Commun. 2025 Dec 9;16(1):10600. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-65993-5.

Published on December 9, 2025

Despite extensive efforts, extracting medication exposure information from clinical records remains challenging. To complement this approach, here we show the Global Natural Product Social Molecular Read more

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Microbiome-derived bile acid signatures in early life and their association with islet autoimmunity

Santosh Lamichhane et al.

Nat Commun. 2025 Dec 3. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-66619-6. Online ahead of print.

Published on December 3, 2025

Emerging studies reveal that gut microbes can conjugate diverse amino acids to bile acids, known as microbially conjugated bile acids. However, their regulation and health Read more

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Mitochondria-Targeted Nanomotor: H2S-Driven Cascade Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Chengcheng Li et al.

Adv Mater. 2025 Dec 1:e13757. doi: 10.1002/adma.202513757. Online ahead of print.

Published on December 2, 2025

Despite advances in combination therapies for cancer treatment, most strategies rely on modular-additive designs that lack dynamic molecular cues to achieve intrinsic synergy. Herein, a Read more

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Regulation of cell dynamics by rapid integrin transport through the biosynthetic pathway

Martina Lerche et al.

J Cell Biol. 2026 Feb 2;225(2):e202508155. doi: 10.1083/jcb.202508155. Epub 2025 Dec 2.

Published on December 2, 2025

Constitutive integrin endocytosis and recycling control cell movement and morphology. In contrast, the role of newly synthesized integrins delivered via the biosynthetic pathway has been Read more

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JNK-regulated phosphoproteome links synaptic and metabolic pathways to mood regulation

Ye Hong et al.

Neurobiol Dis. 2025 Nov 29;218:107207. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2025.107207. Online ahead of print.

Published on November 30, 2025

c-Jun N-terminal kinases (JNKs) are implicated in both neurodegeneration and mood regulation, including anxiety and depressive-like behaviours. Yet the consequences of JNK inhibition in vivo Read more

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The Role of Multimedia in Science

November 12, 2025

Have you ever been to a talk or lecture and felt bored? The problem is rarely the science itself, but how it is presented. Cluttered slides, tiny text, odd color combinations, flickering screens, bad audio, Read more

Multimedia Science Communication

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Career exploration week at the University of Turku: Surprises, Science & Early Morning Struggles

October 9, 2025

This was my first TET week and I got to go to the University of Turku. There has been all kinds of interesting and exciting stuff here, but the best thing is the university staff—many Read more

experience TET harjoittelu training

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Turning KRAS Against Itself: A New Way to Kill Cancer Cells

September 9, 2025

We are excited to share the story behind our recent work, published in a scientific journal in 2024, where we uncovered a surprising vulnerability in some of the most aggressive cancers. Our work was one Read more

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From the Lab to the Stage: My 3MT Experience

May 20, 2025

I had the opportunity to present my PhD research in the finals of the University of Turku 3MT competition. It was a unique and rewarding experience to summarize my work in under three minutes to Read more

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