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URL:https://bioscience.fi/events/immunology-seminar-series-jonna-alanko/
SUMMARY:Immunology Seminar Series: Jonna Alanko
DESCRIPTION:November 4th at 14-15 (Finland time)\n\nVirtual event\n\nJonna 
 Alanko\, Turku Bioscience Centre\, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi Un
 iversity: Dendritic cell navigation and self-generated chemokine gradients
 \n\n&nbsp\;\n\nRegister for the Immunology Seminar Series email list to ge
 t calendar invitation to the online seminar: https://link.webropolsurveys.
 com/S/D29C32AA6E8A2F7A\n\nHost: Professor Riitta Lahesmaa ( rilahes@utu.fi
  )\n\nImmunology seminar series is jointly organised by the Finnish Societ
 y for Immunology\, InFLAMES Flagship and Turku Bioscience. For further inf
 ormation contact Anne Lahdenperä  ( ankahy@utu.fi ) or Riitta Lahesmaa (
  rilahes@utu.fi )\, University of Turku.\n\n***\n\nPhD Jonna Alanko is a 
 Principal Investigator at the Turku Bioscience Centre\, University of Turk
 u and Åbo Akademi University\, and the winner of the Scandinavian Society
  for Immunology (SSI) Young Investigator Award 2025 from Finland. Jonna co
 mpleted her PhD in 2016 in Prof. Johanna Ivaska’s group at the Universit
 y of Turku\, after which she conducted extensive postdoctoral research abr
 oad in Prof. Michael Sixt’s group at the Institute of Science and Techno
 logy Austria (ISTA). After returning to Finland\, Jonna continued her care
 er as an InFLAMES Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Marko Salmi’s group until
  securing funding for her own research group (InstruFellow and Academy Res
 earch Fellow).\n\nJonna and her Immune Cell Navigation group investigate
  how immune cells—particularly dendritic cells—migrate and navigate in
  response to different molecular cues\, using various live-cell migration 
 setups (https://bioscience.fi/immune-cell-navigation/). Jonna’s previous
  work revealed dendritic cell–generated CCL19 gradients as a previously 
 unknown guidance mechanism\, and her group is now continuing this research
  to open new avenues for understanding immune responses. Their research ai
 ms to uncover the detailed mechanisms of leukocyte navigation\, with the u
 ltimate goal of therapeutically manipulating these mechanisms to guide cel
 ls to desired locations\, such as toward tumors or away from autoimmune si
 tes.\n\nSelected publications:\n\nAlanko\, J.\, Uçar\, M.C.\, Canigova\, 
 N.\, Stopp\, J.\, Schwarz\, J.\, Merrin\, J.\, Hannezo\, E.\, and Sixt\, M
 . (2023) CCR7 acts as both a sensor and a sink for CCL19 to coordinate col
 lective leukocyte migration. Sci Immunol 8\, eadc9584\, DOI:10.1126/sciimm
 unol.adc9584\n\nUçar\, M.C.\, Alsberga\, Z.\, Alanko\, J.\, Sixt\, M. &am
 p\; Hannezo\, E. (2025) Self-generated chemotaxis of mixed cell population
 s\, PNAS 122 (34) e2504064122\, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2504064122\n\n&nbsp\;
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