Group Leader

Personnel

Gautier Follain
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ivaska Lab | Cell Adhesion and Caner | Jacquemet | Cell Migration
Meri Pelkonen
Doctoral Researcher
Ivaska Lab | Cell Adhesion and Cancer | Elenius Lab | Actionable Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling
Alumni
Doctoral Candidates
- Nicolas Pasquier (thesis defended 2024)
- Aleksi Isomursu (thesis defended 2024)
- Aki Stubb (thesis defended 2019)
- Pranshu Sahgal (thesis defended 2018)
- Jonna Alanko (thesis defended 2016)
- Riina Kaukonen (thesis defended 2016)
- Nicola De Franceschi (thesis defended 2016)
- Reetta Virtakoivu (thesis defended 2015)
- Gunilla Högnäs (thesis defended 2013)
- Juha Rantala (thesis defended 2011)
- Jonna Nevo (thesis defended 2011)
- Karolina Vuoriluoto (thesis defended 2010)
- Saara Tuomi (thesis defended 2010)
- Teijo Pellinen (thesis defended 2009)
- Elina Mattila (thesis defended 2009)
Postdocs
- James Conway – 2024, next step: Principal Investigator at University of Helsinki
- Jaroslav Icha – 2019, next step: Application specialist for Promega cell-based assays and all luminescence products, Czech Republic
- Maria Georgiadou – August 2018, next step: Senior Researcher at Orion Pharma, Finland
- Mika Pietilä – until 2017, Next step: Astra Zeneca, Espoo, Finland
- Anja Mai – until 2016, Next step: Researcher at BerGenBio, Bergen, Norway
- Antti Arjonen – until 2015. Next step: Senior researcher at Misvik Biology Ltd, Turku, Finland
- Ghaffar Muharram – until 2013. Next step: Scientist at University of Lille, Lille, France
- Jeroen Pouwels – until 2013, Next step: group leader at Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Turku, Finland
- Stefan Veltel, Next step: lecturer at University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany
- Emilia Peuhu – until 2019, next step: Group leader at Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku
- Guillaume Jacquemet – until 2019, next step: Group leader at Åbo Akademi, Faculty of Science and Engineering
- Elisa Närvä -until 2021, Next step: group leader at Institute of Biomedicine, Turku, Finland