Group Leader

Eleanor Coffey
Research Director (Forskningschef) at Åbo Akademi University
Vice Director Turku Bioscience
eleanor.coffey [at] bioscience.fi

Contact Information

Turku Bioscience
P.O. Box 123, BioCity
(Street adr. Tykistökatu 6 B)
FIN-20521 Turku, Finland
+358-2-333 8605 (Eleanor Coffey)+358-2-251 8808 (Fax Attn. Eleanor Coffey)

Lab Manager and Postdoctoral Researchers

Prasannakumar Deshpande

Postdoctoral Researcher

Coffey Lab, office 5045

+358 (0)29 450 3784

prasannakumar.deshpande [at] bioscience.fi

Project

My main goal is to identify mechanisms in nerve cells that may lead to death of dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson’s disease.

Veronica Fagerholm

Postdoctoral Researcher and Lab Coordinator

Coffey Lab, office 5045

+358 (0)29 450 3783

veronica.fagerholm [at] utu.fi

Project

I am searching for driver genes that act downstream of JNK1 to promote mood disorders.

Patrik Hollos

Postdoctoral Researcher

Coffey Lab, office 5045

+358 (0)29 450 3783

patrik.hollos [at] bioscience.fi

Project

I explore how kinase signalling exerts spatiotemporal control of synapse plasticity in disease models using optogenetics.

Doctoral Candidates

Ye Hong

Doctoral Candidate

Coffey & Elo Lab, office 7089

+358 (0)29 450 3805

ye.hong [at] bioscience.fi

Project in the Kinase group

I am using bioinformatics to predict molecular mechanisms of depression and schizophrenia using proteomics and behavioral data.

Jismi John

Doctoral Candidate

Coffey Lab, office 5045

jimajo [at] utu.fi

I work with Nikita and together we hope to identify molecular drivers of anxiety and depression. We do this using different types of in vivo and ex vivo imaging methods.

Christel Sourander

Doctoral Candidate

Coffey Lab, office 5045

+358 (0)50 468 9683

christel.c.sourander [at] utu.fi

In my PhD project, I am studying how loss of cellular homeostasis may lead to behavioral changes at the level of the whole organism.

Nikita Tiwari

Doctoral Candidate

Coffey Lab, office 5045

nikita.tiwari [at] utu.fi

In my project, I use fiberphotometry to study how molecular drivers of anxiety and depression alter neural activity in awake behaving mice.

Artemis Varidaki

Doctoral Candidate

Coffey Lab

artemis.varidaki [at] utu.fi

Undergraduate Students

Sini Huuskonen

Undergraduate Student

Coffey Lab, office 5045

smmhuu [at] utu.fi

Jedidiah Patton

Undergraduate Student

Coffey Lab, office 5045

jedpat [at] utu.fi

I work together with Ye to identify molecular drivers of schizophrenia in mouse and fish models.

Technical Personnel

Susanna Pyökäri

Laboratory Technician

Coffey Lab, office 5080

+358 (0)29 450 3758 / 3771

susanna.pyokari [at] bioscience.fi

Alumni

Francesca Marchisella, Sylvia Ortega-Martinez, Hasan Mohammad, Emilia Komulainen, Justyna Zdrojewska, Olavi Misin, Artur Padzik, Benny Björkblom, Hanna Heikelä, Vesa Hongisto, Wenrui Li, Elli Oksanen, Lihua Sun, Jenni Vainio, Nina Westerlund, Yubao Wang, Agniezka Bialek, Gunilla Hognas, Johanna Holmbom, Marit Jorgensen, Miikka Hurme, Julie Millour, Lenaig Marchand, Kimmo Mäkela, Iiris Nykanen, Annika Nymark, Annika Pienimaki, Emmy Rannikko, Maria Shariatmadari, Henna Sihvonen, Annika Smeds, Nina Smeds, Jenny Södermann, Rognoy Vibeke, Mats Österholm, Hanah Orellana, Ravi Adusumalli, Hung Phuoc, Behnoush Fourutan, Raghavendra Mysore.