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

Veronica Fagerholm

Business Champion and Coordinator

Coffey Lab, office 5045

+358 (0)29 450 3784

veronica.fagerholm [at] utu.fi

Project

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

Peter James

Visiting Professor, University of Lund

Proteomics

peter.james [at] bioscience.fi

Doctoral Researchers

Soroush Abyari

Project Researcher, Neuroscience

Coffey Lab, office 5045

soroush.s.abyari [at] utu.fi

Dani Flinkman

Project Researcher, Mass Spectrometry and Neuroscience

Coffey Lab, office 5045

+358 (0)29 450 3784

dani.flinkman [at] bioscience.fi

Jelena Gnjatovic

Researcher, Neuroscience

Coffey Lab, office 5045

+358 (0)29 450 3784

jelena.j.gnjatovic [at] utu.fi

Pierre Heemeryck

Researcher, Neuroscience

Coffey Lab, office 5045

pierre.heemeryck [at] utu.fi

Ye Hong

Doctoral Researcher, Bioinformatics

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 Researcher, Neuroscience

Coffey Lab, office 5045

+358 (0)29 450 3784

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.

Anniina Jokela

Researcher, Neuroscience

Coffey Lab, office 5045

anniina.a.jokela [at] utu.fi

Christel Sourander

Doctoral Researcher, Neuroscience

Coffey Lab, office 5045

+358 (0)29 450 3784

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 Researcher, Neuroscience

Coffey Lab, office 5045

+358 (0)29 450 3784

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 Researcher

Coffey Lab

artemis.varidaki [at] utu.fi

Master Students

Faridun Mamadbekov

Master Student, Computer Engineering

Coffey Lab

Alex Montoya

Master Student, Computer Engineering

Coffey Lab

alex.montoyafranco [at] utu.fi

Mudita Shakya

Master Student, Computer Engineering

Coffey Lab

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.