We are delighted to announce that Åbo Akademi University and Turku Bioscience have published a press release for our latest publication by Dr. Alejandro Da Silva titled “Nuclear talin-1 provides a bridge between cell adhesion and gene expression”. The findings were published in iScience and can be found here.
Congratulations Dr. Jens Luoto!
Jens successfully defended his thesis in Cell Biology with a thesis entitled Extracellular vesicles and heat shock factor 2: New perspectives on cancer and physiology on 21.12.2024 in Auditorium Argentum in Aurum. Dr. Kirsi Rilla (Docent at University of Eastern Finland) served as opponent. We celebrated with coffee and cake amongst family and friends, as well as current and past lab members!

Photo by Num Wistbacka.
New manuscript available as a preprint in BioRxiv!
We are happy to announce that our latest manuscript with the title “Dynamic HSF2 regulation drives breast cancer progression by steering the balance between proliferation and invasion” is now available as a preprint in BioRxiv.
Our newest article is out!
Our most recent paper on EVs in a 3D invasion model is out now in Journal of Extracellular Biology!
Congratulations Dr Puustinen!
Mikael successfully defended his thesis HSF1 and HSF2 in stress and EMT-associated transcriptional networks on 15.9.2023 in Auditorium Argentum in Aurum! As an opponent was Professor Jyrki Heino from University of Turku.