Work experience

2017 – present: Postdoctoral researcher fellow, University of Birmingham, UK

• • Working for Dr. Leda Mirbahai & Professor James B. Brown
  • Analysis of DNA methylation changes in Daphnia magna exposed to environmental stress
  • Multiomics analysis of Daphnia pulex sex differences including gene expression, alternative splicing, methylation and histone modifications

2015 – 2017: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland

• • Working for Docent Mikko Frilander
  • Analysis of alternative splicing in Daphnia magna using RNA-seq data

2006 – 2015: PhD studies and other scientific work, University of Helsinki, Finland

• • Supervised by Docent Mikko Frilander and Professor Ilkka Hanski
  • The primary focus of the PhD work was gene expression analysis of Melitaea cinxia using microarrays and RNA-seq data
  • Other work included analysis of U12 type introns in Drosophila melanogaster as well as several unrelated projects on Melitaea cinxia

2004 – 2005: Pro gradu work, Biomedicum Helsinki, Finland

• • Supervised by Professor Hannu Sariola and Satu Kuure
  • Analysis of gene expression changes in mouse primordial ureteric bud exposed to exogenous GDNF using microarrays

2002: Sommer Job, Biomedicum Helsinki, Finland

• • Supervised by Professor Hannu Sariola and Satu Kuure
  • Generating a conditional knockout mutant mouse strain

Education

Master of Science, University of Oulu, 2007

• • Thesis: Exploring the genes affecting ureteric bud formation using microarrays
  • Major subject in genetics, specialized in physiology and genetics

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, 2015

• • • Thesis: Functional genomics of the Glanville fritillary butterfly
    • Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
    • Major subject in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Laboratory skills

RNA & DNA extraction and manipulation especially from small samples
Gene expression analysis, using microarrays, RNA-seq data and real time qPCR
In situ hybridization and other staining techniques
Protein expression analysis and western blotting
Basic lab protocols (PCR, DNA digestion, agarose gel, etc.)

Bioinformatics skills

Use of current bioformatics tools: Tophat, KisSplice, BitSeq, Samtools, R, Bioconductor, Picard, GATK, Biopython, BWA, Bowtie, BLAST, BLAT, FASTX, Bedtools
Programming languages: R, python
Operating systems: Linux (server and workstation), Windows
Sequence alignment, assembly, and genome annotation
Gene expression, differential expression, enrichment, pathway analysis
DNA methylation and Histone modification analysis
Protein structure prediction
Various statistical analysis methods in genomics and population genetics

Languages

Finnish (primary language), English (fluent), Swedish (good) and rudimentary Spanish and German