Centre of Excellence in Stem Cell Metabolism 2018-2025 @KatajistoLab @HTyynismaa @HietakangasLab @OtonkoskiL @JetteLeng helsinki.fi/metastem
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28 Jan 2025
Follow MetaStem, The Centre of Excellence in Stem Cell Metabolism on Bluesky 🦋 Seuraa meitä Blueskyssa bsky.app/profile/metastem.bs…
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19 Dec 2025
News from our CoE by
Henna Tyynismaa and Ruben Torregrosa Munumer labs. Mitochondrial ATP synthase deficiency results in Metabolic trade-offs and vulnerabilities in stem cell derived motor neurons nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
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5 Nov 2025
Welcome to the PhD defense of @_HienBui Age-selective segregation of organelles in asymmetric stem cell division, on Fri 7 Nov at 1 pm, Biocenter 2, 2041. Opponent Prof Carien Niessen, University of Cologne @helsinkiuni @HiLIFE_helsinki @MIBS_Helsinki #publicdefense #phddefense
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5 Nov 2025
Next MetaStem PhD defense in two days 👏 go Hien! 🎩
5 Nov 2025
Welcome to the PhD defense of @_HienBui Age-selective segregation of organelles in asymmetric stem cell division, on Fri 7 Nov at 1 pm, Biocenter 2, 2041. Opponent Prof Carien Niessen, University of Cologne @helsinkiuni @HiLIFE_helsinki @MIBS_Helsinki #publicdefense #phddefense
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22 Oct 2025
Still time today to sign up and submit an abstract for this excellent symposium
1 Oct 2025
Excited to announce our Stem Cell Metabolism Symposium organized Nov 12th in Helsinki. Fantastic invited speakers Marcia Haigis, Lydia Finley, Matthias Hebrok, Tom MacVicar. Sign up by Oct 22nd, free of charge, welcome! @HiLIFE_helsinki @helsinkiuni @STEMMProgram @MIBS_Helsinki
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9 Oct 2025
Next MetaStem PhD defense coming up on Tuesday. Go Simon đź‘Ź
9 Oct 2025
On Tue Oct 14th Simon Andersson will defend his thesis Age-selective organellar metabolism in tissue stem cell function, at 1 pm in Biocenter 2 2041, Viikki. Excited to have Jared Rutter @RutterLab as the opponent 🎩⚔️ Welcome! @MetaStem_Center @HiLIFE_helsinki @MIBS_Helsinki
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1 Oct 2025
Welcome to the Stem Cell Seminar this Friday bsky.app/profile/metastem.bs… @HiLIFE_helsinki @STEMMProgram @MIBS_Helsinki
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Excited to announce our Stem Cell Metabolism Symposium organized Nov 12th in Helsinki. Fantastic invited speakers Marcia Haigis, Lydia Finley, Matthias Hebrok, Tom MacVicar. Sign up by Oct 22nd, free of charge, welcome! @HiLIFE_helsinki @helsinkiuni @STEMMProgram @MIBS_Helsinki
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8 Sep 2025
Welcome to the Metabolism seminar tomorrow Sept 9th 9-11 in Viikki bsky.app/profile/metastem.bs… @HiLIFE_helsinki @MIBS_Helsinki @BIOTECH_UH @STEMMProgram
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28 Jul 2025
News from our CoE by @KatajistoLab Andersson et al found that intestinal stem cells with old mitochondria make Paneth cells faster due to higher aKG levels and aKG improves regeneration in old animals by Paneth cell renewal nature.com/articles/s42255-0… @SuomenAkatemia @helsinkiuni
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28 Jul 2025
News from our CoE by @OtonkoskiL @EliisaVhk et al show that upon engraftment into mice stem cell derived pancreatic islets become insensitive to pyruvate, correlating with down regulation of pyruvate/lactate transporter MCT1 link.springer.com/article/10… @SuomenAkatemia @helsinkiuni
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MetaStem retweeted
14 Jul 2025
Proudly presenting Simon’s paper on asymmetric apportioning of old mitochondria biasing intestinal stem cells for the Paneth cell linage through aKG-dependent metabolism @NatMetabolism nature.com/articles/s42255-0… @helsinkiuni @HiLIFE_helsinki @SuomenAkatemia @MetaStem_Center
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22 May 2025
News from our CoE by @HTyynismaa group characterize the role of mitochondrial intermembrane space protein CHCHD10 in metabolism and spinal muscular atrophy Jokela type (SMAJ) actaneurocomms.biomedcentral… Congratulations Sandra Harjuhaahto! @SuomenAkatemia @helsinkiuni @STEMMProgram
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28 Apr 2025
New from our CoE by @KatajistoLab show how tissue stem cells can metabolically regulate tissue renewal and differentiation by providing daughter cells with peroxisomes of different age and metabolic properties nature.com/articles/s41467-0… @SuomenAkatemia @helsinkiuni @HiLIFE_helsinki
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28 Apr 2025
A new study from our CoE finds that stem cells can control whether they self-renew or differentiate by localizing certain metabolic reactions differently helsinki.fi/en/faculty-biolo… @SuomenAkatemia @helsinkiuni @KatajistoLab @BIOTECH_UH @MIBS_Helsinki @_HienBui @PekkaKatajisto
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MetaStem retweeted
28 Apr 2025
Happy to present Hien’s paper on age-selective apportioning of peroxisomes as a fate determinant in adult stem cells nature.com/articles/s41467-0… @MetaStem_Center @helsinkiuni @karolinskainst @BIOTECH_UH @MIBS_Helsinki @SuomenAkatemia out now in @NatureComms Congrats @_HienBui et al!
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8 Apr 2025
Next Stem Cell Seminar April 23rd, welcome! bsky.app/profile/metastem.bs… @HelsinkiUniMed @HiLIFE_helsinki @STEMMProgram @BIOTECH_UH @FIMM_UH
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MetaStem retweeted
24 Mar 2025
The @KatajistoLab modeled #epithelial regeneration using small intestinal scaffolds and identified #asporin is a mediator of fetal-like reprogramming.
Read the @CellStemCell article: bit.ly/41LJbhn
Listen to the conversation: bit.ly/3FBkNHR
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10 Mar 2025
Welcome to the next Metabolism seminar, March 18th at 9-11 am in Meilahti. Excellent speaker lineup with and @DrPietilainen and Robin Cristofari groups presenting about #obesity #adiposetissue #diet #aging in humans and penguins @STEMMProgram @BIOTECH_UH @HelsinkiUniMed
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