PhD student in Närvä Laboratory at University of Turku.

Joined June 2012
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I was honored to receive the best poster award at the last weeks FSDSCB meeting! 🤩🏆 Thanks for all the votes, kind words, and advice that got. Also, the chocolate prize was delicious! 🍫😋
Congratulations Sofia Hakala @hakala_sofia for the Poster Prize 🥳 and Sanne Sandelin for the great talk at the FSDSCB meeting! #ProudPI
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It's a wrap for the week long image analysis course! We have covered topics from Basic Fiji to deep learning and track analysis. It's been such a blast - but also a lot of work! Special thanks to @HannaG_09, @sujanghm, @marcexrivera and @StRigaud for all your hard work!
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Greetings from Hamburg ISSCR 2024. Happy to present our science with posters in the biggest stem cell forum. Thank you for travel support to TuDMM, DRDP, InFLAMES, MIST, the Cancer Society of Finland, and Turku University Foundation.
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Amazing news! The Finnish Cultural Foundation has awarded me a three-year grant for my doctoral research about the key components of the pluripotent microenvironment in development and cancer. Thank you for your support, @Skr_fi! #kulttuurirahastontuella #skr2024
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Proud to announce that our first human induced pluripotent stem cell lines produced at Turku University (TUR1, TUR2, and TUR3) are officially registered hpscreg.eu/cell-line/UTUi001… and published doi.org/10.1016/j.scr.2023.1…. Congratulations to S. Sandelin and S. Hakala @hakala_sofia

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Stem Cell Seminars start again next week Thursday Sept 28 at 9-11 am. Exited to hear from @ElisaNarva and @AiravaaraLab on how stem cells are used to study #cancer and #neuroscience ☕️ at 8:30, Welcome! @HiLIFE_helsinki @STEMMProgram @BIOTECH_UH @MIBS_Helsinki
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Summer trip to Ruissalo and celebration of the Närvälab 2-year Birthday Party 🎂 Beautiful weather and amazing group 💛
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Last week I attended my first research conference, Gordon Research Conference: Stem Cells and Cancer in Italy, with my supervisor @ElisaNarva! I presented my first poster and got many new ideas for my work. Also, I got accepted to TuDMM, Doctoral school at University of Turku!🥳
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Happy to spend the week and present our posters @hakala_sofia at the Gordon Research Conference, Stem Cells and Cancer #GRC in Italy. Thanks to @yliopistosaatio @Syopajarjestot
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We were honored to host Dr. Bruno Sainz during his visit to Turku as the keynote speaker on the 1st FICAN West Science Day #ficanwest. Thank you for the captivating discussions related to our favorite topic: Cancer Stem Cells
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#PostDoc position open! #HIRINGNOW Interested in resolving the mysteries of cancer stem cells with oncogenic pluripotent models in Finland? Join our team! Please RT! More info/Apply here: rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/op…
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