Science

2026

Angiogenic doping - doable and difficult to detect
JetPEI transfection of insect cells
AI: Medically trained models, consciousness
I am focusing on the wrong things
Purifying Proteins with Äkta & Unicorn
The Study Voucher
Zotero with 15GB free file storage?
How to install the color-blind-safe Nature Color Palette in Inkscape

2025

Still wondering what to study?
The Finnish Dream: A Pipe Dream?
Just another type of fish
Quiz results
ADAMTS18 regulates ECM turnover via fibronectin cleavage
Thank you, Aalto-Helsinki iGEM team!
The War on Cancer
t_coffee still fails on a standard Ubuntu 24.04 LTS install
Delivery still limits VEGF therapy
Academic career
An impossible overlap-extension PCR
Learning and Teaching Materials about Biological Drugs
A better Levodopa
Restriction Enzyme Calculator
VEGFC-loaded Lignin Nanoparticles
Scholar-what?
English or Finnish?
Space exploration
Billion-dollar gamble
The DTE protein asporin and gut regeneration
Sartorius Midi Plus
Most dangerous disease of 2025?

2024

Our lab won’t go bancrupt in 2025!
JuFo ranking: A Worse Impact Factor?
Teaching ”Biological Drugs” in Finnish
Producing proteins better than the pros
What do we really know about lipedema?
Images for talks and illustrations
  1. Swiss Lymphsymposium
Do fish have difficulty breathing?
Who does still restriction enzyme cloning?
Ouriginal fails more often than not to detect plagiarism
Admission interview
MPHARM milestone
Mia Sivén, the world’s first professor of sustainable pharmacy
Finished with Finnish?
Essential elements for life science
Overstretched IT support
Back to the monograph?
Do fish have lymphatics?
Courses I teach
Why you should not use BioRender

2023

It’s difficult to grade student’s assignments
The Finnish 1000 PhDs pilot
Bio-Rad fixes our NGC
Did we publish in a predatory journal?
Congratulations, Dr. Khushbu Rauniyar!
The human genome was just completed (again)
Cutting-edge vascular biology continues at the Wihuri Research Institute
OMG: T. rex did not have VEGF-B!
Bad vibes from the new tram
GPT-3 is hallucinating again
Showdown: GE Healthcare’s Äkta versus Bio-Rad’s NGC
Why are most scientists coffee addicts?

2022

Mastodon
Turing test with exam answers: Can I sniff out the AI?
Innoopeli Prize 2022
Bioactive VEGF-C from E. coli without in-vitro folding!
Making the cut: Why VEGF-C != VEGF-C
The evolution of PDGF/VEGF growth factors
Doing research without deep knowledge
The 12-month embargo falls
“Bioactive VEGF-C from E. coli cytoplasm” preprint online
The eLabFTW electronic lab journal: ready for prime time?
Lymphatics as the origin of the fish secondary vascular system
PhD thesis defense about hepsin’s role in breast cancer
Best poster award for Khushbu (annual GeneCellNano flagship meeting)
Northern lights everywhere
Why would anybody get vaccinated?
Finally boostered
Opening old plasmid map files

2021

Meet the teacher!
KLK3: tumorigenic or not?
  1. Swiss Lymphsymposium
How attractive is Finland for international students?
Searching for a lymphedema drug
50 cucumbers and counting
Where to move to from RefWorks?
TuKoKe success for our TET interns!
Covid-19 vaccination
Master’s Programme in Pharmaceutical Research, Development and Safety
Scholarly Community Encyclopedia
Martin Jeltsch (1933-2021)
MDPI peer review reviewed
Our first OER (Open Educational Resource)
Preprint and Open Review

2020

Low-budget PCR-based mutagenesis kit
Editing Zoom recordings of teaching sessions with FFmpeg
GeneCellNano Flagship
Exponential growth
Assembly of an OCAA collection Entry vector (pENTR221)
For Science to Finland
Medical research in Finland
University Pedagogy (UP2.2, 2019): Assessment of Learning and Giving Feedback
Michael Jeltsch: Wikimedia, Wikipedia and ResearchGate contributions
Protein Drug Discovery & Development
VEGF-C protects blood cell production
Review published in Duodecim: Lymphatics and the eye
Human versus bovine methane production
Fat can make your arteries clog, but also the drainage of your kitchen sink
The evolution of garbage
Dr. Sawan K. Jha: Mechanism of VEGF-C Activation […]
Future-proofing
Lymphatics and the eye

2019

Suojaus UV-valolta
Bullying from the top
Protection from UV light
University of Helsinki loses court battle about lawfulness of 2015 mass layoff procedures
Lymphologie 2019
ISK 2019
Finnish abstract of our recent work about PSA (Prostate-specific antigen) in Duodecim
Protein Purification Course 2019
Ḿanuscript reviewing by annotating PDFs
Re-purposing the growth factor VEGF-C
Lymphologische (Grundlagen-)Forschung: wie funktioniert das?
KLK3/PSA and cathepsin D activate VEGF-C and VEGF-D
1000+ citations
Apply successfully to the University of Helsinki
ChemBio Finland
Poor correlation of the Journal Impact Factor with scientific impact
The battle between the big publishers and the scientific community

2018

Thus we learn our lessons, not for life, but for the lecture-room
Increased resilience
Internationalization in everyday operations at Meilahti campus
SnapGene and partial restriction digests revisited
International Vascular Biology Meeting 2018 organizational feedback
Minireview about key molecules in lymphatic development, function, and identification
IVBM 2018 & 2020 (poster, talk, and virtual poster walk through)
Jeltsch Lab participates in Helsinki Running Day 2018
Cell-based assays (Protein Interaction Biochemistry 2018)
Strike at the University of Helsinki
VEGF-C Re­view in Fron­ti­ers in Bioen­gin­eer­ing and Bi­o­tech­no­logy
The mixed bag of the EU organic food label
Remote desktop sessions to your Helsinki University work computer

2017

Brain drain from Finland continues
Practical Course: Purification and Characterization of Recombinant Proteins (DPBM-135)
Acatiimi article about our lab
20th International Vascular Biology Meeting in Helsinki, Finland
TRANSMED - the most medical research education for your buck
Lymphologica 2017
Featured again…
Our key project featured
Predatory publishing - where to draw the line?
Uncertainty about CRISPR’s future
Barriers to Electronic Lab Notebook adoption
Gemstone hunting in Finnish Carelia
Essentials facts about VEGF-C in lymphology
Forever Young
A Very Short History of Antiangiogenic Tumor Treatment
Overrun by the Big Wheel?
Purification and Characterization of Recombinant Proteins
Angiogenesis landmark publications
“Silver” and “gold” coating a 5 cent coin
No interest (in retrospection and introspection)?
Science good, coffee bad

2016

Kapa HiFi excels, Phusion works sort-of, Q5 and Platinum SuperFi disappoint
Key project funding
OpenBIS for Dummies
Cloning club - workshop material
University rankings (and how to manipulate them)
Let’s beat cancer together!
The Staden package on Ubuntu for bioinformatics dinosaurs
Moving from Paper to Electronic Lab Notebooks
RPU Seminar 2016
Cloning Club
Echtes Biohacking
Real biohacking
Unicorn 7 user separation requires manual intervention in a network user environment
The logic of the Äkta Avant fraction collector
Good leadership?
HiLoad 26/60 Superdex pg gel filtration chromatography column performance
Python for Kids (and bioinformaticians)
How much PCR product can you get?
Review of GE Healthcare’s Äkta Avant 25
The Jeltsch Laboratory
Centrifugal and centripetal embryonic lymphatic development
FPLC Protein purification course
SnapGene - Simply the best DNA manipulation software

2015

Know your rights
Top 8 Science Podcasts to Listen to
Being indexed
This year’s Nobel prizes
Difficult start
Erkrankungen des Lymphgefäßsystems (Diseases of the Lymphatic System)
Neon electroporation device chickens out
Lymphangiogenesis in health and disease
Best paper award
Follow us on Google+ and support cancer research!
Writing scientific articles in German - a waste of time?
Resistance to streptomycin and spectinomycin
Lab cam

2014

2-week Lab Course
  1. Annual Congress of the German Society for Lymphology
New Mechanisms of Lymphangiogenesis and Lymphedema
Practical Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering
Fiddling around with CSL
From the molecular biological foundations to causal treatment options for diseases of the lymphatic system
The case against FastDigest®
We got featured by Circulation!
The molecular basis of Hennekam syndrome
SVS or lymphatic system?
Historic articles about the lymphatic system
Permission to self-archive

2013

Stripping
Being the boss
A Nobel Prize for angiogenesis research?
Self Archiving and Open Access
Academic Portfolio 2013

2012

Lymphangiogenese-Regulation durch Wachstumsfaktoren
My favorite podcasts
How I became an “Adjunct Professor” (“dosentti”) at the University of Helsinki

2011

Introduction into lymphatic research
Structure/function relationships within the VEGF/VEGF receptor families
Academic Portfolio 2011
Äkta Explorer FPLC core facility

2010

HBGS course
VEGF-C/VEGFR-2 complex structure took 13 years to solve

2009

Recombinant proteins
Chicken embryo
The Molecular/Cancer Biology Lab 2008
Giant soap bubbles
The Molecular/Cancer Biology Lab 2008
The Molecular/Cancer Biology Lab 10 years ago

2008

Storage and Handling of Proteins
Judah Folkman dies at age 74

2007

Installing Staden 2003b on Suse 9
What nfs and smb shares are available on a server (showmount, smbclient)?
Software development projects for Molecular Biology
EMBOSS and GCK for the assembly and documentation of construct sequences

2006

The Genetic Code
Molecular Weight and Extinction Coefficient of Oligonucleotides
Formula to Calculate the Annealing Temperature of Oligonucleotides for PCR
DNA base ambiguity codes
Development - Carnegie Stage Comparison
Quick reference
Growth factor regulation of lymphangiogenesis

2005

Unlocking the drains
My first appearance on Finnish TV (YLE1)

2004

FEBS 2004
Glass versus plastic
Shortcoming of silent mutagenesis tools (EMBOSS, GCK): WatCut as a solution

2003

What you should know about VEGF-C
PhD Defence (November 29, 2002): Lectio praecursoria

2002

Start with Science
The Best of 2002
Michael Jeltsch’s PhD thesis
Lab seminar: Cystine knot proteins
Tyrosine Kinase Receptors
Lymphatics in Different Vertebrate Classes

2001

Dissecting Lymphangiogenesis and Angiogenesis
Lab seminar: Chicken kick ass

2000

A 10 min presentation of my projects
Kloster Seeon Conference (October 1-4, 2000): Exploring the VEGF protein space
High school and degree certificates

1999

Projects in the Molecular/Cancer Biology Laboratory
The Alphabet of Angiogenesis

1998

The Alphabet of Angiogenesis

1997

Recombinant Protein Production, CAM Assays, VEGF-D, Transgenic Mice
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Biochemistry/Molecular biology researcher and teacher