University of Helsinki

2026

Inauguration of the new professors
I am focusing on the wrong things
The Study Voucher

2025

My Samsung Work Phone Came Preinstalled With Spyware
Still wondering what to study?
The Finnish Dream: A Pipe Dream?
Quiz results
Thank you, Aalto-Helsinki iGEM team!
Academic career
Learning and Teaching Materials about Biological Drugs
A better Levodopa
ProxyJump
Billion-dollar gamble
The DTE protein asporin and gut regeneration

2024

Teaching ”Biological Drugs” in Finnish
Producing proteins better than the pros
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?
Overstretched IT support
Back to the monograph?
Courses I teach
Why you should not use BioRender

2023

Bio-Rad fixes our NGC
Helsinki University dropped from top 100
Bicycle parking on the Viikki campus
Congratulations, Dr. Khushbu Rauniyar!
Cutting-edge vascular biology continues at the Wihuri Research Institute
Bad vibes from the new tram

2022

Innoopeli Prize 2022
Bioactive VEGF-C from E. coli without in-vitro folding!
The eLabFTW electronic lab journal: ready for prime time?
PhD thesis defense about hepsin’s role in breast cancer
University helpdesk recommends Zotero, but does not provide meaningful support

2021

Meet the teacher!
Language boost
Kilometrikisa
How attractive is Finland for international students?
Where to move to from RefWorks?
TuKoKe success for our TET interns!
Master’s Programme in Pharmaceutical Research, Development and Safety
Eduroam installation on Linux
Our first OER (Open Educational Resource)

2020

Editing Zoom recordings of teaching sessions with FFmpeg
GeneCellNano Flagship
Medical research in Finland
University Pedagogy (UP2.2, 2019): Assessment of Learning and Giving Feedback
Dr. Sawan K. Jha: Mechanism of VEGF-C Activation […]

2019

University of Helsinki loses court battle about lawfulness of 2015 mass layoff procedures
Protein Purification Course 2019
Apply successfully to the University of Helsinki
Mounting group directories via the fstab

2018

Internationalization in everyday operations at Meilahti campus
Strike at the University of Helsinki
Remote desktop sessions to your Helsinki University work computer

2017

Practical Course: Purification and Characterization of Recombinant Proteins (DPBM-135)
Acatiimi article about our lab
TRANSMED - the most medical research education for your buck
About the agility of large organizations
Barriers to Electronic Lab Notebook adoption
Forever Young
Overrun by the Big Wheel?
Purification and Characterization of Recombinant Proteins
No interest (in retrospection and introspection)?

2016

1000 times too slow
Key project funding
Cloning club - workshop material
University rankings (and how to manipulate them)
Let’s beat cancer together!
RPU Seminar 2016
Cloning Club
Good leadership?

2015

Managing OpenVPN with Network Manger
The new Finnish government cuts university funding by around 500 million € (or not?)

2014

2-week Lab Course
Practical Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering

2012

One firewall to block them all
½ year and 1000+€ for Win7 & Office 2010
How I became an “Adjunct Professor” (“dosentti”) at the University of Helsinki
Adjunct Professor

2011

Academic Portfolio 2011
Äkta Explorer FPLC core facility

2010

HBGS course

2009

Recombinant proteins
The Molecular/Cancer Biology Lab 2008
The Molecular/Cancer Biology Lab 2008
The Molecular/Cancer Biology Lab 10 years ago

2003

PhD Defence (November 29, 2002): Lectio praecursoria

2002

Michael Jeltsch’s PhD thesis
Lab seminar: Cystine knot proteins
Tyrosine Kinase Receptors

2001

Lab seminar: Chicken kick ass

2000

A 10 min presentation of my projects

1999

Projects in the Molecular/Cancer Biology Laboratory

1998

The Alphabet of Angiogenesis
Find me elsewhere

Biochemistry/Molecular biology researcher and teacher