Close

Refine your search

A Lost Mitten and Other Stories

The project, Lost Mitten and Other Stories, examines a new sense of neighbour relations that transpires as a result of growing mobility. The project focuses on the ways in which these new neighbour relations or a sense of neighbourliness emerge from stories related to personal items of significance, and the way in which these stories are perceived. Lost Mitten and Other Stories is an interdisciplinary project that seeks collaboration between art and science. The project is carried out in eastern Finland.

The main concern of the project is to find out how the items of personal significance and the stories related to them help establish dialogue and, consequently, new kinds of mobile and cross-border neighbour relations and a sense of neighbourliness. Furthermore, the purpose is to explore how dialogic interaction helps promote, for example, the construction of cultural citizenship and create new, migrating, deterritorial cultural heritages. The items of personal significance as well as the stories relating to them are examined through a materialistic, cultural, linguistic, and narrative point of view and are, additionally, exhibited through artistic, interactive displays. The items of personal significance are understood as a poetic and political medium of various dialogues between past and present, between immigrants and natives, between different generations, between mobile and sedentary people.

The approach and the subject matter of the project are topical: immigration, different mobilities, the encounter of languages and cultures, and thereby, emerging new neighbour relations and a sense of neighbourliness. The multidisciplinary approach, combining different methods of science and art, enables new ways of examining the issue of neighbour relations and a sense of neighbourliness.

The project combines science and art innovatively and, therefore, generates new methods to investigate the current issues of different mobilities, language and cultural encounters, and challenges arising from new neighbour relations.

The project is funded by the Kone Foundation.

A.B.M. Manjur ([email protected])

The projects I am working on are important research in the field of gene regulation. Furthermore, the TFs that we study, glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and androgen receptor (AR) are important therapeutic targets in inflammation and prostate cancer respectively. On the chromatin environment, GR and AR exert their functions by interacting with other assisting proteins, coregulators. Thus, coregulators can affect the outcome of GR and AR activation through different processes, such as chromatin remodeling, histone-binding and post-translational modification. Despite the importance of coregulatory interactions in GR and AR function, the protein interactomes of these important drug targets have remained poorly defined. The results from these projects will enable us to increase our understanding about the regulatory mechanisms of these two physiologically important TFs.

Aarthi Ravindran ([email protected])

My research work focuses on studying SMC specific translatome using transgenic mice with atherosclerosis and EGFP tagging at the larger ribosomal subunit driven by aSMA promoter. Finally, validating these genes using immunohistology and spatial transcriptomics. The resulting SMC specific translatome will help in identifying the novel genes that are enriched in SMCs at atherosclerosis disease.

Ahmed Mohamed ([email protected])

I have studied Bachelor of Pharmacy at University of Tanta, Egypt and Master degree in Systems Biology at University of Skövde, Sweden (supported by the Swedish Institute Study Scholarship). I have been honoured to be part of the UEF-Neuro-Innovation program (MSCA-COFUND).
We are working on air pollution and its effects on the human peripheral immunity in both healthy individuals and Alzheimer disease (AD) patients. We aim to reveal the mechanistic effects of air pollution on blood cell signatures and profiles and discover novel biomarkers for air pollution prediction. We also aim to find the molecular correlations between AD and air pollution as well as peripheral biomarkers for AD diagnosis. Our work comprises of investigating the transcriptome and epigenome of the immune cells as one population as well as single cell populations, using both; in-vivo and in-vitro models. We use functional assays to confirm the outcoming results.
This study is part of the Alzheimer disease and Air pollution (ADAIR) project which is part of the EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) project. We will provide insights on how air pollution affects peripheral immunity, possibly providing mechanistic explanation on the increased risks on human health.

Ahmed Tawfek ([email protected])

Part of the team focusing on the development of COVID-19 Vaccine.
M.Sc (general toxicology), University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
B.Sc (Pharmaceutical Sciences), Alexandria University, Egypt.
For more details, follow the Linked-in shortcut.

Aleya Siddika ([email protected])

Aleya Nur Mohol Siddika is a doctoral researcher conducting her PhD research within the INTEL project (The Coming of Age of a New Legal Discipline: Developing the General Doctrine of Energy Law) at the Law School, University of Eastern Finland. Her research focuses on developing a general doctrine of energy law using NLP, network analysis, and doctrinal research on legal concepts and principles.

She holds an M.Sc. in Software Engineering and Information Systems from the University of Oulu and a B.Sc. in Software Engineering from the American International University-Bangladesh. She has experience in software development, AI-based analytics, and microservice architecture.

Aleya has published research in ICACIn 2024 and OuluREPO. She has worked in various tech companies in roles such as Tech Lead, Backend Engineer, and Software Engineer. Her expertise includes AI Analytics, Machine Learning, NLP, Python, and Software Architecture.

She has also earned multiple certifications and has experience in teaching and volunteering.

Anna Kaasinen ([email protected])

Research work of University Lecturer Anna Kaasinen concentrates on mathematical modelling, inverse problems, and their applications. The primary focus of her research is to develop mathematical models and computational methods especially for process control.

Kaasinen teaches courses in mathematics and provides study guidance to undergraduate students. She also takes part in planning and developing teaching in general at the department. Her research related to teaching and learning concentrates mainly on flipped learning and on university mathematics students’ study habits and the use of learning materials.

Anna Kuusi ([email protected])

My research interests are in motivation, perfectionism, and academic more general well-being outcomes. My dissertation focuses on connections and developmental dynamics between secondary students’ perfectionism and well-being, and the role of perceived support. Hopefully the findings of this project will contribute to our understanding of the role that perfectionistic tendencies play in students’ well-being.

Anna-Maija Tolppanen ([email protected])

I have multidisciplinary background (MSc in bioinformatics, PhD in genetic epidemiology and >15 years’ experience in different fields and application areas of epidemiology since completing my PhD. My current research focusses on pharmacoepidemiology and clinical epidemiology.

The overarching aim of my research is to develop and implement methods and approaches for evaluating effectiveness and safety of treatments by using real-world data. The applied data ranges from national register-based studies to multi- and single-center studies using data from electronic medical records and medical reports as well as data collected specifically for research purposes.

 

My group has produced internationally recognized real-world evidence on utilisation and outcomes of different treatments, compared and validated different patient-reported outcome measurements and determined clinically important threshold values for them, and evaluated health inequalities in neurodegenerative disorders.

My research has been funded by e.g Academy of Finland research fellowship, 3x grants from Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s research, work package leadership in Horizon-EU funded project Real4Reg https://www.real4reg.eu/ coordinated by the German Medicines Agency.