The project evaluate the comprehensive teacher education and develope it research-based and in collaboration with different actors while recognizing the viewpoints of the practitioners.
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.
Abdulazeez Afolabi ([email protected])
My research area revolve around the “Tomography in the field – new monitoring method for the effects of farming management on the GHG balance in agriculture” project led by Professor Aku Seppänen. We develop improved methods for assessing GHG balances in agriculture and small-scale biogas production. Acquiring accurate information on the GHG balances in agriculture is essential for determining and verifying the effect of more sustainable farming practices, aiding in the green transition. Our method utilizes multi-beam open-path laser dispersion spectroscopy measurement technology to estimate GHG fluxes, and we use a Bayesian state-space framework to reconstruct emission rates as temporally evolving tomography images. With this approach, spatial variations of the land and the uncertainties related to the monitored area are incorporated into the estimation. My focus lies partly on the geometrical modeling of the areas of interest, incorporating structures (barns, buildings, production machinery, etc.) and the varying altitude of ground level, into meshes suitable for FEM approximations of GHG fluxes.
In biogas plants we focus on methane (CH4) and ammonia (NH3). Our research topics involve optimizing the measurement setup for field applications and the computational modeling involved with estimating GHG emissions using the Bayesian state-space framework.
Adam Kositsky ([email protected])
Research interests:
- Structure and function of soft tissues in health and disease
- Neuromusculoskeletal consequences to tendon harvesting for orthopaedic procedures
- Development of new methodology for in vivo measurement of human soft tissue properties
- Comparative anatomy and biomechanics
Current collaborations:
- Aalborg University (DK)
- Griffith University (AU)
- Sapporo Medical University (JP)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- University of Oulu (FI)
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville (US)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
Added value from data streams in bioeconomics research
Aerosol Physics Research Group
Ageing and elder care research group
Ágnes Németh ([email protected])
Currently, she is managing two European projects: “CASPER: Citizen Activation in Shrinking rural areas for Place-based policies to Enhance Resilience” (Interreg Europe, 2023-2027) and “SERIGO: Social Economy for Resilience, Inclusion and Good Life in Rural areas” (Horizon Europe, 2024-2027).
She is involved in the research project “ESSPIN: Economic, Social and SPatial INequalities in Europe in the Era of Global Mega-trends” (Horizon Europe, 2022-2025).
Her doctoral thesis dealt with issues of regional policy, relational-governance and mega-events planning. She has been involved in European research projects (European Science Foundation, FP7) in border studies focusing on cross-border cooperation processes and the social (de)construction of borders. In her post-doctoral research, she studies foreigners’ socio-economic engagement in different Finnish urban environments with the aim of producing knowledge on the local particularities and challenges of integration processes. She was managing the international project “ECoC-SME: Actions for inducing SME growth and innovation via the ECoC event and legacy” (Interreg Europe, 2019-2021).
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.