People

Helena Kilpinen

Principal Investigator Associate professor and group leader at FIMM and the Neuroscience Center. Her background spans autism genetics and functional genomics. email University of Helsinki ↗

Eva D'haene

Postdoctoral Researcher NORPOD Fellow studying chromatin dysregulation through neuronal models, single-cell multi-omics, spatial transcriptomics and imaging. maybe cool stuff about NASA stuff University of Helsinki ↗

Zhijian Yang

Postdoctoral Researcher HiPOD Fellow working across the Ganna and Kilpinen groups, studying psychiatric and neurological traits with FinnGen genetic and multi-omics data. what else? University of Helsinki ↗

Riina Lampela

Laboratory Coordinator Coordinates daily laboratory activities, stem cell work and technical aspects of projects, drawing on training in genetics, biomedicine and stem-cell biology. University of Helsinki ↗

Nour Assaf

Doctoral Researcher I am a doctoral researcher studying how genetic risk for brain disorders is reflected in neuronal cells. I combine single-cell data from human stem-cell models with genetic analyses to identify the cell types and stages of development most relevant to disease. My work aims to connect genetic variation with changes in cell identity and function, helping build more relevant models for studying brain disorders. University of Helsinki ↗

Adithi Sundaresh

Doctoral Researcher short description needed! University of Helsinki ↗

Reyhane Eghtedarian

Doctoral Researcher Studies shared genetic determinants of sleep and neuropsychiatric conditions, combining population data with iPSC-based research, etc etc.... University of Helsinki ↗

Nelli Jalkanen

Doctoral Researcher Investigates gene-expression dysregulation in schizophrenia and intellectual disability using neuronal models and high-throughput molecular profiling. Maybe more stuff? University of Helsinki ↗

Kavya Kalpana Ganesh

Doctoral Researcher Develops morphological and functional characterisation methods for neurons, combining high-content image analysis and single-cell genomics. University of Helsinki ↗

Marc Carrillo Pérez

Doctoral Researcher Uses CRISPR/Cas editing in human iPSCs to investigate neurodevelopmental disease mechanisms, building on earlier work in inherited retinal disease. more stuff? University of Helsinki ↗

Robin Forsén

Research Assistant Uses CRISPR-Cas9 tools to engineer cellular models of rare neurodevelopmental disorders, within his genetics and molecular biosciences training, more stuff? University of Helsinki ↗

Emma Närhi

Research Assistant Develops image-analysis methods for neuronal morphology, with a background in bioinformation technology and mathematics at Aalto University, etc.... University of Helsinki ↗

Thara Rajeev

Research Assitant needed

Alumni

Pau Puigdevall

Postdoctoral Researcher Studies how genetic background affects penetrance and variable expression of pathogenic variants, using patient-derived iPSCs and molecular profiling. University of Helsinki ↗