We are very proud to announce @johannaivaska as recipient of the Biennial Finnish Science Award. Johanna was described as a distinguished researcher with pioneering work in cell biology. Warmest congrats from all of us, boss! utu.fi/en/news/news/finnish-…

New preprint alert!📣 @DibusMichal and team take a deep dive into Tensin1 liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) and the mechanisms of how it regulates adhesion dynamics! Check out the preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @johannaivaska

Ivaska Lab at the @BioscienceTurku Pikkujoulu party 🥳 Can you recognize our costumes? 😉

The best way to rejuvenate after an all-day lab meeting, you ask? An action packed game of laser tag (pew-pew!)🔫🔫 Major missing :( boss @johannaivaska

New pre-print! @Follain_Ga and team develop a super cool pipeline to work out the intricacies of immune and PDAC cell adhesion to HUVECs and extravasation under flow. Fantastic collab with @guijacquemet lab and @SalmiLab. Congrats🥂 Take a look here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Third of the year and the biggest review article now out! Massive effort from @MeganChastney, Jasmin Kaivola, Veli-Matti Leppänen & @johannaivaska! Discover all about integrins in migration, invasion and cancer right here: rdcu.be/dVB6n Congratulations to the team 🥳!

Congratulations to our new Dr Nicolas Pasquier who beautifully defended his PhD thesis yesterday, in front of 6 jury members! Nicolas has been a joint PhD student b/w us and the @JaulinLab at Gustave Roussy.

Latest from Ivaska Lab▶️ @johannalilja_, Kaivola et al. report an unanticipated way to kill KRAS mutant cancer cells by disrupting SHANK3-KRAS interaction 👌😎 Congratulations to all the authors and check the paper out here 👉rdcu.be/dTQDP

Opening alert 🔊 We're looking for Postdocs to work on our @ERC_Research project 'BorderControl'! Join our team in the beautiful Nordics and delve into the exciting world of tumor-ECM regulating cancer progression! Interested? Get in touch with @johannaivaska and find out more:)

Another cool review out! @MathildeMthu @aisomursu and @johannaivaska take a deep dive into positive and negative durotaxis in cell migration :- Positive and negative durotaxis – mechanisms and emerging concepts : journals.biologists.com/jcs/…

Ivaska Lab is at The 90th Harden Conference!! Mathilde, Megan and Omkar (R-L in the pic) are presenting exciting recent work on Posters # P56(Mathilde), P41(Megan) and P42(Omkar). If you're around, come say hi! #BiochemEvent #ECF2024

This is an awesome wk for the lab! ERC adv grant for the lab, followed by @aisomursu PhD defence! Congrtulations Aleksi and @johannaivaska on the PhD success. A huge thanks to Vinay @LabSwaminathan for being here today as Aleksi's opponent and for the exciting discussion!

It was fantastic to have @SirioDupont visit us here at @BioscienceTurku @UniTurku with his amazing science! Thanks for your visit Sirio, and hope to see you in the frozen North🇫🇮 again soon 😁❄️

Check out these open postdoc postions @UniTurku ! Sys-Life (syslife.fi/) is a postdoctoral programme co-funded with Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, a unique opportunity to choose a project and a lab to work with. Deadline for applications 31st of Jan!

We are all at the @BioscienceTurku winter science day and (later) party! Thanks @MathildeMthu for representing us and showcasing our highlights from 2023! And thanks to the organisers! There are some strong contenders in the gingerbread competition. This one is ours :)

Our latest work by @aisomursu and co. We are very excited to share a method for dynamic micropatterning. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… Confine a cell and then release it to spread onto a new matrix protein! So many possibilities. Please read @aisomursu 's thread

And we're off! the 32nd annual BioCity Symposium "Sculpting Tissues - Cells, Matrix and Forces" with an amazing line up of speakers biocityturku.fi/program/ a big thanks to @Biocityturku coordinator Maija for all the work!

Y'day, we celebrated our 20th anniversary! congratultions boss @johannaivaska & thanks everyone for your contributions! A group photo, taken with a proper camera, will follow soon.👇the boss' gifts + our brief history by @Follain_Ga

We just spent the last 2 days at @helsinkiuni Tvärminne station with @WickstromLab @pipsa_saharinen @LabLappalainen & Vattulainen lab for our @SuomenAkatemia BarrierForce CoE. It was great to see you all again, and in such a beautiful place too!

We are looking for a postdoc to join our lab! interested? go to utu.fi/en/university/come-wo… Select job ID #14703 for full details and apply online