Congratulations to our Sonja Nykänen for starting the 4-year doctoral candidate position University of Helsinki Doctoral Programme in Biomedicine!🥳Wishing you all a happy & safe 2022 filled with exciting discoveries!

Thank you Sigrid Jusélius Stiftelse for funding our research! 🥳🍾 We are on fire to better understand the mechanisms of human embryo development! I’m so proud of my excellent team Pauliina Paloviita Sonja Nykänen ! Congrats to all recipients! 🎉sigridjuselius.fi/en/apurahat/1-… University of Helsinki Säätiöt ja rahastot - Stiftelser och fonder

So grateful that I was awarded with the AoF Fellowship!🥳I’d like to thank all my mentors & colleagues esp Timo Otonkoski Taneli Raivio Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Sara Wickstrom-Lab Juanma Vaquerizas Timo Tuuri, Juha Kere&Juha Tapanainen & my group Pauliina Paloviita Sonja Nykänen for their amazing support!🥳

Our latest paper out StemCellReports ! We reprogrammed primed hESCs to blastomere-like stage using short DUX4 pulse and show that SLC34A2, coding NaPi2b, can be used to enrich these cells. The first paper for Ida & Sonja Nykänen at my lab Functional Embryo Genomics lab Congratulations!🥳 1/3

Hurrah! Functional Embryo Genomics lab has officially started as a part of STEMM Research Program as Sonja Nykänen gave a presentation at STEMM seminar series today. Well done Sonja and thanks to everyone who listened to her talk & gave feedback! #proudPI

Are you fascinated about early human development? We Functional Embryo Genomics lab STEMM Research Program HiLIFE_Helsinki Medicine and Health, University of Helsinki are recruiting a doctoral student. Email [email protected] for more information and apply by May 31. Please RT.

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🔥Happy to announce that our review about DUX4 in human embryo genome activation is in press! Proud of Sonja Nykänen 💎🔥! Thank you Edward Grow, PhD & Dr Michelle Percharde for excellent comments! ijdb.ehu.eus/article/230247… University of Helsinki STEMM Research Program HiLIFE_Helsinki Medicine and Health, University of Helsinki