Eliisa Kekäläinen

Stimulating immune cells in vitro is a common experimental lab model. We profiled 150K blood immune cells treated with 11 different stimuli to compare the effects. The data are freely available for researchers. See the preprint for our findings and to access the data 🧪 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Unpaid advertisement for the Finnish 🇫🇮 tourism agency: if it is unbearably hot where you are now (like New York), come to Finland. It is nice and chilly at 14 degrees of Celsius (57 F) now. #chillescape

The Frequency but not the Phenotype of Circulating Peripheral T Helper Cells is Increased at Later Stages of Progression to Type 1 Diabetes Frequencies of circulating T peripheral helper (cTph) and activated T follicular helper (cTfh) cells increase close to the diagnosis of clinical type 1 diabetes, but not at the onset of autoimmunity.....

New results on the role of circulating T follicular (cTfh) and T peripheral helper (cTph) cells in type 1 diabetes out at @eurjimmunol.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#immunosky #T1D #autoimmunity

Shout in beds, on delivery tables,
in kitchens,
in fields, schools, offices and
in shops.
Shout with your hands raised: - No!

No, no, no.
No war!

Eeva Kilpi

🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

Mothers, shout.
Instead of lullabies, shout.
Shout a direct cry
all over the world in one voice.

Women, shout.
Stop traffic, factories,
weapons manufacturing, dreams.
Stand in the middle of the squares and roads
and shout.

Huutakaa vuoteissa, synnytyspöydillä,
keittiöissä,
pelloilla, kouluissa, toimistoissa ja
kaupoissa.
Huutakaa kädet kohotettuina: - Ei!

Ei, ei, ei.
Ei sotaa!

Eeva Kilpi

🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

Äidit huutakaa.
Kehtolaulujen asemesta huutakaa.
Huutakaa suoraa huutoa
kaikkialla maapallolla yhteen ääneen.

Naiset huutakaa.
Pysäyttäkää liikenne, tehtaat,
aseitten valmistus, unet.
Seisokaa keskellä toreja ja teitä
ja huutakaa.

OK, everything is not done, I give up. It is not raining, garden needs tending, and today it is 20 hrs of daylight so must move my focus there. Hyvää juhannusta 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥! 🇫🇮

I think I left some for next year.

Status report: everything is almost half done. I have one day.

In Finland 🇫🇮 we have this thing called ”everything must be done before midsommaren”. I have three days. Bring it on.

I agree the thymus likely presents all key epitopes for T cell tolerance. But studies based only on transcriptional data without testing each mimetic cell’s role should be viewed cautiously and given lower priority.

#thymus
#tolerance
#immunology

Team members raising the pride flag to our office door

Teamwork makes the dream work! Kekäläinen lab participating to the #HelsinkiPride month (a bit late to the game but our office was under renovation). #PrideMonth 🧪

HS Visio | Rahalla saa ylivoimaisen yliopiston Helsingin yliopisto putosi jo kertaalleen maailman sadan parhaan yliopiston listalta. Samalla listalla Kööpenhaminan yliopisto on vuodesta toiseen Pohjoismaiden paras. HS kysyi Kööpenhaminassa, mistä ...

Miten tehdään huippuyliopisto: riittävästi rahaa, panostuksia erityisesti perustutkimukseen.
www.hs.fi/visio/art-20...

Harvad T shirt and a note pinned to a notice board with text: We stand with our collegues against the trumpists’ attacks on freedom of speech and academic liberty. The trusth will prevail!

Found pinned to the notice board at Dept. of Bacteriology and Immunology, University of Helsinki. Finnish academics supporting the good fight by Harvard University. The North Stands with You. 🧪@harvardcellbio.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

Personal news: I have been appointed by the rector of @helsinki.fi to a tenure-track associate prof position in Clinical Microbiology and Immunology! My affiliations are with the Faculty of Medicine and HiLIFE, Institute of Life Sciences @helsinki.fi . Humbled and excited to start this new journey!

Postdoctoral studies in Immunology (scholarship) Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?  The Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) at Karolinska Institutet conducts research and teaching within immunology, inf

Postdoc opening in Pia Dosenovic's lab at Karolinska Institutet, "B cell-mediated immunity with a focus on basic immunological questions related to vaccine development"
#Immunology #ScienceJobs #ImmunoSky

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These times have proved that it is good to have something like Section 16.3 of Finland's Constitution: 'The freedom of science, the arts and higher education is guaranteed'.

Postdoctoral Researcher/Doctoral Researcher/Project Researcher, Translational Immunology The University of Eastern Finland is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher/Doctoral Researcher/Project Researcher (Translational Immunology) position in Kuopio. The position will be fill

Interested in translational human immunology? We are currently recruiting a PhD student or a post-doc to work on an exciting project to to study immune changes leading to the development of type 1 diabetes. #immunosky #sciencejobs uef.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Low-quality papers are surging by exploiting public data sets and AI Paper mills are also likely contributing to “false discoveries”

LLMs and open science are not meant to flood the already congested scientific literature with junk but should help us to be more creative. #immunosky #medsky 🧪 Low-quality papers are surging by exploiting public data sets and AI | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

a black banner that says we the north ALT: a black banner that says we the north

Life of a Northener: in the winter you barely are alive, just doing the minimum and would preferably just sleep. Spring arrives and you have started 12 new projects at home and work, barely sleep and dig in the garden untill wee hours.

#ImmunoSky #MedSky

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Majority of Finns does not approve of the planned tax cuts for the highest income percentiles. I disapprove the planned cuts even though these cuts would and will benefit me directly. I won’t work any more because of them. It is more important to me that my society is equal and supportive. 🇫🇮

Just in time for Eurovision. 🔥❄️ from 🇫🇮 dr. Sulo Roukka

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Rommelmarkt on parasta ikinä!

Impacts of maternal microbiota and microbial metabolites on fetal intestine, brain, and placenta - BMC Biology Background The maternal microbiota modulates fetal development, but the mechanisms of these earliest host-microbe interactions are unclear. To investigate the developmental impacts of maternal microbi...

Postdoc / MSc project available (8/12 months by 8/2026; welcome to apply more with us)! If you're interested in host-microbe interactions and (ideally) both wet lab and data, let me know!

Example of our research - now working also with pigs and fish:
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Gather 'round Bluesky, while I tell the hoary tale of epidemic vs. endemic.

How can it be that pandemic interventions that were vitally important in 2020 are marginally effective in 2025?

Science will give us the answers!

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My kid started his societal studies in school this year and study voting and the tenents of democracy. I love the way Finnish educators use the student council as an example how children can take part in decision-making. They also had their own communal elections. Good discussions with kids 🇫🇮