Riikka Martikainen (hämäläinen)
Academy Research Fellow
Department of Neurobiology
University of Eastern Finland
Finland
Biography
He is a Academy Research Fellow at Dept. of Neurobiology, A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Science, University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio, Finland)
Research Interest
• mitochondrial disease and stem cells energetics • molecular mechanisms underlying mitochondrial disease, with focus on neural and cardiac models • mitochondrial function and energy metabolism of stem cells in normal and pathological conditions
Publications
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Hämäläinen RH, Ahlqvist KJ, Ellonen P, Lepistö M, Logan A, et al. (2015) MtDNA Mutagenesis Disrupts Pluripotent Stem Cell Function by Altering Redox Signaling. Cell Reports 358-947-171-965.
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Riikka H Hämäläinen (2016) Mitochondrial DNA mutations in iPS cells: mtDNA integrity as standard iPSC selection criteria? The EMBO Journal 35: 1960-1962.
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Hämäläinen RH (2016) Mitochondria and mtDNA integrity in stem cell function and differentiation. Curr Opin Genet Dev 38: 83-89.
