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Ivaska Johanna

Professor
Biochemistry
University of Turku
Finland

Biography

Johanna Ivaska started her research career as a PhD student in the University of Turku, focusing on the biological roles of collagen-binding integrins. Following her successful postdoctoral training at CR-UK, LIR with Prof. Peter J. Parker, she established her own lab at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in 2003. Johanna subsequently moved to the University of Turku Centre for Biotechnology in 2013 and currently has 20 young and dynamic lab members. Johanna was elected as an EMBO member in 2015.

Research Interest

To investigate how integrin traffic, activity and signalling are regulated under normal and pathological conditions.

Publications

  • Jacquemet G, Hamidi H, Ivaska J. Filopodia in cell adhesion, 3D migration and cancer cell invasion. Current opinion in cell biology. 2015 Oct 31;36:23-31.

  • Alanko J, Mai A, Jacquemet G, Schauer K, Kaukonen R, Saari M, Goud B, Ivaska J. Integrin endosomal signalling suppresses anoikis. Nature cell biology. 2015 Nov;17(11):1412.

  • De Franceschi N, Arjonen A, Elkhatib N, Denessiouk K, Wrobel AG, Wilson TA, Pouwels J, Montagnac G, Owen DJ, Ivaska J. Selective integrin endocytosis is driven by interactions between the integrin α-chain and AP2. Nature structural & molecular biology.

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