Marjo Saastamoinen, PI

Phone: + 358 50 448 4471
Office: 5413 (Biocenter 3)

• life history ecology & evolution
• dispersal
• genotype-phenotype association
• phenotypic plasticity
• immunology

Elena Rosa

Office: 5205 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: elena.rosa@helsinki.fi

"Impact of ecology on immune defence and related life history traits in natural populations". Funded by Kone foundation and the Academy of Finland (started in August 2013).

• evolutionary ecology
• population biology
• dispersal
• habitat fragmentation

Susu Rytteri

Office: 5205 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail. susu.rytteri@helsinki.fi

"Butterflies in the changing climate" Funded by Academy of Finland (started in February 2016; co-supervised by Mikko Kuussaari (SYKE))

• life history ecology
• environmental stress
• dispersal
• climate change
• conservation

Ana Salgado

Office: 4403 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: ana.salgadomaldonado@helsinki.fi

"Life-history responses to reduced host plant quality induced by summer drought in the Glanville fritillary butterfly" Funded by ERC (started in April 2015)

• evolutionary ecology
• phenotypic variation
• gene expression
• adaptation
• environmental factors

Luisa Woestmann

Office: 5607 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: luisa.woestmann@helsinki.fi

"Maternal effects and (epi)genetics in shaping immune defence in wild populations". Funded by the Academy of Finland (started in September 2013).

• evolution and ecology
• phenotypic plasticity
• maternal and paternal effects on immunity
• host-parasite interactions
• immunology

Michelle DiLeo

Office: 5715 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: michelle.dileo@gmail.com

• population and landscape genetics
• evolutionary ecology
• evolutionary genetics
• conservation

Aapo Kahilainen

Office: 5205 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: aapo.kahilainen@helsinki

• population and landscape genetics
• evolution
• adaptation to environmental stress
• conservation

Guillaume Minard

Office: 5619 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail:guillaume_minard_86@hotmail.com

• adaptation
• insect symbiosis
• microbial ecology
• microbiota

Anniina Mattila (on maternity leave)

E-mail: anniina.mattila@helsinki.fi

"Ecology and genomics of toxicity and related life-history traits in mimetic Heliconius butterflies". Academy of Finland funded post doctoral project.

• dispersal
• evolutionary genomics of wild populations
• life-history evolution
• thermal adaptation

Suvi Ikonen

Lammi Biological Station
E-mail: suvi.ikonen@helsinki.fi

Juha-Matti Pitkänen

Office: 5205 (Biocenter 3)
E-mail: juha-matti.pitkanen@helsinki.fi

MSc Students:

Johanna Lindholm

E-mail: johanna.c.lindholm@helsinki.fi

"Influence of host plant quality on gut microbiota and immunity of the pre-diapause larvae of the Glanville fritillary butterfly".