Jenni Laitila, PhD
@laitilajenni.bsky.social
Researcher in the field of #nemalinemyopathy and #raredisease. Finn at heart and an honorary Aussie.
Junior PI, Myofin-lab
Folkhälsan Research Center
Helsinki, Finland
Nemalinehelsinki.fi
#myoblue
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Junior PI, Myofin-lab
Folkhälsan Research Center
Helsinki, Finland
Nemalinehelsinki.fi
#myoblue
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Please share far & wide. Looking for a #postdoc to get stuck in with a wide range of projects, with freedom to explore and lead the #computational #bioninformatics work
12 months to begin with, but for the right candidate we have funding for a further 19 months
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK467/p...
12 months to begin with, but for the right candidate we have funding for a further 19 months
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK467/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Muscle Biology at King's College London
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November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Please share far & wide. Looking for a #postdoc to get stuck in with a wide range of projects, with freedom to explore and lead the #computational #bioninformatics work
12 months to begin with, but for the right candidate we have funding for a further 19 months
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK467/p...
12 months to begin with, but for the right candidate we have funding for a further 19 months
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK467/p...
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Congrats to #LaitilaJenni & colleagues for their new @JCI_insight paper: Myosin inhibition partially rescues the myofibre proteome in X-linked myotubular myopathy. #Myoblue tinyurl.com/yyuthutn
JCI Insight -
Myosin inhibition partially rescues the myofibre proteome in X-linked myotubular myopathy
tinyurl.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Congrats to #LaitilaJenni & colleagues for their new @JCI_insight paper: Myosin inhibition partially rescues the myofibre proteome in X-linked myotubular myopathy. #Myoblue tinyurl.com/yyuthutn
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Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🔮 The single muscle fibres won the ”Best Group Costume” prize at @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social 🏆
October 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🔮 The single muscle fibres won the ”Best Group Costume” prize at @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social 🏆
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Check out our recap videos from #EMC2025 and #WMS2025 on our Instagram 📹 :
European Muscle Conference (www.instagram.com/reel/DPTJFxc...)
World Muscle Society Congress (www.instagram.com/reel/DQOT_LV...)
European Muscle Conference (www.instagram.com/reel/DPTJFxc...)
World Muscle Society Congress (www.instagram.com/reel/DQOT_LV...)
October 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Check out our recap videos from #EMC2025 and #WMS2025 on our Instagram 📹 :
European Muscle Conference (www.instagram.com/reel/DPTJFxc...)
World Muscle Society Congress (www.instagram.com/reel/DQOT_LV...)
European Muscle Conference (www.instagram.com/reel/DPTJFxc...)
World Muscle Society Congress (www.instagram.com/reel/DQOT_LV...)
Thank you @worldmusclesociety.org for an amazing meeting #WMS2025 💪🔬 The Finnish team thoroughly enjoyed the science and the networking! @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Thank you @worldmusclesociety.org for an amazing meeting #WMS2025 💪🔬 The Finnish team thoroughly enjoyed the science and the networking! @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
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October 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Great times with the Myofin team (@myofinlab.bsky.social) at #WMS2025 In Vienna !😂
October 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Great times with the Myofin team (@myofinlab.bsky.social) at #WMS2025 In Vienna !😂
So many "MyoFinns" in the #WMS2025 meeting this year! 💪🔬 Representing @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
So many "MyoFinns" in the #WMS2025 meeting this year! 💪🔬 Representing @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
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Our team is excited to connect - come find us at the @worldmusclesociety.org congress. 🇦🇹 Let’s talk science, collaboration, and future ideas! 🧬🤝💡
#WMS2025
#WMS2025
October 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Our team is excited to connect - come find us at the @worldmusclesociety.org congress. 🇦🇹 Let’s talk science, collaboration, and future ideas! 🧬🤝💡
#WMS2025
#WMS2025
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During the week in between EMC and WMS, Jenni and Fanny visited the de Winter, Ottenheijm and Kirby labs at the Department of Physiology at Amsterdam UMC for an intro to single fibre mechanics and some interesting imaging techniques. 🇳🇱🔬 (1/2)
October 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
During the week in between EMC and WMS, Jenni and Fanny visited the de Winter, Ottenheijm and Kirby labs at the Department of Physiology at Amsterdam UMC for an intro to single fibre mechanics and some interesting imaging techniques. 🇳🇱🔬 (1/2)
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Two years from today #Helsinki and #Finlandiahall will welcome #WMS2027, the annual congress of @worldmusclesociety.org. Save the date!
September 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Two years from today #Helsinki and #Finlandiahall will welcome #WMS2027, the annual congress of @worldmusclesociety.org. Save the date!
Surrounded by my kind of people 💪🔬🧫 #EMC2025 #nerd @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Surrounded by my kind of people 💪🔬🧫 #EMC2025 #nerd @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
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Greetings from the opening ceremony of the European Muscle Conference 2025! 🇳🇱 #EMC2025 #EuropeanMuscleConference
September 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Greetings from the opening ceremony of the European Muscle Conference 2025! 🇳🇱 #EMC2025 #EuropeanMuscleConference
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Our team is excited to connect - come find Jenni, Jaakko and Fanny at the European Muscle Conference. 🇳🇱 Let’s talk science, collaboration, and future ideas! 🧬🤝💡
#EMC2025 #EuropeanMuscleConference
#EMC2025 #EuropeanMuscleConference
September 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Our team is excited to connect - come find Jenni, Jaakko and Fanny at the European Muscle Conference. 🇳🇱 Let’s talk science, collaboration, and future ideas! 🧬🤝💡
#EMC2025 #EuropeanMuscleConference
#EMC2025 #EuropeanMuscleConference
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Myofin ”Summer” meeting in Nuuksio 🧬💡🌲. A couple of days filled with insightful scientific talks and interactive discussions on current and upcoming projects! On Wednesday evening it was sauna time and we grilled sausage over the fire 🧖🔥🪵.
September 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Myofin ”Summer” meeting in Nuuksio 🧬💡🌲. A couple of days filled with insightful scientific talks and interactive discussions on current and upcoming projects! On Wednesday evening it was sauna time and we grilled sausage over the fire 🧖🔥🪵.
When you get a feeling that someone's watching.. Our summer student making great progress with our AI analyses ❤️💪🔬 #muscleresearch #raredisease #myoblue @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
When you get a feeling that someone's watching.. Our summer student making great progress with our AI analyses ❤️💪🔬 #muscleresearch #raredisease #myoblue @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
So many reasons to celebrate! And these guys are always up for some bubbles 🎉🥂💪🔬 @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
So many reasons to celebrate! And these guys are always up for some bubbles 🎉🥂💪🔬 @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
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Elina Engberg and Jenni Laitila are new Academy Research Fellows, and a joint project on the oral microbiome in health and disease received Academy Project Funding.
@elinaengberg.bsky.social @laitilajenni.bsky.social @myofinlab.bsky.social @fin-hit.bsky.social
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@elinaengberg.bsky.social @laitilajenni.bsky.social @myofinlab.bsky.social @fin-hit.bsky.social
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Two new Academy Research Fellows and one joint Academy Project at Folkhälsan Research Center receive funding
The Research Council of Finland’s Scientific Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment has granted funding to two new Academy Research Fellows at Folkhälsan Research Center. Elina Engberg an...
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June 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Elina Engberg and Jenni Laitila are new Academy Research Fellows, and a joint project on the oral microbiome in health and disease received Academy Project Funding.
@elinaengberg.bsky.social @laitilajenni.bsky.social @myofinlab.bsky.social @fin-hit.bsky.social
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@elinaengberg.bsky.social @laitilajenni.bsky.social @myofinlab.bsky.social @fin-hit.bsky.social
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Congrats to the best supervisor @laitilajenni.bsky.social ! Big achievement ♥️💪🏻🧬
We are very grateful to the Research Council of Finland (Suomen Akatemia) for funding our research on neuromuscular disorders. Thank you / Kiitos / Tack! 💙
Jenni has been awarded an Academy Research Fellowship, which entails a 4-year grant. Jenni shares what the grant will be used for 👇: (1/4)
Jenni has been awarded an Academy Research Fellowship, which entails a 4-year grant. Jenni shares what the grant will be used for 👇: (1/4)
June 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Congrats to the best supervisor @laitilajenni.bsky.social ! Big achievement ♥️💪🏻🧬
Grateful and honoured 🙏🔬💪
We are very grateful to the Research Council of Finland (Suomen Akatemia) for funding our research on neuromuscular disorders. Thank you / Kiitos / Tack! 💙
Jenni has been awarded an Academy Research Fellowship, which entails a 4-year grant. Jenni shares what the grant will be used for 👇: (1/4)
Jenni has been awarded an Academy Research Fellowship, which entails a 4-year grant. Jenni shares what the grant will be used for 👇: (1/4)
June 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Grateful and honoured 🙏🔬💪
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Go team go! ⚽️🙌🏻 @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Go team go! ⚽️🙌🏻 @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
Our talented young investigators, what an amazing day! Excellent talks, beautiful science and great discussions 💪🔬 @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
Yesterday we had the first (but not last) Myofin Young Investigators Day! 🌟 The day was filled with great presentations from our young researchers and out-of-the-box questions from the audience.
Thank you to Jenni, Veronica and Marco for organizing the event! 💙
Thank you to Jenni, Veronica and Marco for organizing the event! 💙
May 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Our talented young investigators, what an amazing day! Excellent talks, beautiful science and great discussions 💪🔬 @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
Another NM paper quite fittingly published during #NMAwarenessMonth by our team at @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
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🚨Publication alert!🚨
doi.org/10.1177/2214...
First author Milla’s summary of the article:
”The objective of this study was to identify and further investigate the causative genetic variant in a patient with lethal nemaline myopathy.” (1/6)
#MyoBlue
doi.org/10.1177/2214...
First author Milla’s summary of the article:
”The objective of this study was to identify and further investigate the causative genetic variant in a patient with lethal nemaline myopathy.” (1/6)
#MyoBlue
May 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Another NM paper quite fittingly published during #NMAwarenessMonth by our team at @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
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Excited to share our latest work! This was one of my main projects, and a huge collaborative effort during my postdoc in @droch.bsky.social lab at University of Copenhagen - many thanks to all the co-authors and @novo-nordisk.bsky.social 💪🔬 (1/5)
Pathogenic TNNT1 variants are associated with aberrant thin filament compliance and myofibre hyper‐contractility
Abstract figure legend Graphical representation of the main results. The cartoon indicates that, in the presence of TNNT1 variants, the thin filament is more compliant, and more easily activated lead...
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May 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Excited to share our latest work! This was one of my main projects, and a huge collaborative effort during my postdoc in @droch.bsky.social lab at University of Copenhagen - many thanks to all the co-authors and @novo-nordisk.bsky.social 💪🔬 (1/5)
Another beautiful collaboration 🔬💪 Proof-of-principle of getting both functional and proteomics data from a single myofiber - even from our tiny nemaline myopathy ones! Thanks for all the fun times in the lab @robertseaborne.bsky.social
Integrated single-cell functional-proteomic profiling reveals a shift in myofibre specificity in human nemaline myopathy: A proof-of-principle study
Another collab between the labs @droch.bsky.social @adeshmukh.bsky.social
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
Another collab between the labs @droch.bsky.social @adeshmukh.bsky.social
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
Integrated single‐cell functional‐proteomic profiling reveals a shift in myofibre specificity in human nemaline myopathy: A proof‐of‐principle study
Abstract figure legend SMPFO uniquely develops data relating to the biophysical state of the sarcomeric protein, alongside global proteome profiling, on a single myofibre basis. Using this approach w...
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Another beautiful collaboration 🔬💪 Proof-of-principle of getting both functional and proteomics data from a single myofiber - even from our tiny nemaline myopathy ones! Thanks for all the fun times in the lab @robertseaborne.bsky.social