Eliisa Kekäläinen
@eliisakekalainen.bsky.social
MD PhD, associate professor of clinical microbiology and immunology, physician-scientist at University of Helsinki & Helsinki University Hospital 🇫🇮. #thymus #IEI diagnostics #HSCT . Personal account, she/her. Here for science and everything.
Today we got our new imaging system for automated spatial proteomics installed! Maria Semenova is already eager to image thymuses. Thank you @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social - we are excited to be the first users in Finland for the new system integrating imaging and fluidics. Funded by @erc.europa.eu
September 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Today we got our new imaging system for automated spatial proteomics installed! Maria Semenova is already eager to image thymuses. Thank you @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social - we are excited to be the first users in Finland for the new system integrating imaging and fluidics. Funded by @erc.europa.eu
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 🧪
June 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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 🧪
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
June 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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
Democracy in action - we have local, communal elections this year. In 🇫🇮 we can vote in advance for several days before the actual election day. Everyone living in this city are eligble to vote, you don’t need to be a citizen, only parliamentary or presidental elections require that.
April 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Democracy in action - we have local, communal elections this year. In 🇫🇮 we can vote in advance for several days before the actual election day. Everyone living in this city are eligble to vote, you don’t need to be a citizen, only parliamentary or presidental elections require that.
Today is the international day for transgender visibility! Important now than ever when there are significant polical forces limiting freedom for people to be who they are and live their life true to themselves.
March 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Today is the international day for transgender visibility! Important now than ever when there are significant polical forces limiting freedom for people to be who they are and live their life true to themselves.
3 years ago I was with so many other shocked with the news holding a demonstration in front of the Russian embassy. Nothing has changed, the war continues and the world is even crazier today than it was then. I repeat what my sign said then: No war. #SlavaUkraini
February 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
3 years ago I was with so many other shocked with the news holding a demonstration in front of the Russian embassy. Nothing has changed, the war continues and the world is even crazier today than it was then. I repeat what my sign said then: No war. #SlavaUkraini
I start my day and browse through the latest with my special mug for these days (have been using it a lot lately). Oh, USA is seized by non-elected oligarchs after that one elected oligarch made it possible to buy your position. Sounds a lot like how the Eastern neighbour of Finland is governed.
February 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I start my day and browse through the latest with my special mug for these days (have been using it a lot lately). Oh, USA is seized by non-elected oligarchs after that one elected oligarch made it possible to buy your position. Sounds a lot like how the Eastern neighbour of Finland is governed.
Kanelbulle! Korvapuusti! Bilingual goodness
January 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Kanelbulle! Korvapuusti! Bilingual goodness
Even the lines for the quadrant gates are distorted. Something stamped on them.
December 31, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Even the lines for the quadrant gates are distorted. Something stamped on them.
Celebrating the 2nd-to-last oncall duty for this year 🤩. Soon holidays. 🧪🧫🦠🔬
December 22, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Celebrating the 2nd-to-last oncall duty for this year 🤩. Soon holidays. 🧪🧫🦠🔬
This beanie was a gift from my team and I’ve been wearing it proudly paying my respects. RIP Heikki Silvennoinen. Us 90s kids didn’t have much entertainment, we only had the recession, but Kummeli gave us that absurd comedy that we needed. 🇫🇮
December 21, 2024 at 10:02 AM
This beanie was a gift from my team and I’ve been wearing it proudly paying my respects. RIP Heikki Silvennoinen. Us 90s kids didn’t have much entertainment, we only had the recession, but Kummeli gave us that absurd comedy that we needed. 🇫🇮
Today I had the honour to publicly examine a PhD thesis on T cell phenotypic variation over the pre-diabetic phase and early T1D. Newly minted PhD Anna-Mari Schroderus did an excellent job! Her supervisor prof. Tuure Kinnunen acted as the custos.
December 13, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Today I had the honour to publicly examine a PhD thesis on T cell phenotypic variation over the pre-diabetic phase and early T1D. Newly minted PhD Anna-Mari Schroderus did an excellent job! Her supervisor prof. Tuure Kinnunen acted as the custos.
I tried to reach out to younglings in a microbiology teaching session. I called Diphtheria OG. 🧫
December 12, 2024 at 5:44 AM
I tried to reach out to younglings in a microbiology teaching session. I called Diphtheria OG. 🧫
Christmas pastry season opened with the traditional TIE fighter pastry. Happy independence day 107 yo Finland 🇫🇮! My country has some solid downsides but this cold Nordic corner of Earth is still home and very decent in comparison to many.
December 6, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Christmas pastry season opened with the traditional TIE fighter pastry. Happy independence day 107 yo Finland 🇫🇮! My country has some solid downsides but this cold Nordic corner of Earth is still home and very decent in comparison to many.
For those who wonder, this is pulla. I will work for this.
November 18, 2024 at 8:46 PM
For those who wonder, this is pulla. I will work for this.
Indeed very handy. Can be used to describe self-sabotage or sabotaging a common/others effort. Etymology unkown. Apparently in Ohio sometimes people ”crapped in cornflakes” - maybe a connection there.
November 16, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Indeed very handy. Can be used to describe self-sabotage or sabotaging a common/others effort. Etymology unkown. Apparently in Ohio sometimes people ”crapped in cornflakes” - maybe a connection there.
Part 3 - A new hope!
November 13, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Part 3 - A new hope!
Part 2 - the drama!
November 13, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Part 2 - the drama!
Lab is moving! And we are hiring so many new people! Do you want to join us on this crazy ride? The team made a little ”how we got here” - video, maybe a bit dramatized version, so please take a look. Video in 3 parts, rest in comments. #ImmunoSky #MedSky #MicroSky 🩻🔬🦠🧬💉🧫
November 13, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Lab is moving! And we are hiring so many new people! Do you want to join us on this crazy ride? The team made a little ”how we got here” - video, maybe a bit dramatized version, so please take a look. Video in 3 parts, rest in comments. #ImmunoSky #MedSky #MicroSky 🩻🔬🦠🧬💉🧫
I’m still hunting a postdoc! We use the flashy single-cell omics methods but the question is simple: we want to understand what kind of innate immune protection there is in the human thymus and how it is damaged in stem-cell transplantation. Apply here immunosky: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
November 9, 2024 at 7:45 PM
I’m still hunting a postdoc! We use the flashy single-cell omics methods but the question is simple: we want to understand what kind of innate immune protection there is in the human thymus and how it is damaged in stem-cell transplantation. Apply here immunosky: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
We are hiring! Come work in the happiest country Finland. Postdocs and fully-funded PhD position available. Postdoc applications through the link, others can email me directly. Please come work with us! #ImmunoSky #MedSky #MicroSky #postdocposition #hiring jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
October 21, 2024 at 7:54 PM
We are hiring! Come work in the happiest country Finland. Postdocs and fully-funded PhD position available. Postdoc applications through the link, others can email me directly. Please come work with us! #ImmunoSky #MedSky #MicroSky #postdocposition #hiring jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
No, it is true - you have a fan base. I had a moment of sparkling joy when I saw your handle on the listing ✨. Fun has finally entered BlueSky. And since I am a Finn, here is a guide to understand how intense this emotional state was for me.
October 12, 2024 at 8:39 AM
No, it is true - you have a fan base. I had a moment of sparkling joy when I saw your handle on the listing ✨. Fun has finally entered BlueSky. And since I am a Finn, here is a guide to understand how intense this emotional state was for me.
End of an era. Singleplex SARS-CoV-2 NAT no longer available in our clinical virology lab due to low demand. Good riddance, signed by your loving clinical microbiologist. So many hours of my life spend with this single test. 🫡 #Covid_19 🧬🦠🩻🩺🧫🧪
October 12, 2024 at 8:21 AM
End of an era. Singleplex SARS-CoV-2 NAT no longer available in our clinical virology lab due to low demand. Good riddance, signed by your loving clinical microbiologist. So many hours of my life spend with this single test. 🫡 #Covid_19 🧬🦠🩻🩺🧫🧪
Apples!!!! Every year I innovate new ways to distribute the harvest. If you visit us, you’ll leave with a bag full of apples. No one at the lab can avoid the apple invasion.
August 21, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Apples!!!! Every year I innovate new ways to distribute the harvest. If you visit us, you’ll leave with a bag full of apples. No one at the lab can avoid the apple invasion.
Lab Kekäläinen Epic Summer Party vol 2024. We got another surprise visit from the Grand Grant Duck! Fans were delighted. Forgot to take a group photo with the Duck - hope they will pay as another visit some time so I will get that fixed.
August 19, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Lab Kekäläinen Epic Summer Party vol 2024. We got another surprise visit from the Grand Grant Duck! Fans were delighted. Forgot to take a group photo with the Duck - hope they will pay as another visit some time so I will get that fixed.