Eeva Liisa Eskelinen completed her Ph.D. in cell biology in 1993 at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She completed postdoctoral work in Göttingen, Germany and Helsinki, Finland, and became an independent investigator in Dundee, Scotland for 1999-2002. She worked as a group leader in Kiel, Germany for 2002-2005. In August 2005 she started as a University Lecturer at the Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki. Finally, 1st of November 2017 she started as a professor in medical cell biology at the Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Finland.

The main research interest of professor Eskelinen is autophagy, in particular, the membrane dynamics during autophagosome biogenesis and maturation. In her laboratory, she studies the origin of autophagosome membranes using three-dimensional electron microscopy, live-cell imaging, and correlative light-electron microscopy. Her research regards also the molecular mechanisms of RAB24, a GTPase that functions in the late phase of the macroautophagic pathway, and plays a role in obtaining the malignant phenotype by the cancer cells.

 

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