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National Ranking
82

Overview

Eija Jokitalo is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Epidemiology, Biophysics, and Plant Science as notable subfields.

The main topics of Jokitalo's work include:

  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy

Frequent publication venues for Jokitalo comprise:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • EMPIAR dataset
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Cells
  • Nature Communications

Jokitalo has collaborated extensively with several researchers, with frequent coauthors being:

  • Helena Vihinen
  • Ilya Belevich
  • Shiqian Li
  • Elina Ikonen
  • Ville Hietakangas

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Heterochromatin-Driven Nuclear Softening Protects the Genome against Mechanical Stress-Induced Damage" (2020, Cell)
  • "Functional, metabolic and transcriptional maturation of human pancreatic islets derived from stem cells" (2022, Nature Biotechnology)
  • "YIPF5 mutations cause neonatal diabetes and microcephaly through endoplasmic reticulum stress" (2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation)
  • "DeepMIB: User-friendly and open-source software for training of deep learning network for biological image segmentation" (2021, PLoS Computational Biology)
  • "Seipin traps triacylglycerols to facilitate their nanoscale clustering in the endoplasmic reticulum membrane" (2021, PLoS Biology)

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • 3D tomography reveals connections between the phagophore and endoplasmic reticulum.

    Päivi Ylä-Anttila;Helena Vihinen;Eija Jokitalo;Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen

  • Callose Biosynthesis Regulates Symplastic Trafficking during Root Development

    Anne Vaten;Jan Dettmer;Shuang Wu;York-Dieter Stierhof

  • Composition and dynamics of human mitochondrial nucleoids

    Nuria Garrido;Lorena Griparic;Eija Jokitalo;Jorma Wartiovaara

  • Missing-in-metastasis and IRSp53 deform PI(4,5)P2-rich membranes by an inverse BAR domain–like mechanism

    Pieta K. Mattila;Anette Pykäläinen;Juha Saarikangas;Ville O. Paavilainen

  • Heterochromatin-Driven Nuclear Softening Protects the Genome against Mechanical Stress-Induced Damage

    Michele M. Nava;Yekaterina A. Miroshnikova;Leah C. Biggs;Daniel B. Whitefield

  • Microscopy Image Browser: A Platform for Segmentation and Analysis of Multidimensional Datasets.

    Ilya Belevich;Merja Joensuu;Darshan Kumar;Helena Vihinen

  • Matrix proteins can generate the higher order architecture of the Golgi apparatus

    Joachim Seemann;Eija Jokitalo;Marc Pypaert;Graham Warren

  • Seipin regulates ER-lipid droplet contacts and cargo delivery.

    Veijo T Salo;Veijo T Salo;Ilya Belevich;Shiqian Li;Shiqian Li;Leena Karhinen

  • Monitoring autophagy by electron microscopy in Mammalian cells.

    Päivi Ylä-Anttila;Helena Vihinen;Eija Jokitalo;Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen

  • VCIP135, a novel essential factor for p97/p47-mediated membrane fusion, is required for Golgi and ER assembly in vivo.

    Keiji Uchiyama;Eija Jokitalo;Fumi Kano;Masayuki Murata

  • Endoplasmic reticulum remains continuous and undergoes sheet-to-tubule transformation during cell division in mammalian cells

    Maija Puhka;Helena Vihinen;Merja Joensuu;Eija Jokitalo

  • The Role of the Tethering Proteins p115 and GM130 in Transport through the Golgi Apparatus In Vivo

    Joachim Seemann;Eija Jämsä Jokitalo;Graham Warren

  • PML isoform II plays a critical role in nuclear lipid droplet formation

    Yuki Ohsaki;Takeshi Kawai;Yukichika Yoshikawa;Jinglei Cheng

  • Arabidopsis NAC45/86 direct sieve element morphogenesis culminating in enucleation

    Kaori Miyashima Furuta;Shri Ram Yadav;Satu Lehesranta;Ilya Belevich

  • The tumor suppressor PTEN has a critical role in antiviral innate immunity

    Shun Li;Mingzhu Zhu;Ruangang Pan;Ting Fang

  • Seipin Facilitates Triglyceride Flow to Lipid Droplet and Counteracts Droplet Ripening via Endoplasmic Reticulum Contact

    Veijo T. Salo;Shiqian Li;Shiqian Li;Helena Vihinen;Maarit Hölttä-Vuori;Maarit Hölttä-Vuori

  • Complement activation associates with saccular cerebral artery aneurysm wall degeneration and rupture.

    Riikka Tulamo;Juhana Frösen;Sami Junnikkala;Anders Paetau

  • Progressive sheet-to-tubule transformation is a general mechanism for endoplasmic reticulum partitioning in dividing mammalian cells

    Maija Puhka;Merja Joensuu;Helena Vihinen;Ilya Belevich

  • Properly Folded Nonstructural Polyprotein Directs the Semliki Forest Virus Replication Complex to the Endosomal Compartment

    Anne Salonen;Lidia Vasiljeva;Andres Merits;Julia Magden

Frequent Co-Authors

Elina Ikonen
Elina Ikonen University of Helsinki
Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen
Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen University of Turku
Petri Auvinen
Petri Auvinen University of Helsinki
Tero Ahola
Tero Ahola University of Helsinki
Jussi Tohka
Jussi Tohka University of Eastern Finland
Yrjö Helariutta
Yrjö Helariutta University of Tartu
Iiris Hovatta
Iiris Hovatta University of Helsinki
Johanna Ivaska
Johanna Ivaska University of Turku
Lars Paulin
Lars Paulin University of Helsinki
Jenny C. Mortimer
Jenny C. Mortimer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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