Mankinen Meira, MSc

Portrait Mankinen Meira

    Scientific Career

since 10/2021
Doctoral student doing research on "identification of the signaling pathways of bioactive food ingredients" at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria.

2016, 10 – 12/2018 and 04 – 07/2021

Project Researcher at the Health & Wellbeing Research Group, Research Unit of Measurement Technology, University of Oulu, Kajaani, Finland.

2014 - 2016
Master of Science, Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Master’s thesis “Studies of the Physical and Functional Interaction between RecQ-like Helicase 4 and DNA Guanine Guadruplex Secondary Structures in vivo”. The practical part of the thesis was done at the Research Group of Prof. Grosse, Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany.

2009 - 2014
Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry, at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Bachelor’s thesis “Reverse cholesterol transport as an essential function of HDL in preventing atherosclerosis.” (in Finnish).

02 - 06/2013
Exchange semester, University of Vienna, Austria.