Other Affiliations

• Turku Centre for Bioscience, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University Turku, Finland

Key Academic Merits

• 2019 – current: Senior Fellow, Independent research in collaboration with Matti Poutanen and Laura Elo groups, Institute of Biomedicine, Research Centre for Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Turku. / Turku Centre for Bioscience, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Tykistökatu 6, 20520, Turku, Finland.
• 2016 – 2018: EC Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, collaboration with Laura Elo and Matti Poutanen groups, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University.
• Sep. 2012 – Dec. 2015: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Prof. Günter Wagner group, Yale Systems Biology Institute, Yale West Campus, Yale University, New Haven, USA.

Major Funding

2021 Päivikki and Sakari Sohlberg Foundation, 2020 Eemil Aaltonen Foundation, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, Academy of Finland, Post-Doc Grant

Selected Publications

Kalle T. Rytkönen^†*, Thomas Faux^†, Mehrad Mahmoudian, Taija Heinosalo, Mauris C. Nnamani, Antti Perheentupa, Matti Poutanen, Laura L. Elo, Günter P. Wagner^* (2021) Histone H3K4me3 signal breadth reveals constitutive and hypoxia stress responsive endometrial functions that link to endometriosis (prepared for submission)

Gabriel M, Fey V, Heinosalo T, Adhikari P, Rytkönen K, Komulainen T, Huhtinen K, Laajala TD, Siitari H, Virkki A, Suvitie P, Kujari H, Aittokallio T, Perheentupa A, Poutanen M. (2020) A relational database to identify differentially expressed genes in the endometrium and endometriosis lesions. Sci Data 7:284.

Rytkönen KT, Heinosalo T, Mahmoudian M, Ma X, Elo LL, Poutanen M and Wagner GP (2020) Transcriptomic responses to hypoxia in endometrial and decidual stromal cells. Reproduction 160:39-51.

Faux T, Rytkönen KT, Laiho A, Elo LL. (2019) RepViz: a replicate-driven R tool for visualizing genomic regions. BMC Res. Notes. 12:441.

Rytkönen KT, Erkenbrack EM, Poutanen M, Elo LL, Pavlicev M and Wagner GP (2019) Decidualization of human endometrial stromal fibroblasts is a multi-phasic process involving distinct transcriptional programs. Reprod. Sci. 26:323-336 [“In the Spotlight” feature in Reprod. Sci. 26:313-314]