Alex Dickens - UTU Research Portal

Alex Dickens

- Academy Research Fellow,
Turku Bioscience Centre (Independent units)
- Docent,
Department of Life Technologies (Faculty of Technology)
- Academy Research Fellow,
Analytiikkakeskus (Department of Chemistry)

alex.dickens@utu.fi

ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3178-8449

Areas of expertise

Analytical chemistry; metabolomics; lipidomics; bioinformatics; systems medicine

Publications

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Association between infant and toddler gut microbiota composition and later executive functioning (2026)
- Development and Psychopathology
Huovinen, Venla; Aatsinki, Anna-Katariina; Eskola, Eeva; Benedetti, Giulio; Isokääntä, Heidi; Nordenswan, Elisabeth; Munukka, Eveliina; Lamichhane, Santosh; Yada, Akie; O’Mahony, Siobhain M.; Dickens, Alex; Lahti, Leo; Karlsson, Hasse; Korja, Riikka; Nolvi, Saara; Karlsson, Linnea
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Feasibility of multimodal metabolic analysis for detecting early changes in acute neuroinflammation (2026)
- Journal of Neuroinflammation
Grist, James T.; Evstafev, Ilia; Olesova, Dominika; Nynäs, Signe E.; Orešič, Matej; Dickens, Alex M.; Tyler, Damian J.; Couch, Yvonne
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Metabolic effects and biotransformation of perfluorohexyloctane in human hepatocytes (2026)
- Environment International
Alijagic, Andi; Chaker, Jade; Barbosa, João Marcos G.; Duberg, Daniel; Castro-Alves, Victor; Dickens, Alex M.; Orešič, Matej; Hyötyläinen, Tuulia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Microbiome-derived bile acid signatures in early life and their association with islet autoimmunity (2026)
- Nature Communications
Lamichhane, Santosh; Dickens, Alex M.; Buchacher, Tanja; Lou, Tianai; Charron-Lamoureux, Vincent; Kattelus, Roosa; Karmacharya, Pragya; Pinto da Silva, Lucas; Kråkström, Matilda; Rasool, Omid; Sen, Partho; Walker, Corinn; Patan, Abubaker; Gentry, Emily C.; Zuffa, Simone; Arzoomand, Aron; Lakshmikanth, Tadepally; Mikeš, Jaromir; Mebrahtu, Aman; Vatanen, Tommi; Raffatellu, Manuela; Zengler, Karsten; Hyötyläinen, Tuulia; Xavier, Ramnik J.; Brodin, Petter; Lahesmaa, Riitta; Dorrestein, Pieter C.; Knip, Mikael; Orešič, Matej
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Pre- and postnatal maternal psychological distress and the metabolomic profile of human milk (2026)
- Journal of Nutrition
Ryan, Niamh; Sundekilde, Ulrik Kramer; Dickens, Alex M.; Kalant, Henna-Maria; Leahy-Warren, Patricia; Philpott, Lloyd; Mulcahy, Helen; Lamichhane, Santosh; Isokääntä, Heidi; Perasto, Laura; Tarro, Saija; Karlsson, Hasse; Karlsson, Linnea; O’Mahony, Siobhain M.; Aatsinki, Anna-Katariina
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Progressive fibrosis in human MASLD is associated with spatially linked transcriptomic signatures of metabolic reprogramming and senescence (2026)
- JHEP Reports
Vu, Hani; Sun, Yuliangzi; Xiong, Zherui; Tan, Xiao; Radford-Smith, Daniel; Causer, Andrew; Dickens, Alex M.; Hyötyläinen, Tuulia; Evstafev, Ilia; Oresic, Matej; Nefzger, Christian; O’Sullivan, Eoin D.; Watt, Matthew J.; Ramm, Grant A.; Clouston, Andrew; Irvine, Katharine M.; Nguyen, Quan H.; Powell, Elizabeth E.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Therapeutic TG2 inhibition reverses systemic multiomic dysregulation in celiac disease (2026)
- BMC Medicine
Dotsenko, Valeriia; Le Hana, Hien; Rajić, Sonja; Moulder, Robert; Kettunen, Jalmari; Hirvonen, M. Karoliina; Dickens, Alex M; Hyötyläinen, Tuulia; Tewes, Bernhard; Zimmermann, Timo; Mohrbacher, Ralf; Suomi, Tomi; Lehtimäki, Terho; Lahesmaa, Riitta; Orešič, Matej; Elo, Laura L.; Raitoharju, Emma; Schuppan, Detlef; Mäki, Markku; Viiri, Keijo; on behalf of the CEC-3 Investigators
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Cholesterol Ester Storage Disease in Two Field Spaniels With Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency (2025)
- Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine
Syrjä, Pernilla; Ylenius, Mathilda M. H.; Kråkström, Matilda; Dickens, Alex M.; Rautala, Elina; Huupponen, Anna; Eriksson, Anders; Viitanen, Sanna J.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Does cannabidiol reduce the adverse effects of cannabis in schizophrenia? A randomised, double-blind, cross-over trial (2025)
- Neuropsychopharmacology
Chesney, Edward; Oliver, Dominic; Sarma, Ananya; Lamper, Ayse Doga; Slimani, Ikram; Lloyd, Millie; Dickens, Alex M.; Welds, Michael; Kråkström, Matilda; Gasparini-Andre, Irma; Oresic, Matej; Lawn, Will; Babayeva, Natavan; Freeman, Tom P.; Englund, Amir; Strang, John; McGuire, Philip
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Dynamics of gut metabolome and microbiota maturation during early life (2025)
- iScience
Aatsinki, Anna-Katariina; Lamichhane, Santosh; Isokääntä, Heidi; Sen, Partho; Kråkström, Matilda; Amaral Alves, Marina; Keskitalo, Anniina; Munukka, Eveliina; Karlsson, Hasse; Perasto, Laura; Lukkarinen, Minna; Oresic, Matej; Kailanto, Henna-Maria; Karlsson, Linnea; Lahti, Leo; Dickens, Alex M.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)