Petri Susi
PhD, docent in molecular virology (University of Turku)
pesusi@utu.fi +358 29 450 4556 +358 46 922 7336 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku Office: D7062 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9245-3271 |
Picornavirus; enterovirus; rhinovirus; parechovirus; virus evolution; bioinformatics; respiratory pathogens; clinical virology; diagnostics; protein production technologies; bioprocesses; cell culture techniques; molecular biology; gene technology; biosecurity; research data management;
I studied biochemistry and plant biology as major subjects at University of Turku (Turku, Finland) and graduated with MSc degree in biology in 1994. The following five years (1995-1999) I worked as doctoral student at University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland) with prof. Eija Pehu and Dr. Kirsi Lehto, and visited Agrotechnological Research Institute (Wageningen, Netherlands; with Dr. Chris van der Schoot) and The James Hutton Institute (Dundee, UK; with Dr. Lesley Torrance) to learn new techniques. I obtained my PhD degree in the field of plant virology in 1999. As a post-doc, I first did a short visit to cancer cell biology in Turku Bioscience (in 2000; with Dr. Päivi Koskinen), before a four-year period as Academy of Finland post-doctoral researcher. During those years, I worked with FLP/FRT gene editing system in plants with a twist to plant virus movement processes in Joint Biotechnology Laboratory at University of Turku. Following that period, I switched from plant virology to human picornavirus research, and joined the group of prof. Timo Hyypiä. This started by career as a university staff member in Institute of Biomedicine (Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku). Currently, I am in a position of university lecturer in medical biotechnology and microbiology. My work history also includes research visits to diagnostic companies in Finland (2015 and 2017) and abroad (2015), two years as project manager at Turku University of Applied Sciences (2012-2013), and expert work in Tykslab clinical virology unit (2006-2012). I have co-founded two start-up companies.
I am interested in the relationship between picornavirus genome evolution, cellular infectivity and disease mechanisms, which are the key elements in therapy development. My current projects include NGS sequencing of human picornaviruses, receptor research on entero- and parechoviruses, and development of novel diagnostics to picornaviruses and novel enterovirus vectors for cancer therapy.
- Increase of histidine content in Brassica rapa subsp. oleifera by over-expression of histidine-rich fusion proteins (2004)
- Molecular Breeding
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Localization of determinants for antigenicity and mite-transmission using structural model of Blackcurrant reversion virus. (2004)
- Acta Horticulturae
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Pathogen profile: Black currant reversion virus, a mite-transmitted nepovirus (2004)
- Molecular Plant Pathology
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Puumateriaalien biologisessa suojaamisessa käytettävät mikrobit ja niiden tuottamat yhdisteet (2004)
- Solubiologi
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Role of viral movement and coat proteins and RNA in phloem-dependent movement and phloem unloading of tobamoviruses (2004)
- Journal of Phytopathology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and stable expression of the green fluorescent protein in Brassica rapa (2003)
- Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Dysfunctionality of a tobacco mosaic virus movement protein mutant mimicking threonine 104 phosphorylation (2003)
- Journal of General Virology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Purification and properties of extracellular dextranase from a Bacillus sp. (2003)
- Journal of Chromatography B
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - RNA-hiljentyminen (2003)
- Solubiologi
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Kasvivirusten liikkuminen ja kuvantaminen reaaliajassa fluoresoivia proteiineja käyttäen (2002)
- Solubiologi
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Visualization of plant virus movement by fluorescence and confocal laser scanning microscopy (2002) Proceedings of the 53th Annual meeting of The Scandinavian Society for Electron Microscopy Susi P, Sareila O, Wahlroos T,
(Unrefereed conference proceedings (B3)) - Dye-coupling in tobacco mesophyll cells surrounding growing tobacco mosaic tobamovirus-induced local lesions (2000)
- Journal of Phytopathology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Replication in the phloem is not necessary for efficient vascular transport of Tobacco mosaic tobamovirus (1999)
- FEBS Letters
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Characterisation of the coat protein gene of mite-transmitted blackcurrant reversion associated nepovirus (BRAV) (1998)
- Virus Research
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Detection of the putative causal agent of blackcurrant reversion disease (1998)
- Acta Horticulturae
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Detection of Tobacco mosaic virus movement protein in association with tobacco nuclei isolated from intact and detached leaves (1998)
- Journal of Phytopathology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Particle properties of blackcurrant reversion associated virus - a new mite-transmitted nepovirus (1998)
- Acta Horticulturae
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Selection of single chain variable fragment antibodies to Blackcurrant reversion associated nepovirus from a synthetic phage display library (1998)
- Phytopathology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Virusten ja bakteerien aiheuttama ohjelmoitu solukuolema kasveissa (1998)
- Solubiologi
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - IC-RT-PCR detection of blackcurrant reversion associated nepovirus, and perspectives of its use for diagnosis of the reversion disease (1997) Diagnosis and Identification of Plant Pathogens Lehto K, Latvala S, Jones AT, Cox S, Susi P, Lemmetty A,
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4))