Tero Soukka
Biotechnology tejoso@utu.fi +358 29 450 4589 +358 50 476 5571 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku Office: D6021 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1144-6724 |
Areas of expertise
In vitro diagnostics; immunoassays and immunoassay technologies; molecular diagnostics; photon upconversion; lanthanide luminescence; time-resolved fluorescence; nanoparticle-antibody bioconjugates.
In vitro diagnostics; immunoassays and immunoassay technologies; molecular diagnostics; photon upconversion; lanthanide luminescence; time-resolved fluorescence; nanoparticle-antibody bioconjugates.
Research community or research topic
Biotechnology - in vitro diagnostics (IVD) assay technologies.
Biotechnology - in vitro diagnostics (IVD) assay technologies.
Research
Research group on bioaffinity assay and reporter technologies, focusing on immunoassay platforms and photon upconversion luminescence in ultrasensitive immunoassays.
Teaching
Lecturing courses on Instrumentation in biotechnology and In vitro diagnostics systems.
Publications 
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- Upconverting nanophosphors as reporters in a highly sensitive heterogeneous immunoassay for cardiac troponin I (2016)
- Analytica Chimica Acta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A FRET based pH probe with a broad working range applicable to referenced ratiometric dual wavelength and luminescence lifetime read out (2015)
- Chemical Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - An integrated closed-tube 2-plex PCR amplification and hybridization assay with switchable lanthanide luminescence based spatial detection (2015)
- Analyst
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Array-in-well serodiagnostic assay utilizing upconverting phosphor label technology (2015)
- Journal of Virological Methods
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Homogeneous Assay for Whole Blood Folate Using Photon Upconversion (2015)
- Analytical Chemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Intense UV upconversion through highly sensitized NaRF4:Tm (R:Y,Yb) crystals (2015)
- RSC Advances
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Near-infrared excited ultraviolet emitting upconverting phosphors as an internal light source in dry chemistry test strips for glucose sensing (2015)
- Analyst
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Photophysical study of blue-light excitable ternary Eu(III) complexes and their encapsulation into polystyrene nanoparticles (2015)
- Journal of Luminescence
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Precise construction of oligonucleotide-Fab fragment conjugate for homogeneous immunoassay using HaloTag technology (2015)
- Analytical Biochemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Quenching of the upconversion luminescence of NaYF4:Yb3+,Er3+ and NaYF4:Yb3+,Tm3+ nanophosphors by water: the role of the sensitizer Yb3+ in non-radiative relaxation (2015)
- Nanoscale
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ready to use dry-reagent PCR assays for the four common bacterial pathogens using switchable lanthanide luminescence probe system (2015)
- Journal of Microbiological Methods
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Structural and spectroscopic behavior of Er3+:Yb3+ co-doped lithium telluroborate glasses (2015)
- Physica B: Condensed Matter
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Switchable lanthanide luminescent binary probes in efficient single nucleotide mismatch discrimination (2015)
- Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Upconverting nanoparticle to quantum dot FRET for homogeneous double-nano biosensors (2015)
- RSC Advances
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Background-Free Referenced Luminescence Sensing and Imaging of pH Using Upconverting Phosphors and Color Camera Read-out (2014)
- Analytical Chemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Closed-tube human leukocyte antigen DQA1∗05 genotyping assay based on switchable lanthanide luminescence probes (2014)
- Analytical Biochemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Enhancement of the up-conversion luminescence from NaYF4:Yb3+,Tb3+ (2014)
- Physica B: Condensed Matter
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - EXAFS study of cation reordering in NaYF4:Yb3+,Tb3+ up-conversion luminescence materials (2014)
- Journal of Rare Earths
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Lanthanide chelate complementation and hydrolysis enhanced luminescent chelate in real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assays for KLK3 transcripts (2014)
- Analytical Biochemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Luminescent lanthanide reporters: new concepts for use in bioanalytical applications (2014)
- Methods and Applications in Fluorescence
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )
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