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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- 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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