Suvi Ruuskanen
PhD, adjunct professor
skruus@utu.fi Vesilinnantie 5 Turku Office: 042 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5582-9455 |
Evolutionary ecology; physiological ecology; ecotoxicology and environmental ecology; behavioral ecology;epigenetics; avian ecology
My research fields are at the intersection of evolutionary ecology, ecophysiology and behavioral and environmental ecology. I am broadly interested in the proximate physiological mechanisms underlying variation in phenotypic, behavioral and fitness traits and their plasticity. I want to understand how physiologically-regulated traits enable organismal adaptation to changing environmental conditions and play a part in species interactions, potentially even affecting population processes. I am also interested in how interactions with microbes (gut microbiome) relate to phenotypic variation in wild populations. I further want to understand more broadly how various early-life environmental conditions affects offspring development and fitness with a specific interest in non-genetic inheritance, such as maternal effects and epigenetics
Current group members:
Post-docs: Bin-Yan Hsu (UTU), Antoine Stier (UTU)
PhD students: Tom Sarraude (UTU/University of Gronigen), Nina Cossin-Sevrin (UTU)
MSc students: Lotta Holmen (UTU), Mark Verschuuren (NIOO, NL), Lyydia Leino (UTU)
BSc students: Mikaela Hukkanen (UTU)
Visiting: Coline Marciau
Interns:
Research group pages: https://sites.utu.fi/ruuskanengroup/
Ecology, evolutionary biology, physiology:
2018-2019-2020
Vertebrate ecology research (BIOL2204)
Seminars in Biology (BIOL5200)
Ecotoxicology (FYGE2060)
Presenting and Publishing Data (BIOL5201)
- Bird Feces as Indicators of Metal Pollution: Pitfalls and Solutions (2020)
- ToxicsPhysiological and Biochemical Zoology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Born to be young? Prenatal thyroid hormones increase early-life telomere length in wild collared flycatchers (2020)
- Biology LettersPeerJ
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of parental exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides on embryonic development and oxidative status: a long-term experiment in a bird model (2020)
- Scientific ReportsJournal of Experimental Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Experimental copper exposure, but not heat stress, leads to elevated intraovarian thyroid hormone levels in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) (2020)
- EcotoxicologyScientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Female Preference and Adverse Developmental Effects of Glyphosate-Based Herbicides on Ecologically Relevant Traits in Japanese Quails (2020)
- Environmental Science and Technology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Glyphosate-based herbicides influence antioxidants, reproductive hormones and gut microbiome but not reproduction: A long-term experiment in an avian model (2020)
- Environmental Pollution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Manipulation of Prenatal Thyroid Hormones Does Not Affect Growth or Physiology in Nestling Pied Flycatchers (2020)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Testing different forms of regulation of yolk thyroid hormone transfer in pied flycatchers (2020)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Testing for context-dependent effects of prenatal thyroid hormones on offspring survival and physiology: an experimental temperature manipulation (2020)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Testing the short-and long-term effects of elevated prenatal exposure to different forms of thyroid hormones (2020)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
