Elina Laanto

Elina Laanto

Assistant Professor
Unit
Faculty of Mathematics and Science
Department / Division
Department of Biological and Environmental Science
Room number
YA C215.2
Email
elina.laanto@jyu.fi
Mobile
+358504339850
Postal address
Survontie 9

Research interests

I am interested in the impact and diversity of bacterial viruses in our biosphere. Continuously growing evidence suggests that phages play a major role for example in the global biogeochemical nutrient cycles. However, due to the unfathomable abundance of phages, our understanding of their true impact is limited. Currently, my research focuses on the unexplored biology of huge phages (phages with large virions and genomes, also known as megaphages) from boreal fresh waters. 

Publications

Publication
2025

Life of giant phages

The Project Repository Journal.
Laanto, Elina
Publication
2024

VitroJet : new features and case studies

Acta Crystallographica Section D : Structural Biology.
Henderikx, Rene J. M.
Mann, Daniel
Domanska, Aušra
Dong, Jing
Shahzad, Saba
Lak, Behnam
Filopoulou, Aikaterini
Ludig, Damian
Grininger, Martin
Momoh, Jeffrey
Laanto, Elina
Oksanen, Hanna M.
Bisikalo, Kyrylo
Williams, Pamela A.
Butcher, Sarah J.
Peters, Peter J.
Beulen, Bart W. A. M. M.
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Research groups

Research group

Phage Biology Group

We study phage biology using mainly freshwater phage-host systems as models.