Liisa Hämäläinen

Liisa Hämäläinen

Academy Research Fellow
Unit
Faculty of Mathematics and Science
Department / Division
Department of Biological and Environmental Science
Email
liisa.l.hamalainen@jyu.fi
Fields of science
1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology

Research interests

My research focuses on predator prey interactions and coevolution. I am particularly interested in how predators gather and use information about prey profitability, and I investigate this by conducting laboratory and field experiments with avian predators. In my current project, I study the role of the predator gut microbiome in predator-prey dynamics. The aim is to explore whether the consumption of chemically defended prey alters the predator gut microbiome, whether there is a link between the gut microbiome and predator foraging behaviour, and how this may mediate selection pressures for prey defences.

Publications

Publication
2026

OzButterflies – a high quality open database of multispectral images and spectra of tropical to temperate Australian butterflies

Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation.
Fernandes, Erickson Marilia
Daluwatta, Galappaththige Hansani S. S.
Mclean, Donald James
Silva, Diogo Jackson de Aquino
Fulham, Mariel
Wild, Zoe
Kelly, Michael B. J.
Irving, Christopher J.
Carlesso, Daniele
Binns, Georgina E.
Silvasti, Sanni A.
Hämäläinen, Liisa
O’Neill, Louis G.
L’Herpiniere, Kiara
Mappes, Johanna
Kikuchi, David W.
Rowland, Hannah M.
Power, Michelle
White, Thomas E.
Kemp, Darrell J.
Herberstein, Marie E.
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Research groups

Research topics
Research group

Environmental Physiology Lab

We study the molecular and physiological mechanisms underlying organismal adaptation to environmental changes, within and across generations.