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2017
Feven Tigistu-Sahle > Degrees
Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology
2012
Feven Tigistu-Sahle > Degrees
Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology
2005
Feven Tigistu-Sahle > Degrees
Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology

Publications resulting from Research
1. Laurén, E., Tigistu-Sahle, F., Valkonen, S., Westberg, M., Valkeajärvi, A., Eronen, J., Siljander, P., Pettilä, V., Käkelä, R., Laitinen, S., Kerkelä, E., 2017. Phospholipid composition of packed red blood cells and that of extracellular vesicles show a high resemblance and stability during storage. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1863 (1), pp. 1-8.
2. Hellwing, C., Tigistu‐Sahle, F., Fuhrmann, H., Käkelä, R. and Schumann, J., 2017. Lipid composition of membrane microdomains isolated detergent‐free from PUFA supplemented RAW264. 7 macrophages. Journal of Cellular Physiology.
3. Tigistu-Sahle, F., Lampinen, M., Kilpinen, L., Holopainen, M., Lehenkari, P., Laitinen, S. and Käkelä, R., 2017. Metabolism and phospholipid assembly of polyunsaturated fatty acids in human bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells. Journal of Lipid Research, 58(1), pp.92–110.
4. Robciuc, M.R., Kivelä, R., Williams, I.M., de Boer, J.F., van Dijk, T.H., Elamaa, H., Tigistu-Sahle, F., Molotkov, D., Leppänen, V.M., Käkelä, R. and Eklund, L., 2016. VEGFB/VEGFR1-induced expansion of adipose vasculature counteracts obesity and related metabolic complications. Cell metabolism, 23(4), pp.712-724.
5. Mäenpää, K., Leppänen, M.T., Figueiredo, K., Tigistu-Sahle, F. and Käkelä, R., 2015. Sorptive capacity of membrane lipids, storage lipids, and proteins: A preliminary study of partitioning of organochlorines in lean fish from a PCB-contaminated freshwater lake. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 68(1), pp.193-203.
6. Kilpinen, L. *, Tigistu-Sahle, F. *, Oja, S., Greco, D., Parmar, A., Saavalainen, P., Nikkilä, J., Korhonen, M., Lehenkari, P., Käkelä, R. and Laitinen, S., 2013. Aging bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells have altered membrane glycerophospholipid composition and functionality. Journal of Lipid Research, 54(3), pp.622–635.
7. Tigistu-Sahle F. *, Holopainen, M.*, Skirdenko, V., Hyvärinen, Kerkelä, E., Lehenkari, P., Laitinen, S. and Käkelä, R., 2017. Dynamics of incorporation of n-6 and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids into the glycerophospholipids of human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stromal cells. (manuscript)

Finnish National Lipid Forum
2025
icon-pin-location Helsinki, Finland
‘‘13th International Conference on Bioactive lipids in Cancer, Inflammation and Related Diseases’’.
2025
icon-pin-location San Juan, Puerto Rico
FEBS Seminar
2025
icon-pin-location Spestes, Greece
MEMBREC Seminar
2025
icon-pin-location Helsinki, Finland
Tekes IMO Programme summit and reporting seminars.
2025
icon-pin-location Espoo, Finland

‘‘Lipid signaling: lipid derived 2nd messengers’’: Functional Lipidomics Seminar.
2025
icon-pin-location University of Helsinki, Finland
‘‘Fatty acid metabolism of mesenchymal stem cells, Membranes and Receptors research network seminar’’.
2025
icon-pin-location Tekes IMO Programme summit - Helsinki, Finland
“Lipid markers & functionality of aging human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells’’
2025
icon-pin-location University of Helsinki, Finland
‘‘13th International Conference on Bioactive lipids in Cancer, Inflammation and Related Diseases’’.
2025
icon-pin-location San Juan, Puerto Rico
“Aging bone marrow derived mesenchymal stromal cells have altered membrane lipid composition and functionality’’ FEBS Seminar
2025
icon-pin-location Spestes, Greece