Dr Eveliina Hanski

Background

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Biology and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Biology at Magdalen College. I completed my undergraduate in Nutrition in Helsinki, Finland, where I am originally from, before moving to Oxford in 2017. I have an MSc in Immunology and a DPhil in Biology. My research mainly focuses on the gut microbiome and epigenetic ageing in both humans and other species. I am particularly interested in early life processes and how they contribute to health and disease later in life. 

Publications

• Raulo A, Bürker P, Finerty GE, Dale J, Hanski E, English H, Lamberth C, Firth JA, Coulson T, Knowles SCL. Social and environmental transmission spread different sets of gut microbes in wild mice. Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024).
• Hanski E, Joseph S, Raulo A, O’Toole A, Knowles SCL, Little T. Epigenetic age estimation of wild mice using faecal samples. Molecular Ecology (2024).
• Hanski E, Khanyari M, Li J, Bates K, Zuther S, Maiden M, Kock R, Knowles SCL. The gut microbiota profile of the critically endangered Saiga antelope across two populations in a year without mass mortality. Scientific Reports (2023).
• Hanski E. Host-microbiota interactions in mammals [PhD thesis]. University of Oxford. (2023)
• Joseph S, Aduse-Opoku J, Hashim A, Hanski E, Streich R, Knowles SCL, Pedersen A, Wade W, Curtis M. A curated 16S rRNA gene and whole genome database for the murine oral bacterial community. mSystems (2021).
• Korpela K, Dikareva E, Hanski E, Kolho KL, de Vos WM, Salonen A. Cohort profile: Finnish Health and Early Life Microbiota (HELMi) longitudinal birth cohort. BMJ Open (2019).