Dr Eveliina Hanski
Subject: Biology
Academic position: Stipendiary Lecturer in Biology
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Background
I am a researcher working on the gut microbiome and tutor Biology students 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 early-life gut microbiome dynamics and how they contribute to health and disease later in life.
Publications
- Hanski E, Raulo A, Tang L, Scott L, Hughes R, Penn A, Fayet AL. Age-related changes in the gut microbiota of a long-lived seabird suggest divergence from mammalian models. Royal Society Open Science (2026).
- Yilmaz B, Baertschi I, Meier KHU, …, Hanski E, et al. A global survey of taxa-metabolic associations across mouse microbiome communities. Cell Host & Microbe (2025).
- Hanski E, Ponsero AJ, Kolho KL, de Vos WM, Salonen A. Infant gut microbiota in multi-child families converges with adults without a sibling-specific signature. bioRxiv (2025).
- Hanski E, Joseph S, Curtis MA, Holthuijzen W, Plissner JH, Jensen JK, Raulo A, Swann J, Baine JF, Quicray M, Else KJ, Bradley JE, Knowles SCL. Wild house mice have a more dynamic and aerotolerant gut microbiota than laboratory mice. BMC Microbiology (2025).
- Hanski E, Raulo A, Knowles SCL. Early-life gut microbiota assembly patterns are conserved between laboratory and wild mice. Communications Biology (2024).
- 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).
- 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).
