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Susanna Lukinmaa
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Workpackage 4 Leader Dr Susanna Lukinmaa is a microbiologist who completed her Master of Science and PhD (in microbiology) at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Helsinki. Her thesis, ‘Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes and Clostridium perfringens: Diversity of human isolates studied by phenotypic and molecular methods’, examined the molecular epidemiology of food-borne pathogens.
Susanna has most recently worked as a senior researcher on molecular surveillance of food-borne pathogens at the National Public Health Institute (KTL), Department of Microbiology, Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens in Helsinki, Finland.
She was the Finnish representative in the Salm-Gene project, a European network for strengthening international salmonella surveillance through strain typing and differentiation, founded by European Union. In addition, she was a representative in a bilateral computer-based network for comparison of PFGE profiles of L. monocytogenes isolates from humans, food and food production environments in collaboration with The National Veterinary and Food Research Institute (EELA) in Finland.
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