Summary
Matias Lappalainen is a project scientist with eight years of hands-on experience in molecular and cell biology, specializing in recombinant proteins and phage display–based antibody discovery. At the University of Turku he has led projects from signal peptide optimization and synthetic antibody libraries to bacterial production, purification and biophysical characterization of antibody fragments, combining rigorous QC and documentation with lab safety expertise. His work bridges method development and applied diagnostics—highlighted by a first-author publication in ACS Synthetic Biology on codon and hydrophobicity tuning to boost phage display efficiency. Colleagues rely on him for careful experimental design, reproducible workflows and translating subtle sequence-level tweaks into markedly improved protein display and binding outcomes. Based in the Turku metropolitan area, he brings both academic rigor and practical production experience to translational protein engineering projects.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Molecular Biotechnology and Diagnostics, Master of Science - MS, Molecular Biotechnology and Diagnostics at Turun yliopisto - University of Turku