Sesilja Aranko
Assistant Professor, Aalto University
Sesilja Aranko is listed as Assistant Professor, Aalto University. Sesilja is scheduled to speak at 2027 TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo on 23 March 2027.
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About
Sesilja Aranko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems at Aalto University, Finland, where she leads a research group at the interface of protein engineering and biomaterials. Her group develops Catcher/Tag protein-ligation pairs and post-translational modification tools for recombinant production to program the structure and function of proteins and protein-based materials, with a particular focus on engineered silk and collagen. Her lab also builds ultra-high-throughput screening platforms based on bead display and FACS to discover and evolve secreted proteins. Aranko earned her PhD in Biosciences from the University of Helsinki in 2014, working in Dr. Hideo Iwai’s group on protein splicing and inteins. She then continued as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Markus Linder, studying biomaterials, including a period at EMBL Hamburg focusing on protein crystallography. She became Assistant Professor at Aalto University in 2024, where she leads the Ce