Affiliation: University of Helsinki, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Dr. Keni Vidilaseris is a researcher working on membrane protein characterization and structure determination at the University of Helsinki. He received his PhD in 2014 from Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna, Austria, with a scholarship from ASEAN-European Academic University Network on the BILBO1 protein from T. brucei. In 2017, he received a postdoctoral research grant from the Academy of Finland. He studies the membrane-bound pyrophosphatases from pathogenic parasites, such as Plasmodium, Trypanosoma, and Leishmania, as potential drug targets. Other than that, Dr. Vidilaseris is also working to elucidate the structure and function of acidocalcisome proteins responsible for phosphate homeostasis in the acidocalcisome of those parasites.