Mia Åstrand

Mia Åstrand is a researcher at Åbo Akademi University's Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, specializing in Biochemistry and Cell Biology. She is affiliated with the InFLAMES flagship program, which focuses on innovation ecosystems based on immune system research for health solutions.

• Research Interests: Structural bioinformatics of bacterial proteins, virulence mechanisms in Borrelia and Klebsiella infections, ABC-type nucleoside transporters, and reactive oxygen species dependency in microbial competition.

Her recent publications analyze conserved lysine residues in Borrelia garinii adhesion, Klebsiella pneumoniae type VI secretion systems, and computational modeling of Borrelia protein-ligand interactions. Collaborative work includes structural analyses of membrane proteins and nucleoside transport families.

Currently, no formal scientific awards are documented in available sources.