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Key Research Areas

Much of the teaching in MBIOT is conducted by different research groups and group leaders in the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, and the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, as well as in a top-level research institute, the Institute of Biotechnology. This research-based teaching offers biotechnology M.Sc. students the opportunity to complete their Practical Training, Advanced Training in a Research group and their Master’s Thesis in the high-level research groups on the Viikki Campus or on other related campuses.

Many of the research groups and group leaders involved in the MBIOT teaching belong to the high-level research organizations, such as the Viikki Research Groups in Biosciences, the national Centres of Excellence in Research (CoE) Programmes coordinated by the Academy of Finland, the Biocentrum Helsinki and/or the Biomedicum Helsinki. A list of relevant research organizations, - programs, - groups and - subjects is shown below. More information also in the UH Research database TUHAT.

» Research groups in Viikki Research Groups in Biosciences

• Cell Biology
• Developmental Biology
• Drug Discovery
• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Environmental Sciences and Management
• Food Sciences
• Genetics and Genomics
• Microbiology
• Neurobiology
• Plant Biology
• Structural Biology
• Virology

» Some Research groups of the Centres of Excellence in Research on Viikki Campus

1. Applied Microbiology Research Unit 2002-2007
2. Developmental Biology Research Programme 2002 -2007
3. Finnish CoE in Plant Signal Research 2000-2005 and 2006-2011
4. Finnish CoE in Virus Research 2000-2005 and 2006-2011
5. FCoE in Integrative Photosynthesis and Bioactive Compound Research. at Systems Biology Level 2008-2013
6. FCoE in Molecular and Integrative Neuroscience Research 2008-2013
7. FCoE in Microbial Food Safety Research 2008-2013
8. FCoE in Metapopulation Research 2012-2017

» Research groups in the Biocentrum Helsinki

» Research groups in the Biomedicum Helsinki

» Research groups at the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences

• Department of Biosciences

» Research groups at the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry

• Department of Agricultural Sciences
• Department Food and Environmental Sciences
• Department of Forest Sciences

» Research groups in the Institute of Biotechnology

» Research groups in the Neuroscience Center

» Research groups in the Institute of Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM)