Events in March

ViPS events in March 2021

Friday 12th, 14:00-16:00

Wine Science Seminars go flying: a mini symposium on drones in plant and forest sciences

Drones are now ubiquitous in the environmental sciences. But what can they tell us about plants and forests?  I have brought together a panel of upcoming researchers associated with plant and forest sciences at Viikki to talk about how they use drones in their research and teaching. Short individual talks are rounded off with a panel discussion with talking points taken from a live Zoom Q&A. 

Program:

Dr. Jon Atherton, OPL/Forest Sciences/INAR, University of Helsinki

Why drones are here to stay: the scale niche

Vicent Agustí Ribas Costa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) / University of Helsinki, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Forestry Department, Optic Photosynthesis Laboratory

UAS-based spherical (360) photography: description of the forest canopy from the inside out

Dr . Samuli Junttila, University of Eastern Finland

Drones in teaching and tree health monitoring

Dr. Pavel Alekseychik, LUKE

New approaches to UAS thermal imaging in boreal ecosystems

Mikael Änäkkälä, AGFOREE, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki

The effect of different conditions on multispectral images taken with a drone

Panel discussion and Q&A.

Location: Remotely via Zoom

Wednesday 17th, 13:00

Invited Plant Seminar

Stefan Martens, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy

Colourful cell factories for production of anthocyanins for health and food applications

Host: Teemu Teeri

Location: Remotely via Zoom

Wednesday 17th, 14:15

Plant Club

14:15 Lingping Zhu, Faculty of Agriculture & Forestry

Two polyketide reductases recruited from the ancient sporopollenin biosynthesis to defense-related parasorboside biosynthesis in Gerbera hybrida

14:35 Lingling Ye, OEB, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences & Institute of Biotechnology

Cytokinins initiate secondary growth in Arabidopsis roots through a set of LBD genes

Location: Remotely via Zoom