Monday 3rd-Friday 7th November
Curator: Nina Liebenberg
Location: Ground floor foyer area of Biocentre 3, Viikinkaari 1
Thursday 6th November, 11:15
Special Plant Seminar
Hannes Kollist, University of Tartu, Estonia
Early steps of apoplastic ozone sensing rely on Cu-based LRR-kinase CARD1/HPCA1
Hosts: Ykä Helariutta & Ari Pekka Mähönen
Location: Seminar room 5405, Biocentre 3, Viikinkaari 1
Thursday 6th November, 14:00-18:00
Synzoochory symposium combining art and science
ViPS speakers: Sara Forlani, George Woodward, Jasmin Kemppinen & Wiktoria Fatz
Host: Nina Liebenberg
Location: Seminar room 2402, Biocentre 3, Viikinkaari 1
Friday 7th November, 10:00
Special Plant Seminar
Hermann Bürstmayr, Institute of Biotechnology in Plant Production, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria
Examples of research on disease resistance of wheat: Fusarium head blight, bunt and wheat dwarf virus
Host: Tuuli Haikonen
Location: Seminar room 1402, Biocentre 3, Viikinkaari 1
Friday 7th November, 13:00
Thesis defence
Attiq Rehman, Faculty of Agriculture & Forestry, Natural Resources Institute Finland (LuKe) and DPPS
Implementation of genomic tools in strawberry pre-breeding for Nordic climates
Opponent: Hermann Bürstmayr, Institute of Biotechnology in Plant Production, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria
Location: Auditorium B2, Forest Sciences building, Latokartanonkaari 7-9 and online via Unitube
Wednesday 12th November, 13:00
ViPS Seminars
Albert Porcar Castell: Remote sensing of photosynthetic function with Solar-induced Fluorescence
Roosa Laitinen: Floral resilience to environmental change
Host: Timo Hytönen
Location: Lecture room B6, Forest Sciences building, Latokartanonkaari 7-9
Wednesday 12th November, 14:15
Plant Club
14:15 George Woodward, OEB; Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Manipulating carbon sink capacity to investigate how the regulation of wood growth and vascular continuity is coordinated in hybrid Aspen
Host: Timo Hytönen
Location: Lecture room B6, Forest Sciences building, Latokartanonkaari 7-9
Wednesday 19th November, 13:45-15:00
Special Plant Seminar: Pre-breeding in (somewhat exotic) perennial crops
Torben Bo Toldam-Andersen, University of Copenhagen
FastGrapes: A project exploring the potential for selecting grape cultivars suitable for growing in Scandinavia
Tuomas Hämälä, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Using genomics to unravel pathogen resistance in Theobroma cacao
Host: Tuuli Haikonen
Organized by the prebreeding project BERRIES – Development of berry germplasm (Nordic prebreeding for plants)
Location: Lecture room B6, Forest Sciences building, Latokartanonkaari 7-9