ViPS Science Fair 2025

ViPS research groups present their work

Date: 1st October 2025

Time: 16:00-18:00

Location: Learning centre (Oppimiskeskus) 1401, Biocentre 1, Viikinkaari 9

Doctoral researchers and post-docs from ViPS research groups will present their projects to students from the Master's Programmes in Integrative Plant Sciences, Agricultural Sciences & Forest Sciences. The aim is to gain an understanding of the plant biology research being carried out at the University of Helsinki and to explore the possibility of joining a research group for a short period of practical training.

Presentations will be in the form of laptop slides or paper posters.

Refreshments served.

ALL welcome!

Presentations
  • Using ozone to study plant signaling - Mikael Brosché
  • Blending pixels and physiology: AI-driven stress monitoring - Giorgia Del Cioppo
  • Balancing on a knife's edge: tuning growth and defence through resistance gene ACD6 - Richard Gossens
  • Sustainable soilless production of cranberry (V. macrocarpon) in a high tunnel - Satu Hult
  • Plant ecology in forest and tundra - Elina Kaarlejärvi
  • Plant stress in a package - Saijaliisa Kangasjärvi
  • Beyond stomatal immunity: how water immunity shapes plant resistance to Pseudomonas syringae - Jasmin Kemppinen
  • Ecological impacts of white-tailed deer in traditional rural habitats - Viivi Lindholm
  • Storage root growth in cassava - Meeri Mäkelä, Munan Lyu, Raili Ruonala
  • Evolution of Macaronesian Lotus - Dario Ojeda Alayon
  • Plant Epigenomics, Plasticity and Evolution - James Ord
  • Plant-Virus Interactions - Maija Pollari
  • Biochemical analysis of Timothy drought responses -Sylvain Poque
  • Conifer embryo lethals as inbreeding avoidance mechanism - Tanja Pyhäjärvi
  • Temperature-mediated plasticity of floral traits: adaptive, genetic, and molecular insights from Arabidopsis thaliana - Amna Sarmad
  • Guard cell signalling and stomatal function - Maija Sierla
  • What makes tree a tree? Help creating an woody genes atlas for biotechnology and clone your favourite tree genes - Leo Vainio
  • Regulation of stomata production during organ growth - Anne Vaten
  • Molecular regulatory networks controlling inflorescence meristem patterning of the Asteraceae capitulum (Inflorescence Head) - Daniel Zelelew
  • Growth, patterning, and 3D gene expression dynamics in developing strawberry flowers - Teng Zhang
  • Strategies to Enhance Fruit Size and Yield in Strawberry - Quan Zhou