Congratulations to Neha Rai for receiving a University of Helsinki distinction award of outstanding merit for her doctoral dissertation!

Four LBD genes regulate secondary growth in Arabidopsis root downstream of cytokinin. Superb work by Lingling Ye（叶玲玲） and Xin Wang, and other members of our lab. #viikkicampus #bytdk ViPS Institute of Biotechnology (BI) HiLIFE_Helsinki University of Helsinki 1/x sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to Viikki Plant Science Centre researchers Paula Elomaa 🇫🇮🇺🇦 JussiHeinonsalo Teemu Hölttä Saijaliisa Kangasjärvi @JRikkinen Timo Vesala on receiving Academy of Finland funding. University of Helsinki Suomen Akatemia | Research Council of Finland

Prof. Paula Elomaa 🇫🇮🇺🇦 #mmtdk tells us why #flowers matter. Flowers are indispensable for life on Earth: they appear in astonishing shapes and colors but also produce fruits and seeds.🌺🌱 #PlantDay18May #basicresearch #ViikkiCampus #Plants4Future

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In celebration of #PlantDay18May Mikael Brosche #bytdk talks about his favorite plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, which is great for #basicresearch : it helps us study e.g. #photosynthesis and the effects of environment and #airpollutants . 🌱🔬 #ViikkiCampus

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It's #PlantDay18May ! #Plants are beautiful and important. They make up 80% of the #food we eat and produce 98% of the #oxygen we breathe. Plant science is critical to us now and in the future.🍀 #Plants 4Future #ViikkiCampus #ThrivingNature #mmtdk #bytdk

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Shreya Saha will defend her PhD thesis 'VPg-eIF(iso)4E interaction, coat protein production and virion formation in potato virus A infection' on Friday 20th November at 13:00 EET.
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Neha Rai will defend her PhD thesis 'Perception of solar UV radiation and blue light by plants: photoreceptors, transcriptome and environmental acclimation' on Tuesday 17th November at 12:00 EET.
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Two ViPS members will defend their doctoral theses next week: Neha Rai and Shreya Saha. Doctoral defences are open to everyone! More details coming soon. You can watch their introductory videos on the ViPS YouTube channel. youtube.com/channel/UC8ZMo…

Plant vir­uses hi­jack the de­fence sys­tem of plants, but re­search­ers may be able to find a way to strike back
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Take a look at our seminar series for the upcoming season - a fantastic list of great speakers! We hope to meet as many of speakers as we can in person, but until circumstances allow, seminars will be held remotely.helsinki.fi/en/news/scienc…

Novel tool to inducibly knockout genes at cellular resolution in plants | University of Helsinki helsinki.fi/en/news/life-s…

Two ViPS researchers, Iris Sevilem & Aleksia Vaattovaara receive outstanding merit award for their doctoral theses. Congratulations! University of Helsinki
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All cheers, when the second rank prize is the best one. Thank you ViPS for an excellent Christmas party.

ViPS Christmas party - all concentrating on stand up performance 🎄Great colleagues! HiLIFE_Helsinki University of Helsinki

Fifteen researchers of the University of Helsinki among the world’s most cited scholars in their respective fields, Jaakko Kangasjärvi listed under Life Sciences | University of Helsinki helsinki.fi/en/news/higher…

Eric Kemen from the Kemen Lab gave today's ViPS invited seminar. He's looking for post-docs and PhD students to join his lab.

Dinner in Ghent, VIB Plant Science visit. #viikkiplants

DPPS visit to PSB-VIB Ghent. Dirk Inze gives welcome talk.

Our plant gene editing panel discussion is just starting!