Current news at the Department of Biological and Environmental Science

Current news at the Department of Biological and Environmental Science.

All news articles

Nordea to donate EUR 200,000 to research with focus on biodiversity impact in the Nordic countries

Nordea has donated €200,000 to the University of Jyväskylä. The donation is directed for developing open-access methods for assessing the biodiversity footprint of economic activities.

Jari Haimi

Insect researcher Jari Haimi’s career guided by deep passion and love for nature

Jari Haimi is a researcher who knows all kinds of invertebrates. “In the field of biology, the researcher must have an unwavering interest in nature", he says.

Jussi Lehtonen bio- ja ympäristötieteiden laitokselta

ERC awards nearly €2 million to project that aims at a unified mathematical theory based on Charles Darwin’s 19th-century theory of sexual selection

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded significant ERC Consolidator funding to Assistant Professor Jussi Lehtonen from the Department of Biological and Environmental Science. The five-year funding is worth about 1,8 million euros.

Näkymä päärakennuksesta

Cutting-edge infrastructures selected for Finland’s research infrastructure roadmap – JYU to participate in five

The roadmap for Finnish research infrastructures for 2025–2028.

Kuvassa ovat nobelisti Morten Meldal (vas.) ja Nanotiedekeskuksen johtaja Lotta-Riina Sundberg, jotka osallistuivat nanotiedepäiville lokakuussa 2024.

Nobel laureate in click chemistry impresses at Nanoscience Days in Jyväskylä

At the Nanoscience Days, Morten Meldal praised the University of Jyväskylä’s Nanoscience Center for its contribution to research collaboration.

Harmaapäätikka

Significant funding awarded to help develop AI-based methods for classifying birds and bats

The University of Jyväskylä and Duke University (USA) have received research funding of over a million euros for the development of field equipment and artificial intelligence-based methods for classifying birds and bats.

Tutkimusjohtaja Tiina Jokela

Research Director Tiina Jokela from Biobank Central Finland and the University of Jyväskylä prevents cancer by investigating lifestyles

Tiina Jokela’s responsibilities are divided between the University of Jyväskylä and Biobank Central Finland. . Jokela’s responsibilities include the development of biobank activities and conducting research on cancer biomarkers.

Tutkijavieraita Keniasta (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology)

Faculty of Mathematics and Science deepens cooperation with Kenya

The University of Jyväskylä of the Faculty of Mathematics and Science is one of the few universities from Finland who is collaborating with the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in Kenya in the field of sciences.

Heikki Takala

Significant funding for the development of a light-controlled tool for breast cancer treatment

Academy Research Fellow Heikki Takala has been awarded significant funding of €707,000 from the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation. The three-year project will focus on the development of red-light controlled optogenetic tools and investigate how they can be

Muutaman millin mittaiset raakunpoikaset näyttävät jo simpukoilta mikroskoopin läpi katsoen.

Konnevesi brings new hope for the freshwater pearl mussel

Konnevesi Research Station, University of Jyväskylä, hosts Finland’s only institutional nursery for the freshwater pearl mussel.

Project researcher Pius Kairigo from the Department of Biological and Environmental Science

Dissertation: Presence and impact of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in urban water systems (Kairigo)

Project researcher Pius Kairigo examines in his doctoral thesis the occurrence and fate of selected antimicrobials and antibiotic resistance genes in urban hydrological cycles in Kenya and Zambia. Kairigo defends on 11.10.2024 at 12:00.

Nanoscience days

Nanoscientists meet in Jyväskylä

The Nanoscience Days conference starts today 8.10.2024 and takes two days. Nanoscience Days provide a unique interdisciplinary environment to meet a wide range of experts from different fields of nanoscience.

Go back