Current news at the Department of Biological and Environmental Science

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.

New professor Katja Räsänen seeks to understand how natural populations adapt to rapidly changing environments. She started as a professor of evolutionary and environmental biology on 1 September 2024.

For the 20th time, Nanoscience Center is organising an international Nanoscience Days conference. For celebration this year's festive event will include honorary plenary lecturer by Morten Meldal, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.

Ylistönrinne renovation project is on schedule. The project is constantly advancing and changing, so you should be particularly careful when moving in the vicinity of the site.

On Friday, 27 September 2024, the European-wide Researchers’ Night will once again come to JYU.

A Year in Nature – challenge has been created by Evolution in Action project to help us improve our nature connectedness.

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä are developing a promising method to support the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) in horses.

JYU researchers found that MnSO4 exposure slows down the growth of zebra fish and lowers their condition factor, which is an indicator of well-being.

A new research project at the University of Jyväskylä has been granted funding by the Research Council of Finland to explore the role of soil fauna in carbon cycling, aiming to provide new insights into how they contribute to the health of our planet.

Jyväskylä Summer School, organized at the University of Jyväskylä this year for the 33rd time. School offers participants the chance to advance their academic expertise in STEM and also opportunity to spend time in an international science community.

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä led a study published in the scientific journal Nature, in which DNA sequencing was used to identify fungi from air samples collected around the world.

Joint Research by University of Eastern Finland and University of Jyväskylä investigated the antiviral potential of different wood species against enveloped coronaviruses and non-enveloped enteroviruses.