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Significant ERC funding for two projects at the University of Jyväskylä: New innovations expected in molecular biology and the ethics of land use

Teea Kortetmäki and Elina Laanto received highly competitive five-year ERC Starting Grants from the European Research Council. The awarded sum for both projects amounts to almost 1.5 million euros.

Nanotiedepäivien ohjelma koostuu yhdeksästä kutsutusta luennosta sekä noin 70 posteriesityksestä, joissa esitellään alan uusimpia tutkimustuloksia sekä nanotieteiden eri näkökulmia.

Cellular transport mechanisms, active molecular systems and the dynamics of 2D materials at the Nanoscience Days in Jyväskylä

The Nanoscience Center of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, hosts again the annual Nanoscience Days conference on 10th – 11th of October 2023 in Jyväskylä, Finland.

Tiffany Scholier

18.8.2023 The effects of cities on microbes (Scholier)

The cities are the most common interface where humans interact with other organisms, including micro-organisms like bacteria and fungi.

18.8.2023: Plants in aquaponics improve water quality, enhance the fish growth, and alter the microbes in fish (Atique)

Aquaponic systems have their own unique microbial communities, which can affect the aquaponics' water quality and the growth of plants and fishes.

Chloé Fouilloux

11.8.2023 Tadpole responses to biological and environmental risk (Fouilloux)

Throughout the course of her doctoral thesis, Chloé Fouilloux has used theoretical and empirical approaches to understand animal responses to risk.

Hankkeen aloitustapaaminen järjestettiin Reykjavikissa Islannissa.

New IN-ARMOR project aims to fight antimicrobial resistance

Antibiotics are one of the most important inventions in medicine.

Lotta-Riina Sundberg on Jyväskylän yliopiston uusin professori.

Recently appointed Professor Lotta-Riina Sundberg develops virus-based treatments for bacterial infections

Lotta-Riina Sundberg, a new Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, started in her post at the University of Jyväskylä at the beginning of May.

Sara Hočevar

2.6.2023 In the light of life histories, bet-hedging, and fisheries-induced change: case Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) (Hocevar)

A doctoral thesis from the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä has investigated the impact of selective fishing on the fish life histories and populations.

Sammakkoisät kantavat nuijapäät selässään vesilammikoihin, joiden vesi voi vaihdella juomaveden kirkkaudesta viinin tummuuteen.

Life through rose-coloured glasses

The visibility of rearing conditions impacts animal responses to risk: How environmental disturbances can affect predator-prey interactions in the wild. This research was published in the Journal of Experimental Biology in May 2023.

M.Sc. Dhanik Reshamwala

24.2.2023 Broad-spectrum antivirals from nature: studies on efficacy and mechanisms (Reshamwala)

In the last few decades, the world has been witnessing several viral outbreaks.

Simojoen aikuisia raakkuja allaskasvatuksessa Konneveden tutkimusasemalla. (Kuva: Emmi Ventelä.)

Is it summer already? Juvenile freshwater pearl mussels are born in the middle of the winter

The University of Jyväskylä–led LIFE Revives project has succeeded in accelerating the freshwater pearl mussel (FPM) larvae development’s parasitic phase on salmonid gills, therefore moving up the time when juveniles can be set free into independent life.

Matti Jalasvuori toimii PrecisionPhagen toimitusjohtajana.

Unifund invests in biotech company PrecisionPhage, developer of phage technology

PrecisionPhage was founded to support wider international utilisation of bacteriophages.

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