Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences - News

The focus of Professor Marjut Roponen’s research has always been on inhaled exposures and, in particular, on their impact on children’s health. Studies concerning exposures during pregnancy are still rather limited.

Nina Sipari, MSc, used metabolomics as a tool to investigate gene function and stress responses, and to determine possible oxidative stress markers in plants.

How are European freshwater crayfish coping with crayfish plague, introduced crayfish species and environmental pollution?

The Faculty of Science and Forestry will change its name to the Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology, effective from 1 January 2023.

The festive atmosphere of the doctoral conferment ceremony held in Kuopio last June can now be revisited via a commemorative book, and via a video of the entire ceremonial conferment of degrees.

The Foundations' Post Doc Pool awarded some 1.27 million euro to 29 postdoctoral scholars on 30 November 2022.

MSc Sareh Yaripour's thesis investigates the impacts of environmental variables such as rearing environment and pollutants on fish reproduction and offspring traits through phenotypic and transgenerational plasticity.

Controlling aphids with parasitic wasps is more difficult in polluted environments.

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland, in collaboration with colleagues from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, have published seven draft genomes for Nordic hare species.

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University have published in the journal Molecular Ecology a comprehensive study on the significance of species differences for the most central cell maintenance mechanisms.