Open house event of the Department of Biodiversity Sciences

Welcome to the Department of Biodiversity Sciences’ open house event, where you can learn about the research activities and collections of this newly established department.

All members of the University of Turku staff and students are welcome to attend, and coffee and sweet buns are served for the first 100 guests!​

Programme

Open house

Visit the department's units in Natura (zoological and botanical museum) and Aurum (Aerobiology laboratory and LUMA laboratory) and learn about the research stations, botanic garden and various ongoing research topics through our presentations and at the exhibition stands.

Presentations on ongoing research projects

Location: Natura XI, 2nd floor  

Part of the programme is in Finnish and part is in English:

12.30 Ilari Sääksjärvi "Biodiversiteettitieteet – missä mennään?" 

12.50 Samuli Lehtonen  “Kasvikokoelmat sotahistoriallisen tutkimuksen lähdeaineistona”

13.10 Arto Hiltunen “Nanoplastic research at the University of Turku”

13.30 Ricardo Correia “Exploring the relationship between nature and human sense of time” (NATURETIME project)

13:50 Juulia Räikkönen, “Researching Biodiversity and Business” (BIODIFUL project)

Break

14.30 Ilari Sääksjärvi "Biodiversiteettitieteet – missä mennään?" 

14.50 Samuli Lehtonen  “Kasvikokoelmat sotahistoriallisen tutkimuksen lähdeaineistona”

15.10 Arto Hiltunen “Nanoplastic research at the University of Turku”

15.30 Ricardo Correia “Exploring the relationship between nature and human sense of time” (NATURETIME project)

15.50  Juulia Räikkönen, “Researching Biodiversity and Business” (BIODIFUL project)

Guided tours

Explore our zoological and botanical museum collections, which are normally kept behind closed doors. We recommend registering in advance for tours of the zoological and botanical collections. Each tour is limited to 15 participants.

Registration for the tours begins in early April.