Fishing typically removes large individuals from the population. Over time, this leads to evolutionary shrinking of fish and also erodes the natural genetic diversity of fish stocks. New study from the University of Turku shows that removal of the largest individuals from populations can decrease variability in fish size which in turn can hinder their adaptation to environmental changes.
Sports services are from this autumn onwards organised jointly with other higher education institutions in Turku. CampusSport offers a large variety of courses, lessons and activities all around the city.
Social sciences and humanities meeting of the Coimbra Group was organised at the University of Turku 15–16 September 2016. Researchers gathered together to share best practices in interdisciplinary research.
A Finnish-American research group has discovered a new, significant way to enhance the treatment of estrogen receptor (ER+) breast cancer. By using an animal model, they detected that if epigenetic alterations occurred during offspring's early development due to the mother's high level of estrogen, the impact of hormonal therapies can be enhanced with epigenetic medicine.
The viral hit of last summer, Pokémon GO, took over conversations, app store charts and the columns of magazines in search of summer stories.
The International Conference on Arabidopsis Research regularly brings together over 800 scientists from all corners of the world for five days to discuss all aspects of molecular plant science from research on plant growth and development to improving plant tolerance to adverse environmental conditions.
The conference is centered on all aspects of modern plant biology using thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) as a model system.
What if we could create more powerful solar panels, find materials to replace rare metals in chemical industry, create lighter means of transport, or save nature? All this can be helped with the method Doctoral Candidate Henrik Levämäki has created for computational modelling of materials. The method makes the use of density functional theory more accurate than before.
The University of Turku placed 234th in the worldwide QS World University Ranking published today.
The Opening Day of the University's 97th academic year was held on 5 September 2016. During the Day, the Teacher, Course and Language Deed of the Year as well as distinguished dissertations were awarded.
The University of Turku aims at being a pioneer in promoting the operational culture of open science. In its recent publication policy, the University of Turku outlines that scientific publications need to be openly available. With its data policy earlier this year, the University has already encouraged its researchers to open their research materials.
