Keyword: Faculty of Science

University of Turku researchers developed a winning solution for predicting overall survival of patients with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), treated with first-line anti-mitotic chemotherapy. The primary benefit of this Challenge will be to establish new quantitative benchmarks for prognostic modeling in mCRPC, with a potential impact for clinical decision making and ultimately improving the design of future clinical trials.

The University of Turku bid for organising the conference of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), winning against Prague and Barcelona. Turku was chosen as the host of the 2019 conference in this year's conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 14 August. The ESEB conference will be organised in the Logomo event centre, Turku, on 19–24 August 2019.

The Finnish Science and Technology Camp brought 22 elementary and secondary school pupils from Tianjin to Turku on Wednesday, 12 August 2015. In the University's workshops, the pupils experimented how to make ice cream with the help of physics and learned about the cryogenic phenomena utilised in laboratories.

​In the workshop, the pupils used liquid nitrogen to freeze ice cream. They received directions from the scientists through an interpreter (on the right).

Breeding Cichlids defending their offspring attack fish that present a greater threat to the their territory more aggressively.

​Cichlids are also popular aquarium fish.

The Faculty office is closed on Monday, May 11th 2015. The office will be open again on Tuesday, May 12th from noon to 2 pm.

Quantum physicists will try out new methods in solving the mysteries of science. A group of enthusiastic professionals from different disciplines will gather to Tuorla Observatory of the University of Turku, and their mutual aim is to create games which will produce new knowledge. The results will be presented at the Science Café on 14 December, where SF-author Hannu Rajaniemi will also give a presentation.

Eva-Mari Aro, the professor of Molecular Plant Biology at the University of Turku, and her research group were selected as the only Finnish group to become partners in an Australian centre of excellence research programme.

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A Finnish-Brazilian collaboration that researches the variation of biodiversity in the Amazon has received the biggest funding, over 670 000 euro, from the Academy of Finland and the São Paulo Research Foundation.