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Viikki Research Groups in Biosciences
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Research activities

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES


The research programs are established to increase interactions of research groups in the same field. Each of the research program have a coordinator and a vice-coordinator.

CHAIRPERSONS

The board of the organization is comprised of the chair, vice-chair, coordinators and vice-coordinators of the programs and the head of the Viikki Graduate School in Molecular Biosciences.

Chair: Juha Partanen

Vice-chair: Per Saris

Head of the Viikki Graduate School in Molecular Biosciences:
Dennis Bamford

Cell Biology
Jussi Jäntti (coordinator)
Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen (vice-coordinator)

Developmental Biology
Irma Thesleff (coordinator)
Juha Partanen (vice-coordinator)

Drug Discovery
Anne Juppo (coordinator)
Pekka T. Männistö (vice-coordinator)

Genetics and Genomics
Katarina Pelin (coordinator)
Mikko Frilander (vice-coordinator)

Microbiology
Marko Virta (coordinator)
Benita Westerlund-Wikström (vice-coordinator)

Neurobiology
Kai Kaila (coordinator)
Heikki Rauvala (vice-coordinator)

Plant Biology
Tapio Palva (coordinator)
Kurt Fagerstedt (vice-coordinator)

Structural Biology
Arto Annila (coordinator)
Dennis Bamford (vice-coordinator)

Virology
Jari Valkonen (coordinator)
Tero Ahola (vice-coordinator)