On 23-24 October, the Nordic Computational Biology Conference 2025 (Estonia + Finland) was held in Tallinn, and our workgroup was represented by Enrico. At the conference researchers from Estonia and Finland [...]

On 15-17 October, Meelis participated in the 36th Annual Conference of the Academia Europeae Building Bridges 2025. He was welcomed as the new member of the academy and also presented [...]

On 1st October Carlos started his new position as a distinguished professor at the Biological Mission of Galicia of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) located in Pontevedra in Spain. A few weeks later several of [...]

After some time when we didn't have any MSc students in our workgroup, we are now especially lucky that two students have decided to do their Master thesis with us! [...]

Marta Miia Pärnpuu finished her BSc studies this summer and we are fortunate that she decided to continue her MSc studies in our workgroup as well! While her BSc thesis [...]

Twice a year the Botany and Zoology departments organise an Eco Fair where biology students at the bachelor or masters level can meet with different workgroups, find a thesis topic [...]

This autumn we are also happy to welcome Gerard Martínez Devesa, a visiting PhD student from the CIBIO Research Institute at the University of Alicante (Spain). His research focuses on [...]

We are happy to host visiting PhD student Wengang Zhang from China! Wengang is a PhD student at the School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University. His [...]

We are happy to welcome Elisa Jordan from University of Münster in Germany! Elisa studies Landscape Ecology and her main interests are the impact of climate change on plant communities [...]

Last year many of our workgroup members did field work in different parts of Estonia to collect data on European plant species above- and belowground traits. This summer they continued [...]