The research team at the University of Turku, Finland, focuses on photosynthesis and biotechnology, led by Prof. Yagut Allahverdiyeva-Rinne.

Turku, Finland
Joined October 2020
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🌍 Over the next four years, S2B - Solar to Butanol project will embark on an exciting journey to revolutionize solar fuel production.
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Stay tuned for more updates on our partners and their roles in S2B’s journey towards sustainable solar fuel solutions! 🌞✨
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🚀 Here’s our first communication campaign for the S2B project! We’ll introduce one of our project partners every two weeks.
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We have a PostDoc position in microbial #photosynthesis, extracellular electron transfer & sustainability! Join our international @PhotoMicrobes team at @UniTurku, Finland, and engage in excellent multidisciplinary work. Please retweet and help us spread the word. @YagutRinne
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Looking for a 3 year PhD? In southern Italy? Working with photosynthetic organisms? Contact me by the deadline July 18th. Here the call in Italian, soon I'll post the call in English. Please RT @ASPhotobiology @EurSocPhotobiol @PHOTOBIOS @PhotoMicrobes unipg.it/didattica/percorsi-…
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Many chemicals can be sustainably synthesised by microorganisms such as cyanobacteria and microalgae. A new dissertation highlights the versatility of photosynthetic microorganisms for applications in different solid-state chemical production systems. utu.fi/en/news/events/disser…
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Microalgae can grow in greenhouse drain water. We're testing this concept also in Finland under the climatic and light conditions of Northern Europe. We installed a fully operational facility to validate the REALM concept at pilot scale: 1 m3. #BlueBioeconomy
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TODAY at 12:00 in Presidentti, BioCity! Frontiers of Science talk by Prof. Shelley Minteer @MinteerLab from the @UUtah. Prof. Minteer will tell us about enzymes as electrocatalysts. ☕️+🥪 at 11:45, welcome! @PhotoMicrobes @AboAkademi @UniTurku
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NEXT WEEK THURSDAY Frontiers of Science seminar by Shelley Minteer @MinteerLab from the @UUtah. She will tell us about enzymes as electrocatalysts in BioCity Presidentti auditorium at 12:00 ☕️+🥪at 11:45, welcome everyone! @UniTurku @PhotoMicrobes @AboAkademi @BioscienceTurku
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Glycogen synthesis allows metabolic and photosynthetic adaptation to photomixotrophy in cyanobacteria Ortega-Martínez et al. @IBVF_Sevilla @cicCartuja @PhotoMicrobes @InvestigaUS @unisevilla 📖 ow.ly/fbGb50RychY
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Doctoral researcher's position in my new project at @UniTurku is now open! Apply here to do a #PhD studying the role of the proton motive force in regulation of #photosynthesis in #cyanobacteria: ats.talentadore.com/apply/va… #phdpositions
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*Open position* Are you interested in the fundamental #regulation of #photosynthesis and the role of #flavodiiron proteins? We have an opening for #PhD student/#PostDoc in our group focusing on this topic. See link for more info. Please RT ats.talentadore.com/apply/tu…
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FuturoLEAF consortium meeting was full of exciting results. @VTTFinland @PhotoMicrobes @UniTurku @KouristLab @CNRS @AaltoUniversity
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THIS WEEK #frontiersofscience seminar by Prof. Roberta Croce from @VUamsterdam. Come to BioCity, Presidentti auditorium, at 12:00 and learn about oxygenic photosynthesis! ☕️+🥪 at 11:45, welcome! @UniTurku @AboAkademi @PhotoMicrobes
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Are you ready to find solutions for Green and Digital Transition? Our UTU-GreDiT doctoral training programme is looking for 25 doctoral researchers who want to be part of a transformation towards sustainable societies! 🌍 Find out more! ➡️ sites.utu.fi/utugredit/
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Ville Rissanen @VTTFinland @AaltoUniversity defended his thesis“Development of Leaf-Inspired Functional Structures from Cellulose Nanofibers - Matrix Scaffolds for Solid-State Photosynthetic Cell Factories”Opponent Prof. Lars Berglund @KTHuniversity sparked insightful discussion.
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We are happy to announce, that @FuturoLEAF has a new blog post about exciting MIPS, by Christos Galanos and Karsten Haupt @CNRS Visit our website to read the whole story! futuroleaf.com/2023/11/16/mo…
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🎃Sky is blue, microalgae is green, may we have our #Halloween!Today over 300 people came for a festive, spooky night at Botanical Garden. They had a spine-tingling stroll through spookily illuminated greenhouse premises&visited @PhotoMicrobes algae production facilities. – at Turku, Finland
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Microalgae and cyanobacteria have the potential to be a vital building block for circular bioeconomy. 💚 ✏️ Our Doctoral Researcher @ElisaWerner3 writes about her research with cyanobacterium and the ideas she got from a conference journey. @PhotoMicrobes blogit.utu.fi/elavaa/2023/10…
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