Thursday 20th March
– Session 3
| 9:00 | Opening words |
| 9:15 | Keynote Speaker: Suvi Ruuskanen Gut microbiome, host phenotypic variation and responses to environmental challenges |
| 10:15 – 10:35 | Coffee break |
| 10:35 | Speaker from Institute Français de Finlande |
| 10:45 | Linda Laakso Thermoregulation of dragonflies and damselflies: Interspecific comparison |
| 11:00 | Jonna Kukkonen Conserving apollo butterflies: habitat characteristics and conservation implications in Southwest Finland |
| 11:15 | Elisabeth Mikkonen Milk cortisol concentration is shaped by maternal and infant factors in Asian elephants |
| 11:30 | Elina Tuomikoski Presence of an apex predator controls alien mesopredator occurrence and reduces ground-nest predation |
| 11:45 | Gian Luigi Bucciolini Biotic and abiotic factors affect winter cavity use in a nocturnal rapto |
| 12:00 | Mélissa Gagnière Mammals Gone Urban: Exploring behavioural differences of three medium-sized mammals in Finnish gardens along an urban-rural gradient |
| 12:15-13:15 | Lunch break |
– Session 4
| 13:15 | Keynote speaker: Pasi Eilu Mineral Resource Development in Finland |
| 14:15-14:45 | Coffee break |
| 14:45 | Mohib Billah Anthropogenic actions impact water quality and varve formation in Lake Kallavesi |
| 15:00 | Sohvi Railo Seasonal succession of diatoms in the coastal Baltic Sea: insights for their use as a micropaleontological proxy for past environmental change |
| 15:15 | Anna Johnson Dark magmatic rocks mark internal rupturing of a mountain belt more than 1800 million years ago in the Nagu (Nauvo) area, southern Finland |
| 15:30 | Tuomas Tall Sensitivity to glyphosate in Bacteria |
| 15:45 | Milla Similä Microbial Community Assembly: Predictable Patterns or Emergent Properties? |
| 16:00 | Juhani Rantanen Bacterial Players in the Game of Growth and Resistance |
| 16:15 | Annika Nylund Urbanization modifies the composition of pollination-related plant traits |
| 16:30 | Poster session |