Valokuva Péter Poczai
  • Viikinkaari 1, Biokeskus 3

    00790 Helsinki

    Suomi

  • Viikinkaari 1, Biocentre 3

    00790 Helsinki

    Suomi

  • PL 65 (Viikinkaari 1)

    00014

    Suomi

  • Unioninkatu 44, PO Box 7, Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden, Main Building, Room 306 (3rd Floor)

    00014 Helsinki

20082025

Tutkimustuotoksia vuodessa

Henkilökohtainen profiili

Ansioluettelo

Doctor of Plant Health (MSc), Doctor of Plant Genetics (PhD), Docent (Plant Systematics and Evolution), Habilitation (Biological Sciences)

The Museomics Research Group located in the Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden of the Finnish Museum of Natural History (LUOMUS) also part of the Viikki Plant Science Centre (ViPS) employs cutting-edge high-throughput sequencing technologies to investigate complex evolutionary processes that underpin biodiversity. Based on historical DNA we employ phylogenomics and population genomics to non-model species of plants, lichens, and fungi, as well as their microbial communities. We trace these events in both space and time by using genetic material from museum collections. We also investigate our research results from an interdisciplinary perspective focusing on unique links from the past based on handwritten and printed archival records using deep learning algorithms that are particularly relevant for scientific outreach and higher education.

Current research: Tackling the loss of biodiversity to sustain ecosystem services needs technological advances accompanied by societal changes to better manage our natural capital before unexpected impacts start snowballing into destructive consequences. Humans have altered global ecosystems during the last centuries. With their temporal dimension, herbaria and their microbial communities supply the otherwise sparse long-term data necessary for monitoring ecological and evolutionary changes at this age of rapid global change. The sheer size of herbaria, combined with their increasing digitization and the ability to extract historical DNA from the preserved biological collections, renders them invaluable resources for understanding ecological and evolutionary responses to global environmental change and allows inferring these responses in deep time. Our current research has two main directions: 1) we highlight how biological collections can inform about long-term effects on plants, lichens, fungi and their microbial communities (hologenomics) of at least four of the main drivers of global change: pollution, habitat change, climate change and invasive species. 2) we interpret collection as ‘windows into the past’ to study and test key hypotheses about the evolution and dispersal of plants using large-scale data sets obtained through state-of-the-art museomics. We synthesize this information from deep time phylogenies to elucidate major evolutionary transitions, e.g., transition to land, endosymbiosis and their genomic impacts on plant biodiversity.

 

Koulutus / tieteellinen pätevyys

Plant Systematics and Evolution, Docent (Associate Professor), Bio- ja ympäristötieteellinen tiedekunta

Myöntöpäivä: 11 tammik. 2021

Asemat yliopiston ulkopuolella

OECD CRP Research Fellow, Radboud University, Netherlands

15 tammik. 201928 kesäk. 2019

Scientific Authority (Plants), CITES

1 syysk. 2014 → …

Tieteenalat

  • 1183 Kasvibiologia, mikrobiologia, virologia
  • 1181 Ekologia, evoluutiobiologia
  • 1184 Genetiikka, kehitysbiologia, fysiologia
  • 4111 Maataloustiede
  • 615 Historia ja arkeologia

Kansainvälinen ja kotimainen yhteistyö

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  • Andrés Orejuela

    Poczai, P. (Isäntä)

    11 lokak. 201821 lokak. 2018

    Aktiviteetti: Vierailijan isännöinnin tyypitIsännöity akateeminen vierailu Helsingin yliopistossa

  • The 15th Solanaceae Conference

    Poczai, P. (Osallistuja)

    30 syysk. 20184 lokak. 2018

    Aktiviteetti: Tapahtumaan osallistumisen ja tapahtuman järjestämisen tyypitKonferensseihin, kursseille ja seminaareihin osallistuminen ja näiden järjestäminen

  • 84th SCIENTIFIC REVIEW GROUP MEETING ON TRADE IN WILD FAUNA AND FLORA: CITES

    Poczai, P. (Osallistuja)

    26 syysk. 2018

    Aktiviteetti: Tapahtumaan osallistumisen ja tapahtuman järjestämisen tyypitKonferensseihin, kursseille ja seminaareihin osallistuminen ja näiden järjestäminen

  • Attila T. Szabó

    Poczai, P. (Isäntä)

    16 huhtik. 201821 huhtik. 2018

    Aktiviteetti: Vierailijan isännöinnin tyypitIsännöity akateeminen vierailu Helsingin yliopistossa

  • Tiina Särkinen

    Poczai, P. (Isäntä)

    8 huhtik. 201818 huhtik. 2018

    Aktiviteetti: Vierailijan isännöinnin tyypitIsännöity akateeminen vierailu Helsingin yliopistossa