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Andres awarded for excellent work

Sometimes good work gets noticed and it’s great. We are all very happy and proud that Andres Lõhmus was awarded the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry's prize for the best PhD thesis of the year 2016! Andres says he was surprised to find out about winning since he was unaware of entering any competition.

The prize is awarded yearly to an outstanding PhD thesis and all thesis’s accepted with honors are considered. The prize committee also takes into account the overall quality and impact of the publications included in the thesis as well as the extent of the author’s contributions to the work.

Big cheers for the achievement! Warm congratulations also to Kristiina who supervised Andres’ research and continues to support an inspiring and scientifically rigorous atmosphere in the group.

If you became interested, Andres' thesis is available online in the University of Helsinki's e-thesis service: Helper component-proteinase and coat protein are involved in the molecular processes of potato virus A translation and replication

Kristiina and Andres celebrating after a successful dissertation in November 2016

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