Rats of Helsinki - movement, disease and control

Name: Rats of Helsinki - movement, disease and control
Start: 2025-09-24T17:30:00+03:00
Location: Oodi Central Library Helsinki

Schedule

Wed, 24 Sep, 2025 at 05:30 pm

UTC+03:00

Location

Oodi Central Library Helsinki | Helsinki, ES

The Science Basement would like to invite you to listen and interact during an Afternoon in the Science Basement. The first speaker of the monthly fall series, Suvi Sallinen, a postdoc from the faculty of bio- and environmental sciences, University of Helsinki, will present their work, ‘Rats of Helsinki - movement, disease and control’
When: 24th of September, 2025 at 17:30-18:30 Helsinki time (EET)
Where: Oodi Library, 3rd floor Saarikoski (Töölönlahdenkatu 4, Helsinki)

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Description: Rats have lived side by side with humans for decades and are infamous for their potential to carry diseases. Today, significant amounts of money are spent to keep rat populations under control, but the effects of the control efforts on rats have not been thoroughly researched. In this talk, I will discuss rats in the city of Helsinki, how they may be affected by control efforts, their movement behaviour, and the diseases they may carry.