On behalf of the Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE) and the organizing committee I had the pleasure to welcome plant scientists from all over the world to Helsinki, Finland to attend this most exciting congress entitled “Plants for human health in the post-genome era”. This congress took place in August 2007 at Rantapuisto Congress Centre in a beautiful location by the Baltic Sea about 10 km from Helsinki city centre, Finland .

During the three and half days of the congress over 30 outstanding speakers from Europe, USA, Canada, Japan and South-Korea covered several important topics such as health benefits of plants, novel emerging technologies, and plants as factories for production of small molecules and therapeutic proteins. Also recent developments in large-scale cultivation of plant cells for various industrial applications were discussed.

The meeting was part of PSE's 50th anniversary events. All previous PSE meetings have been highly successful and appreciated both by academic and industrial audiences.

To view pictures taken during the congress, click here.

Welcome to Helsinki !

Dr Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey
Chairperson of the organizing committee