(Botanical symposium 18.5.2010)
Dear ladies and gentlemen, dear botanists!
On behalf of the city of Joensuu I have a great pleasure to welcome you in Joensuu and to this banquet. What makes me pleasure so great is that I’m biologist myself. I have graduated from University of Joensuu – when it still had that name. So I feel like being home when I’m among the botanists. In my thesis I studied macrophytes in Lake Saimaa