Worth knowing: Everyone speaks chemistry – the scent of the fly
Welcome to a lunch lecture where Professor Peter Witzgall talks about how all living things use smell to communicate, and how this fact can be used to promote better gardening. The library will provide a light lunch.
Date: 5 March 2026
Time: 12:15 - 12:55
Venue: The Studio, level 1 of the Teaching Building
Language: Swedish
Organiser: SLU University Library
Location: Online, Uppsala
- Please note that this lecture is in Swedish.
- Lunch is served from 11:45
- Seating is limited and will be distributed on a first come, first served basis
Olfactory communication connects all living beings. Chemical ecology research identifies these chemical signals. The goal is to bring this knowledge to practical application in safe plant protection, horticultural production and food processing. During the first Worth Knowing lecture of the spring, Peter Witzgall, Professor of chemical ecology at the Department of Plant Protection Biology, will tell us more.
Take part online, live or afterwards
If you are unable to attend in the studio, you can watch live on SLU Play and on the SLU University Library’s Facebook page. The lecture will also be available to watch afterwards on SLU Play, but it will take a couple of weeks before it is published there.
Worth knowing
Worth knowing is the SLU University Library’s popular science lunchtime lecture series. Here, exciting and recent research results from SLU are presented. We offer a light lunch, and after the lecture, listeners have the opportunity to ask questions.