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• Top Nine Questions About Genome Decoding

  … DNA? What does it mean to decode a genome? Who encoded it? They say that you can track your genetic history with the help of your genome. Is it like a DNA test? How can scientists learn something about, say, ancient lions by taking blood or hair samples from their modern descendants? So, we take the bone from an early Paleolithic tiger and make conclusions a…

  20.11.2020

• How Learning Analytics Is Helping ITMO Students Design Their Educational Tracks

  …, find research supervisors, or choose a university where they’d like to go on exchange. “Our service offers users a numbered list of potential research supervisors whose scientific interests match those of the students. And it’s not just about whether the topics match, but about how deeply they are involved in them. For instance, we compare a researcher’s exper…

  19.11.2020

• How the Stones of Ancestors Exhibition Changes Our Perception of Archaeology

  …Ekaterina Loginova, an analyst at ITMO University’s Center for Science Communication, took part in the project and helped with market placement, communication strategies, and promotion. The latter was especially important, as the project was self-financed by its team members without support of state institutions or grants. We talked to Ekaterina Loginova and Nikolay …

  19.11.2020

• ITMO University Holds Sixth International UX Conference WUD@ITMO

  …he main topic of the year, was discussed in talks of Artem Smolin, Dmitriy Satin, and Alexander Volosyuk. Artem Smolin pondered on AI and the associated issues as portrayed in science fiction – from Gianni Rodari’s The Robot Who Wanted to Sleep to the iconic Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. Both of these works were written in the late 1960s, bu…

  18.11.2020

• ITMO University, Gazprom Neft, and Innopolis University Organize Online Hackathon Blockchain.Hack

  …t an opportunity to test their skills and solutions at Gazprom Neft and in joint projects with Innopolis University – with which ITMO University has a long-standing history of scientific and educational partnership” says Kirill Plugin. Bonuses from partners The rest of the hackathon’s media, commercial, and technological partners – Yandex.Cloud, Digital Gener…

  18.11.2020

• Results of ITMO University’s First Online Course on Climate and Journalism

  …What is the public’s perception of climate change? How does the media influence it? How can we share the scientific viewpoint with ordinary people? And how can we debate climate change deniers? All these questions were discussed during the first online course Climate Change as Seen by a Scientist and a Journalist, launched as an initiat…

  18.11.2020

• Researchers Perform Simultaneous MR Microscopy of Two Samples With Ceramic Resonators

  …o visualize the state and structure of neurons.” Studying such objects using MR methods offers several advantages compared to other types of microscopy. For instance, scientists are able to produce three-dimensional images that allow them to examine the internal structure of a cell. In addition, scientists can study live object…

  17.11.2020

• Brain as a Hologram: Exploring Vision at ITMO’s Museum of Optics

  …Crash course in neuroscience  First and foremost, we’ll need to remember that our eyes start processing information right at the retinas, literally at the very first instances that light enters them. You might remember from school biology lessons that there are two types of photoreceptor cells, the infamous rods and cones. The former help us see in low-light condi…

  17.11.2020

• ITMO University’s Anatomy of Movement Course Will Help Improve Your Health

  … “Anatomy of movement is a field that can help many people improve their health. It may be hard to comprehend at times and studying it requires effort. Just like any science, it’s hard to put anatomy simply, but we did our best to make videos that are accessible and interesting,” says Elizaveta Kukina. The lectures were shot at the IC Lab studio founde…

  17.11.2020

• Art.ITMO.Residency Hosts Hidden in the Woods Exhibition

  …bois (hidden in the woods in French). According to Natalia Fedorova, the goal of this exhibition is to help visitors experience nature with the help of accurate, reliable, and scientific data. “The exhibition’s name is a wordplay. Caché is, on the one hand, something hidden, archaic, or mythological but, on the other hand, it is  ‘cache’ – an IT term denoting a …

  17.11.2020