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ITMO Open Science: Science and Cutting-Edge Inventions Presented at One of Russia’s Largest Contemporary Art Museums
…talkine in metastasis. “Fractalkine has a receptor which is expressed on immune cells and on tumor cells, thereby attracting cancer cells to the metastasis zone. The study was conducted on the THP1 cells (leukemia), with the experiments proving the expression of fractalkine in this line. We think that this axis is involved in the spread of leukemia and other…
10.02.2020
ITMO University Hosts Potanin Scholarship Contest Finals
…erences and social events of their universities, but every one of them has different goals and motivation for receiving the highly sought after Potanin scholarship. “I study innovative entrepreneurship and I already have my own startup in the field of personalised nutrition. I consider this contest a challenge for my fundraising skills: if my leadership and ch…
10.02.2020
Patrick Asante: The Support From the International Office Is Incredible
MOOCs for Everyone: How to Create an Effective and Useful Online Course
…your online course after its launch: correcting any incorrect tasks and errors, interacting with the forum, explaining complex points to students, and examining the data from study analytics. This will allow you to see at which stages students were more likely to drop out and, possibly, rework the content that turned out to be too complicated or uninteresting or come…
06.02.2020
Not Conflict, But Synergy: On Salvador Dali’s Relationship with Science
…nded with the things I’ve learned over the past couple of years. When did you first become interested in Dali’s scientific endeavors? For more than 20 years I have been studying the secrets of antique paintings and the artists’ use of optics and camera obscuras. As for Salvador Dali, I first focused on him in 2017. I’m glad that it happened, because Dali is a u…
05.02.2020
Global Warming and Cold: How Refrigeration Industry Reacts to Contemporary Challenges
…t brings together not only our own students, but also specialists from all over Russia as well as international experts. Oleg Tsvetkov, who moderated the discussion, has been studying this problem since the 1970s and is an acclaimed expert in the field. We are happy to host such an event at our department. Global warming is a well-known and actively discussed iss…
03.02.2020
Social Sciences in the Era of Social Networks: Studying Selfies, Likes and Geotags
…Nowadays, it is a free space with a chaotic structure, an enormous amount of intertwined information, which keeps multiplying. The traditional methods seem to be unfit to study the internet – and that is where the so-called philosophy of networks comes in. The concept itself was coined long before the internet, but it does capture the processes happening inside i…
31.01.2020
Yimer Getnet: Food Biotechnology is a Promising Field and I Want to Be Part of It
…How did you pick Russia as a place to study? When I was a teenager, I had the opportunity to learn a lot about Russia. I discovered that it has a fascinating history and considerable influence on science and technology. In my opinion, Russians are very educated people. This influenced me greatly. Before coming here, I also knew that it was home to many distingu…
30.01.2020
Digital Humanities Week: Physicist and Mathematician Ivan Yamshchikov on the Use of Algorithms in Humanities Research
…oric or not. They took US international protocols and reports by foreign ministries so that half of the events were historical, and another half were not. The accuracy of the study was 80%, but these are artificial conditions and it’s not that simple in real life. Another important thing is narrative. It so happened that people like to tell stories, they love this…
30.01.2020
A Tour Around ITMO University's “Functional Materials and Devices of Optoelectronics” Lab
…materials, including semiconductors, metals, and oxides in a nanostructured state, with the goal of using them in optoelectronics. Students and employees of the laboratory study the properties of nanostructures and create new semiconductor devices for micro- and optoelectronics. The R&D find application in the field of energy-efficient LED lighting and will be in …
28.01.2020