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• How to Teach in English: EMI Teacher Training Course for Lecturers of Russian Universities

  …s is organized in most Russian universities and found out that a standard lecture lasts for 1.5 hours. The thing is that students who are taught in their mother tongue have certain mechanisms that allow them to listen and write things down in the course of such a lecture, while students who have their classes taught in a foreign language can find it much more challen…

  28.01.2020

• Good Product Is a User-Friendly Product: ITMO Student Working on Interface Design Framework for People with Dyslexia

  …ollection system out there. To solve this problem, I joined forces with other students and we started working on this project together. We conducted some studies, developed certain directions regarding the process of separate waste collection, as well as started establishing student communities and motivating students to comply with the new rules. In what way …

  27.01.2020

• Bioinformatics Specialist Alexey Komissarov on Gaps in Genomic Studies and Plans to Close Them

  …think that this is a normal name. Using this software, we found a lot of tandem repeats in the mouse genome that hadn’t been known before. However, not all answers have been obtained – for example, we still don’t know what these DNA fragments are responsible for.  And this data is needed, for example, for the creation of an artificial chromosome – such experiments…

  27.01.2020

• FAQ: Registering Ownership And Protecting Intellectual Property

  …advertently, it stops being protected. Thus, an ideal case would be a balance between the two: you patent something in a way that is impossible to reproduce without knowing certain specific details, which you then preserve as a know-how.  How can I protect the intellectual property of my lab and the university in general when negotiating an industrial contract…

  24.01.2020

• Mahdi Akhlaqi: The Attitude We Have Towards Ourselves Makes Us Who We Are And Who We Will Be

  …e world, and Peterhof, which is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is absolutely unmissable, especially in the summer, when the park's incredible collection of fountains is in operation. Without a doubt, it was one of the nicest places that I've ever visited in my life. Everything was eye-catching there, from fountains to pa…

  23.01.2020

• ITMO Scientists and Mariinskaya Hospital Specialists Are Developing a New Thrombolytic Drug

  … drugs have been in place since the end of the 20th century. Upon entering the body, they cause a cascade of reactions, which leads to the formation of plasminogen which is contained in our blood, plasmin. It is this proenzyme that, in fact, dissolves a blood clot. However, as a chemist, I can say that their use presents us with two important problems. The first i…

  23.01.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: January 25-26, 2020

• Daniil Sharov on Being a Physicist and a Science Communicator

  … on to study science communication instead?  When I graduated, I kept wondering whether I could be a good teacher, if I was even capable of presenting my subject in an entertaining way. To get inspired, I watched a couple of YouTube vloggers who managed to talk about complex scientific topics while staying close to the facts and yet making them clear and interesti…

  22.01.2020

• Scientists Create Listeriosis-Immune Mice by Turning off Gene in Myeloid Cells

  …ek answers to these questions. In order to understand how the immune system works, scientists conduct experiments and study mice populations in which the animals possess certain non-functioning genes as a result of prolonged targeted cross-breeding. When this approach, known to scientists as “gene knockout”, results in changes to the way an animal’s immune system …

  22.01.2020

• ITMO’s Rector Vladimir Vasilyev: Science Can’t Be Measured in Square Meters

  …gs on Birzhevaya line. Research conducted in these buildings, especially in the field of nanotechnologies, overlaps with that of the ChemBio cluster, so we could hope for a certain synergistic effect of our research departments collaborating. Irina Kruchinina, the head of the Institute of Silicate Chemistry, had a meeting with Vladimir Vinogradov, a PhD in Chemistry …

  21.01.2020