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• ITMO Scientists Are First to Assemble Jaguarundi Genome

  …ur results. Where did you find the jaguarundi genome? Jaguarundi isn’t a rare or protected species so it’s easier to find and deliver its genome. Our colleagues from the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology helped us – they had samples of frozen tissues. Then, one of the samples was sequenced. This sample went a long way: from Novosibirsk, it went to Joh…

  31.08.2021

• Researcher Artemy Okhotin: If Vaccine Makes Hospitalization Five Times Less Likely – Then It’s a Powerful Tool

  …variant of COVID-19 had completely superseded the original one in Russia and in St. Petersburg, in particular. This led to intense public discussions. Does vaccination help against the new strains? Why are there so many infected among the vaccinated? Does it mean that no one is safe now?  A recent study that is currently awaiting pub…

  30.08.2021

• Kick Off the New Academic Year: Study Spots Near ITMO Campuses

  …y new space, KGallery is known for its interesting exhibitions – and now you know that it has its own little book-and-coffee shop. There might not be many tables here, but how inspirational is it to study literally in a gallery? It’s almost certain that any creative project you need to tackle will get cracked easier there. Places to study near ITMO’s Kronverks…

  30.08.2021

• International Team Develop Non-Radiating Electromagnetic Source

  …et are supposed to concentrate all the energy in the local near-field zone. Considered classical analogs of atoms, such systems can be used to create artificial materials, for instance, metamaterials with unique electromagnetic properties. For that reason, scientists introduce the term “meta-atoms” to describe the phenomenon. Meta-atoms can be based on an anapole …

  30.08.2021

• Song of the Month: August 2021

  … the lace of the leaves.  Marina The leitmotif of this ending summer – a truly heart-warming and emotional chapter of my life – became the song Swing Lynn by Twin Cabins (currently known as Harmless). But although the usual version is great, believe me, the slowed one is a real banger. They weren’t lying when they said “slowed to perfection”. This song is s…

  27.08.2021

• ITMO University Joins Digital Professions in Russia Initiative

  …his time, the program brought together over 20 top Russian universities, major online learning platforms, and major IT companies such as Netology, Innopolis University, GeekBrains, Yandex.Practicum, Sberbank Corporate University, and others. ITMO University offered three courses in the following fields: Web Development; Data Analytics Technology; Buildin…

  27.08.2021

• ITMO Students Shine At Hackathon Oil Tech Challenge 2021 and Enter Ministry of Energy Candidate Pool

  …cify our level of English. We also had to take two tests with questions on leadership skills and project management.  Daria: The program featured quite a lot of things. For instance, on the second day the Oil Summit had its plenary session on sustainable development within the global agenda of the oil and gas industry in 2021. Among the participants of the Summit …

  27.08.2021

• Neural Networks Specialist: Machine Learning Models Can Fail And Here Is Why

  …eople seem to hold the recommendations of a neural network for truth but models rarely work with a 100% accuracy, more often it’s 80% or even 60%. We can’t blindly trust them, instead we always have to take into account how accurate any given model is.   Let’s say a model identifies the type of tumor and is 80% confident. Based on this data, the person responsible…

  26.08.2021

• Why We Should Study Anti-Vaccination Communities

  …. In this case, people have the opportunity to influence the decisions that are being made. For example, they can choose which vaccines are essential and which aren’t. In this instance, you can see the disadvantages of such a model: we believe it’s absurd to let the general public make such decisions. However, I thought it was important to approach the anti-vacc…

  26.08.2021

• ITMO Student on Summer Vacation

  … bit about yourself and your research project. My name is Nicole Agadzhanyan, and I am a second-year Master’s student in molecular biology and biotechnology at ITMO’s SCAMT Institute. I am a researcher at the experimental oncology lab in SCAMT and a visiting student at the Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in S…

  26.08.2021