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• New Citizen Science Project Helps Researchers Find Volunteers

  …ractices, supplemented and adapted for Russian scientists.” Volunteers simply need to register on the website and choose a project they would like to join. Updates on new projects can be found on the service’s social media pages. Projects involve different forms of participation: some require physical help for archaeological digs, others are for those who wa…

  01.12.2020

• Finno-Ugric Spots of St. Petersburg

• ITMO University Debuts in Five RAEX Subject Rankings

  …among Russia’s top universities, having improved its last year’s result by one position,” notes Ilya Kuftiryov, the head of Rankings Research Center at ITMO University. “These new subject rankings by RAEX are a timely and relevant solution, as prospective students, employers, and academic partners of universities tend to consider specific subject fields and not the “…

  01.12.2020

• ITMO Graduate ‪Andrei Gorodetsky on His Career, European Science, and Work in Different Countries

  …For 17 years now, he has been studying terahertz radiation – first at St. Petersburg State University and ITMO, and then in Greece, Scotland, and England. ITMO.NEWS met with Andrei Gorodetsky to learn more about the differences between Russian and European science and find out his secret to working on different projects in several countries. Please tell us abou…

  01.12.2020

• Where Bananas Become Hammers: Coldest Places in Russia

• ITMO Researchers Find Quick and Easy Way to Detect Tick-Borne Encephalitis

  …ome, without the need to go to a hospital,” explains Artemii Ivanov, one of the authors of the paper, a Master’s student at ITMO’s Infochemistry Research Center.  The newly developed electrochemical device can potentially be used to detect a wide range of other pathogens and viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.  “Blood glucose meters are an inspiring example.…

  30.11.2020

• Rukami Fest 2020: ITMO’s TECHNOHISTORY Project Highlights Digital Loneliness and Bacteria Representation in Media

  …topics that would be interesting to the students: for programmers – the relationship between individuals and the information society; for biotechnologists – the microbiome and new food production technologies; and so on. Our shared goal was to imagine the future of humanity,” says Galina Zhirkova. Biohacking and eco-eating The field of biotechnologies offers …

  27.11.2020

• Song of the Month: November 2020

• Beneath the Pavement, Not the Beach: First Art & Science Conference on Soil

  …e Anthropocene Epoch. Not only did we invent incubators, farms, and hydroponics, but we learned to modify the genomes of plants and animals, produce lab-grown meat, and create new life forms. We began to take all this for granted and move further and further away from nature. In his latest work, Oron Catts addresses the way in which we can combine tech solutio…

  27.11.2020

• Scientists Propose Method of Assessing the Gene-Disease Connection

  …een a specific gene and a process in the organism, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that there really is a connection. A team of scientists from ITMO University have proposed a new method that makes it possible to assess the probability of such a connection for every gene. The modern advances of genetics and bioinformatics help us to better understand how the human or…

  27.11.2020