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• ITMO Scientists Find a Way to Turn Blood Into Protein

  …per the tons of blood produced annually, it turns out that we’re losing a massive amount of secondary raw material. Blood as a food component has been used throughout the history of mankind, but in the modern world, many people deliberately refuse to consume it. There are many reasons for this: from fear of infection to religious and ethical beliefs. “My team…

  27.05.2021

• ITMO Holds Open Education Conference

  …rstood, they were guided primarily by the results of the student survey. And that’s why I’m especially pleased that they chose me. I think this is all thanks to the TECHNOHISTORY and Medical Humanities projects because I wanted to involve a large number of interdisciplinary students in this activity: students from the programs in the fields of art & science, digit…

  25.05.2021

• Student Startups: ITMO Hosts Meeting With XAMK University and Patteri Entrepreneurship Society

  …neurs, especially students, have a hard time starting their own businesses without external support. As a rule, young people can’t get bank loans as they have neither credit history, nor reputation, nor experience. “I launched my startup when I was still a student. So I know firsthand what it's like to start your business from scratch with no money,” Nikolai Gol…

  25.05.2021

• Productive Summer: Online Schools from ITMO University’s Partners and Not Only

  …ly 26 Fees: 380 euros (early bird, valid till July 1) or 450 euros (regular fee, valid till 26 July) The course program includes classes on design thinking, pitching and storytelling, interacting with stakeholders, as well as teamwork on joint projects. For more information, please visit this website. 5. The Utrecht Summer School, Utrecht University, Nethe…

  24.05.2021

• One Perfect Day: Feel German in St. Petersburg

  … help build the new capital, many were German. Along with their skills, they also brought traditions and culture that played a key role in shaping St. Petersburg. But that’s history now: so let’s go back to the present and try to spend a day here like a modern German!  Take up cycling Germans prefer this two-wheeled vehicle due to numerous (romantic and not so)…

  21.05.2021

• Yandex’s Andrey Sebrant on Progress, Society and Podcasts

  …re that people who came to cities from villages started to live richer and more interesting lives than those of their ancestors who ploughed the earth on a daily basis. The story repeats itself. Some people will lose their small shops. But that won’t happen in an instance. And their children might well think of such a way of trading as we think about the necessity…

  17.05.2021

• ITMO’s Andrey Filchenkov: How To Train Neural Networks To Identify Debtors Based on Their Expenses

  …slational Information Technologies within the Russian Science Foundation grant project and in partnership with Bank St. Petersburg.  Generally, credit scoring has quite a history. Italian bankers used to perform it as early as the Middle Ages when trying to decide who they could loan money to. To a certain extent, we can say that these early practices were the pre…

  13.05.2021

• Researchers Highlight Inbreeding Among Amur Leopards Through Whole Genome Sequencing

  …the Amur leopard. We used the methods that were available at the time: microsatellite DNA comparison, phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial sequences, etc. We presented the history of modern leopard subspecies in Africa and their migration to Asia. We discovered a greater level of genetic diversity among African leopards, as compared to Asian ones, as well as geneti…

  12.05.2021

• Places to Make a Wish in St. Petersburg

  … city was founded. The legend says that the first thing Peter the Great saw on the island was a hare, so he decided to name it  Hare Island. Most likely it is just a beautiful story, but the island keeps its name to this day. The statue of a hare sitting on a wooden pile directly in the water near the bridge on the approach to Hare Island became a symbol of the city.…

  10.05.2021

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: Daniel Sapori on His Decision to Pursue Science in Russia

  …dy worked in Germany, Italy, and the US. So I wanted to go to a more exotic country: I don’t know the Russian language and its alphabet is different! In addition, I find its history fascinating, especially the communist era and imperial period. I came here to discover a new culture! Are you going to travel around Russia? I’d love to travel around Russia, le…

  07.05.2021