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• History Reconstruction and Vitamin D Receptors: ITMO Lecturers on Their Reports at MCCMB 2021

  Moscow Conference on Computational Molecular Biology (MCCMB) is one of the largest international conferences on bioinformatics in Russia.

  18.08.2021

• Mind-Blowing Research of the Month: Neuroarchaeology

  One of today's top science trends is interdisciplinarity – drawing from different research fields to find answers to age-old questions. Neuroarchaeology is one such new area of study, and it brings together, yes, you've guessed it – archaeology and neuroscience. How did our distant ancestors learn to speak? And how is tool-making related to playing the piano? Find out in our overview!

  26.01.2021

• Second Day of Geek Picnic: Evolution, Rats and Superstition

  How do humans fare in isolation, why do some believe in the supernatural or even see faces on the surface of Mars? Why does one need to understand the theory of relativity and what is a neurotheatre? The Geek Picnic festival has come to an end. Thousands of guests had the opportunity to attend dozens of venues, hear stories and news from the fields of science, gaming and technology and meet famous scientists and science writers, program their own chameleon-lamp and build a custom rocket. Read on to find out more about the things one could see, hear, taste and touch on the festival’s closing day.

  26.06.2017

• Geek Picnic-2017: Richard Dawkins, Cyborgs, VR and Psychological Experiments

  The first day of Geek Picnic, the largest European open air festival dedicated to popular science, modern technology, science and art included lectures on humanity's biological future and cybertechnologies, a presentation by Richard Dawkins, and ITMO University's interactive zone where anyone could immerse into modern science. By tradition, the festival was held on a weekend’; this year, it took place in the Pulkovo Park on the south of St. Petersburg.  

  25.06.2017

• Trolling Evolutionists with Flatfish or: Five Facts that Prove Natural Selection

  You might find this hard to believe, but there are still many people in the world who see biological evolution as a contrived and unproven theory. Most commonly they ask: why are there still monkeys around and why haven’t they become humans? Many of us have probably asked the same question at school. But, unfortunately, most schools don’t educate children on the evidence of evolution and their understanding of the origin of modern humans is based on outdated ideas that have been disproven by molecular biologists. For instance, genetic analysis of Neanderthal DNA has shown that these species were not our ancestors. Mikhail Gelfand, Doctor of Biological Sciences, member of Academia Europea and Ministry of  Education and Science’s Public Council, spoke at an open lecture at ITMO University and explained how to properly discuss evolution, what evidence of it exists and who are, after all, our ancestors.

  22.05.2017