Topic: research

22.–23. jaanuarini toimub Omicumi õppe- ja teadushoone (Riia 23b/2–105) auditooriumis Tartu Ülikooli molekulaar- ja rakubioloogia instituudi (MRI) ning genoomika instituudi (GI) aastakonverents.

On 29 January at 14:15, Hans Priks will defend his doctoral thesis "Life within 3D-printed engineered living materials based on micellar hydrogels" for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Environmental Engineering)

On 13 January at 14:15, Mart Saarma, President of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and academician, will speak on the topic "Do Neuroscience and Plant Science cross-talk?" at Oecologicum room 127

On January 20 at 11:00 Heidi Taveter will defend her doctoral thesis "Using programming-process data of introductory programming courses: finding solver types, giving feedback, and detecting plagiarism" to obtain the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in Computer Science).

On 13 January at 10:00 Viacheslav Komisarenko will defend his doctoral thesis “Aligning Training Loss to Evaluation Metrics in Deep Learning“.

In 2025, the study that drew the most attention in public digital channels was led by Professor of Botany Meelis Pärtel and confirms the negative effect of human activity on wildlife biodiversity.

Researchers at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science, Junior Research Fellow of Artificial Intelligence Joonas Ariva and Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence Dmytro Fishman, together with radiologists from Tartu University Hospital and engineers at Better Medicine, have developed an AI-based tool that accelerates the detection of kidney cancer. Its effectiveness was validated in a study published in Nature Communications Medicine.