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Research Days of the Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine will take place on 29–30 January 2026

On 26 February at 12:00, Daina Pupkeviciute will defend her thesis "Relationships in the Context of Crisis: Earth, Time and Generativity in the Roya Valley"

On 13 February at 10:15, Ali Hakimzadeh will defend his doctoral thesis "Long-read metabarcoding: from available tools to reference databases" for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

A novel technological solution for improving the quality of 3D images was introduced in an article published in the Journal of Physics: Photonics by Shivasubramanian Gopinath, a doctoral student at the Institute of Physics.

On 19 February at 12:00, Artis Ostups will defend his doctoral thesis "Heterogeneity of Historical Time: The Contemporary Latvian Novel in a Comparative Perspective"

Researchers from the Institute of Clinical Medicine at the University of Tartu have developed an artificial intelligence-based machine learning model that enabled the relapse risk of endometrial cancer to be assessed before surgical intervention.

On Tuesday, 10 February at 16:15, Yrjö Helariutta, Professor of Molecular Dendroengineering, will give his inaugural lecture titled "From Tree Biology to Dendroengineering" in the university's assembly hall.

On 22–23 January, the Annual Joint Conference 2025 in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Genomics will take place in the auditorium of the University of Tartu Omicum building (Riia 23b/2–105).

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.

Vibe coding enables creating websites and apps without writing code, using AI. A hands-on workshop shows how an idea quickly becomes a working digital solution.