Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology wraps up the year with a showcase of our research achievements. The program features presentations by leading scientists Yevgen Karpichev, Kristel Vene, Indrek Koppel, Jekaterina Mazina-Šinkar, Petri-Jaan Lahtvee and Riina Aav. Additionally, there will be flash presentations from PhD students and insights from industry partners Metrosert and Fibenol.
Programme
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Morning session | |
| 10.00-10.15 | Welcome address by Pirjo Spuul and Tiit Land |
| 10.15-10.45 | Yevgen Karpichev "Sustainability: from bioeconomy to defence science" |
| 10.45-11.15 | Kristel Vene "Why we eat what we eat and what can we do about it?" |
| 11.15-11.45 | Gert Preegel "The value and the cost of not knowing" |
| 11.45-12.15 | Aigar Vaigu "The Applied Research Centre and National Metrology Institute - Metrosert" (Metrosert) |
| 12.15-13.00 | Lunch |
| Afternoon session | |
| 13.00-13.30 | Indrek Koppel “Co-habitation of neurons and glial cells” |
| 13.30-14.00 | Jekaterina Mazina-Šinkar "Bringing the Lab to the Field: Advances in Portable Analytical Devices" |
| 14.00-14.30 | Petri-Jaan Lahtvee "Digitalising biology: Why? How? For whom?" |
| 14.30-15.00 | Riina Aav "Chemistry, Circular Economy and Science" |
| 15.00-15.05 | Stretch break |
| PhD Research Flash Session | |
| 15.05-15.10 | Kati Muldma “Production of snow and ice melting agents from oil shale ash” |
| 15.10-15.15 | Kärolin Kork "Applying parahydrogen hyperpolarization to horticulture research: nhPHIP on affordable instrumentation" |
| 15.15-15.20 | Jevgenija Tamm “Exploiting Powder Diffraction Analysis in Mechanosynthesis of Imatinib” |
| 15.20-15.25 | Henrique Sepúlveda Del Rio Hamacek “Achieving Biocontainment in 3D-Printed Bioreactors” |
| 15.25-15.30 | Bashir Bashiri “Smart dieting in planetary boundaries” |
| 15.30-15.35 | Rifaldi Lutfi Fahmi “From Lab to Table: Designing the Future of Sweetness” |
| 15.35-15.40 | Annika Rähni "From sniffles to psychosis: investigating antibody response patterns using phage display and next generation sequencing" |
| 15.45-15.50 | Romain Jacques Élie Bernasconi “AMPK activation is higher in endurant muscles” |
| 15.50-15.55 | Naga Raviteja Chavata “The cancer variants of Human DNA Polymerase epsilon (Pol ε) in replication initiation" |
| 15.55-16.05 | Best PhD presentation voting and closing remarks |
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