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On Estonia's Mother Tongue Day, Toomas Asser, Rector of the University of Tartu, presented University’s language award for 2023 to the authors of the textbook.
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Genetics Workshops bring hundreds of students to Tartu
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On 14 March at 13, all university members and language lovers are welcome to the university assembly hall to celebrate Estonia’s Mother Tongue Day.
06.03.2024

Future top-specialists of Estonian life sciences come from our Institute!

The Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of the University of Tartu teaches the offspring of young researchers at all levels. Our researchers are at the top level in world-class science.

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A4L Skills academy in Ljubljana joined 30 young researchers from 11 countries

Vilnius University hosted research management administrators and early stage researchers within the Alliance4Life consortium

Research Management Administration Academy Launched by Alliance4Life

The Alliance4Life members finally met in person in Estonia

Europe’s innovation gap cannot be closed overnight yet needs urgent action

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While studying and working at Estonian National University, we appreciate constant developing of Estonian scientific language accompanied by creation, elaboration and implementation of Estonian vocabulary in the particular scientific field.
28.09.2023

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16.09.2021

New publications by IMCB's scientists:

Chair of Developmental Biology: To generate complex 3D organs, the shape of each cell needs to change to support the overall development of the tissue. Since these shapes are always changing, it is important to establish a protocol to monitor these changes as they happen in real time. In the developing wing of a fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, there are two layers of cells that are nearly identical and lie opposite each other. This study used live imaging to observe a network of cells that exists between these two layers, called the Interplanar Amida Network (IPAN). When this network loses its cell-to-cell contacts, it affects cell division in both layers, which is necessary for 3D tissue growth. This finding suggests that IPAN contributes to coordinating how tissues develop into 3D structures by changing cell shapes.

Programmed disassembly of a microtubule-based membrane protrusion network coordinates 3D epithelial morphogenesis in Drosophila

Chair of Cell Biology: Initiation of DNA replication in eukaryotes is timed according to cell cycle phase. which is influenced by several factors. In budding yeast, Forkhead family proteins Fkh1 and Fkh2 bind to replication origins and activate them in early S phase. The binding sites of these proteins are in a specific configuration, suggesting that the hammerhead proteins must also bind in a specific manner. The article shows which regions of the intermolecular interaction are important for binding and which molecular mechanisms ensure the necessary regulation.

Interactions between Fkh1 monomers stabilize its binding to DNA replication origins

Chair of Genetics: The effect of microorganisms on the decomposition of organic matter in black shale (graptolite argillite), as well as on the leaching and/or precipitation of metals (V, Mo, U and Zn) was studied. Graptolite argillite in the bedrock of Estonia is a habitat for microbes (inactive cells or spores). For the first time, the research combined two seemingly contradictory goals: firstly, to use the rock as a source of methane generation and secondly, as a metal ore. This was achieved thanks to the thorough competence in environmental microbiology and genetics of IMCB's scientists.

Methanogenesis and metal leaching on anaerobic decomposition of graptolite argillite

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Mobile Bioclass

The goal of the Mobile bioclass is to introduce life sciences for schoolchildren and to increase their interest in biotechnology and related disciplines. 
15.12.2023

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