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On Friday, 20 March, at 14:00 there will be a video broadcast on the university website, where the rector and members of the Rector’s Office of the University of Tartu give an overview of the reorganisation of work at the university during the emergency situation, and answer questions sent by university members.
In the broadcast, Rector Toomas Asser, Academic Secretary Tõnis Karki and Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Aune Valk will speak about the new organisation of work.
From Monday, 16 March, all UT buildings are closed for visitors and students. The buildings are not alarmed and staff members can enter using their university ID card.
Visitors and students are not allowed in the buildings. If visitors need to get in, an employee must personally meet them.
Receptionists and information secretaries in the buildings will continue work as usual, cloakrooms are closed.
Aune Valk, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs of the University of Tartu, confirms that life at the university goes on despite the emergency situation and high-quality teaching and research activities continue. The university is ready to provide individual solutions to difficulties students may face.
Today, on 19 February, the traineeship and job fair of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities is held in the Philosophicum, and the Maarjavälja career day for students of medicine and science and technology takes place in the Physicum.
Foreigners who have obtained a master's degree in Estonia and stay in Estonia are beneficial to the Estonian state and business in any case. The question may be whether our society is ready for them to stay here, writes Aune Valk, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, University of Tartu.
It is definitely useful for Estonia and Estonia’s business sector if foreigners who have obtained a master’s degree in Estonia stay here to work. The question could be, whether our society is ready for this, Aune Valk writes.
On 26 February, the University of Tartu (UT) holds an Open Doors Day during which final-year secondary school students and other future applicants can take part in various activities.
The University of Tartu library hosts a study fair on the UT curricula at which experienced specialists give admission and career advice. Together with representatives of student organisations, participants can find out how to be more than a student and what else they can do for personal development during their studies at the university.
The Faculty of Science and Technology and Faculty of Medicine invite all interested students to the Career day 2020 on 19th of February at Physicum (W. Ostwaldi 1).
Career day brings together students and practical training and career opportunities offered by companies in the field.
The event includes a career fair - companies will do expositions of their materials and can interview students, pitching event during which companies give small lectures on interesting topics and panel discussion focused on the career opportunities after the graduation.
Professor Svante Pääbo, who was elected as the foreign member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences this year, is a world-class evolutionary and population geneticist.
The University of Tartu requests the honour of your presence at the inaugural lecture by Mark Fišel, UT Professor in Natural Language Processing. The lecture entitled “FREE LUNCH” will be held on 22 January 2020 at 16:15 in the University Assembly Hall.
The art exhibition by artist Kalli Kalde „How much wolf is inside me?“ will be opened at the ground floor gallery of the Omicum building Riia 23b/2, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, on Thursday, January 9 at 16:30.
The exhibition will remain open until March 30.
The exposition was supported by the Institute of Genomics and the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu.
Everybody is welcome to attend the opening and the exhibition!
Time and place: Tuesday, 12.11.2019 at 10:15 in the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b/2 lecture hall 105
PhD thesis:
Genetic history of the Uralic-speaking peoples as seen through the paternal haplogroup N and autosomal variation of northern Eurasians
Curriculum: Gene Technology
Speciality: Gene Technology
Abstract
Info in DSpace
The book presentation "Rector Jüri Kärner" and the opening of the exhibition of electron microphotos taken by Jüri Kärner will be held on Monday, October 21, at 16:00 to the atrium of the Institute of Genomics and the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Riia 23b/2, Tartu.
Professor Jüri Kärner (1940–2010) was the Rector of the University of Tartu in years 1988–1993. He was also the developer of the field of electron microscopy in Estonia.
The inaugural lecture by Osamu Shimmi, Professor of Developmental Biology at the University of Tartu, is entitled “Cellular dynamics and signalling in tissue development: lessons from the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster” and will take place at 16:15 on Thursday 17 October in the University Assembly Hall. The lecture will be given in English.
Osamu Shimmi, UT Professor in Developmental Biology, presents his inaugural lecture entitled “Cellular dynamics and signalling in tissue development: lessons from fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster” on 17 October 2019 at 16:15 in the University Assembly Hall.
Time and place: Thursday, 17.10.2019 at 10:15 in the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b/2 lecture hall 105
PhD thesis: „Levansucrase Lsc3 and endo-levanase BT1760: characterization and application for the synthesis of novel prebiotics”
Curriculum: Gene Technology
Speciality: Gene Technology
Abstract
Last Friday, 4 October, the founding members of the Alliance4Life gathered at Vilnius University to sign a Memorandum of Understanding. Alliance4Life connects 10 leading life science institutions from nine countries in Central and Eastern Europe that have joined the European Union since 2004.
Time and place: Monday, 07.10.2019 at 14:15 in the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b/2 lecture hall 105
PhD thesis: "Meandering along the mtDNA phylogeny; causerie and digression about what it can tell us about human migrations"
Curriculum: Molecular and Cell Biology
Speciality: Molecular Biology
Abstract
Since September 2019 the institute has a new professor of molecular biology, Tiina Tamm.
The art exhibition by Inna Rebane, titled „Views of Åland“, will be opened at the ground floor gallery of the Omicum building Riia 23b/2, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, on Tuesday, 10 September at 16:00.
Inna Rebane is a physicist in the Institute of Physics, University of Tartu. The present overview is her third personal exhibition. She has learned painting in Tartu Children’s Art School for 3 years under the guidance of Pallasian artist Silvia Jõgever. Later artist Anne Parmasto in the Open University, University of Tartu, has guided her.
Time and place: Thursday, 12.09.2019 at 10:15 in the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b/2 lecture hall 105
PhD thesis: "The prehistory of Estonia from a genetic perspective: new insights from ancient DNA"
Curriculum: Gene Technology
Speciality: Gene Technology
Abstract
Info in DSpace
