11 October 2021 Kick-off meeting within the framework of the preparation of Pedagogical ECTS/ Tuning modular system training, ALLVET Daria Gerber Director of the International Office of IKBFU and Elena Kutsenko Specialist of the Division for Internationalization and International Partnerships of IKBFU took part in a kick-off meeting on the ERASMUS+ KA2 ALLVET project (“HE and VET alliance establishment according to Bologna Principals implementation via VET teachers’ capacity building”). The
08 October 2021 A Russian scientist developed a context-dependent grammar for the genetic code Philologist of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University proposed to present the genetic code as a language with its alphabet, grammar, and lexicon. His model is based on the importance of the context: nucleotides don’t make meaning alone but by joining together in a triplet that corresponds to a certain amino acid in a protein, they can transmit information. As in an
01 October 2021 Scientists from IKBFU Institute of Living Systems took in ALLVET introductory meeting The introductory event on the ALLVET project implementation was held on 9 September with the representatives of the Institute of Living Systems. Elena Zimovina, candidate of historical sciences and Senior Researcher at the IKBFU's Sociological Laboratory, shared brief information about the project. Oleg Mozhei, an assistant of the Institute of Living Systems, took par
29 September 2021 “Nervous” Rats Are More Likely To Have Mental Disorders Due To Stress Together with colleagues from the Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, scientists of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University proved that “nervous” rats are more likely than more stable species to develop mental problems due to stress. Stress factors have a more significant impact on their immune system, which leads to an inadequat
27 September 2021 The 11-th International work-shop "Waves in inhomogeneous media and integrable system" started at IKBFU The 11-th International work-shop "Waves in inhomogeneous media and integrable system" dedicated to the memory of Professor S.B. Leble will be held on September 27-29 2021, Kaliningrad, IKBFU in a mixed format (online – in presence). You may learn more about the conference here The main topics of the conference will be:1. Peculiarities of wave propagation in inhomo
10 August 2021 IKBFU Biologists invented a new biofuel microalgae growth accelerator IKBFU Scientists test a new method for growing microalgae that are used in biofuel production as this alternative energy source becomes increasingly popular today. The goal of the scientists is to make the plants grow biomass faster. This method is effective in industrial terms as it does not require land for growth since the algae growth in any type of water surfaces
