Lisette's Bachelor's Thesis Defence

Sulev Sild

We are happy to share that Lisette Pihor, a bachelor's student in our research group, has successfully defended her bachelor's thesis titled "Feature Selection for Evaluating Acute Toxicity with Neural Networks" on 12 June 2025 at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Tartu. Lisette...

Yehudit Morozovsky defended her bachelor's thesis

Larisa Ivanova

On June 2, 2025, Yehudit Morozovsky defended her bachelor’s thesis. The thesis focused on the development of new potential AlkBH5 inhibitor using different computational methods. AlkBH5 is a mammalian demethylase responsible for removal of m6A (N6-methyladenosine) modification in RNA. The multiple r...

Predictive Modeling of Pesticides Reproductive Toxicity in Earthworms Using Interpretable Machine-Learning Techniques on Imbalanced Data

Uko Maran

Earthworms play an important role in maintaining soil fertility and in the formation and maintenance of water and aeration systems. This makes the earthworm a key indicator organism in soil ecosystems. This in turn makes the reproductive toxicity of chemical compounds (e.g. pesticides) to earthworms...

Adelle Altnurme's bachelor's thesis was awarded 1st prize in the field of natural sciences at the 2024 national student research paper competition. Supervisors Mare Oja and Uko Maran received a letter of appreciation for their supervision.

Uko Maran

Adelle Altnurme's bachelor's thesis, "Experimental determination of octanol-water distribution coefficients of poorly soluble drug substances and comparison with predicted values", was awarded the 1st prize in the 2024 national student research competition in the field of natural sciences, for stude...

Nanomaterial Texture-Based Machine Learning of Ciprofloxacin Adsorption on Nanoporous Carbon

Uko Maran

Drug substances in water bodies and groundwater have become a significant threat to the surrounding environment. Therefore our study focused on the ability of the nanoporous carbon materials to remove ciprofloxacin from aqueous solutions under specific experimental conditions and on the development...