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At the end of January 2023, the first lectures were held as part of the course. Natalia Shartova, a leading researcher of the International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology, spoke about the evolution of the concepts of morbidity and mortality, about modern global health threats and about the basic concepts of epidemiology. In practical classes, students tried their hand at analyzing the changes taking place using the international system for assessing the global burden on health.

Researchers from the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology at the Higher School of Economics conducted a joint study with colleagues from National Medical Research Radiological Centre of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Center for Digital Biodesign and Personalized Health Care (Sechenov University) and Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, dedicated to the study of the link between low expression of the IGFBP6, ELOVL5 genes and lipid metabolism in breast cancer cells. The results of the study will be published in the journal Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences.

On Wednesday, January 25, the National Research University Higher School of Economics hosted a seminar "Expert opinion and data analysis".

On January 10, the first laboratory seminar of the new year was held. The discussion focused on exploring the factors that influence genetic testing decisions in four countries.

Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova, Head of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, delivered a guest online lecture "A Profession of a Social Worker: a sociologist's view" at the Faculty of Social Work at the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian State University in Astana, Kazakhstan, on January 18. 

Congratulations to our talented Research Assistants on winning the scholarships named after famous and outstanding scholars for HSE students!

The following paper is published: Teplova T., Tomtosov A., Sokolova T. (2022). A retail investor in a cobweb of social networks. Plos One, 17(12), e0276924 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276924

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On December 6-8, 2022, the laboratory staff took part in the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), which was held online