Director of the Institute of Bioengineering Mart Loog, Vice Director of the Institute of Bioengineering Ilona Faustova, Director Vallo Varik and Chief Technology Officer Jochen Förster of the Estonian Biofoundry as well as member of DigiBio Scientific Advisory Board Lars Nielsen attended the Annual Global Biofoundry Alliance Meeting 2024 (GBA2024) Read more…
Representatives of Estonian universities and Estonian Research Council met with representatives of Japan to discuss research cooperation in the field of Bioengineering and Biotechnology on the 10th of October, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan. During the meeting, recent advances in the field of Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Japan-Estonia collaboration, and bi- and multilateral funding Read more…
Delegation of the Republic of Estonia visited the Kyoto University to meet the President and the Vice President along with other representatives of the Kyoto University to discuss potential collaborations. The Rector of the University of Tartu, Vice Director of the Institute of Bioengineering, Deputy Secretary General and Chief Expert Read more…
Director and Vice Director of the Institute of Bioengineering Prof. Mart Loog and Assoc. Prof. Ilona Faustova met with the Nobel prize laureate Tim Hunt during Science and Technology Forum 2024 in Kyoto, Japan, to discuss science.
Members of the BIOCONNECT consortium reviewed the project’s progress and engaged in a collaborative workshop aimed at refining and shaping an actionable strategy during the meeting on the 2nd of October in Riga, Latvia. Vice Director of the Institute of Bioengineering Ilona Faustova and Artemi Maljavin took part in the meeting Read more…
1. jaanuaril alustas Tartu Ülikoolis tööd bioinseneeria instituut, mille direktori kohusetäitja on professor Mart Loog. Instituut kuulub loodus- ja täppisteaduste valdkonda ning selle ruumid paiknevad Chemicumis (Ravila 14a) ja Nooruse 1 õppehoones. Bioinseneeria instituut loodi Euroopa Komisjoni ja Eesti riigi toel meetme „Teaming for Excellence“ raames projekti DigiBio elluviimiseks, bioinseneeria Read more…
The kick-off meeting of the Estonian Bioindustry and Bioengineering Association was established. The Management Board members are Mart Loog, Ilona Faustova, Tilt Lukk. The non-profit association is represented by Ilona Faustova alone or by all Members of the Management Board jointly. On the 21st of August 2023, the kick-off meeting Read more…
Seminar can be watched LIVE online in Postimees LIVE webcast (Link available from 2202.2023) Estonian Centre of Biosustainability (ECB) and Enterprise Estonia (EAS) are organising the joint seminar “Piloting facilities and applied research for transition to circular economy” on the 22nd of February in Tallinn in Noblessner Valukoda. Please see program Read more…
The R&D centre led by the University of Tartu will combine synthetic biology with digital technologies to facilitate big data-driven design of cells for the bio-industry, boosting both research and the development of new businesses based on industrial biotechnology. The centre that is developed in cooperation with Tallinn University of Read more…
Estonia_TUIT team participated in iGEM competition and received the gold medal for the project SALSASMILE. Students worked hard for 8 months and received well deserved medal. iGEM competition iGEM is the world’s largest synthetic biology competition where student teams try to solve global issues using synthetic biology. First created as Read more…
Tartu_TUIT iGEM team consisting of Science&Technology students and LoogLab members successfully participated in iGem 2018 competition and achieved silver medal.
The Estonian Centre for Synthetic Biology initiated a strategic collaboration project between University of Tartu and Graanul Invest AS – an Estonian company receiving €20.96 million from EU Bio-Based Industries initiative program to set up a demo factory on producing biomass-derived sugars. The main coordinator of the collaboration program from Read more…
Petri Lahtvee received 100 kEUR funding from ERA CoBioTech program for their proposal ‘YogurtDesign’ to study microbial interactions in yogurt. The proposal was awarded in the first round of the EraCoBioTech call, a transnational call that aims at bringing systems and synthetic biology approaches to biotechnological applications. Lahtvee and a team Read more…
Lorena Lima from the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil, received the DoRa travel grant from Estonian Research Council to visit our Synthetic Biology lab in Tartu for 10 months and work on the rose oil production project. Congratulations and welcome to Tartu!
Dr. Ilona Faustova, Research Fellow in Molecular Biology and Programme Director of Science and Technology was honoured as the best programme director of the year 2017 (Best Head of the Programme). Ilona Faustova: “It’s a great honour to me and means we are doing right things. Our aim to provide high quality innovative Read more…
On December 6, at the Cleantech Breeze event in Tallinn, Cleantech ForEst and Tehnopol alumni nominated the MVPs of the cleantech field in 2017: Startmeup received a price as a Cleantech Initiative of the Year 2017. More information here.
Congratulations! iGEM Estonia received a silver medal at the final Jamboree in Boston! GO iGEM Estonia! https://www.facebook.com/iGEMEST/videos/345882822547811/
STARTUP DAY – THE BIGGEST BUSINESS FESTIVAL IN THE BALTIC STATES Meet us on December 8th at the University of Tartu stand! The theme of sTARTUp Day 2017 is “From Zero to Hero” – stories about those who we look up to in the world of business, or should look Read more…
Collaboration Festival is an event bringing together entrepreneurs, who are creating innovative products and services, and Estonian universities and research institutions, which are devloping novel technologies. In 2017, it is already the third organized event taking place on November 28 at the MEKTORY building in Tallinn. This year’s event keywords Read more…
The first Estonian iGEM team has successfully finished their project and is ready to go to Boston to compete at the final Jamboree event. Read more about our project. Support us on Hooandja.
Petri Lahtvee and Prof Mart Loog wrote an opinion article ‘Synthetic Biology – the heart of the Estonian bioeconomy’ published in the largest Estonian daily newspaper Postimees. Read the full article from here (only in Estonian).
Petri Lahtvee is giving a talk about ‘Synthetic Biology: sustainable bioeconomy concept for Estonia’ at the Estonian Human Genetics Association conference on November 16-17, 2017 in Rakvere, Estonia. Full program and registration: here.
ERA Chair holder Petri Lahtvee was introducing his project and future plans at the NCP_WIDE.NET and NCP_Academy Workshop in the section ‘The impact of Widening success stories’. NCP_Academy Workshop took place on October 10-11, 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia. More information can be found here.
Petri Lahtvee and Vahur Zadin were the main organizers of the TUIT biyearly conference ‘Human2.0 – science with blurred boundaries’. This two-day conference took place on September 19-20, 2017 in Rakvere Spa Hotel and the program consisted of plenary lectures, poster sessions, and workshops on advancing the entrepreneurial skills and Read more…
NPO StartMeUp, an initiative promoting entrepreneurial activities at the Institute, will start with the monthly seminars on entrepreneurial skills. We will invite entrepreneurs at different stages of their development, investors, startup incubators and many more to tell us their stories and inspire us to think big. Program for 2017: September 27: Icosagen Read more…
Prof Mart Loog is discussing the future of synthetic biology in the newspaper Sirp (only in Estonian). Tulekul on sünteetilise bioloogia ajastu
According to one of the most important higher education lists, the QS World University Rankings, the University of Tartu (UT) now holds the highest position ever. The university’s position in the ranking has improved from 501 in 2012 to 347 in 2016. Read the full article from Estonian world web page.
The financial support of 2.5 million euros received from the ERA Chair measure of the European Commission strengthens the starting position of the synthetic biology centre set up at the Institute of Technology of the University of Tartu. Synthetic biology is a new research field that has gained attention in Read more…
Estonia secures its first ever ERC Consolitator Grant to advance synthetic biology Mart Loog, UT Professor of Molecular Systems Biology, received a prestigious Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) amounting to almost two million euros. Loog aims to develop an entirely unique toolbox of circuit elements that can Read more…