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Week of PARC in Tartu

Uko Maran

The week of June 9, 2025 can be considered a PARC (Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals) week in Tartu. Namely, two high-caliber PARC events took place during the week.

The first of these was the PARC Modelers' Meeting, which took place from June 9-11, 2025. The PARC Modelers...

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...