Marko, Erik, Patrizia and Sabino participated at this year’s Pint of Science Croatia 2021. Check out their videos by clicking on their names in the post.
Exciting opportunity for Marko Babić at EMBL-EBI
The Mechanism and Catalytic Site Atlas (M-CSA) offers summer internships to biochemists that are willing to curate their database with exciting new mechanisms of how individual enzymes work and which of their numerous amino acid residues directly acts in the chemistry of its catalytic function.
Our master project student Marko Babić has been offered a 3 month intership at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) where he will be learning about newly discovered enzymatic mechanisms to insert into an ever-growing database. The database is aimed to help researchers quickly find a trove of information on the active sites of enzymes and their mechanisms.
Great meeting today
We exchanged our ideas on enyzmes, catalytic triads and ways of studying them, with colleagues from EMBL-EBI (The European Bioinformatics Institute), Dr. Antonio Ribeiro and Ioannis Riziotis. Marko Babić presented his master thesis progress and opened up the floor for a fruitfull discussion.
How many peptides can I synthesize? :)
Sabino just received a shipment of falcon tubes and he is ready to resume his synthesis 🙂 Will he use them all?
Cake & Science
Nothing better than an afternoon scientific discussion in great company 🙂
Read about Goran’s involvment in SUSTRAINABLE Erasmus+ project
Novi smjer istraživanja okrenut umjetnoj inteligenciji
Read about Daniela’s new research directions in an article about the Department of Biotechnology recent progress, from the local newspaper Novi List.
Great result for Erik and his Arithmetic terror team in HashCode competition
Erik participated in this year’s HashCode in the team with two of his colleagues under the name “Arithmetic terror”. They managed to get the score of 9,439,481 and take the first place in their hub (University of Rijeka). Globally they were 1295th out of 9004 teams that participated and on country scale, they were 8th in Croatia.
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HashCode is a global team-based (2-4 participants) programming competition organized by Google. It is primarily intended for engineering students, however anyone is free to participate and try to solve real-world problems. HashCode starts with a qualification round in which a single problem is presented with multiple test cases. Only the best qualified teams will be invited to take the part in the final round. Unlike other programming contests, HashCode’s distinctiveness is that there is not only a single valid solution to the given problem. This is what makes HashCode so exciting: to find the best possible solution. This year, the goal was to optimize the schedule of traffic lights to minimize the total amount of time required for cars to get to their destination. Shortly put, contestants were given a list of streets in the city, how they are interconnected and how long does it take to travel each of these streets. They were also given a list of rides in that city and each car wants to get to its destination as soon as possible. For each completed ride a team would get a fixed score and a bonus depending on how quickly the ride was over. Participants had 4 hours to find a solution to the given problem.
Sizif grant awarded to Katarina
Congratulations to Katarina Budić, final year student of Biotechnology in medicine at the Department of Biotechnology for obtaining the students research grant SIZIF (with the best score) for her project on “SARS-CoV-2 peptide-based virus mimetics” awarded by the University of Rijeka Foundation.
DeShPet project kick-off meeting
Today we enjoyed our time discussing science and planning the future activities related to the DeShPet project, at the Department of Biotechnology, in Rijeka. This was just the first of a series of meetings planned for the future.
