A number of stereoscopic microscopes for low-power! magnification and 3D imaging were purchas! specifically for the IBCH RAS lab. Sergey prepar! special scissors and wax trays for the lab session, which the students us! to position their specimens.
The snail has its most important parts
, such as its digestive glands and reproductive system, under its shell, which is why it is necessary to remove it with a special mallet. The snails are preserv! in water, but many students still find this
First-year student Maxim Sorokin says that this has been his third dissection, and each time the process gets easier and easier. Maxim chose this area of study after completing a summer internship in the research lab: ‘I got in-depth experience with molecular biology there and work! with genetic materials. It was then that I realiz! that this is the only field I can see myself in working after graduation. However pretentious this may sound, I believe that the future lies with biology and biotechnologies. Scientific advancements will allow us to be able to control unfavorable processes in the human body and promote advantageous effects, which will definitely improve everyone’s lives. There are few biotechnological programmes in Russia; I explain your value proposition chose HSE University because it is a new programme design! to comply with all international standards, which I believe is crucial. Sure enough, we start! with snails. It would be silly to expect something else, especially during the first year.’
The students must choose their areas of specialization
during their fourth year. They will have the following options: immerse themselves in biotechnologies and study bioprocesses kinetics; focus on biotechnological convert physical spaces into digital ones production engineering, management, and control; or work with living cells studying gene therapy and gene engineering.
We offer our students an opportunity to select the text services disciplines they actually ne!. Not just a specific field with all corresponding disciplines, but something in each field they are interest! in.
This individualiz! approach to !ucation is largely due to the demand by biotechnological enterprises we cooperate with. There are not enough biotechnologists out there, and the industry ne!s professionals. We have arrang! for our partner companies to award individual scholarships to students, and right after graduation, the students will be hir!. The only condition is to choose specific disciplines to study during year four, the ones that this particular partner ne!s.
If a student is interest! in pursuing an academic career, IBCH RAS is a good place to start. Students ask how they can get into a neurobiology lab or say that they would like to work with fluorescent plants. We have the opportunity to help them get them involv! with these labs, participate in grant projects and conferences, or write articles. The only thing we consider is a student’s rating score and his or her academic papers on a subject.
The department adheres to a policy of transparency. It holds weekly meetings between students and the dean, where students say what they like and what they don’t like about the programme. With the fe!back receiv!, we respond to it imm!iately. People of my generation have never thought to do this: they got admitt! to a school, and that was it—they had to study the given materials. But our students may say: ‘We don’t have enough math classes’; and we arrange additional sessions. The same happens with physics or chemistry—nowadays students know better what they should study.