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Current Cutting-Edge Estonian Science: Biobank, Satellites and Other Big Ideas from a Small Country
Lecture 2 of course ‘The innovative Estonia’
Arko Olesk
Tallinn University/Postimees
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•Estonian Science in general
•6 universities + a few independent research institutions •29th position in the world (citations
per paper) •Fields above world average: environment/ecology, plant & animal science, clinical
medicine, molecular biology & genetics, physics, pharmacology & toxicology, psychiatry/psychology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O3mY8QkvQ4

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•Estonian Biobank
•50 000 donors (5% of adult population)
•Genetic research
•Personalized medicine
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•Archaeogenetics
•Ancient human migration

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•EstCube-1
•Cubesat standard
•Launched in 2013
•Experiment with electric solar sail

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•Space research
•Galactic filaments
•Remote sensing

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•Ecology
•Biodiversity patterns (plants and fungae)
–Dark biodiversity
•Biotic interactions
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Laelatu wooden meadow

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•Plants and climate change
•Plant stress
•‘smell of forest’
•Humidity manipulation
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•Cloning for medicines
•Genetically modified cloned cows

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•Underwater robots
•Archaeology turtle
•Fish with articifial lateral line

https://www.youtube.com/user/BioroboticsTTU; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6aoolg9f2M

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•Artificial muscles
•electromechanically active polymer materials
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•And a house that unpacks itself

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC186z2gc0XiLh12hNvPZdUQ

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•Sharemind
•Allows computing encrypted data

https://vimeo.com/63275377

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•Salme warrior ship
•2 pre-viking (8th century) boats
•Battle and burial

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•Spatial mobility of people
•travel, urban geography and segregation
•mobile positioning based methods

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