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Winners of Russian Presidential Research Grants for 2021 announced
The grants amount to 1.2 million rubles for PhDs and 2 million rubles for DSc degree holders.
Kazan Federal University, as usual, has several grant recipients. The only winner in the DSc category is Igor Sedov (Department of Physical Chemistry) for his project ‘Proton ion liquids – new highly effective extragents.’
Here are the winners in the PhD category:
Anastasiya Nazarova, Organic Compounds Lab – ‘New generation of plant protection compounds: low-toxicity supramolecular systems for effective and safe use of herbicides’;
Elza Sultanova, Department of Organic Chemistry – ‘Supramolecular and polymer systems based on thia/calixarenes in creating photocatalytic active composites’;
Yekaterina Garanina, Gene and Cell Technologies Lab – ‘The role of micro-RNA miR-223 in the regulation of NLRP3 signaling in colorectal cancer’;
Valeriya Solovyova, Department of Genetics – ‘Biomedical cell product to treat Tay-Sachs diseases’;
Yelena Trizna, Department of Genetics – ‘Extracellular microbial metabolites – modulators of the susceptibility of bacteria to antimicrobial medications’;
Artur Gafurov, Space Ecology Lab – ‘System of automated large-scale mapping of trickle soil erosion in the Middle Volga region’;

Russian Presidential Scholarships awarded to seventeen young scientists
The scholarships are awarded for a period from one to three years.
The monthly payments are 22,800 rubles.
Here is the list of this year’s winners of the prestigious contest:
Denis Kogogin, Department of Radio Electronics – ‘Complex research of the influence of ionosphere excited by strong shortwave radiation on the spread and reception of signals of GLONASS, GPS, Galileo and Beidou’;
Dmitry Bolmatenkov, Institute of Chemistry – ‘Fast optimization of the storage conditions for amorphous medical preparations’;
Sergey Sitnov, Department of Heavy Hydrocarbon Extraction and Exploitation – ‘Technology of thermochemical treatment to enhance oil extraction of carbonate deposits’;
Al-Mountasser Amin Ahmed Mohammed, Rheological and Thermochemical Research Lab – ‘Compositions for the intensification of in-situ refining of heavy oils as a non-traditional energy source and studies of their effectiveness in steam-assisted treatment’;

University observatories added to Tentative Lists of UNESCO World Heritage
The announcement was made in December 2020.
The nomination process was initiated in December 2019 when Kazan welcomed the Astronomy and World Heritage Forum. It was supervised by Kazan Federal University and supported by President of Tatarstan, Ministry of Culture of Russia, and International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) Russia. In 2020, KFU delegations visited Hamburg and Paris to familiarize themselves with local observatories and seek help in arranging the nomination dossier. Meetings with UNESCO experts in world heritage were also held. The sides agreed to include the observatories into UNESCO’s Upstream Process.
Currently, of the 500 laboratories existing in the world, only 10 are inducted into the UNESCO World Heritage List. Only two are listed as separate objects, and eight others are parts of various complexes.

Research shows how digitization influences performance of preschoolers
KFU’s project was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
The focus of this particular research was on how cognitive regulation in preschoolers (5 to 7 years old) can be affected by physical activity. It was headed by Associate Professor Alla Tvardovskaya (Department of Preschool Education).
A questionnaire was held with 469 parents. It showed that an average preschool child spends two hours a days in front of a TV screen during a workday. 21% of parents admitted that they often don’t have time to spare to children in the evening because of workload, so their kids can watch cartoons without limitations, which usually amounts to 3-4 hours a day. Only 20% of parents said that their kids don’t have screen time on weekdays because they are otherwise engaged, mostly by hobbies or out-of-home educational activities.
34% of children don’t use any smartphones or tablets at all; 52% do have access, but no more than an hour a day.

Assessment of language acquisition by bilingual Russian-Italian children
A study by academics of the two countries appeared in International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
The team comprised Elena Gorobets (Kazan Federal University), Martina Ozbič (Università degli studi di Trieste), Nadja Ruhl (Università degli Studi di Udine), Darya Polkina (Nuova Scuola Russa Знание), and Andrea Marini (University of Udine).
For the research, 63 children were selected – 21 monolingual Russian speakers, 21 monolingual Italian speakers, and 21 bilingual Russian-Italian speakers. They were tested for non-verbal IQ and then offered a battery of neurolinguistic tests ‘Batteria per la Valutazione del Linguaggio in bambini dai 4 ai 12 anni’ and its Russian analog BVL_RU.

“Most infectious diseases in humans and animals are in one way or another associated with the formation of biofilms - microbial consortia immersed in the high molecular weight matrix they release, consisting of proteins, nucleotides and polysaccharides, which determines the extreme resistance of bacteria to adverse factors, including antibiotics and the body's immune system. The presence of pathogenic bacteria in the biofilm composition significantly reduces the effectiveness of antimicrobial therapy and significantly slows down the wound healing process,” explains co-author, Associate Professor Airat Kayumov. “In mixed biofilms, synergistic and mutualistic interactions are observed between bacteria, as a result of which the treatment of mixed infections is much more difficult and prolonged. For example, biofilms of Staphylococcus aureus and aeruginosa are very difficult to treat, and in cases of cystic fibrosis, they are often fatal.”
This particular research has shown that S. aureus is able to form cell conglomerates in the P. aeruginosa biofilm matrix, which is one of the reasons for its low susceptibility to antimicrobial drugs in mixed infections, probably due to the protective properties of the Pseudomonas biofilm matrix.

Attention Students!!!
Please see below the notification for conference in Stavropol State Medical University.
INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS
Only original abstracts will be accepted for publication till March 15, 2015.
The volume of the abstract should not exceed – 1 page (A4, 210x297 mm), Font - Times New Roman, 12th size, 1.5 spacing.
The title of the abstract (in bold capital letters) should include: 1) the first and second name of the author (the number of co-authors is limited up to 5 persons) in bold italic; 2) organization name, city and country; 3) scientific supervisors with indicating a degree and position.
The number of abstracts for one author is limited for 3.
The abstract should include the following items: 1) background; 2) objective; 3) materials and methods; 4) results and discussion; 5) conclusion; 6) keywords.
PARTICIPANTS FROM OTHER UNIVERSITIES CAN SEND THE ABSTRACT THROUGH E-MAIL WHICH WILL BE PUBLISHED IN PRINTED FORM OR IF PARTICIPANTS CAN COME TO STAVROPOL, CAN GIVE ORAL PRESENTATIONS ALSO.
ORAL PRESENTATION SHOULD NOT EXCEED 7 MINUTES.
PRINTED BOOKS AND CERTIFICATES WILL BE SEND TO YOU ALL THROUGH COURIER.

Attention Students!!!
Please see below the notification for International Conference -
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Dear Students!
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