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In just two weeks, the Estonian University of Life Sciences will elect directors for the Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the Institute of Forestry and Engineering, and the Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences for the next five years. Four candidates submitted the required application documents by the deadline.

The Estonian University of Life Sciences has published the first volume of the Estonian-language textbook Small Animal Anaesthesiology and Surgery, focusing on anaesthesiology. Developed over three years, the book provides veterinary students and practising veterinarians with essential knowledge in Estonian while supporting the development of Estonian veterinary terminology.

On 30 October, Professor Federico Fracassi from the University of Bologna, a renowned specialist in small animal endocrinology, delivered a guest lecture to third-year veterinary medicine students at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. The lecture focused on hypothyroidism and hypercortisolism.

On Thursday, 29 October, Konrad Taube defended his doctoral thesis, “Functional genomics analysis of humic adaptation and parasite response in Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis)”, at the Estonian University of Life Sciences.

Researchers from the Estonian University of Life Sciences and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences mapped regions that regulate gene activity in Eurasian perch and investigated their links to environmental adaptation. To address this, they applied ATAC-seq to Eurasian perch for the first time, making this one of the first studies to use the method in fish.

Rait Rand, a doctoral student at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, was named one of three winners at the final of the “Science in 3 Minutes” competition on October 6th. Kristiina Kerge and Triin Sellis also represented the university among the 15 finalists. Each finalist had to present their research in three minutes in a way that audiences from other fields could understand.