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Researchers of the HSE University and the Southern Federal University (SFedU) have tested a new method for studying the perception of facial emotional expressions. They suggest that asking subjects to recognise emotional expressions from dynamic video clips rather than static photographs can improve the accuracy of findings, eg in psychiatric and neurological studies. The paper is published in Applied Sciences.

Researchers of the International Laboratory of Microphysiological Systems of the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology (HSE University), in collaboration with the Laboratory of Molecular Physiology of the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology (HSE University), as well as German colleagues from the Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology (Hamburg) and the Institute of Pathology (Göttingen), found an association between low expression of the CD24 protein in patients with colorectal cancer and a decrease in patient survival rate.

For the first time since the begining of the COVID-19 pandemic, our colleagues went to the international offline conference, European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2022, which took place in Yerevan, Armenia this year. ECER conferences are held annually, attracting researchers from more than 70 countries, and are organized by the European Educational Research Association. We asked our colleagues to share their impressions of the conference and talk about the research they presented.

Marina Zavertyaeva presented the results of the study "Uncertainty of economic policy and investments of Russian companies: the role of social capital of the board of directors"

Laboratory for Research on Molecular Mechanisms of longevity, in collaboration with other departments of the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology (HSE University), developed the COVID-19 T-cell atlas - a comprehensive web portal, which allows to analyze how SARS-CoV-2 mutations change the presentation of viral peptides.

At the meeting, the head of the laboratory Galatenko A. V., leading researchers Staroverov V. M. and Alekseev D. V. reviewed their new work on mathematical modeling of infection.

Congratulations to Maria Anatolyevna Molodchik on the award received for her invaluable contribution to the development of global science!

On September 2, the second event of the consortium "Genetics of Cardiovascular Diseases" — an interdisciplinary forum "Cardiogenetics and Bioinformatics: Realities of 2022" — was held at the Higher School of Economics, which continued the work of the consortium between the organizations that are part of the consortium. The forum was attended by heads and representatives of scientific centers and institutes from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Arkhangelsk, Tyumen, and Surgut.

Laboratory of Molecular Physiology HSE University together with colleagues from the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, the Moscow Center for Fundamental and Applied Mathematics, and the Institute of Nanotechnologies for Microelectronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed ExhauFS, a tool that allows you to conduct an exhaustive search for feature subsets to build the most powerful cancer survival classification and regression models.

In July-August of the current year, Laboratory employees Anna Derkacheva and Robert Sandlersky took part in field studies of forest geosystems in Northwestern Mongolia as part of the Joint Russian-Mongolian Complex Biological Expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of the MPR under the IPEE RAS.