The latest updates from our laboratory.
Congratulations to Triinu Rätsepso and Merili Samuli on defending their theses in the Applied Chemistry and Gene Technology programme.
Triinu defended her master's thesis, The creatine analogue guanidinoacetate does not stimulate respiration in permeabilized mouse cardiomyocytes. Her work exam...
Congratulations to four students from the Laboratory of Systems Biology who defended their theses in June.
In the master's programme in Applied Physics and Data Science, Heleri Melles defended Studies of diffusion in cardiac muscle cells. Her work used fluorescence microscopy and raster image...
Congratulations to Hamed Karimi, who defended his doctoral thesis, Development of Computational and Statistical Methods for Fluorescence-Based Diffusion Measurements, at TalTech on 12 May 2026.
Molecular diffusion is fundamental to cell physiology, but measuring it accurately in living cells is...
Hamed Karimi, Otto Gustavson, Irina Česnokova, Jelena Branovets, Rikke Birkedal, Martin Laasmaa, Marko Vendelin
ACS Omega, 2026 Mar 31; 11(12): 19201-19219.
Congratulations to Romain Bernasconi, who defended his doctoral thesis, Unravelling the Mechanisms of Energetics-Induced Fast-to-Slow Phenotypic Shift in Creatine-Deficient Mice, at TalTech on 3 December 2025.
The creatine kinase system helps muscles maintain their energy supply during contracti...
Jelena Branovets, Martin Laasmaa, Jekaterina Stolova, Xin Shen, Triinu Rätsepso, Romain Bernasconi, Kärol Soodla, Mihkel Jaan Balodis, Cärolin Grahv, Eliise Hendrikson, William Edward Louch...
Edit: Position is filled
Our lab is a part of recently financed The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND program INNOCHEMBIO. Within this program, we look for a PhD student that would be interested in studying intracellular heterogeneity. For details, see
Congratulations to Kärol Soodla and Danila Gusev on defending their theses in TalTech's chemistry and biotechnology programmes.
Kärol defended her master's thesis in Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, The expression and phosphorylation of AMP-activated protein kinase varies between intracellu...
Congratulations to three students from the Laboratory of Systems Biology who defended their master's theses in Applied Physics on 5 June.
Marten Pärg defended Implementing 3D Imaging in Single Molecule Localization Microscopy with Astigmatism. His work implemented three-dimensional super-resolut...
Hamed Karimi, Martin Laasmaa, Margus Pihlak, Marko Vendelin
Sci Adv, 2025 Apr 18; 11(16): eads4609.
Molecular movement and interactions at the singl...