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 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...
Congratulations to Triinu Rätsepso on defending her bachelor's thesis, Sarcolipin expression in cardiac and skeletal muscles from creatine deficient mice, based on work in the Laboratory of Systems Biology.
Supervised by Rikke Birkedal, Triinu's work examined the expression of sarcolipin in card...
Congratulations to three students from the Laboratory of Systems Biology who defended their theses in TalTech's Applied Physics programme between 3 and 5 June.
Cärolin Grahv defended her master's thesis, A Bayesian approach for super-resolution microscopy image reconstruction. Supervised by Mart...
Congratulations to Kärol Soodla on defending her bachelor's thesis, Links between energetics and muscle phenotype: pure creatine deficiency leads to skeletal muscle atrophy and shift in myosin heavy chain composition.
Supervised by Romain Bernasconi and Rikke Birkedal Nielsen, Kärol's work exami...
Congratulations to Jelena Branovets, who defended her doctoral thesis, Energetics and Calcium Handling in Hearts from Creatine-Deficient Mice, at TalTech on 29 September 2022.
The creatine kinase system helps the heart match energy production to the energy needed for every contraction. Jelena's...
Congratulations to Jekaterina Stolova on defending her master's thesis, Ryanodine receptor and phospholamban expression and phosphorylation in cardiomyocytes from creatine deficient mice.
Supervised by Rikke Birkedal, Jekaterina's work examined the expression and phosphorylation of ryanodine rec...
Jelena Branovets, Niina Karro, Karina Barsunova, Martin Laasmaa, Craig A Lygate, Marko Vendelin, Rikke Birkedal
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, 2021 Feb 01; 320(2): H613-H629.
Karina Barsunova, Marko Vendelin, Rikke Birkedal
Sci Rep, 2020 May 14; 10(1): 7956.
Creati...