Lev Aleksandr Kolesnikov, MSc student in Food Technology and Development, defended his thesis “Effect of simulated microgravity on yeast growth”. In his thesis, Lev investigated, in a three-dimensional clinostat, how simulated microgravity affects microorganisms, especially their phenotype, morphology, transcriptomics and gene regulation. Simulated microgravity was originally developed to replicate space-like conditions, although it cannot completely .