Invited Speakers
Fundamental and applied biochemistry
Sebastian Glatt
Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
tRNAslational control of eukaryotic gene expression
Juozas Gordevičius
VUGENE, Lithuania
Understanding and Applying Epigenetic Aging Clocks in Aging Research and
Interventions
Baiba Jansone
Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Latvia, Latvia
The Long-Term Impact of Ischemic Stroke: Insights from Experimental Research
Hannu Koistinen
Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
Prostatic proteases
Dalius Ratautas
Institute of Biochemistry, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Point-of-care biosensors for astronaut's muscle health monitoring in space
Nicholas Taylor
Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
5:2 molecular motors: from bacterial motility to anti-phage defense
Mindaugas Zaremba
Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania
DNA cleavage mechanism of the short prokaryotic Argonaute-containing SPARDA system
Biochemistry of infectious disease
Julija Armalytė
Institute of Biosciences, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania
The Evolving Threat of Antibiotic-Resistant Opportunistic Pathogens: Diverse
Strategies to Achieve the Same Goal
Gytis Dudas
Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania
The global pursuit of Wuhan mosquito virus 6, a metagenomic RNA virus implicated
in vertebrate infection
Peter Sarin
Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Code and recode – the multifaceted RNA-based tactics employed by Shewanella phage 1/4 for productive infection
Kaspars Tars
Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Latvia
Biology of ssRNA phages in metagenome sequencing era
Environmental and plant biochemistry
Dukas Jurėnas
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Golden death bacteria – equipped to kill them all
Ilse Kranner
Department of Botany and Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Infrared thermography enables unlocking metabolic signatures of seed viability and ageing in Pisum sativum seeds
Eglė Lastauskienė
Institute of Biosciences, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Colorectal carcinogenesis – lessons from the microbiota shift
Alons Lends
Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Latvia
Structural studies of intact fungal cell walls using solid-state NMR spectroscopy
Vida Mildažienė
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Phytohormone story: how the response of seeds to stress is translated to changes in plant biochemical and physiological performance
Zigmunds Orlovskis
Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Latvia
Underground Biological Internet: Common Mycelial Networks in Inter-Plant Signalling and Resistance to Pathogens
Rafael Pinilla-Redondo
Section of Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Exploring the interplay between bacteria and MGEs
Gene editing
Stephen Jones
LSC-EMBL Partnership Institute for Genome Editing Technologies, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania
How precise is precise? Pursuing specific editing outcomes with CRISPR nucleases
Audronė Lapinaitė
Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, University of California, USA
Advancing Precision Genome Editing: Understanding Molecular Mechanisms to Engineer Safer Therapeutics
Patrick Pausch
LSC-EMBL Partnership Institute for Genome Editing Technologies, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania
A bacterial immune system that makes DNA and breaks RNA
Giedrius Sasnauskas
Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Structural basis for Cas9-mediated prespacer selection in Type II-A CRISPR-Cas adaptation
Inga Songailienė
Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania
University of Copenhagen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center of Protein Research, Denmark
Molecular details of the interference stage of type I-F CRISPR-Cas multiprotein effector
Gintautas Tamulaitis
Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Different enzymatic activities contributing to type III CRISPR-Cas immunity
Drug discovery and therapy approaches
Anni Allikalt
University of Tartu, Institute of Chemistry, Estonia
In vitro testing of genetic mutations of G protein-coupled receptors
Aurelijus Burokas
Institute of Biochemistry, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Targeting the microbiota-gut-brain axis in aging
Daumantas Matulis
Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Anticancer drug design via thermodynamics and the protein-ligand binding database
Augustas Pivoriūnas
State Research Institute Centre for Innovative Medicine, Lithuania
Extracellular vesicles: are we lost in translation?
Miglė Tomkuvienė
Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Epigenetic avalanche: the effects of human DNA methyltransferase DNMT3A variants
3D cellular models
Daiva Baltriukienė
Institute of Biochemistry, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania
The Evolving Threat of Antibiotic-Resistant Opportunistic Pathogens: Diverse
Strategies to Achieve the Same Goal
Darja Lavõgina
University of Tartu, Estonia
Adding third dimension: changes in response to cytotoxic agents, radiation or endocrine disruptors in 3D vs 2D cell culture
Aki Manninen
Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland
Losing adhesions to promote prostate cancer
Omics and Systems biology
Kaarel Adamberg
Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Cultivation of microbial consortia for future probiotics
Sampsa Hautaniemi
Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Analysis and integration of multi-omics data to overcome chemotherapy resistance in ovarian cancer
Tõnis Laasfeld
Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Estonia
Deep learning based high content live-cell microscopy image analysis: Focus on quality beyond blind metrics
Linas Mažutis
nstitute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Department of Molecular Biology, Umea University, Sweden
Semi-permeable microcapsules: emerging technology for single-cell -omics studies
Vita Rovīte
Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Latvia
Exploring landscape of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour microenvironment by transcriptomics
Agne Velthus-Meikas
Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Endocrine disruptive chemicals change ovarian metabolism and sub-cellular composition leading to reduced ovarian response to FSH stimulation