Plenary Speakers

Fundamental and applied biochemistry

Aivar Lõokene

Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Mechanisms of endothelial lipolysis

Emilio Parisini

Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Latvia

From field to fork: does a functional screening still seem a reasonable approach to identify and develop novel enzymes?

Rolandas Meškys

Institute of Biochemistry, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Engineering PETases for enzymatic plastic degradation

Biochemistry of infectious disease

Vyacheslav Yurchenko

University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

RNA editing in Trypanosomatidae: lessons from the “obscure” species

Environmental and plant biochemistry

Ykä Helariutta

Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland

On a two-way street between Arabidopsis and tree research

Nils Rostoks

Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Latvia, Latvia

New Genomic Techniques for sustainable agriculture in the EU

Gene editing

Guillermo Montoya

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen,
Denmark

cryoEM reveals that Retron-Eco1 assembles NAD + -hydrolyzing filaments providing immunity against bacteriophages

Drug discovery and therapy approaches

Maija Dambrova

Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis & Riga Stradins University, Latvia

Fatty Acid-derived Energy Metabolites Acylcarnitines: Going with the Flow?

Jānis Kloviņš

University of Latvia, Latvia

Decoding the molecular landscape of acute and Long COVID through metabolomic
and transcriptomic analysis.

Jukka Westermarck

Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku & Åbo Akademi University, Finland

PP2A inhibitor protein CIP2A is a prime target for TNBC therapy

3D cellular models

Karen Biebak

Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany

Replacement of animal models by 3D cultures

Omics and Systems biology

Marko Vendelin

Laboratory of Systems Biology, Department of Cybernetics, Tallinn University of
Technology, Estonia

Decoding molecular properties from seemingly chaotic fluorescence intensity
traces using FITSA