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2021
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Jan 3, 2022
Growing the team and research amplitude in 2021: A year in review
The beginning of a new year is always a good time to look back at the previous year and see what it was like, what achievements have been...
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Dec 15, 2021
Metformin model - model of the month in the BioModels Database
Computational Systems Biology Group’s project about the pharmacokinetics of metformin, funded by the Latvian Council of Science...
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Dec 3, 2021
Ulva – tomorrow's wheat of the sea
Over the past decade, we have witnessed a growing interest in the development of marine coastal areas as a source of alternative,...
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Oct 27, 2021
We welcome Ehsan Motamedian to our team
We welcome Ehsan Motamedian to our team. His research focuses on the reconstruction of genome-scale metabolic networks and the...
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Oct 27, 2021
Our colleague Karina receives the Baltic University Programme PhD Award
Our researcher Karina Balina has received The Baltic University Programme (BUP) PhD Award for the best thesis supporting high-quality...
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Oct 25, 2021
Jelena's virtual research mobility
Our colleague Jelena has just finished her virtual mobility at the Lithuanian Energy Institute, Laboratory of Energy Systems Research....
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Sep 29, 2021
Presenting START to a wider audience
Our colleague Jelena Ziemele has improved her communication skills in a public speaking course. Jelena explains her motivation to improve...
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Sep 21, 2021
International Conference on Smart Energy Systems
This week (September 21-22) our colleague Jelena Ziemele is participating virtually in the 7th International Conference on Smart Energy...
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Sep 3, 2021
Sustainable Metabolic Engineering
Congratulations to our team members Egils Stalidzans and Elina Dace for publishing their developed novel concept of Sustainable Metabolic...
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Aug 30, 2021
Boat trip 2021
Last year, due to the global pandemic the annual boat trip did not happen. However, as group’s members have been vaccinated, this year we...
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Aug 8, 2021
Metabolic Pathway Analysis 2021
This year the Metabolic Pathway Analysis conference (8th in the biennial series) was organised by the University of Tennessee (USA,...
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Aug 4, 2021
Waste2Surf review paper published in MDPI journal Fermentation
We are excited to announce that our review paper "Glycolipid Biosurfactant Production from Waste Cooking Oils by Yeast: Review of...
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Jul 5, 2021
Visit to Biotehniskais centrs
As we are currently working on several research projects (e.g. GenCon, Waste2Surf, CryZym) together with the JSC Biotehniskais Centrs, we...
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Jun 15, 2021
Our colleague Kristaps successfully defends his Master's thesis
Congratulations to our colleague Kristaps Berzins, who has successfully defended his Master's thesis titled “Application of artificial...
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May 10, 2021
New article published in Energy
We are happy to announce that the journal Energy (Elsevier) has published a paper by Jelena Ziemele, Elina Dace, Normunds Talcis and Ugis...
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