2021

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Jelena's virtual research mobility

Our colleague Jelena has just finished her virtual mobility at the Lithuanian Energy Institute, Laboratory of Energy Systems Research....

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...

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...

Sustainable Metabolic Engineering

Congratulations to our team members Egils Stalidzans and Elina Dace for publishing their developed novel concept of Sustainable Metabolic...

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...

Metabolic Pathway Analysis 2021

This year the Metabolic Pathway Analysis conference (8th in the biennial series) was organised by the University of Tennessee (USA,...

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...

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...

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...

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...