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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...
Jan 3, 2022


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...
Dec 15, 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,...
Dec 3, 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...
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...
Oct 27, 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....
Oct 25, 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...
Sep 29, 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...
Sep 21, 2021


Sustainable Metabolic Engineering
Congratulations to our team members Egils Stalidzans and Elina Dace for publishing their developed novel concept of Sustainable Metabolic...
Sep 3, 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...
Aug 31, 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,...
Aug 9, 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...
Aug 4, 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...
Jul 6, 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...
Jun 15, 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...
May 11, 2021
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