2026

Researcher from our team, Rui Tavares, participated in the 10th Disease Maps Community Meeting (DMCM 2026), held on 5-7th of October at the University of Rostock, Germany. The meeting featured keynote lectures, contributed presentations, poster sessions, panel discussions and community workshops focused on advancing disease map technologies and their applications in biomedical research. DMCM has become one of the leading community events for researchers developing mechanistic

At the end of September, our team said goodbye to Sophie, whose two-month Erasmus+ internship in Riga successfully came to an end. Joining the group at the beginning of August, Sophie quickly became an active contributor to the team's ongoing activities while also embracing the opportunity to experience life in Latvia. Looking back on her Erasmus+ experience, Sophie shared with us: "From the beginning of August until the very end of September, I had the pleasure of being an

On 28 September 2026, SysBioLatvia participated in the Cluster Health & Mission Cancer Brokerage Event in Brussels, Belgium. According to the event organizers, event brought together 132 participants from 27 countries creating a valuable environment for networking, partner search, and consortium building for future European projects. Latvia was represented by seven researchers at the event. Among them was Egils Stalidzans, who delivered a pitch presentation “Sample specific

In 23-25th of September 2026, Dr. Rui Afonso Tavares represented RSU's Computational Systems Biology team at RExPO26 (Repurposing Expo 2026), an international conference in Berlin dedicated to systems medicine, artificial intelligence, and drug repurposing. The talks about repurposing drugs and finding alternative treatments for less responsive patients had very interesting methods that will be useful for our team to integrate into our simulations for optimising precision med

Last week, members of the SysBioLatvia group participated in the KLS Baltic Alliance Workshop: Metagenomics and Metabolic Modelling for Clinical Microbiome Research, held in Riga on 17-18 September. The workshop brought together researchers interested in applying cutting-edge computational approaches to better understand the role of the microbiome in human health and disease. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on training, participants explored modern approaches for

A very important systems biology conference organised by International Study Group on Systems Biology (ISGSB) just took place in Ljubljana 7.-11. September 2026 (ISGSB2026). It was a great pleasure to meet people working with similar methods. That is a conference where you do not need introduction about your methods - you are in your favourite “bubble" there. We experienced during those days sunny weather above 30oC as well as days with constant rain and temperature below 20o

After several days of storms and rainy weather, our team was fortunate to enjoy a beautiful sunny day for a team-building trip to Sigulda this Wednesday. Our adventure began with a walk through Sigulda’s scenic surroundings before taking a ride on the famous Sigulda cable car and furhter exploring trails that were thankfully safe after the storm. The group visited Gutman's Cave, one of Latvia’s most well-known natural landmarks, where we stopped for photos. From there, we con

This Wednesday, the SysBioLatvia team had the pleasure of meeting Sophie Strzelińska in person for the first time during our weekly group meeting. Sophie joins us from Akademia nauk stosowanych w Koninie, Poland (State University of Applied Sciences in Konin), for a two-month Erasmus+ Traineeship. During her stay at Rīga Stradiņš University, she will gain experience in our international research environment and learn about ongoing activities in computational systems biology a

Our two years project SysMito (Systems biology based analysis of mitochondrial metabolism as a driver of inflammation in cardiovascular disease development) has come to the end and we had an open seminar 26-th March 2026 to present its results to a wider society trying to explain scientific results in a more applicable manner relating them to different stages of atheroscletrotic plaque and the community of different cells there. An overview about the activities of our researc

COBRA 2026 conference in Potsdam, Germany, was an excellent place to present the results of our work in SysMito project, because COBRA software has been essential tool in the project. Of course, the conference participants could understand our results faster than in any other conference as they are very familiar to the constraint-based stoichiometric modeling approach. New ideas and collaborations were discussed during three days in Potsdam at a fantastic lake in early spring