darta.zake@gmail.com

Education:

2018 – 2020 Masters studies at University of Latvia, Faculty of Biology in the specification of Bioinformatics

2019 – 2020 Exchange studies at University of Gothenburg, Master's programme in Genomics and Systems Biology

2015 – 2018 Bachelor studies at University of Latvia, Faculty of Biology

 

Work experience:

Since 2017 Laboratory assistant, University of Latvia Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology

2018 – 2020 Laboratory assistant at Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre

2016 – 2018 Recruitment coordination for the NGO “Iespējamā Misija”

Summer 2016 Intern at medical biotechnology company “Biosan”

 

Projects:

​2018 – 2021  RHODOLIVE: Biovalorization of olive oil mill wastewater to microbial lipids and other products via Rhodotorula glutinis fermentation, (H2020, ERA-net CoBioTech 1-st call)

2018 – 2020  Mathematical model of pharmacokinetics for personalized optimization of metformin therapy, Latvian Council of Science project

2015 – 2018  FP7 ERA-net ERASynBio project “Control of engineered metabolism by flowering and temperature triggered plant regulatory networks” (SMARTPLANTS)

 

Editorial and organisational activities:

Metabolic pathway analysis (MPA 2019) chair of the local organizing committee

 

Other activities:

2015 – 2020 Active member of the Latvian Debate Association ”Quo Tu Domā?”

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Language skills:

Latvian – native

English – full professional working proficiency

Russian – limited working proficiency

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