Metabolic Pathway Analysis 2019

Biennial conference held on August 12 – 16, 2019 in Riga, Latvia

The Metabolic Pathway Analysis 2019 held in the newly built Academic Centre for Life Sciences in Riga is the seventh conference in MPA series. The conference comes to Latvia at a time of celebration – it is the centenary of Latvia as an independent country and its national university –University of Latvia.

Earlier MPA meetings have been held in Jena, Germany (2005), Leiden, the Netherlands (2009), Chester, United Kingdom (2011), Oxford, United Kingdom (2013), Braga, Portugal (2015) and Bozeman, Montana, the USA (2017). The meeting has a primary focus on metabolism and interconnected processes. The conference includes invited and selected talks, poster sessions, as well as tutorials.

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The previous conference Metabolic Pathway Analysis (MPA) 2017 was held on July 24 – 28, 2017 at Montana State University (MSU), Bozeman, USA. More information here.

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The next conference Metabolic Pathway Analysis (MPA) 2021 will be held on August 2 – 6, 2021 at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. More information here.

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Conference Photo Gallery

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The conference consists of 6 sessions:

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1. Systems medicine

2. Fundamentals of metabolic network structure

3. Reconstituted systems and synthetic biology

4. Pathways of primary and secondary metabolism

5. Applied metabolic systems analysis and engineering

6. Methodology and mathematical algorithms and software

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Pre-conference tutorials

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1. Modelling Dynamic Systems in Python, Oliver Ebenhöh

2. Metabolic Modeling in the Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), José P. Faria, Janaka Edirisinghe

3. Merlin - Software for Reconstruction of Genome-Scale Models, Isabel Rocha, Oscar Dias

4. Reproducibility and Standards in Metabolic Kinetic Modeling, Herbert Sauro

5. Analyzing Metabolic Networks with CellNetAnalyzer, Axel von Kamp, Philipp Schneider, Steffen Klamt

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Chair: Egils Stalidzans (University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)

Ross P. Carlson (Montana State University, Bozeman, USA)

Oliver Ebenhoeh (Henrich Heine University, Germany)

Sabine Peres (University of Paris-Sud Paris-Saclay, France)

Mark Poolman (Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom)

Isabel Rocha (ITQB, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal)

Herbert Sauro (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)

Stefan Schuster (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany)

Hyun-Seob Song (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)

Zita Soons (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)

Cong Trinh (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)

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The local organising committee

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Chair: Darta Maija Zake (University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)

Elina Dace (University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)

Janis Kurlovics (University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)

Kristaps Berzins (University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)

Santa Prikule (University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)

Agris Pentjuss (University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)

Katrina Daila Neiburga (University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)

Zane Ozolina (University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)

Liva Stalidzane (University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)

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Invited speakers

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Sponsors and contributors

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We are thankful for the financial support from the European Regional Development Fund project Nr.1.1.1.5/18/I/016: The University of Latvia in the European Research Area – excellence, activity, mobility, capacity. As well as we acknowledge the US National Science Foundation for a student travel grant.

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Venue

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The conference oral presentations were held on the 1st floor, auditorium 106 “Magnum”.

The poster presentations were held in the lobby (2nd floor).

Coffee breaks and lunch was served in the courtyard (2nd floor).

The 1st day tutorials were held on the 3rd floor – rooms 334, 335, 336.

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Additional activities

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