During an online seminar „The less known facets of ISOLDE: Beyond Standard Model searches and live science applications“ presented by Dr Magdalena Kowalska (CERN) on behalf of the ISOLDE physics team, two probably less know aspects of ISOLDE research were discussed.

Spring is the time of flowering, whatever that flower may be.

Amorphophallus konjac, popularly known as “corpse flower”, bloomed in the LSC greenhouse last week. For the first few days, the flower fully justified its name, so it spent time on the balcony, but now the aroma is already very subdued, so this infrequently blooming exotic flower can be seen individually in the Western building of LSC, on the 4th floor, near laboratory V433.

May 6 became a historic day at the Life Sciences Center - after a complete installation and tuning up of the transmission microscope with the cooling function  Cryo-TEM Glacios, the structure of the apoferitin protein was obtained and the representation of this structure in 3 Åresolution was submitted.

On April 7, Arancha González Laya, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain, visited the VU LSC.

Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) received great news from the Central Project Management Agency (CPMA).

Gediminas Drabavičius is going to defend the dissertation “Study and application of CRISPR-Cas systems” at 15 p.m. on the 16^th of March.

On Thursday, the annual reporting meeting of the community of the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) was held remotely.

On 28 January 2021, the newly elected VU LSC Council met in the first meeting.

On 12 January, a message was received that the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) had awarded a substantial grant to the researcher of Warwick University Algirdas Toleikis.

This year’s Nobel Prizes are being presented in Stockholm and Oslo this week. On Tuesday, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Anne Doudna were officially awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. On this occasion, Vilnius University decided to symbolically honour Prof. Virginijus Šikšnys, a scientist who was eligible for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and deserved it for his achievements. 

On December 9, 2020, on the eve of the Nobel Prize awards ceremony Vilnius will celebrate it by honouring one of the most prominent Lithuanian pioneers in life sciences – Prof Virginijus Šikšnys – whose contributions led to important discoveries in the Nobel Prize-worthy CRISPR-Cas9 technology. Vilnius is funding a scholarship in the name of the scientist and has commissioned a sculpture for the achievements made in the life sciences field.