International Advisory Council of Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) has been completely formed. It was joined by a seventh member – professor Chris Lowe from University of Cambridge (UK).
Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) will host 21st conference "Laboratory Animals in Research" on 23rd of November (Room R401).
A lecture "Archaea, LUCA and the tree of life" will be given by a professor Patrick Forterre at Vilnius University Life Sciences Center on 21st of November, 3 pm, Room R102.
We kindly invite to attend two lectures by a well-known ecologist Velemir Ninkovic from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The lectures will take place 2nd of November, 10-12 AM at Room R105.
Nobel Prize laureate professor Brian K. Kobilka from Stanford University will visit Vilnius University Life Sciences Center on September 26.
Article "Molecular diversification of regulatory T cells in nonlymphoid tissues" was published in "Science Immunology" on September 14. Rapolas Žilionis, PhD student at Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) is the co-author of the paper.
The Kavli Prize Laureates in Astrophysics, Nanoscience and Neuroscience received their prizes from His Majesty King Harald V at an award ceremony in Oslo Concert Hall Tuesday 4 September.
Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) fourth-year student of biophysics Justina Žvirblytė was accepted for an internship at NASA's Ames Research Center (USA).
The first competition of life sciences programming, BioHackathon, in Lithuania was held at Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) on the first weekend of August. It was organized by Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM team. The event gathered seven teams from Lithuania and three from Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands.
The team of researchers from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research reported the discovery of a new airway cell type online in Nature on August 1. Rapolas Žilionis, PhD student at Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) is the co-first author of the paper "A single-cell atlas of the airway epithelium reveals the CFTR-rich pulmonary ionocyte".
29th International Biology Olympiad took place in Teheran, the capital of Iran on 15-22 of July. Lithuanian team led by Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) representatives won two silver and two bronze medals.
On 16 July Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) professor Virginijus Šikšnys received a Doctor of Science accolade of the University of Bristol (JK).
On the 26th of June graduates of Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) were given their bachelor and master diplomas in St. John’s Church.
International scientific conference “CRISPR 2018”, dedicated to the revolutionary genome editing technology, started on June 20th in Vilnius, Lithuania. The conference is organised by Vilnius University (VU) Life Sciences Center professor Virginijus Šikšnys, North Carolina University professor Robert Barrangou, and Philippe Horarth, a scientist working in “DuPont”.
