Upcoming Events
2022-02-28 -- 2022-03-03:
International life sciences conference "The COINS 2022" organizers would like to invite you to attend the online conference on February 28th - March 3rd.
This year, you will participate in famous Lithuanian and International scientist lectures and panel discussions, and students will share research results during poster and oral presentations.
This year we present students an opportunity to participate in oral and poster presentation sessions on a virtual conference platform while safely presenting their research without stepping back from a computer screen. Students can present their research on various topics, receive valuable prizes, get valuable feedback from researchers from multiple Lithuanian and foreign universities and other institutions.
We kindly ask you to encourage Your students to participate in poster / oral presentations. As You may know, students usually need some incentive to present their scientific works in public and considering those presenting for the first time, Your support and help are crucial. Your contribution to students' scientific life is enormous; thus, we hope that You will give a little push for Your students to share their research with others.
All LSC and FCHG (biochemistry and chemistry) students have received notifications to their academic emails on how to register for the presentation sessions. Thus, in case of any questions, please refer students to their emails.
- LSC Department of Studies will cover all LSC students' registration fees under the registration deadline of January 31st (refer students to specific instructions provided in their emails).
- FCHG Department of Studies will cover the first 10 FCHG students' registration fees under the registration deadline of January 31st.
- By registering for presentation sessions from February 1st to 14th, students will have to purchase tickets with their finances.
- All other conference activities will be free of charge. Thus everyone is welcome.
For more information, presentation requirements, registration forms, and tickets visit www.thecoins.eu.
With all questions regarding presentation sessions, write at .
With all general questions about the conference, write at .
Past Events
2021-12-17:
Instruct-ERIC Centre Finland Opening and Structural Biology Finland Conference 2021.
Event will be held on site and online.
More information and registration
2021-10-21:
Abstract
Bacteria have to respond to constantly changing conditions throughout their lives. In order to respond to abiotic stress – heat, salinity, acidity, osmotic changes – they have evolved an adaptive mechanism known as the General Stress Response (GSR). In some well studied and clinically relevant Gram-positive bacteria, like Bacillus subtilis and Listeria monocytogenes the GSR is governed by a transcription factor, SigB. The activity of SigB is tightly regulated by a partner switching cascade and its activation results in massive changes in gene expression. Induction of the GSR allows bacteria to survive in different harsh conditions. Unfortunately, it also allows pathogenic bacteria like L. monocytogenes to survive in the human gastrointestinal tract and cause disease. At the top of the signal cascade is a 1.5 MegaDalton, 60 subunit pseudoicosahedral protein complex called the stressosome, which is the earliest known complex involved in stress signal perception and is directly involved in the partner switching cascade activating SigB. We analyzed the stressosome complex of L. innocua, a close relative of L. monocyogenes, by cryo-EM, allowing us to see new details into the way signal is transduced across the complex.
2021-10-07:
We are inviting you to join for Dr. Rokas Grigaitis (University of Vienna) talk ‘Regulation of DNA helicases in homologous recombination’ at 7 of October 10 AM, room R401 or remotely via Teams link.
Abstract
Cells utilize homologous recombination to accurately repair broken chromosomes. Since such mechanism of repair requires a homologous template, DNA double strand breaks can be converted into two different products: noncrossovers or crossovers. Interestingly both have rather opposing consequences for the cell. Noncrossovers promote genetic integrity by suppressing potential loss of heterozygosity, while crossovers contribute to the generation of genetic diversity. One important step that determines which of the outcomes is produced is the enzymatic processing of various recombination intermediates. Among the various enzymes that are able to do the job are multiple DNA helicases. So far it is not known how cells control these enzymes to produce the required outcome of recombinational DNA repair. We discovered that cell cycle specific phosphorylation allows the cells to directly control the activity of several such DNA helicases. During the talk I will present the results of our research, present the model of cellular regulation of and explain how such findings advance our understanding of DNA repair by homologous recombination.
2021-05-06:
Invitation to the conference "Mathematics and Natural Sciences: Theory and Application 2021". More information in the invitation.
2021-04-27:
EMBL is inviting to the conference “Emerging Infectious diseases and related environmental, clinical and translational challenges”.
Conference will be held online on 27th of April, 2021.
More information about conference and program .
Registration form.
2021-03-30:
Organizers of International Life Sciences Conference „The (Extra)ordinary COINS 2021“ are inviting to
Poster Session for University Students of Life Sciences which will be held on the 30th of March, 2021, 12:00 EET.
Conference website.