Dr. Aurelija Zajančkauskaitė

Phone: +370 5 223 4382
Email:  aurelija.zajanckauskaite@bchi.vu.lt

Projects and Grants:

2020–2023 - European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under Measure "Research projects implemented by world-class researcher groups", project "Enzyme Toolkit for the Synthesis of Fucosylated Oligosaccharides" No. 01.2.2-LMT-K-718-03-0045.
2015–2018 - Research Council of Lithuania, National Research Program "Sustainability of agro-, forest and water ecosystems", project "Agroecosystems microbiota under climate change: structure and concordance mechanisms" SIT-7/2015.
2014–2016 - Research Council of Lithuania. Researcher groups project "Proteogenomics of the early infection stages of virulent Escherichia coli bacteriophages" MIP-002/2014.
2012–2015 - Research Council of Lithuania. National Research Program "Healthy and Safe Food", project "Detection of pathogenic bacteria in food chain by molecular methods" SVE-04/2012.
2010–2011 - Research Council of Lithuania. Researcher groups project "Genomic research of the virulent bacteriophages isolated from environments of Lithuania" MIP-76/2010. Leader.
2007–2009 - Lithuanian State Studies Foundation. Program for Industrial Biotechnology Development in Lithuania, project "Engagement of metagenomic analysis of extremophile viruses from hot underground waters of Lithuania searching for the new enzymes" N-08/2007.
2007 - Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation. Researcher groups project "Combined action of endoribonucleases encoded by T4 type phages and E. coli in degradation of phage transcripts" T-110/07. Leader.
2005 - Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation, Researcher groups project "Analysis of the in vivo and in vitro activities new bacteriophage promoters" T-32/05
2008–2010 - Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation. Program for Priority directions and experimental development, project "Analysis of Phage T4 Replisome Structure and Function" C-08027.
2003–2006 - Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation, Program for Development of high technologies, project "New molecular tools for biotechnology" B-10/2003.
2001–2002 - Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation, Researcher groups project "Analysis of nucleotide sequence of regB gene in T4-related bacteriophages" T-521.
1995 - Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation, Researcher groups project "Analysis of relation between prokaryotic promoter strength and structure" No. 90.
1995–2001 - Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA), International Research Scholar Program "Gene expression in two genomic regions of bacteriophage T4" HHMI 75195-542801.
1994 - Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation, Researcher groups project "The role of RNA secondary structures in regulation of bacteriophage T4 gene expression" No. 12.
1994–1995 - International Science foundation. "The structure of overlapping genes and regulation of gene expression in two genomic regions of bacteriophage T4" funded by Grants No LAG000 and LAG100.

Grant:
1997 UNESCO/ICSU/TWAS fellowship at Institute Jacob Monod, Paris, France.