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| Research Interests: | Bacterial antiviral defense systems, protein-DNA interaction mechanisms, protein crystallography, cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) |
| Present Position: | Senior Researcher, Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University |
| Education: |
1999 - Biochemistry, Vilnius University 2007 - PhD in Biochemistry, Vilnius University and Institute of Biotechnology |
| Experience (Past Positions): | 1999–2002 - Reaserch assistant, Institute of Biotechnology 2002–2007 - PhD student, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius, Lithuania 2007–2011 - Researcher, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius, Lithuania Since 2011 - Senior researcher, Department of Protein-DNA Interactions, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Molecular biology (DNA replication and genome studies): for 4th year biochemistry students, Vilnius University. | |
| Awards: | Lithuanian Society of Young Researchers award for the best PhD thesis in Lithuania in 2007 |
| Publications: | LABT_LMAVB GoogleScholar |
| Academic Cooperation: | Prof. Rotem Sorek, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science - structural and biochemical studies of bacterial antiviral defense system Thoeris. Dr. Arturo Carabias and Prof. Guillermo Montoya, Novo Nordisk Foundation, Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - cryo-EM analysis of protein-nucleic acid complexes. |
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Projects and Grants: |
2008 UAB Fermentas and Lithuanian Science and Studies Foundation grant |
| Improvement of Qualification, Certificates: | 2002 EMBO practical course "Crystallization of Macromolecular Complexes", EMBL/Grenoble Outstation, Grenoble, France 2004 EMBO course "Automated Macromolecular Structure Solution", The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2005 MM4MX course "Macromolecular Modeling for Macromolecular Crystallographers", Diamond Light Source, Chilton, Didcot, UK 2005 Practical Course on Training in methods for Macromolecular Crystallography M2M-5: From Measurement to Model", EMBL/DESY, Hamburg, Germany 2006 Biocrys2006 "Fundamentals of modern methods in biocrystallography", Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal 2008 EMBO course "Computational Aspects of the Protein Target Selection, Protein Production Management and Structure Analysis Pipeline", EMBL Hinxton Cambridge, UK 2009 FSB/BCO protein crystallography course "Practical and theoretical aspects of datacollection and dataprocessing", University of Oulu, Finland |
| Research Dissemination: | 2019 Lecture in MO museum "How does science inspire artists to create?" 2019 Exhibition in LSC "Stories of structures" |
| Languages: | Lithuanian (native), English, Russian |