| Research Interests: | Protein-nucleic acid interactions, enzymology of nucleic acid enzymes, protein engineering, protein crystallography, cryo-EM |
| Present Position: | Research professor, Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University |
| Education: |
2000 - MSc in Biochemistry, Vilnius University 2004 - PhD, Vilnius University and Institute of Biotechnology |
| Experience (Past Positions): | 2004–2006 - Researcher, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius, Lithuania 2006–2012 - Senior researcher, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius, Lithuania 2012–present - Research professor, Department of Protein-DNA Interactions, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Molecular Biology (chromatin structure and DNA repair): lecture course for the 4th year biochemistry students, Vilnius University. | |
| Supervision of Doctoral Students: | A scientific supervisor or scientific consultant for 4 doctoral students, currently supervising one doctoral student |
| Awards: | 2015 State Science Award (with Dr. G. Tamulaitis and Dr. M. Zaremba) |
| Publications: | LABT_LMAVB GoogleScholar |
| Academic Cooperation: | Dr. Arturo Carabias and Prof. Guillermo Montoya, cryo-EM analysis of protein-nucleic acid complexes, Novo Nordisk Foundation, Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Prof. Matthias Bochtler group - structural and biochemical studies of methylation-dependent restriction endonucleases, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland |
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Projects and Grants: |
2010 Research Council of Lithuania grant MIP-81/2010, |
| Other Related Activities: | Since 2015 - Scientific expert of Baltic Institute of Advanced Technology. |
| Languages: | Lithuanian (native), English, Russian |