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| Research Interests: | Protein–ligand interaction; small molecule drug design; protein stability |
| Present Position: | Senior researcher, Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University |
| Education: |
2013 - PhD in Biochemistry in Physical Sciences, Vilnius University 2006 - MSc Magna cum laude in Biochemistry, Vilnius University 2004 - BSc in Biochemistry, Vilnius University |
| Experience (Past Positions): | Since 2018 - Senior researcher, Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University 2013–2018 - Researcher, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University 2006–2013 - Research assistant, Laboratory of Biothermodynamics and Drug Design, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University 2002–2006 - Research assistant, Laboratory of Recombinant Protein Research, Institute of Biotechnology |
| Supervision of Doctoral Students: | Since 2024 – Tautvydas Kojis |
| Awards: | 2024 – Supervisor of the winner of "The Best Master's Thesis 2024" competition in Technological Sciences. 2017 – Scholarship for the best young scientists from the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. |
| Publications: | LABT_LMAVB ORCID GoogleScholar |
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Projects and Grants: |
2019–2020 - “Targeted enzyme engineering for protein-small molecule recognition studies“, MSF-JM-6 |
| Improvement of Qualification, Certificates: | 2026 February 23–27 European Institute for Academic and Professional Development Course: Data Visualisation & Storytelling for Scientists, Berlin, Germany. 2024 October 2–4 EMBO Course: Project Management for Scientists Vilnius, Lithuania. 2024 May 27–31 Atlantic Language School Course: Presentation Skills for Academics, Galway, Ireland. 2023 September 22 The EMBO Solutions Course: Applying design principles to schematic figures (online). 2022 November 10 EMBO: Workshop on Research Integrity, Vilnius, Lithuania; and subsequent completion of Epigeum course Research Integrity, Second edition (online). 2022 September 4–9 The 8th Prague-Weizmann Summer school “Advances in drug discovery. Drug discovery and development from basic research to clinical trials”, Prague, Czech Republic. 2018 June 17–22 Wellcome Genome Campus advanced course: Practical aspects of small molecule drug discovery: at the interface of biology, chemistry and pharmacology, Hinxton, UK. 2016 July 3–10 FEBS advanced course: Ligand-binding theory and practice, Nove Hrady, Czech Republic. 2014 December 9–11 Practical workshop: Cell-based assays for screening, Hamburg, Germany. 2013 August 27 Short Summer School on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Vilnius, Lithuania. 2012 November 28–30 Workshop: Analysis of macromolecular interactions by isothermal titration calorimetry and global multi-method analysis in SEDPHAT, Kaiserslautern, Germany. 2009 September 2–9 FEBS practical course: Structure, folding, and dynamics of proteins and their complexes, Budapest, Hungary. |
| Languages: | Lithuanian (native), English |