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| Research Interests: | Organic synthesis of compounds; protein-ligand interaction energetics; protein crystallography; drug design |
| Present Position: | Head of Department of Biothermodynamics and Drug Design, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University |
| Education: |
PhD, University of Minnesota, USA |
| Experience (Past Positions): | Johnson&Johnson drug design |
| Molecular biophysics; protein-ligand interaction biothermodynamics | |
| Supervision of Doctoral Students: | Edita Čapkauskaitė Lina Baranauskienė Vaida Linkuvienė Alexey Smirnov Justina Kazokaitė Egidijus Kazlauskas Joana Smirnovienė Vaida Paketurytė-Latvė Agnė Petrošiūtė Marius Gedgaudas Jokūbas Preikša Ihor Paterylo |
| Awards: | 2020 - A joint paper with Prof. Wen-Yih Chen was awarded the Best Paper Award on 6 January 2022, at the annual meeting in Kaohsiung (https://2021twiche.conf.tw). Tai-Chih Kuo, Meng-Wei Wu, Wei-Chen Lin, Daumantas Matulis, Yuh-Shyong Yang, Si-Yu Li, Wen-Yih Chen* “Reduction of interstrand charge repulsion of DNA duplexes by salts and by neutral phosphotriesters - Contrary effects for harnessing duplex formation” Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtice.2020.02.023. 2021 - Vilnius City Municipality St. Christophor award. 2019 - Justina Kazokaitė, a PhD student supervised by D. Matulis, was awarded a laureate prize by the Young Lithuanian Scientist Association for the best PhD thesis in the field of biomedical sciences in Lithuania. 2018 - Nominated by Global Lithuanian Leaders Awards for international innovations implemented in Lithuania. 2015 - Joana Smirnovienė, an MS student supervised by D. Matulis, was awarded a prize by the Young Lithuanian Scientist Association for the best MS thesis in the field of biomedical sciences in Lithuania. 2014 - Justina Kazokaitė, an MS student supervised by D. Matulis, was awarded a prize by the Young Lithuanian Scientist Association for the best MS thesis in the field of biomedical sciences in Lithuania. 2012 - Lithuanian National Science Prize. 2012 - Life Science Baltics Startup Session, Lithuania, Vilnius (second place). 2013 - The Affinity 2013 “Young Investigator Award”. Co-author of the poster "20th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Molecular Recognition" conference. Vienna. 2012 - The Best Poster award in the Conference “Biochemija ir biofizika Vilniaus universitete”, Lithuania, Vilnius (third place). 2012 - The Best Poster award in the Conference „XVII International Society of Biological Calorimetry (ISBC) Conference“, Germany, Leipzig (second place). 2010 - The Best Poster award in the Conference “ESBES+ISPPP+ISB“, Italy. 2009 - ScanBalt Bridge Baltic Sea Region Award, Sweden. 2007–2009 - Public advisor to the President of Lithuania for the issues of emigration and repatriation. 2008 - Selected as a Lithuanian representative young scientist in the book “Portraits of Science. Scientists of Tomorrow” by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations. 2007 - Award “Direction-Home” given to a Lithuanian scientist selected by an independent Swedish-Lithuanian scientific council, by “Telia Sonera” Inc., Sweden. 2000 - Robert Jenness Award by the University of Minnesota Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics for the best postdoctoral associate. 1988 - National higher educational institutions Olympic competition in chemistry (third place). |
| Publications: | LABT_LMAVB GoogleScholar PubMed |
| Languages: | Lithuanian, English, Russian |