On 17-20 March 2025, the Life Sciences Centre, Vilnius, hosted the International Life Sciences Conference The COINS 2025. Conference participants had an opportunity to hear presentations delivered by the leading Lithuanian and foreign scientists, to present their scientific work during poster and oral presentation sessions, to take part in a company fair, etc.
Dr. (HP) Dalius Butkauskas, Chief Researcher, Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Dr. Petras Prakas, Chief Researcher at the Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Dr. Juliana Lukša-Žebelovič, Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Genetics, Dr. Iglė Vepštaitė-Monstavičė, Researcher at the Laboratory of Genetics, and Agnė Baranauskaitė, PhD student at the Laboratory of Genetics were invited to evaluate the poster presentations.
The students and PhD students from our laboratories presented many high-level poster presentations on the latest research and discoveries. These presentations covered topics ranging from molecular ecology to genetics, which attracted a lot of interest and positive feedback.
Poster presentations:
- Alper Melih Ucar “Interplay Between the Distribution of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Lithuanian Farmland Ecosystems”
- Urtė Busilaitė “Antibacterial Potential of Essential Oils and Hydrolates for Honeycomb Health Maintenance”
- Modestas Petrauskas “Determination of the viability of Sarcocystisoocysts by real-time PCR after treatment with propidium monoazide”
- Indrė Andziulytė “Molecular Identification of Crenosoma vulpisin the Respiratory Tract of the Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)”
- Arina Ivanova “Detection of Sarcocystisin the Internal Organs of Common Ravens (Corvus corax)”
- Viktorija Levinger “Molecular Confirmation of the Tawny owl (Strix aluco) as Definitive Host of Numerous SarcocystisSpecies”
- Darija Moskaliova “Molecular Identification of Parasites in Vilnius City Soil Samples”
- Ramunė Tamošiūnaitė “Preliminary Results on Detection of Trichinellaand Sarcocystis Parasites in Mustelid Predators”
- Silvija Voitkevičiūtė “Vegetative Compatibility Between Pathogenic Fungi of the Species of Diaporthe oncostoma”
- Martynas Bucius “A Study of the Diversity and Properties of Fungi Isolated From the Soil”
- James Firkins “Habitat-Dependent and Temporally Decreased Dispersal Patterns in Increasing White-Tailed Eagle Haliaeetusalbicilla”
- Edoardo Nobili “Heavy metal pollution in the muscles of Twaite shad, Alosafallax, migrating for spawning in Lithuanian coastal waters”
- Gabrielė Šiurkutė “The Impact of Salinization on the Invasion Success of the Cyanobacterium Chrysosporum bergii in Freshwater Ecosystems”
- Karina Smeliova “High-Value Bioproducts From The Biomass of Cyanobacteria And Microalgae”
- Vaiva Slatkevičiūtė “Cyanophage-Induced Transcriptional Changes in Raphidiopsisraciborskii”
Oral presentations:
Agnė Bučaitė “Not So Fantastic Plastic: How Microplastics Affect Fish at Different Developmental Stages”
Book of Abstracts: https://www.thecoins.eu/static/resources/booksofabstracts/COINS2025.pdf
