Our team intensively works on two strong research areas. Our first task is biocontrol of human pathogenic microorganisms. Another research area of ours is development and improvement of new different biocatalysts by protein engineering methods.
Research group activities
Our team intensively works on two strong research areas. Our first task is biocontrol of human pathogenic microorganisms. Skin infections caused by microorganisms represent a clinical challenge, due to them being widespread and their ability to cause mortality of the patients. The increasing resistance of the microorganisms to antibiotics and antifungal agents is promoting the search for new compounds and methods for the treatment of skin diseases as well as understanding the physiology and metabolic plasticity of the infectious microorganisms. A combination of novel chemical compounds along with pulse electric field (PEF) technology allows us to perform a wide scale biocontrol of skin pathogens.Another research area of ours is development and improvement of new different biocatalysts by protein engineering methods. Our main target is recombinant lipolytic enzymes of Geobacillus bacteria that can be applied in the production of biofuel, fragrance and flavour esters, detergents, etc. Our study scope also encompasses microbial ureases, involved in biocementation processes and nitrate reductases which can be applied for biological production of silver nanoparticles.
Proposal
We are interested and can collaborate by helping you in further areas:
Medical and Pharmaceutical Industry
Molecular Microbiology
Enzymes for Industrial Application
Protein Engineering
Meet our team
Leading researcher:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eglė Lastauskienė
Staff:
Assist. Prof. Dr. Renata Gudiukaitė,
Assist. Prof. Dr. Audrius Gegeckas
PhD students:
Justina Jurgelevičiūtė
Research fellows:
Vilius Malūnavičius,
Kotryna Čekuolytė,
Gytis Druteika,
Neda Jonutytė
Vilnius University is the largest Lithuanian higher education and research institution. We are open for collaborative research, contract research or any cooperation activities with partners from business and public organizations. Multidisciplinary approach on R&D activities at Vilnius University provides unique opportunity to incorporate methodologies, perspectives, data and concepts from all scientific fields – biomedical, physical sciences, technologies, social sciences and humanities. We believe that the right mix of shared intentions with our partners and clients, outstanding teams of university researchers and open access to modern R&D infrastructure deliver remarkable solutions that can change organizations, markets and society in general.
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