Special Thanks
Dr. Linas Mažutis
Sector of Microtechnologies
Even though Dr. Mažutis was mostly working abroad, he never hesitated to find extra time for an internet call and give some fundamental advice in the field of microfluidics. The opportunity to work in the microfluidics’ laboratory was also invaluable for building our project.
Dr. Gintaras Valinčius
Department of Bioelectrochemistry and Biospectroscopy
Dr. Gintaras Valinčius was always optimistic about our team and was always curious about the current state of our project. Despite Dr. Valinčius busy schedule, he was always willing to help in any way he could. His expertise in membrane science was particularly helpful.
Professor Edita Sužiedėlienė
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Prof. Edita Sužiedėlienė’s support has been invaluable to Lithuanian iGEM teams since the establishment of the first team back in 2015. She has been kind enough to let us use her lab regularly and was patient about missing equipment after intensive work routines.
Tadas Penkauskas
Department of Bioelectrochemistry and Biospectroscopy
Tadas Penkauskas’ experience in membrane-based science and willingness to help with any matter related to lipids and membranes always helped us move further. Additionally, Tadas’ bulk-synthesized liposomes were a powerful tool to test our membrane proteins in higher throughput, while our method was still being developed.
Aistė Skrebytė
Head of Rector’s Office at Vilnius University
Aistė Skrebytė was the person at the Vilnius University Rector’s office that we could rely on. She helped our team with financial questions - team’s registration, Giant Jamboree-fee payments, and many others. She was always there for our team and tried to find best solutions to our organizational difficulties including our trip to Boston and general PR strategy.
Additional Thanks
Audrius Žemys
For organizing and hosting Lithuania’s first BioHackathon together with us.
Justinas Iljeitis
Who helped us with public relations and marketing at the beginning of the project.
Justina Žvirblytė
Who was involved in developing our idea as well as helped a lot with the InterLab study measurements.
Lina Bivainienė
Who supported us while planning the DNA day celebration.
Prof. Aurelija Žvirblienė
Who provided a theoretical background of antibody-antigen interactions.
Milda Zilnytė
Who helped us plan and perform scFv activity detection experiments.
Dr. Violeta Jonušienė
Who provided us with lab gear for SDS-PAGE.
Dovilė Strepetkaitė
Who provided us with a Precast Gel system and explained how to use it.
Prof. Christoph Flamm
Who surprised us with his willingness to teach us how to design custom RNA structures in silico and helped us create synthetic RNA thermometers.
Prof. Ivo Hofacker
Another renown specialist in RNA Bioinformatics, who dedicated his time and consulted us purely out of kind will on the design and applications of RNA thermoswitches.
Tadas Rimkus-Masaitis
Who kindly gave us a lot of valuable advice for problem-solving as an IT specialist.
Povilas Sidaravičius
Who enthusiastically mentored all the teams during the BioHackathon and inspired us to develop the idea of LipoVision.
Mindaugas Gapševičius
Who helped us to plan and organize the “DIY-science” workshop.
Juozas Nainys
Who helped us accelerate the ordering processes of relevant reagents.
Ignas Maželis
Who helped us in the microfluidics’ laboratory and was involved in our idea’s development process.
Dr. Karolis Leonavičius
Who helped us with software maintenance of the syringe microfluidics station and contributed to BioHackathon related events.
Antanas Žilakauskis
Who helped us in developing our project’s idea.
Matthijs Tadema
Who kindly suggested to help us with molecular thermodynamics modeling of our surface display system.
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