On January 20, a seminar “Gains brought to Latvia by taking part in the European 1+ Million Genome Initiative” will be held at the National Library of Latvia. Ministry of Health and Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre have closed an agreement about the...

On January 20, a seminar “SHAP – outstanding presentation skills in science” will be held at the National Library of Latvia. Science, as any other field that require speaking to various audiences, requires four key elements for outstanding presentation skills: The...

Kaia Kukk Postdoctoral researcher at Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre For most people the word "yeast" associates with the baker's or brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) that is used for rising dough and brewing beer. However, there are several...

The contribution of bilberries to developing natural blue coloured food dye (Kaia Kukk) Bilberries and bog bilberries (Vaccinium myrtillus and Vaccinium uliginosum) contain high levels of anthocyanins - the plant pigments that give flowers, fruits and some vegetables...

Today, the European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) project kicks-off in Brussels, Belgium. The new €40 million GDI project, coordinated by ELIXIR, is jointly funded by the European Commission under the Digital Europe Programme and through co-funding from...

A true celebration of women in science and gender equity took place in Riga this Tuesday. During the L'Oréal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" Young Talents Program Baltic award ceremony, at extraordinary premises of RTU, we celebrated the Young Talents of 3 past editions...

Caption: The Forum brought together researchers from across Latvia, to discuss wide ranging topics around bioinformatics education, infrastructure, and the ambitions of future research Credit: EMBL/Laura Ansone The first meeting of the Latvian Bioinformatics Forum...

APP “Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre” announces a written auction for the intellectual property - know-how: “GUT IT platform prototype and information on platform architecture, intestinal microbiome taxonomic composition reporting algorithm and intestinal...

The Latvian Microbiome Project is a citizen science initiative aimed at establishing an overview of the microbiome of the Latvian population and how diet and lifestyle affect it. Launched in 2019, the project has so far involved 1000 voluntary participants and is...

Full program and Book of Abstract you can finde here: Program and Book of Abstract

Agreement signed with Latvia’s Biomedical Research and Study Centre will boost academic exchange and collaboration on some of the largest challenges facing human and planetary health bmc_embl (1)

On February 18, 2021, at 16.00 the seminar Science Café, organised by the University of Latvia will be held virtually. The senior researcher of Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre Vita Rovīte will participate in the event. During the seminar, experts will...

In November 3, 2020, at the meeting of the BMC Scientific council, with December 22, 2020, Prof. Dr.biol. Jānis Kloviņš was elected as the Head of the Scientific Council Thank you for your significant and long-term contribution in BMC development in the performance of...