The COINS 2025

Day 1 (03-17) - BIODIVERSITY/ENVIRONMENT

8:30-10:00 Registration

10:00-10:30 Opening

10:30-11:20 Keynote speaker - Dr. Marie C. Nordstrom "Food webs in our changing seas"

11:20-11:50 Coffee Break

11:20-14:30 Company Fair

11:50-12:40 Invited speaker - Kelly Krause "Inside Nature: Visual communication in science publishing"

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:20 Keynote speaker - Dr. Eugene Koonin "The world of viruses and its evolution"

15:20-15:50 Poster Pitches

16:00-17:30 Poster session (Biomedicine, Biology and Ecology)

17:30-17:45 Closing of the day

Day 2 (03-18) - GENETICS

9:00-10:00 Registration

10:00-10:10 Opening of the day

10:10-11:00 Keynote speaker - Dr. Kirsten Bos "History of syphilis and its close relatives from the perspective of ancient DNA"

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:45 Keynote speaker - Dr. Victor Ambros “Gene regulatory networks controlling developmental timing in C. elegans”

12:45-14:00 Lunch

12:45-16:20 Company Fair

14:30-14:45 Speaker Dalius Ratautas - "BIOSENSORS FOR SPACE: DEVELOPMENT OF L-AMINO ACID DETECTION SYSTEM FOR ISS "

14:50-15:40 Keynote speaker - Dr. Stefan H. E. Kaufmann "Novel intervention measures against tuberculosis: Rational design of a novel vaccine and a prognostic signature"

15:40-15:55 Speaker Jonas Juozapaitis - "BEYOND FRAGMENTS: HOW LONG-READ SEQUENCING REVOLUTIONIZES DNA SEQUENCE VERIFICATION "

15:55-16:10 Speaker Dominykas Milašius - "BEHIND THE MOONSHOT"

16:10-16:20 Coffee Break

16:20-17:50 Poster session (Bioinformatics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)

17:50-18:00 Closing of the day

19:30-21:00 Gala Evening - VU Mažosios aulos kavinė, Universiteto g. 3, Vilnius

Day 3 (03-19) - BIOTECHNOLOGY/BIOMEDICINE

9:00-10:00 Registration

10:00-10:10 Opening of the day

10:10-11:00 Keynote speaker - Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch "Microbial Motility as a Biosignature to Detect Both Extraterrestrial Life and Pathogens on Earth"

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:20 Keynote speaker - Dr. Jiorgos Kourelis "Pikobodies: What does it take to bioengineer NLR immune receptor-nanobody fusions"

13:10-14:10 Lunch

14:10-15:00 Invited speaker - Kees Moeliker "The duck, his mate, and the pubic louse: Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes"

15:00-17:00 Invited speaker - Walid O. El Cheikh

16:40-18:10 Poster session (Cell Biology, Microbiology and Biotechnology)

18:10-18:20 Closing of the day

18:30-22:00 "Science Shaping Future" The COINS Conference side event - Saulėtekio alėja 15, Vilnius'

Day 4 (03-20) - BIOPHYSICS/ASTROBIOLOGY

9:00-10:00 Registration

10:00-10:10 Opening of the day

10:10-11:00 Keynote speaker - Dr. Donatas Zigmantas "Mapping energy transfer in photosynthetic bacteria in vivo"

11:00-11:15 Speaker Mateusz Wilamowski - "Mechanism of N4BP1 RNase action as a component of decapping complex "

11:15-11:30 Speaker Irmantas Rokaitis - "HYPE, HOPE, AND HARD LESSONS IN AI-DRIVEN ENZYME DESIGN "

11:30-11:40 Coffee Break

11:40-13:10 Poster session (High School Posters, Genetics, Immunology, Biophysics and Neurobiology)

13:10-14:10 Lunch

15:00-15:50 Keynote speaker - Dr. Giovanni Poggiali "Rocks & organics: the role of minerals in the origin of life and the enrichment of chemical complexity in the solar system"

15:50-16:20 Coffee Break

16:20-17:10 Keynote speaker - Dr. Maciej Lisicki "Twist and turn. Hydrodynamics of microscale locomotion."

17:10-17:40 Closing, Awards

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