Instruct-LV Annual Report Highlights and New Technologies

Technological Advances in 2022

The main technological advance during 2022 was construction and opening of Biotechnology facility at Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis.
On March 29, 2023, the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis (LIOS) opened its new Biotechnology facility, located in a two-story building next to its main site. The laboratory spaces are equipped with the latest research equipment for molecular and structural biology research, which will enhance LIOS’s capabilities and potential for discovering new drugs. The new facility will be used for recombinant protein production as well as structural and interaction studies in the contexts of rational drug design, biomaterials, biocatalytic processes and bio-pharmaceutical development. Until now, performing these studies at LIOS was challenging due to various technological constraints.

Latvia Structural Biology Activities

However, several structural biology related talks were presented during locally organised annual meeting of Latvian Biochemical Society in February 2022 and FEBS3+ conference in June 2022 in Tallinn, organised in part by structural biology communities in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. Structural biologists from Latvia had 5 poster presentations in Instruct-ERIC Biennial in Utrecht. Also, two post-docs from Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Center – Gints Kalniņš and Jānis Rūmnieks had Internships at Instruct Centre CEITEC, Czechia.