July 2024
Students from our group have participated in Balticum Organicum Syntheticum on 7-10th of July in Riga.
Arturs won the awards for the best Latvian poster presentation. Congrats!
Undergraduate and Master’s students from our team have successfully graduated from University of Latvia.
Congratulations!
Master’s theses were defended by:
Andrejs Savkins (supervisior Dr. Igors Sokolovs);
Julija Bariseva (supervisior Dr. Linda Supe);
Bachelor’s theses were defended by:
Dzonatans Miks Melgalvis (supervisior Glebs Jersovs);
Aldis Janis Pivars (supervisior Mihail Kazak);
Toms Pulle (supervisior Viktorija Vitkovska);
Edvards Janis Treijs (supervisior Dr. Olesja Koleda);
Daniels Jelisejevs (supervisior Dr. Kaspars Leduskrasts);
Matiss Martins Drava (supervisior Dr. Artis Kinens).
Congratulations to the latest PhD graduate from our group – Olesja Koleda!
Olesja has successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Electrochemical Synthesis of Pharmaceutically Relevant Heterocycles” (University of Latvia, supervisors: Prof., Dr. Chem. Edgars Suna, Prof., PhD Siegfried R. Waldvogel).
Undergraduate and Master’s students from our team have successfully graduated from University of Latvia.
Congratulations!
Master’s theses were defended by:
Katrina Prane “Electrochemical Synthesis of Non-Proteinogenic Amino Acid Derivatives and Bromanes” (supervisors prof. Dr. chem. Edgars Suna, MSc. chem. Olesja Koleda);
Merija Agnese Meiberga “Synthesis of C4-Substituted 7-Azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-1-carboxylic Acids” (supervisor Dr. chem. Ilga Mutule);
Matiss Bojars “Cyclic Sulfinamides and Their Derivatives as Potential Gamma-lactam Bioisosteres” (supervisors prof. Dr. chem. Edgars Suna, MSc. chem. Glebs Jersovs).
Bachelor’s thesis was defended by Oto Filipsons “Design of S and Se Containing Nucleophilic Catalysts” (supervisor PhD Artis Kinens).
The Prime Minister of Latvia Krišjānis Kariņš visits LIOS. We introduced our research directions and discussed future plans and ideas.
Photos by State Chancellery.
The research described in the paper “Imitation of β-lactam binding enables broad-spectrum metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors” by Dmitrijs, Martins, Marina, Edgars and collaborators from Chemistry Research Laboratory and the Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research (University of Oxford, UK) has been named by the Latvian Academy of Sciences as one of the 12 major achievements in Latvian science this year. Congratulations!
For the publication, see: DOI: 10.1038/s41557-021-00831-x
Arturs receives scholarship from University of Latvia Foundation sponsored by ‘MikroTik’ for PhD students in natural sciences. Congrats!
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