Rasa Miliukaitė, a doctoral researcher at Vilnius University (VU), received the award for best poster presentation at the summer school organised by the European Society for Photobiology. She presented her biophysics PhD project, Mitigation of Quantum Dots Effects on Autotrophs, conducted at the VU Laser Research Centre (supervisor Dr Agnė Kalnaitytė-Vengelienė).
R. Miliukaitė also secured the opportunity to present her research at the European Congress on Photobiology, which will be held in Kraków next year.
The summer school, held over a week at the University of Padua's facilities in the Italian Alps, featured an intensive programme of lectures on photobiology and photophysics delivered by leading experts from around the world. Participants also had the opportunity to present their developing research ideas to fellow researchers and specialists in the field.
Dr A. Kalnaitytė-Vengelienė has maintained long-standing scientific ties with the European Society for Photobiology and its conferences, while also playing an active role in the Lithuanian Biophysical Society.
As a result of these established collaborations, Professor Massimo Trotta, one of this year's summer school lecturers and a researcher with more than twenty years of experience in the field of photosynthesis, will deliver an invited lecture at the international conference 5th Baltic Biophysics Conference together with 2nd Meeting Towards Data FAIRness in Molecular Biophysics, which will take place in Vilnius this autumn.
For registration and more information about the event, please visit Baltic Biophysics Conference.