Speakers

Sonata JarmalaitÄ—
(Vilnius University)

Education: Master of Sci. (Biology) and Ph.D. (Genetics) at Vilnius University, 1989 and 1993. Postdoctoral studies in Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland, 2000 and 2003. Habilitation (Biomedicine), Vilnius University, 2009.

Current Position:professor of the Department of Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sci., Vilnius University. Main courses for B. Sc. and M. Sc. programme students at Vilnius University: Functional cell biology, Epigenetics and Oncogenetics

Research Activities: Main topics: molecular genetics and epigenetics of cancer; molecular biomarkers; epigenetics of stemness. More than 30 research publications and 3 textbooks.

Memberships: : Lithuanian society of Geneticists, since 1989; Lithuanian Biochemical Society, since 2009; Nordic Environmental Mutagen Society (NordEMS), since 2000