Biennial Report 2011–2012

Project Management
To ensure successful implementation and professional administration,
vigorous and excellent project management is
necessary. A second project’s Advisory Board meeting took
place on May 6-th, 2011. The Advisory Board members had
met the recruited personnel and listened to their presentations.
Their report had contributed largely to the success
of changing the deadlines of implementation of workpackages
1-5 from November 2012 to May 2013. The Advisory
Board members are Prof. A. Tramontano (University of
Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy), Prof. A. Pingoud, (Justus-Liebig-
Universität, Germany), Prof. L. Poellinger, (Karolinska
Institutet, Sweden), Prof. S. Halford, (University of Bristol,
U.K.), Prof. B. Samuelsson, (University of Gothenburg,
Sweden), Prof. H. Grosjean, (University of Paris-South,
France), Prof. E. Butkus, (Research Council of Lithuania),
Mr. A. Markauskas, (Fermentas, CEO, Lithuania), Dr. A.
Žalys, (Ministry of Education and Science, Lithuania), Prof.
G. Dienys, (Lithuanian Biotechnology Association). The
Management Board members are Mr. Leonas Pašakarnis,
(Deputy Director of Institute of Biotechnology Vilnius), Prof.
Saulius Klimašauskas, (Head of Department of Biological
DNA modification), Dr. Daumantas Matulis, (Head of
Department of Biothermodynamics and Drug Design),
Dr. Gintautas Žvirblis, (Head of Department of Eukaryote
Genetic Engineering), Prof. Aurelija Žvirblienė, (Head of
Department of Immunology), Dr. Česlovas Venclovas, (Head
of Department of Bioinformatics), Prof. Virginijus Šikšnys,
(Head of Department of Protein-Nucleic Acids Interactions).
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