Virginijus Siksnys#
| Membership Number: | 4979 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | LITHUANIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.gmc.vu.lt/en/institutes/institute-of-biotechnology#department-of-protein-dna-interactions |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1983-2096 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 Visiting Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- 2018 Distinguished Professor/Chief staff scientist, Vilnius University/Institute of Biotechnology
- 2017 Elected Chairman of the Council of Life Science Center, Vilnius University
- 2011 - 2018 Professor/Chief staff scientist, Vilnius University/Institute of Biotechnology
- 2002 - 2011 Chief Staff Scientist/ Head of Department, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius
- 2002 - Professor, Vilnius University.
- 1996 - 2002 Senior Staff Scientist, Head of Laboratory, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius
- 1993 Visiting Scientist, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
- 1987 - 1996 Senior Research Fellow/Group Leader Institute of Applied Enzymology, Vilnius
- 1985 - 1987 Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Applied Enzymology, Vilnius
- 1981 - 1985 Junior Research Fellow, Institute of Applied Enzymology, Vilnius
Fields of Scholarship
- Bacterial immunity
- CRISPR-Cas
- Restriction-modification systems
- Structure and function of proteins
- Protein-DNA interactions
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Lithuania National Science Prize
- 2006 Member of Lithuania Academy of Sciences
- 2016 Elected Associate EMBO Member
- 2016 Warren Alpert Prize
- 2017 NovoNordisk Novozymes Prize
- 2018 Lithuania National Science Prize
- 2018 Elected Member of European Academy of Microbiology (EAM)
- 2018 Honorary Doctorate of University of Bristol
- 2018 Kavli Prize
- 2018 Elected Member of Norwegian Academy of Sciences
- 2019 Specially appointed professor Tokyo Institute of Technology
