Dr. Birutė Frercks

ORCiD iD: 0000-0003-2908-8694
Tel. +370 37 555 253
E-mail: birute.frercks@lammc.lt 
Kauno St. 30, Babtai, LT-54333 Kaunas dist., Lithuania

Education           

2009–2013 Biomedical sciences, Agronomy, PhD, LAMMC Institute of Horticulture and Aleksandras Stulginskis University (since 2019 Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy).

2004–2009 diploma of bioinformatics, The Center for Bioinformatics of the University of Hamburg, Germany.

1999–2004 prediploma biology, The Faculty of Biology of the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Academic degrees and pedagogical titles

2014 PhD in Agronomy, doctoral thesis “Genetic variation of brown rot blossom blight pathogens and their hosts sweet and sour cherry”. 

Research fields

• Bioinformatics
• Agronomy

Position

Since 2023 Head of Department of Orchard Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, Institute of Horticulture, LAMMC.

Since 2019 Senior researcher, Department of Orchard Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, Institute of Horticulture, LAMMC.

Since 2015 Lecturer, Institute of Biology Systems and Genetic Research, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.

Memberships and affiliations with professional organizations

• 2014 European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR) Prunus working group member.

Involvement in programmes and projects

• 2012–2016 COST FA1104 “Sustainable production of high-quality cherries for the European marketˮ.
• 2013–2015 Lithuanian Research Council project “Regulation of in vitro plant stress induced production of reactive oxygen species by endophytesˮ, supervisor Prof. Dr. habil. Vidmantas Stanys, LAMMC.
• 2012–2015 Lithuanian Research Council, National Research programme “Healthy and Safe Food“, project “Expression of anthocyanin synthesis pathway genes in orchard plants”, supervisor Dr. Rytis Rugienius, LAMMC.
• 2010–2011 Grant provided by Research Council of Lithuania, Project number MIP-55/2010. “Characterisation of genetic polymorphism of Prunus avium cultivars and wild sweet cherry populations using molecular markers”, supervisor Prof. Dr. habil. Vidmantas Stanys, LAMMC.
• 2008–2009  “Efficient methods for the generation of circular molecular descriptors“,  Research Group for Computational Molecular Design at the Center for Bioinformatics of the University of Hamburg, supervisor Prof. Dr. Matthias Rarey.
• 2007 “Parallelisation of AutoClass”, Research Group for Biomolecular Modeling at the Center for Bioinformatics of the University of Hamburg supervisor Prof. Dr. Andrew Torda.
• 2006 “Standardisation  of  identification methods of Human herpesvirus (HSV-1,2, VZV, HHV-7 and HHV-8) for routine diagnostics” Dermatologikum Hamburg, supervisor Dr. Thomas Michael Falk.

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