The National Institute of Research and Innovation is pleased to invite you to the upcoming workshop “Exploring Natural Products from Unique Sources”, held on October 16, 2026, as part of the NATALION project.

This event will reveal the fascinating and rapidly evolving field of natural product research, bringing together leading scientists to present their latest discoveries in the exploration of natural products derived from bacteria, plants, and fungi.

Workshop details:

Date: October 16, 2026

Time: 9:00 – 16:15

Location: National Institute of Research and Innovation, 21 Aizkraukles St., Riga, Latvia

Registration deadline: October 2, 2026

Abstract submission deadline: August 31, 2026

Full agenda and registration: https://natalion.osi.lv/events/workshops

Scientific program:

🔹 Novel antibiotics from soil bacteria to tackle AMR – Unearthing nature’s biosynthetic potential towards clinical application Rolf Müller, Department for Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS)

🔹 Decoding the chemical universe of plants Tomáš Pluskal, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

🔹 Natural Products from Cyanobacteria Pedro Leão, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto

🔹 A Discovery-to-production Platform for Fungal Molecules Pablo Cruz-Morales, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Biotechnology Research Institute for the Green Transition, Technical University of Denmark

We look forward to welcoming you to Riga!