Aesthetic and Social Discourse Analysis

The team examines structures of meaning in aesthetic and social discourses from the semiotic, hermeneutic, social, and philosophical viewpoints.

Language usage, teaching and learning research group

The scientific work of the research group focuses on sociolinguistics and linguodidactics.

Lithuanian governmental and non– governmental organizations

The team develops studies of the Lithuanian governmental institutions.

Lithuanian literature and culture studies

The main group activities are transformations of the processes of literature and culture in Lithuania from the 16th century to the modern period.

Research group of Minorities‘ History and Culture studies

Socio-cultural research of ethnic, national and religious minority groups in the region (East and Central Europe, also including Russia).

Research in Formulaicity of Contemporary Languages

Research group focuses on different aspects of formulaic language: multiword expressions, phrases, collocations, lexical bundles and other recurrent units.

Research of Contemporary Perceptual Dialectology

The group focuses on strategies offered by perceptual dialectology, which allows the formation of the generalized image of the dialectal discourse and the identification of the perceptual isoglosses that mark the boundaries of the dialect continuum in the consciousness of the native speakers and appraisers.

Bacterial antibiotic resistance and pathogenesis

The group focuses on understanding of molecular basis underlying the antibiotic resistance in clinic and in the environment with the emphasis on novel resistance mechanisms, on pathogenesis of opportunistic gram-negative pathogens and on bacterial toxin-anti toxin systems. 

Biothermodynamics of small molecule interaction with target proteins for drug discovery

Group members are experts in compound library screening to discover compounds that interact / inhibit recombinant human drug target proteins.