Egils Stalidzans was very happy to meet for the first time Cong Trinh and Friedrich Srienc, the authors of articles about improvement of E.coli strains. Those articles have been frequently demonstrated by Egils Stalidzans as success stories of model based design.
During the meeting the organizing committee was discussing the location of next event in 2019. Egils Stalidzans confirmed willingness of Latvia to organize the event in Riga in 2019 and the proposal was accepted.


