Monta Briviba
Head of the core facility Genome Center
Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Latvia
Monta Brīvība has more than 5 years of expertise in obtaining massive parallel sequencing (e.g. metagenomics, transcriptomics, and WGS) data as the leader of the next-generation sequencing department and now as the head of the core facility Genome Center. She has been actively involved in several genome research projects, including the ongoing European ‘1+ Million Genomes’ Initiative and Latvian Paediatric Cancer Initiative ensuring the preservation of the cohort-specific biospecimens in the national biobank and providing whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing data for each pediatric cancer patient in Latvia.