13
October
2022

3 PM

online

Dr. Aleksandra Pękowska

Dioscuri Center of Chromatin Biology and Epigenomics, Nencki Institute, Warsaw, Poland

Towards evolutionary and functional genomics of primate astrocytes

Host: prof. Jacek Jaworski

06
October
2022

3 PM

online

Dr. Karli Montague-Cardoso

Nature Publishing Group, Springer Nature

Life as a professional editor and tips for writing your manuscripts

Host: Gracjan Michlewski

28
September
2022

15:00 (3 PM)

online

Dr Sohini Sarkar

Department of Natural Sciences, Western New Mexico University

Advances in Vibrational Stark Shift Spectroscopy for Measuring Interfacial Electric Fields

Host: Spotlight Talks

22
September
2022

9:15 CET

online

Dr. Frank Wien

Synchrotron SOLEIL, St. Aubin, France

DISCO SRCD for Structure Determination of Proteins and Nucleic Acids

Host: prof. Janusz Bujnicki

25
July
2022

9:15 CET

online

Prof. Pavel Belan

Department of Molecular Biophysics Bogomolets Institute of Physiology National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Processing of nociceptive peripheral input by spinal cord networks

Host: prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

30
June
2022

3 PM

online

Dr. Adolfo Poma Bernaola

International Centre for Research on Innovative Biobased Materials (ICRI-BioM), Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland

Modelling large conformational changes of protein complexes by GōMartini approach.

Host: Janusz Bujnicki

29
June
2022

3 PM

online

Tomasz Włodarski, PhD

University College London

A computational microscope to study co-translational protein folding

Host: Spotlight Talks

23
June
2022

15:00 (3 PM)

online

Prof. Alicja Józkowicz

Department of Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Good seed and good soil: a recipe for the youth of the hematopoietic system

Host: Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka

09
June
2022

3 PM

online

Dr. Guoliang Xu

Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS, Shanghai, China

TET and TDG enzymes in DNA demethylation and beyond

Host: Matthias Bochtler

01
June
2022

3 PM

online

Dr Monika Piwecka

Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, PAS

Illuminating non-coding RNA functions and RNA-protein interactions in the mammalian brain

Host: Olga Doszyń

26
May
2022

3 PM

online

Prof. Robert Vacha

CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic

How Proteins or Nanoparticles Can Enter Cells?

Host: Jan Brezovsky

25
May
2022

3 PM

online

Dr Logan Mulroney

Center for Genomic Science at the Italian Institute of Technology

Detecting RNA modifications from nanopore ionic current signals

Host: Spotlight Talks

19
May
2022

4 PM

online

Prof. Richard Morimoto

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Proteostasis and the Challenge of Maintaining a Stable Proteome in Aging and Diseases

Host: Wojciech Pokrzywa

11
May
2022

3 PM

online

dr Anna Bajur

King's College London

CD20-dependent actin remodelling controls initial steps of B cell activation

Host: Spotlight Talks

27
April
2022

12:00

online

Dr. Amina Mirsakiyeva

Carl Zeiss SMT

Academia vs Industry: how to choose?

Host: Spotlight Talks

21
April
2022

9:15 AM CET

online

Dr. Mikołaj Słabicki

Broad Institute, MIT & Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

Novel mechanisms of small molecule-induced protein degradation

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska

19
April
2022

3 PM

online

Dr. Nirmal Sampathkumar

University of Oxford

How to determine stable reference genes to use by qPCR in the absence of RNAseq

Host: Spotlight Talks

14
April
2022

15:00

online

Prof. Agnieszka Dobrzyń

Nencki Institute, Warsaw, Poland

Thinking Big – from basic science to biotechnology-driven novel approaches to treat diabetes

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

05
April
2022

15:00

online

Paul Tapas

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Vectorial folding of telomere overhang promotes higher accessibility

Host: Spotlight Talks

31
March
2022

16:00

online

Prof. Mustafa Sahin

Boston Children's Hospital, HMS, Boston, MA, USA

Neuronal Connectivity in TSC as a Model for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

29
March
2022

15:00

online

Anna Karnkowska

The Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Warsaw

The other eukaryotes: lessons learned from the non-model microbial eukaryotes

Host: Spotlight Talks

24
March
2022

15:00

online

Dr. Sumantra Chatterjee

NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Disrupted regulatory networks and cellular interactions in Hirschsprung disease: Lessons for complex disorders

Host: Dr. Cecilia L. Winata

17
March
2022

15:00

online

Dr. Karolina Szczepanowska

International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines, Poland

Safeguarding a beautiful beast. The quality control and repair of respiratory Complex I

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

16
March
2022

15:00

online

Dr. Sanchita Mukherjee

Rigel Bioenviron Solutions Private Limited, India

The happy secret to entrepreneurial journey from academia

Host: Spotlight Talks

10
March
2022

15:00

online

Dr. Juan Bonifacino

NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

Unraveling the Function of the Adaptor Complex AP-4 in Protein Sorting and Neurological Disease

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

03
March
2022

15:00

online

Dr. Nazim Bouatta

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Predicting protein structures: from AlphaFold2 to single sequence prediction

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

02
March
2022

15:30

online

Abhishek Sau

Texas A&M University, USA

Mapping Traffic through Nuclear Pores using 3D Super-Resolution Microscopy

Host: Spotlight Talks

16
February
2022

15:00

online

Syeda Lubna

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

Computational approaches to understand the effects of substitutions on Influenza viral proteins in the Indian population - leading to altered host-pathogen interactions and viral pathogenicity

Host: Spotlight Talks

10
February
2022

15:00

online

Dr. Eva Maria Novoa

Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

Decoding the epitranscriptome at single molecule resolution

Host: Natalia Guminska & Postdoctoral Council

27
January
2022

15:00

online

Dr. Christos Gkogkas

Biomedical Research Institute, Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas (FORTH), Ioannina, Greece

Regulation of protein synthesis in brain health and disease

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

20
January
2022

15:00

online

Prof. Bożena Kamińska-Kaczmarek

Nencki Institute, PAS, Warsaw, Poland

Employing single-cell omics and nanotechnology to improve therapy of malignant brain tumors

Host: Jacek Jaworski

13
January
2022

15:00

online

Dr. Sara Szymkuć

Institute of Organic Chemistry PAS, Warsaw, Poland & Allchemy Inc., Highland, USA

Synthetic connectivity and emergence in the network of prebiotic chemistry

Host: Matthias Bochtler

09
December
2021

15:00

online

Dr. Marcin Zagórski

Institute of Theoretical Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

How is patterning precision achieved in developing tissues?

Host: Dr. Cecilia L. Winata

08
December
2021

15:30

online

Agnieszka Łukaszewicz

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Germline mutagenesis at recombination hotspots in mice

Host: Spotlight Talks

02
December
2021

15:00

online

Prof. Matthias Hentze

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

A new continent of the RNA World

Host: Dr. Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka

26
November
2021

15:00

online

Prof. Alexander Drakesmith, Ph.D.

Oxford University

Control of immune responses by iron

Host: Dr. Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka

21
November
2021

15:00

online

Anna Malik

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw

The secret lives of VPS10P receptors, or how to unravel the intracellular sorting machinery in glia

Host: Spotlight Talks

18
November
2021

16:00

online

Prof. Helen Bateup, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

The multi-faceted roles of TSC-mTOR signaling in neuronal development, function and disease

Host: Magdalena Mlostek & PhD Students Council

10
November
2021

15:00

online

Sílvia Llonch

Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

A Walk through Human Egg Biology

Host: Spotlight Talks

04
November
2021

15:15

online

Prof. Alfred Vertegaal

Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherland

Signal Transduction by Small Ubiquitin-like Modifiers

Host: Wojciech Pokrzywa, PhD, DSc Habil

21
October
2021

15:00

online

Michał Gdula, Ph.D.

Adam Mickiewicz University

How to shut down a whole chromosome? - SmcHD1, epigenetics and 4D genome in X inactivation

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

13
October
2021

15:00

online

Agnieszka Pastuła

Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

The Role of Fibroblasts as Niche Cells in Homeostasis and Disease

Host: Spotlight Talks

07
October
2021

15:00

online

Prof. Scott Sternson, PhD

HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus & University of California, USA

Molecular insights into neural coding of appetite and other behavioral states

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski & Dr. Bartosz Tarkowski & Dr. Andrii Kopach

05
October
2021

11:00

online

Prof. Robert Huber

Structural Biology and its Key Role in the Life Sciences and in Medicine

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

29
September
2021

15:00

online

Albert Thommen

Francis Crick Institute (London, UK)

Systemic metabolism in normal and abnormal growth: from body size variation to metabolic interactions between tumour and host in liver cancer

Host: Spotlight Talks

15
September
2021

15:00

online

Marti Cadena Sandoval

University of Innsbruck

The Complex Signaling of G3BP Proteins: from Stress Granules to Lysosomes

Host: Spotlight Talks

24
June
2021

15:00

online

Prof. Jiemin Weng

East China Normal University

Regulation of DNA methylation homeostasis and inheritance in mammalian cells

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski & Prof. Matthias Bochtler

17
June
2021

15:00

online

Prof. Amy Buck

University of Edinburgh

RNA in communication: new insights into host-pathogen interactions

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski & Prof. Gracjan Michlewski

09
June
2021

15:00

online

Pawel Trzaskoma

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)

Imaging in genetics - what can microscopy tell us about chromatin organization?

Host: Spotlight Talks

26
May
2021

15:00

online

Franziska Decker

ETH Zürich

A gelation transition enables the self-organization of bipolar metaphase spindles

Host: Spotlight Talks