Seminars schedule
IBB Seminar Series (Tuesday)
Presenters are invited guests or employees of the Institute. The seminars are held in English online using the ZOOM platform. The presentation lasts up to 40 minutes, the discussion up to 20 minutes. Seminars are held on Tuesdays, usually starting at 9:30 am.
Information for attendees
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All Doctoral Seminars are held using the same Seminar link.
| Date | Time | Name | Title | Affiliation | Host |
| 17-01-2023 | 09:30 | Prof. dr hab. Marcin Nowotny | Mechanisms of nucleic acid recognition in DNA repair and transposition
FNP Prize Lecture |
International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland | Roman Szczęsny |
| 24-01-2023 | 09:30 | Dr hab. Michał Bogdziewicz | Trees reproduction in the overheated world
NCN Award Lecture |
Forest Biology Center, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland | Roman Szczęsny |
| 31-01-2023 | 09:30 | Dr Ewa Chrostek | Uncovering gene functions of an antiviral bacterium | Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland | Roman Szczęsny |
| 7-02-2023 | 09:30 | Dr Jacek Nowak | Towards understanding the metabolism of development-specific non-coding small RNAs | Laboratory of Non-coding RNA and Genome Rearrangements, IBB PAS, Poland | Roman Szczęsny |
| 14-02-2023 | 09:30 | Dr Ayala Shiber | Protein folding and misfolding on the ribosome | Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel | Ulrike Topf |
| 21-02-2023 | 09:30 | Dr Katarzyna Jastrzębska-Mazur | R&D Series | ADAMED | Roman Szczęsny |
| 28-02-2023 | 10:00 | Rare Disease Day | KONFERENCJA Choroby rzadkie – białe kruki zdrowia publicznego | RDD Committee | |
| 7-03-2023 | 09:30 | Dr Evangelos Giampazolias | Natural barriers of cancer immunity. Unmasking cancer through self-deception | CRUK Manchester Institute, United Kingdom | Damian Graczyk |
| 14-03-2023 | 09:30 | Prof. dr hab. Leonora Bużańska | Modeling neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration with human brain organoids | Mossakowski Medical Research Institute PAS, Poland | Elżbieta Kraszewska |
| 21-03-2023 | 09:30 | Prof. dr hab. Dorota Gryko | Vitamin B12 conjugates for biomedical applications | Institute of Organic Chemistry PAS, Poland | Ewa Kula-Świeżewska |
| 28-03-2023 | 09:30 | Prof. dr hab. Leszek Pączek | Translational Medicine in 2023 | Róża Kucharczyk | |
| 4-04-2023 | 09:30 | Dr Deborah Tribouillard-Tanvier | Yeast and mammalian models of mitochondrial diseases: mechanisms and drug screening | French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Institute for Cellular Biochemistry and Genetics (IBGC), Bordeaux, France | Róża Kucharczyk |
| 11-04-2023 | 09:30 | no seminar | no seminar | no seminar | no seminar |
| 18-04-2023 | 09:30 | Dr Stephen Jennings | Glaciers: History written in the ice | Department of Antarctic Biology, IBB PAS, Poland | Robert Bialik |
| 25-04-2023 | 09:30 | Dr Michał Dmowski | Contribution of non-catalytic subunits of the CMGE helicase-polymerase complex to shaping genome stability | Laboratory of DNA Replication and Genome Stability, IBB PAS, Poland | Izabela Kern-Zdanowicz |
| 2-05-2023 | 09:30 | no seminar | no seminar | no seminar | no seminar |
| 9-05-2023 | 09:30 | Dr Joanna Jachowicz | How Xist silences the X, the whole X, and nothing but the X (and few other stories about RNAs) |
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Science, Austria | Szymon Świeżewski |
| 16-05-2023 | 09:30 | Dr Piotr Włodzimierz | Illuminating the genomic dark matter: extreme diversity of centromeric satellite repeats | Department of Bioinformatics, IBB PAS, Poland | Piotr Zielenkiewicz |
| 23-05-2023 | 09:30 | Prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Łobocka | Phage therapy perspectives of staphylococcal infections in the view of studies on phages and phage-bacteria interaction | Laboratory of Bacteriophage Biology, IBB PAS, Poland | Roman Szczęsny |
| 30-05-2023 | 09:30 | Dr Didier Devaurs | A Tale of Two Strategies to Efficiently Explore the Conformational Space of Molecular Systems |
MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
Kamil Steczkiewicz |
| 6-06-2023 | 09:30 | Dr Adam Jóźwiak | Unorthodox function of molecular hijacking in the evolution of triterpenoid metabolism | Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel | Ewa Kula-Świeżewska |
| 13-06-2023 | 09:30 | Dr William Copeland | Structural insights into mitochondrial DNA mutagenesis |
Mitochondrial DNA Replication Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA | Iwona Fijałkowska |
| 20-06-2023 | 09:30 | Prof. dr Thomas Lahaye | In search of the molecular basis of how plant-pathogenic bacteria manipulate their host plants to favour their reproduction in the host. | University of Tübingen, Germany | Magdalena Krzymowska |
| 04-07-2023 | 09:30 | Thomas Kehl-Fie | You are what you don’t eat: The impact of nutritional immunity |
School of Molecular & Cellular Biology; University of Illinois | Kevin Waldron |
PhD Seminar Series (Thursday, 09:30 or 10:00 AM)
The presenters are doctoral students. Seminars are held in English on a full-time basis in Prof. Waclaw Gajewski’s auditorium (Hall E). The presentation lasts up to 20 minutes, the discussion up to 5 minutes. Seminars are held on Thursdays every other week. Two presentations are usually given at a given meeting. The seminars are open and all are welcome to attend.
After the discussion, all doctoral students are asked to stay in the room and continue the discussion with the speakers (up to 20 minutes).