This year’s IBB DAY took place on October 13, giving us the opportunity to spend time together and to acknowledge those who have contributed to the development of IBB.
Director Dr. hab. Róża Kucharczyk gave a welcome speech during which she presented some data on the IBB’s functioning over the past year.
Next, diplomas were awarded to the authors of the best doctoral theses who received their degrees during the previous year: Dr. Damian Garbicz (thesis supervisor: Prof. Elżbieta Grzesiuk), Dr. Radosław Kotuniak (thesis supervisor: Prof. Wojciech Bal) and Dr. Aleksandra Tymoszewska (thesis supervisor: Dr. hab. Tamara Aleksandrzak-Piekarczyk).

This year, Prof. Ewa Kula-Świeżewska is leaving the position of Head of the IBB Doctoral School. Director Dr. hab. Roman Szczęsny and Klaudia Kołodziejczyk, Chair of the PhD Student Council, thanked her on behalf of our entire community for her involvement in student affairs over the past years. We also had the opportunity to welcome the new Head of the Doctoral School – Dr. hab. Anna Muszewska.
The IBB Directors also presented diplomas and statuettes to long-time former IBB employees, in recognition of their contributions to the development of the Institute.

Acknowledged were:

Prof. dr hab. Jacek Bardowski
Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Dziembowski
Mr Ryszard Gozdek
Prof. dr hab. Monika Hryniewicz
Ms Grażyna Jewdoszuk
Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Paszewski
Ms Ewa Sochalska
Dr hab. Anna Bębenek
Prof. dr hab. Magdalena Fikus
Dr hab. Dorota Konopka-Postupolska
Mr Antoni Księżopolski
Dr hab. prof. IBB PAS Anna Kurlandzka
Mjr Jan Micewicz
Mr Jerzy Żołądkiewicz

We are grateful to all the honored employees for their engagement over the years.

The authors of the best posters of the IBB Scientific Session 2023 were presented diplomas by Dr. hab. Izabela Kern-Zdanowicz. Four equal prizes were awarded to: Jan Mikołajczyk, Emil Stefańczyk, Agata Szczepańska and Marta D. Wiśniewska.
Then Prof. Wojciech Bal, Chair of the IBB Scientific Council, and Prof. Dariusz Plewczyński, Chair of the IBB Scientific Council Awards Committee, together with Director Roman Szczęsny, presented awards to the authors of the best research papers published by IBB PAS researchers in 2022:

I prize
Dawid Owsian, Julita Gruchota, Olivier Arnaiz, Jacek K. Nowak
The transient Spt4-Spt5 complex as an upstream regulator of non-coding RNAs during development.

II prize
Michał Krzysztoń, Ruslan Yatusevich, Magdalena Wrona, Sebastian P. Sacharowski, Dorota Adamska, Szymon Świeżewski
Single seeds exhibit transcriptional heterogeneity during secondary dormancy induction.

III prize
Katarzyna Gawarecka, Joanna Siwińska, Jarosław Poznański, Agnieszka Onyśk, Przemysław Surowiecki, Karolina Sztompka, Liliana Surmacz, Ji Hoon Ahn, Arthur Korte, Ewa Świeżewska, Anna Ihnatowicz
cis-Prenyltransferase 3 and alpha/beta-hydrolase are new determinants of dolichol accumulation in Arabidopsis.

Anna Wawrzyńska, Justyna Piotrowska, Anastasia Apodiakou, Franziska Brückner, Rainer Hoefgen, Agnieszka Sirko
The SLIM1 transcription factor affects sugar signaling during sulfur deficiency in Arabidopsis.

Among review articles the following paper was distinguished:
Aleksandra Kuryłek, Monika Stasiak, Izabela Kern-Zdanowicz
Virulence factors of Streptococcus anginosus – a molecular perspective.

The authors of the rewarded articles gave short talks presenting their research.
The day ended with an informal gathering of all the participants. We thank everyone for attending the IBB DAY!

IBB DAY is a yearly event, always taking place during the second week of October.