It is our great pleasure to announce that Institute’s Scientific Council awarded prizes for the best articles published by IBB’s scientists in 2020.

In the category of experimental articles, two ex eaquo first prizes were awarded to:

• Marta Grech-Baran, Kamil Witek, Katarzyna Szajko, Agnieszka I Witek, Karolina Morgiewicz, Iwona Wasilewicz-Flis, Henryka Jakuczun, Waldemar Marczewski, Jonathan D G Jones, Jacek Hennig. Extreme resistance to Potato virus Y in potato carrying the Ry sto gene is mediated by a TIR-NLR immune receptor, (2020) Plant Biotechnology Journal, 18(3). Laboratory of Plant Pathogenesis
• Radosław Kotuniak, Marc J F Strampraad, Karolina Bossak-Ahmad, Urszula E Wawrzyniak, Iwona Ufnalska, Peter-Leon Hagedoorn, Wojciech Bal. Key Intermediate Species Reveal the Copper(II)-Exchange Pathway in Biorelevant ATCUN/NTS Complexes, (2020), Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 59(28). Laboratory of Biological Chemistry of Metal Ions

Scientific Council decided also to highlight one experimental article:

• Maciej Szewczyk, Deepshikha Malik, Lukasz S Borowski, Sylwia D Czarnomska, Anna V Kotrys, Kamila Klosowska-Kosicka, Marcin Nowotny, Roman J Szczesny. Human REXO2 controls short mitochondrial RNAs generated by mtRNA processing and decay machinery to prevent accumulation of double-stranded RNA, (2020), Nucleic Acids Research 48(10). Laboratory of RNA Biology

In the category of reviews, one prize was awarded to:

• Justyna McIntyre. Polymerase iota – an odd sibling among Y family polymerases, (2020), DNA Repair (Amst) 86:102753. Laboratory of Mutagenesis and DNA Damage Tolerance

Congratulations to all the authors of award-winning and highlighted articles! We would like to inform that the results of the awarded experimental articles will be presented during the Institute Seminars..