We are pleased to announce that Dr. hab. Agata Starosta and Dr. Anna Detman-Ignatowicz have been nominated for the prestigious award “Personality of the Year 2024” in the category Science. The nominations were granted by the Editorial Board, which includes Arlena Sokalska (Editor-in-Chief of “Polska Metropolia Warszawska”), Stanislaw Sowa (Editor-in-Chief of “Nowiny”) and Beata Modzelewska (…)

We have the pleasure to invite you to the 8th edition of a special event – a free conference entitled “Rare Diseases in a Multidimensional Perspective”, which will be held online on February 28, 2025. The conference language is Polish, program and registration are available at https://chorobyrzadkie.ibb.edu.pl. The conference will be accompanied by a workshop (…)

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Stephen J. A. Jennings has been awarded the prestigious Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Visiting Scholarship. The scholarship aims to build international collaborations and excellence in Antarctic research. Dr Jennings is the first Polish-based recipient of the award, and along with colleagues at the University of (…)

A team from the Laboratory of Translatomics of the IBB PAS, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Wrocław, have discovered and described for the first time in the literature the spatially and temporally synchronised transport of ribosomes into the prespore of Bacillus subtilis. A number of morphological changes occur during sporulation in B. (…)

We are pleased to announce the successes of scientists at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, who have received 10 grants in the National Science Center OPUS LAP/Weave, OPUS and PRELUDIUM competitions. In the adjudicated OPUS 26+LAP/Weave competitions, 1737 applications were submitted, of which 318 were qualified for funding. (…)

Speaker of Parliament Szymon Hołownia handed over the Polish flag from the Sejm to scientists from IBB PAS, who will deliver the national symbol to the H. Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station, as part of the 49th expedition. The ceremony of handing over the flag was attended by prof. Jarosław Poznański (Director), Agnieszka Kruszewska (Deputy Director (…)

We have the pleasure to invite you to a meeting with “Ant/Arctic Women”, which will be held on December 9, 2024, at 6 pm, in the auditorium of the Copernicus Science Centre. Agnieszka Kruszewska, deputy director of IBB PAS, will be involved in the meeting as an expert. The program includes a screening of the (…)

 Members of the Laboratory of Non-coding RNA and Genome Rearrangements, together with a team at the Institut Jacques Monod at Université Paris Cité and I2BC at Université Paris-Saclay (France), have identified a Paramecium homolog of Gametocyte specific factor 1 (Gtsf1) and have shown that it is essential for the selective degradation of small RNAs. The (…)

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Aleksandra Głowacka-Rutkowska, who in October 2022 defended her doctoral thesis at the IBB, has received for her work the Second Prize in this year’s INNOWATOR MAZOWSZA competition, in the category Innovative Scientist. She also received four Partner Awards in the same competition. The thesis was entitled “Selected properties (…)

Scientists from IBB PAS are participating in the Congress “The Health of Poles”, which is taking place from November 25-27, 2024. All lectures presented at the Congress are available online. The presentations of our researchers: Prof. Róża Kucharczyk, Dr. hab. Joanna Kamińska and Dr. Krzysztof Drabikowski, will appear in the expert panel “Use of model (…)

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Matthias Bochtler (Laboratory of Genome Engineering IBB PAS), together with Prof. Gintautas Tamulaitis (Vilnius University), have been awarded a grant in the NCN programme DAINA 3, intended for projects involving Polish-Lithuanian collaboration. They will jointly carry out the project “Novel effectors and terminators of antiviral CRISPR-Cas signaling pathways.” (…)

Scientists from IBB PAS, IIMCB, Aarhus University and University of Turku analyzed the dynamics of deadenylation of polyadenosine (pA) tails of mRNA in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae under basal and stress conditions. pA tails are an evolutionarily conserved modification of the 3′ end of mRNA, which is required for export of the transcript from the (…)