We have the pleasure to inform that dr Diana Galea and dr Laura Wicke-Ryan received NCN SONATINA grants and will be conducting the following research projects: Dr Diana Galea – Building a comprehensive, system-level understanding of bacterial metal homeostasis within a well characterised bacterium. Dr Laura Wicke-Ryan – The unexplored secretome of staphylococcal kayviruses. Congratulations! (…)

The participants of the general meeting of the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Society of Genetics (PTG) elected a new Board on July 25, 2026. We are pleased to announce that IBB PAS researchers will be holding important positions during the new term. Dr. hab. Adrianna Skoneczna, prof. of IBB PAS, was elected President of the PTG Warsaw Branch, prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Łobocka was elected Secretary, and prof. dr hab. Teresa Żołądek was elected Chair of the Audit Committee. We encourage everyone to actively participate in the Society’s work. (…)

Dr Piotr Włodzimierz has been awarded the Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists. In the 21st edition of the competition, only 230 scientists were selected from 1,640 applicants.
Piotr Włodzimierz conducts research on the evolution of eukaryotic genome organization, basing on long-read sequencing data. (…)

The Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBB PAS) paid tribute to the Lviv professors who were murdered by the German occupying forces in July 1941. On the anniversary of these tragic events, representatives of the Warsaw Branch of the Society of Lovers of Lviv and the South-Eastern Borderlands gathered (…)

On July 8th, representatives of the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBB PAS), at the invitation of Professor Marcin Jan Kamiński, Deputy Director of the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (MiIZ PAS), visited the MiIZ PAS Research Station in Łomna. The visit offered (…)

We are pleased to announce that IBB PAS researchers have been awarded NCN grants. OPUS 30 Prof. Róża Kucharczyk – AMPylation and depalmitoylation in regulating mitochondrial energy and redox balance Dr. hab. Justyna McIntyre – Mechanisms of regulation and functional role of acetylation in human DNA polymerase iota Dr. hab. Anna Wawrzyńska – The Regulatory (…)

We are pleased to inform you that the Polish Science Contact Agency PolSCA has published a folder promoting the institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences – including IBB PAS – as partners for Horizon Europe projects. The PolSCA Agency, whose mission is to promote, facilitate, and foster participation of the Polish scientific community in (…)

The Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBB PAS) and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (AMU) have signed a framework agreement to strengthen their collaboration in research and education, particularly in studies on the biology of Antarctic ecosystems. The partnership brings together the scientific expertise, research potential, and infrastructure of (…)

Last week, IBB PAN, together with the Doctoral School of Molecular Biology and Biological Chemistry and the H. Arctowski Antarctic Station, presented its booth at the 15th edition of the SGGW Job Fair. We talked about as many as four career paths available at the IBB, namely: internships, doctoral studies, research or technical work, and work at the Antarctic station. We are very pleased with the strong interest in student internships in our laboratories. (…)

The 14th Central European Genome Stability and Dynamics Meeting will be held in person from 3 to 4 September 2026 in Warsaw, Poland, at IBB PAN. The event is open to all researchers from Central Europe whose work is linked to DNA transactions and genome stability. (…)

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Daniel Ryan has been awarded the NCN SONATA BIS grant for his project entitled “Exploring RNA Control of Envelope and Carbohydrate-Associated Pathways in Bacteroides fragilis“. Congratulations! (…)

We are pleased to announce that researchers from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS have received awards from the Minister of Science and Higher Education. Prof. Piotr Zielenkiewicz received an award for lifetime scientific achievements. A team award for significant achievements in the scientific endeavour was presented to Dr. Agata Lucyna Starosta, Dr. Olga Iwańska, Dr. Przemysław Latoch, mgr. Mariia Kovalenko, and Dr. Małgorzata Lichocka. (…)