Members of the Laboratory of Animal Molecular Physiology, led by Michał Turek, in collaboration with Wojciech Pokrzywa and his team from IIMCB, have described a mechanism for regulating the formation of extracellular vesicles (exophers) in a model organism, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. (…)

The Board of Directors wishes you peaceful holidays spent with your loved ones, as well as health, happiness and great joy. (…)

We are pleased to announce an interview with an IBB researcher,  Dr. Krzysztof Drabikowski, about research on nematodes, which is available in the Wprost magazine. (…)

We proudly recommend the recent article in Quanta Magasine “Cellular self destruction may be ancient. But why?” discussing several relevant publications. One of them is paper by Kaushal et al. 2023, “Apoptotic factors are evolutionarily conserved since mitochondrial domestication“, published in Genome Biol Evol. authored by our colleagues from IBB. (…)

On March 5-6 2024, representatives of IBB PAS participated in the Life Science job fair – Spotkaj Swojego Pracodawcę 2024, which was held at the Warsaw University of Technology. It was a great opportunity to learn about the needs and expectations of Life Science Students. We would like to thank all those who visited our (…)

The last day of February is the World Rare Disease Day. On this occasion, for the seventh time a conference was held, co-organized by the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS, the Institute of Mother and Child, the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine PAS, the EB Polska Foundation, as well as the Polish Biochemical Society, the Polish Alzheimer’s Society and the Polish Chamber of Laboratory Diagnosticians. (…)

The celebration of the 47th anniversary of the H. Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station took place on February 26. Thank you to all the distinguished guests and see you next year!       (…)

On February 21, 2024, representatives of the IBB – Director Jaroslaw Poznanski and Deputy Director Agnieszka Kruszewska – took part in the opening of the Museum of Polar Research in Puławy. Part of the museum’s exhibition consists of artifacts brought from the H. Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station, which were lent to the Museum by IBB PAS. (…)

Are you considering submitting an ERC grant or mentoring young scientists who may apply for one in the future? Join us for a meeting about ERC grants, March 7, 2024, IBB PAS in Warsaw (Pawińskiego 5A). (…)

Together with the CePT consortium (Center for Pre-Clinical Research and Technology) and its member institutions, we are pleased to announce opening of registration for our joint event “CePT – as platform for the development of innovative biomedicine 2024” which will take place on March 8 at the WUM Teaching Center. (…)

On 13.02.2024 we had the honor of hosting in our Institute the Ambassador of Turkey, Mr. Rauf Alp Denktaş, together with Ms. Rahime İğdeci Abdel Hamid Hosny, 1st Secretary of the Embassy, and Mr. Seyit Öcal, the Embassy Attache. The talks concerned bilateral cooperation between scientific institutions in Turkey and the Institute of Biochemistry and (…)

On February 11 the world celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. On this occasion, the 9th International Day of Women and Girls in Science Assembly took place in the United Nations headquarters in New York, on 8-9 February 2024. For more information click here: https://www.un.org/en/observances/women-and-girls-in-science-day/ At IBB PAS we are publishing (…)