We are pleased to announce that Dr Katarzyna Tołkacz received grant from National Science Center. The winners of the 6th edition of the SONATINA call for proposals address research problems that are crucial for modern science, e.g. in agriculture or ecology. Dr Katarzyna Tołkacz analyses an influence of climate change on the distribution of external (…)

Our colleague, Dr. Katarzyna Jonak has been awarded the prestigious EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship! EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support excellent postdoctoral researchers to conduct their research for a period of two years. Within the project, Katarzyna will study how ribosome heterogeneity contributes to the regulation of protein synthesis and affects health- and lifespan in aged organisms. Her (…)

New Phytologist, one of the most prestigious journals in plant science with over 120 years of tradition, has recently published an article entitled “The Rysto immune receptor recognizes a broadly conserved feature of potyviral coat proteins”. The authors of the article are colleagues from our Institute: Marta Grech-Baran, Anna Grupa-Urbańska, Małgorzata Lichocka, Jarosław Poznański and (…)

We are pleased to inform that Dr. Abdel Aziz Gad received a grant in the first Call of the PASIFIC Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme announced by the Polish Academy of Sciences. The awarded project “Heterologous production of L-gulono lactone oxidase fused with human elastin like-polypeptide” (Acronym: HELP-GULO) will be conducted in the Laboratory of Plant Protein (…)

We are happy to report the successes of our researchers. Seven employees of the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences received grants in the recently announced Sonata 17 and Opus 22 competitions of the National Science Center. The two recently concluded calls attracted 3005 proposals with a total budget of nearly 3.3 (…)

Mgr inż. Aleksandra Tymoszewska z Pracowni Mikrobiologii Stosowanej otrzymała prestiżowe stypendium w programie START organizowanym przez Fundację na rzecz Nauki Polskiej. Stypendia są przyznawane dla najlepszych młodych naukowców z Polski, którzy reprezentują wszystkie dziedziny nauki. Gratulujemy! Mgr inż. Aleksandra Tymoszewska ukończyła z wyróżnieniem studia na Wydziale Chemicznym Politechniki Warszawskiej, kierunek: Biotechnologia. Następnie kontynuowała kształcenie w (…)

Piknik Naukowy Polskiego Radia i Centrum Nauki Kopernik jest największą w Europie imprezą plenerową o tematyce naukowej. Tematem tegorocznego 25 Pikniku Naukowego jest woda. Instytut Biochemii i Biofizyki PAN jest w gronie instytucji propagujących wiedzę w ramach Pikniku Naukowego. Staramy się pokazać naukę jako niezwykle ekscytującą i pasjonującą dziedzinę życia. Odwiedzając stanowisko IBB PAN https://pikniknaukowy.pl/artykul/2935367 (…)

We invite Ukrainian doctoral students (aspirants) to participate in an internship in IBB PAS laboratories. The internship should start no later than June 10, 2022. Planned internship completion – September 30, 2022. The internship scholarships will be financed from the project awarded to the Institute by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA). For (…)

We would like to inform that IBB PAS will be implementing new grants awarded by the National Science Center. MAESTRO grant will be implemented under the direction of Dr. Kevin Waldron. Dr hab. Roman Szczęsny and Dr Michał Turek will implement SONATA BIS grants. Prof. Magdalena Boguta oraz Prof. Wojciech Bal will supervise PRELUDIUM BIS (…)

We are pleased to inform that Dr. Karolina Skorupińska-Tudek and Prof. Ewa Świeżewska are co-authors of an article published in prestigious Nature. In this paper the structure of WaaL from Cupriavidus metallidurans in complex with its product – undecaprenyl diphosphate is presented. WaaL is a glycosyltransferase carrying out the addition of the O-antigen to the (…)

Every year, on the last day of February, we celebrate the World Rare Disease Day. This day, we express our solidarity with those affected by these diseases and their caregivers. An expression of this solidarity is the international action of illuminating buildings with the colors of this day; green, blue and pink. This year, for (…)

ISIDORe project aims to create a rapid response network developing agents neutralizing novel variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and other pathogens with pandemic potential. IBB PAS takes part in this project as the EU-OPENSCREEN “partner site”. For the IBB PAS the Department of Bioinformatics (in silico methods) and the Laboratory of Gene Expression Regulation (nanoantibodies) (…)