PhD Students Seminars
The speakers are PhD students (or invited guests). Seminars are held in English, onsite in Professor Wacław Gajewski’s auditorium (Hall E). The presentation lasts up to 20 minutes, the discussion up to 5 minutes. Seminars are held on Thursdays according to the schedule below. There are usually two presentations at a given meeting. The seminars are open, and all employees and PhD students willing to listen to the presentations and participate in the discussion are welcome.
It is the custom that the PhD student’s presentation is announced by the supervisor or auxiliary supervisor.
After the discussion, all PhD students are invited to stay in the hall and continue the discussion with the speakers (up to 20 minutes). However, supervisors and employees are asked to leave the hall.
2026/2027
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Supervisor(s) |
| 29.10.2026 | 9:30 – 10:00 | Abdul Rahman El Sayed | Assembly Required: SHIP2, stress granules, and the cellular response to chaos. | Prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Chacińska, dr Abdelhalim Azzi |
| 29.10.2026 | 10:00 – 10:30 | Moh Egy Rahman Firdaus | Identification of cellular factors associated with the bunyaviral transcription and translation | prof. Agnieszka Chacińska, dr Piotr Gerlach |
| 26.11.2026 | 10:00 – 10:30 | Hemraj Meena | Nsp3, nsp4 viral protein reconstitution in Giant Vesicles. | dr hab. Nicola De Franceschi, IMOL PAN |
| 10.12.2026 | 9:30 – 10:00 | Mateusz Jan Olechowski | Role of ATAF1 transcription factor in regulation of germination and longevity of Arabidopsis thaliana seeds | prof. Grażyna Dobrowolska, dr Anna Kulik |
| 14.01.2027 | 9:30 – 10:00 | Cem Hazir | The Deubiquitinating Enzyme UCHL1 Maintains Electron Transport Chain Integrity by Regulating Intracellular Copper Homeostasis | prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Chacińska |
| 14.01.2027 | 10:00 – 10:30 | Lorna Nikolić | To be announced | dr Kevin Waldron |
| 28.01.2027 | 9:30 – 10:00 | Deepti Mudartha | Proline synthesis pathway in the context of mitochondrial dysfunction | Prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Chacinska, dr Karolina Szczepanowska |
| 18.02.2027 | 10:00 – 10:30 | Shreya Tapaswi | Structural and functional annotation of uncharacterized protein families | dr hab. Kamil Steczkiewicz |
| 04.03.2027 | 9:30 – 10:00 | Shweta Shweta | Regulatory network and interactome of selected inner membrane drug/metabolite transporters in bacteria – implications for physiology, drug resistance and virulence | dr hab. Aneta Bartosik |
| 04.03.2027 | 10 – 10:30 | Weronika Czekała | Identification and analysis of mechanisms contributing to antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa using CRISPRi | dr hab. Aneta Bartosik, promotor pomocniczy: dr Adam Kawałek |
| 18.03.2027 | 9:30 – 10:00 | Shadi Setayeshi | Regulation of DNA polymerase iota by acetylation. | dr hab. Justyna McIntyre |
| 18.03.2027 | 10:00 – 10:30 | Ankita Kumari | Role of splicing factors in clonal hematopoiesis | dr hab. Maciej Cieśla |
| 01.04.2027 | 9:30 – 10:00 | Rupali Kapoor | Insights into La Crosse Virus transcription termination mechanism | prof. Magda Konarska, dr Piotr Gerlach |
| 01.04.2027 | 10:00 – 10:30 | Seyma Demir | Role of transcription elongation factors in the synthesis of developmentally controlled non-coding RNAs | dr hab. Jacek K. Nowak |
| 15.04.2027 | 9:30 – 10:00 | Satya Vadlamani | Regulation of exopher formation by non-coding RNAs | dr hab. Michał Turek |
| 15.04.2027 | 10:00 – 10:30 | Bilal Ahmad She | Role and regulation of human DNA polymerase iota | dr Justyna McIntyre |
| 06.05.2027 | 9:30 – 10:00 | Asha Ajithakumari Sobhanakumar | Towards deciphering the role of inner membrane drug/metabolite transporters in physiology, drug resistance, and virulence of bacteria | dr hab. Aneta Bartosik |
| 20.05.2027 | 10:00 – 10:30 | Hrudya Mohan | The role of thiol oxidation of ribosomal proteins during the early stages of aging | dr. hab. Ulrike Topf,
dr Katarzyna Jonak |
| 20.05.2027 | 9:30 – 10:00 | Parisa Malakouti | Characterization of a mouse model of RNA polymerase III-related Hypomyelinating leukodystrophies (HLDs) | dr Tomasz Turowski |
| 27.05.2027 | 10:00 – 10:30 | Thou Kierutheile | Employing a human cell model to study potential drugs to treat VPS13A-related disease, a rare neurodegenerative disease. | dr hab. Joanna Kamińska |
| 03.06.2027 | 9:30 – 10:00 | Giulia Santonoceto | Identification of new factors and regulatory mechanisms involved in mitochondrial RNA surveillance | dr Roman Szczęsny |
| 03.06.2027 | 10:00 – 10:30 | Ramakrishnan Ponath Sukumaran | Epigenetic regulation of exopher formation | dr hab. Michał Turek
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| 24.06.2027 | 9:30 – 10:00 | Jakub Chalimoniuk | Effect of inactivation of the small ATPases, MINU1 and MINU2, on organo-specific control of alternative transcription dependent on the BRM and SYD | prof. dr hab. Tomasz Sarnowski, dr Szymon Kubala |
| 24.06.2027 | 10:00 – 10:30 | Anand Mohan | To be announced | prof. dr hab. Wojciech Bal |
2025/2026
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Supervisor(s) |
| 02.10.2025 | 9:30 – 10:30 | Anna Muszewska, PhD, DSc | Organisational seminar | |
| 13.11.2025 | 9:30
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Zuzanna Bechler | Regulation of cis-prenyltransferases activity – factors and mechanisms. | dr hab. Liliana Surmacz |
| 13.11.2025 | 10:00 | Mayra Borrero | Interactome of the human TOM complex | prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Chacińska |
| 11.12.2025 | 9:30 | Veena Halale Manjunath
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mRNA storage in seeds | dr hab. Szymon Świeżewski
dr Michał Krzysztoń |
| 15.01.2026 | 9:30
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Malak Farhat | Regulatory Role of a tRNA-like Sequence in the Gene Encoding Maf1, a General Repressor of tRNA Transcription | prof. dr hab. Magdalena Rakowska-Boguta |
| 15.01.2026 | 10:00 | Martyna Paul | Valorisation of Sugar Beet Molasses into Gaseous Biofuels and Biofertilizer through One- and Two-Stage Anaerobic Digestion | prof. dr hab. Anna Sikora
dr inż. Anna Detman-Ignatowska |
| 19.02.2026 | 9:30
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Kevork Wakimian
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Charting Splicing Regulatory Networks of Muscle Stem Cells | dr hab. Maciej Cieśla |
| 19.02.2026 | 10:00 | Raymi Goitia-Camacho | SplicEx – a User-Friendly Framework for Simplifying the Functional Interpretation of Alternative Splicing Events | dr hab. Tomasz W. Turowski |
| 05.03.2026 | 9:30
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Deepali Chaudhry | Characterization of the effects of impaired functioning of the helicase-polymerase complex in yeast and human cell lines | dr hab. Michał Dmowski |
| 05.03.2026 | 10:00 | Olha Kostiuchenko
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Impact of Lactococcus bacteria on reinforcing gut barrier – from identification of potentially probiotic strains and molecular factors involved in muco-affinity to evaluation of their mucus protective function in vivo | dr hab. Magda Kowalczyk |
| 05.03.2026 | 11:30 | Dr. Maryia Trubitsyna | Special event: Career Development – Question & Answer discussion for the PhD students |
Host: Dr. Laura Wicke-Ryan |
| 19.03.2026
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9:30
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Aleksander Kosskowski | Analysis of flagellar, PXo body, lysosome and vacuole proteins as well as low complexity regions in fungi | dr hab. Anna Muszewska, prof. IBB |
| 19.03.2026
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10:00 | Vartika Gurdaswani Khubchandani | Shigella flexneri exploits VCP-NPL4-UFD1 complex to regain actin based motility | dr hab. Agata Starosta, prof. IBB
dr Michal Wandel |
| 16.04.2026
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9:30
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Eve Harding | The study of mtDNA stability on genome expression | dr hab. Carlo Vascotto,
dr Veronica Bazzani |
| 16.04.2026
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10:00 | Aleksandra Bajger | Interferon-induced antibacterial immunity factors
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dr hab. Roman Szczęsny
dr Michał Wandel |
| 07.05.2026
ATTENTION: THE SEMINAR IS MOVED TO HALL A |
9:30
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Małgorzata Drabko | Biochemical and functional analysis of a novel human TTC33-associated network (TAN) | dr hab. Agnieszka Tudek |
| 07.05.2026
ATTENTION: THE SEMINAR IS MOVED TO HALL A |
10:00 | Spoorthy Gowda | Health restoration in aging C. elegans | dr hab. Ulrike Topf
dr. Krzysztof Drabikowski |
| 21.05.2026
ATTENTION: THE SEMINAR IS MOVED TO HALL A |
9:30
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Eliana Dukhno | Impact of the bunyaviral mRNA 3′UTR on translation’ | dr hab. Maria Magdalena Konarska, prof. IMol,
dr Piotr Gerlach |
| 21.05.2026
ATTENTION: THE SEMINAR IS MOVED TO HALL A |
10:00 | Paulina Szczerba | Fundaments of nanosilver toxicity – mechanism of nanoparticle dissolution, complexes with glutathione and interference with zinc proteins | prof. dr hab. Wojciech Bal |
| 11.06.2026
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9:30
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Konrad Jurczewski | The Role of Selective Autophagy in the Regulation of Transcription Factor Activity | prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Sirko
dr inż. Marcin Olszak |
| 11.06.2026
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10:00 | Stephen Amankwah | Insight into the long terminal repeat region of stpahylococcal Twortvirinae phages | prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Łobocka |