26
March
2026

onsite

Tim Schenkel

European Center for Single Cell Solutions, Heidelberg

TBC

Host: Dr. Olga Gewartowska

12
March
2026

onsite

Dr. Saskia Lippens

VIB

TBC

Host: Dr. Olga Gewartowska

26
February
2026

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Krzysztof Sobczak

UAM Poznan

TBC

Host: Dr. Wojciech Pokrzywa

19
February
2026

09:15

onsite

Dr. Hannah Burgess

Imperial College London

The Long and Short of It: Viral subversion of poly(A)-tail regulation

Host: Dr. Stefan Bresson

12
February
2026

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Jan Rehwinkel

University of Oxford

Regulation of Type I Interferon Receptor Signalling

Host: Prof. Gracjan Michlewski

05
February
2026

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Jan Brezovsky

Adam Mickiewicz University

Cracking the code of enzyme tunnels: Understanding, predicting, and engineering hidden pathways

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

22
January
2026

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Katarzyna Klonowska

The Institute of Bioorganic, Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences

The somatic mutation landscape in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

15
January
2026

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Stanisław Dunin-Horkawicz

Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw

Exploring conformational variability in prokaryotic signal transduction proteins with AlphaFold2.

Host: Prof. Janusz Bujnicki

18
December
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Jesper Velgaard Olsen

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR), University of Copenhagen

Single-cell proteomics of protein abundance and turnover

Host: Dr. Vanessa Linke & Dr. Wojciech Pokrzywa

04
December
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Kacper Rogala

Stanford University School of Medicine

Molecular mechanisms of mTOR signaling pathways

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

03
December
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. David Balchin

The Francis Crick Institute

How the ribosome solves difficult folding problems

Host: Dr. Lidia Wróbel

27
November
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Mykhailo Batiuk

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

From Cellular Diversity to Epigenetics of Psychiatry: A Single-Cell Perspective

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

20
November
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Ewelina Knapska

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology

Emotional echoes: neural mechanisms by which others’ emotions shape adaptation

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

13
November
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Edith Marcial-Juárez

Babraham Institute

Cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating follicular dendritic cell expansion across the lifespan   

Host: Dr. Cecilia Winata

06
November
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Agnieszka Chacińska

International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines Polish Academy of Sciences

Regulatory checkpoints in biogenesis of mitochondrial proteins 

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

23
October
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Bożena Kamińska-Kaczmarek

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology

Tumor microenvironment at single-cell resolution and its modulation

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

16
October
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Magdalena Winiarska

Mossakowski Medical Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences

Resistance to CD19 CAR-T immunotherapies in B-cell malignancies

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

02
July
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Thomas Müller-Reichert

TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Application of correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) to quantitatively analyse spindle organisation during mitosis

Host: Dr. Matylda Macias

06
June
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Patrick Pausch

Vilnius University, LSC-EMBL

Of DNA making and RNA breaking in bacterial immunity against phage

Host: Dr. Ewelina Małecka-Grajek

05
June
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Oliver Hobert

Columbia University, USA

Regulatory Logic of Cell Type Specification in the Nervous System

Host: Prof. Andrzej Dziembowski

29
May
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Vineet Gaur

National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi

Nature's precision - specialized molecular scissor in plant DNA repair and recombination

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

22
May
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Salim Seyfried

University of Potsdam, Germany

Biomechanical signaling in zebrafish models of vascular anomalies

Host: Dr. Cecilia Lanny Winata

13
May
2025

13:00

online, onsite

Prof. Utz Fischer

Theodor-Boveri Institute, University of Würzburg, Germany

Making mRNA in the wrong compartment: how poxviruses express their genes in the cytoplasm of a host

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

09
May
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Jørgen Kjems

Aarhus University, Denmark

Design and delivery of RNA therapeutics

Host: Prof. Gracjan Michlewski

20
March
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Aleksandra Pękowska, PhD, DSc Habil

Nencki Instiute

RNA and RNA binding proteins mediate maturation of chromatin topology during embryonic stem cell differentiation

Host: Wojciech Pokrzywa, PhD, DSc Habil

23
January
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Jens Hör

Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research

Bacterial Antiviral Defense by a Ubiquitin-like System

Host: Dr. Ewelina Małecka-Grajek

22
January
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Daniel Mertens

University Hospital Ulm, and German Cancer Research Center DKFZ Heidelberg

Chances and Challenges of Implementing Large Language Models into Clinical Information Processes

Host: Prof. Gracjan Michlewski

09
January
2025

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Mateusz Sikora

Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University Krakow

Integrative modeling of glycoproteins

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

12
December
2024

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Ashwin Chari

Max-Planck-Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Goettingen, Germany

Why worry about accurate protein structures?

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

05
December
2024

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Jakub Godlewski

Mossakowski Medical Research Institute

Viral Upgrade of Brain Tumor Vesicles to Amplify Tumor Immunity

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

28
November
2024

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Dr. Björn Schumacher

CECAD Excellent in Aging Research

Genome Stability in Aging and Disease: New Insights from C. elegans

Host: Prof. Wojciech Pokrzywa

07
November
2024

09:15

online

Dr. Ulrich J. Lorenz

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Microsecond Time-Resolved Cryo-EM

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler & IIMCB PhD students' community

31
October
2024

14:00

online, onsite

Prof. Yugi Sugita

RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan

Enhanced sampling simulations of biomolecules using multiscale models

Host: Prof. Janusz Bujnicki

24
October
2024

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Jakub Sędziński

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW

Cell fate and mechanics of developing mucociliary epithelium

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska

03
October
2024

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Chinmoy Patra, Agharkar Research Institute, India

Dr. Chinmoy Patra, Agharkar Research Institute, India

Extracellular matrix in Heart Regeneration

Host: Dr. Cecilia Lanny Winata

27
June
2024

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Gunther Hartmann

University Hospital Bonn

Innate immune sensing of nucleic acids and its use for prevention and treatment

Host: Prof. Gracjan Michlewski

20
June
2024

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Magdalena Winiarska

Mossakowski Medical Research Institute

Searching for mechanisms of resistance to immunotherapies

Host: Dr. Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka

19
June
2024

09:15

online, onsite

Dr. Antoni Wróbel

The Francis Crick Institute

Molecular mechanisms of viral entry underlying viral evolution and host change

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

13
June
2024

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Lynne Maquat

University of Rochester Medical Center, USA

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in human health and disease

Host: Prof. Gracjan Michlewski

06
June
2024

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Eran Meshorer

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Paleo-epigenetics: Reconstructing DNA methylation of archaic humans reveals ancient and recent evolutionary adaptation

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler & IIMCB PhD students community

05
June
2024

09:15

online, onsite

Vasili Hauryliuk

Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University

Bioinformatics-driven discovery of novel antiphage immunity systems

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

23
May
2024

09:15

online

Prof. Guoliang XU

Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Enzymatic DNA Modifications Controlling Development and Adaptation

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler & IIMCB PhD students community

16
May
2024

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Axel Methner

University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Iron-sulfur cluster loss in mitochondrial CISD1 mediates PINK1 loss-of-function phenotypes

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

09
May
2024

09:15

online

Prof. Barbara Di Ventura

University of Freiburg

Right here. Right now. Spatio-temporal control of gene expression

Host: Dr. Aleksandra Kołodziejczyk

18
April
2024

9:15 AM CET

online, onsite

Prof. Sebastian Glatt

Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Kraków

tRNAslational control of eukaryotic gene expression

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

04
April
2024

9:15 AM

online, onsite

Prof. Mario Pende

Institut Necker Enfants Malades, Paris, France

mTOR role in seizure-prone genetic diseases and the metabolic control of senescence

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

21
March
2024

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Jan Löwe

Director of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK

Prokaryotic cytoskeletons - filaments organising small cells

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler & IIMCB PhD students community

14
March
2024

09:15

online

Dr. Jens Puschof

German Cancer Research Center

Modelling cancer-microbe interactions with organoids and organs-on-a-chip

Host: Dr. Aleksandra Kołodziejczyk

07
March
2024

09:15

online, onsite

Prof. Pierre Alexandre Kaminski

Institut Pasteur, France

Bacteriophages with a ZTGC DNA alphabet, a proof of concept for the synthetic biology of non-canonical nucleic acids

Host: Host: Matthias Bochtler & IIMCB PhD students community

29
February
2024

09:15

online

Dr. Pavle Dvorak

Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Synthetically primed adaptation of bacterial metabolism to renewable sugar substrates

Host: Dr. Jan Brezovsky