International Advisory Board meeting and ERA Chairs Group Leader competition at IIMCB

: Published: 26 March 2019

The International Advisory Board meeting took place on March 21-22, 2019. The first day was devoted to the ERA Chairs Group Leader competition. It started with the MOSaIC kick-off meeting and the presentation of this ERA Chairs H2020 project by its coordinator, Jacek Kuźnicki. The meeting was followed by the ERA Chairs Research Symposium. Four top candidates for the ERA Chairs Group Leader position gave research seminars:

- Curtis A. Davey, School of Biological Sciences & Institute of Structural Biology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Targeting Chromatin for Genomic Insight, Research Tools & Therapeutic Agents

- Andrzej Dziembowski, Laboratory of RNA Biology and Functional Genomics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Poland
Cytoplasmic polyadenylation as a key regulator of physiological processes

- Tomasz P. Jurkowski, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Synthetic programming of epigenetic states and cellular identity

- Gracjan Michlewski, Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine, Biomedical School, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
RNA-protein interactions in human health and disease

Lunch with all IIMCB staff members was the occasion to thank and honor Maciej Żylicz, Head of the Department of Molecular Biology in years 2000-2018, for his outstanding contribution to the development of the Institute and building its international recognition.

On the second day, the Board met with PhD students and postdocs. Then Marcin Nowotny gave an open evaluation lecture entitled Indirect readout of nucleic acid sequence and structure in DNA repair. During the closed session, Jacek Kuźnicki reported to the Board IIMCB’s and MOSaIC’s activities in 2018 and the Director, Marta Miączyńska, presented scientific strategy for the development of the Institute.

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