On October 17th the Opening of the Academic Year 2014/2015 was held at Biocentrum Ochota. The PhD students of IIMCB, IBB and the Nencki Instiute organized the ceremony with the invited keynote speakers, Prof. Andrzej Udalski and Prof. Virginijus Siksnys.

The event started with the awards ceremony for the best PhD dissertations of year 2013. The opening lecture ‘’Extrasolar Planetary Systems’’ was delivered by prof. Andrzej Udalski[nbsp] from the Warsaw University Poland. The next lecture ‘’CRISPR - Cas craze: from microbial antiviral defense system to genome editing’’ was presented by prof. Virginijus Siksnys from the Vilnius University, Lithuania. There was a poster session with a competition for the best poster. The ceremony was honored by the presence of Prof. Michał Kleiber, the President of the Polish Academy of[nbsp] Sciences and directors of all individual institutes of Biocentrum Ochota. More than 150 PhD students of Biocentrum Ochota participated in the event. Furthermore, PhD students from Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics (Ukraine) accepted the invitation and joined the Opening.

The event was supported by all institutes of Biocentrum Ochota. Moreover, IIMCB supported prof. Siksnys’ visit and VitaInSilica, Bio-Rad, Eppendorf were the sponsors of the awards.

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For more information and the abstract book please visit the official page of the event: http://www.biocentrumochota.pan.pl/OpeningAcademicYear

To see photographs from the Opening please visit:
http://www.iimcb.gov.pl/opening-of-the-academic-year-20142015-at-biocentrum-ochota.html

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