It is with great pleasure that we announce that the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, by decision of the Minister of Education and Science, has again been awarded the highest scientific category A+. This success is due to the joint work and efforts of the scientists, management, and administration.

The heat wave in Poland seems to have no end in sight. All the more reason to read the new publication under GRIEG grant that looks at how animals transform cellular programs to survive the cold.

The scientists from the Laboratory of Protein Structure collaborated with Joe Peters group from Cornell University to study the structure of mechanism of prototypic E. coli Tn7 TnsB. The findings are avaiable in the recent publication Molecular Cell.

A workshop for representatives of Polish DIOSCURI Centers was held in Munich at the headquarters of the Max Planck Society on July 11-12.

We are pleased to inform that Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki as a President of the National Science Centre Council took part in the Polish-Ukrainian meeting devoted to the presentation of the NSC initiative addressed to Ukrainian scientists.

Zebrafish, a popular organism for studying embryonic development and modeling human diseases - already has a functional annotation program similar to that in other animal models.