Anna Ajduk, PhD

Department of Embryology, Institute of Zoology Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw

Cytoplasmic quality determines developmental potential of mammalian oocytes

Host: Marta Miączyńska

Jan de Sonneville, PhD

From Life Science Methods BV, Leiden, TheNetherlnds

Automated microinjection of cell-polymer suspensions in 3D ECM scaffolds for high-throughput quantitative cancer invasion screens

Host: Małgorzata Wiweger

Jan de Sonneville, PhD

From Life Science Methods BV, Leiden, TheNetherlnds

Automating microinjection in animal models

Host: Małgorzata Wiweger

Prof. Branko Latinkić

Cardiff University

Functional anatomy of cardiogenic transcription factor GATA4

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Wojciech Wiszniewski M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA

Personal Genome Sequencing and Genomic Medicine

Host: Marta Miączyńska

Piotr Podlasz, DVM, PhD

Laboratory of Genomics and Transcriptomics Department of Animal Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Galanin: How zebrafish allows us to discover the full potential of this peptide

Host: Małgorzata Wiweger

Krzysztof Giannopoulos, MD, PhD

Experimental Hematooncology Department, Medical University of Lublin

The Holy Grail of cancer immunotherapy: induction of specific immune response and inhibition of immunotolerance?

Host: Marta Miączyńska

Dr. Dorota Włoga

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw

Special Series - Frontiers of Polish Biosciences: Identification of proteins implicated in cilia assembly and function

Host: Jacek Jaworski & Marta Miączyńska

Magdalena Guzowska-Nowowiejska, PhD

Post-doctoral fellow in Single Cell Genomics, Functional Genomics Facility, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Switzerland

High throughput technologies for cutting edge experiments. Methods for single cell functional genomics

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Michał Boniecki, PhD

International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering

SimRNA: a coarse-grained method for RNA 3D folding simulations and structure prediction

Host: Krzysztof Skowronek

Prof. Robert Huber

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1988, Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry Martinsried, Germany

Protein crystallography at the interface of physics, chemistry and biology

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Aksana Varabyova, MSc

International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Laboratory of Mitochondrial Biogenesis

Mia40 and MINOS act in parallel with Ccs1 in the biogenesis of mitochondrial Sod1

Host:

Prof. Witold Filipowicz

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Mechanisms and regulation of miRNA repression and metabolism in mammalian cells

Host: Prof. Michał Witt

Agnieszka Skałecka, MSc

International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology

In vivo model to study neuron development

Host:

Dr. Gosia Trynka

Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Learning the biology of complex diseases, integrating SNP associations with histone modifications to identify disease critical cell types and functional variants

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Mikołaj Olejniczak, PhD

Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Bacterial regulatory RNAs in competition for chaperone protein Hfq

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Dr. Katarzyna Piwocka

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw

Unfolded protein response in leukemia; implications in translation, progression and resistance

Host: Marta Miączyńska

Prof. Joanna Cichy

Department of Immunology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

Plasmacytoid dendritic cell and neutrophil crosstalk in autoimmunity

Host: Marta Miączyńska and Matthias Bochtler

Prof. Dr. Dr. Hannelore Ehrenreich

Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine Clinical Neurosciences Göttingen, Germany

Shifting paradigms in neuropsychiatry

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

Prof. Leslie P. Kozak

Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Resarch of the Polish Academy of Science, Olsztyn

The influence of the early post-natal environment on the development of brown and white adipocytes

Host: Marta Miączyńska & Jacek Jaworski

Prof. Elena Kaznacheyeva, Dr. Alexey Shalygin and Maria Ryazantseva (PhD student)

Laboratory of Ionic Channels of Cell Mambranes, Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Store-operated channels – activation mechanisms and implications in neurodegeneration

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

Tytus Bernaś, PhD

Laboratory of Imaging Tissue Structure and Function, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw

Multi - dimensional optical microscopy

Host: Marta Miaczynska & Jacek Jaworski

Prof. Jan Potempa, Laureate of FNP Prize 2011

Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

A scientific reason for not looking a gift horse in the mouth: An association of periodontitis with systemic diseases

Host: Matthias Bochtler

Prof. Artur Jarmołowski

Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

Introns of plant pri-miRNAs are required for proper biogenesis and function of miRNAs

Host: Marcin Nowotny

Olaf Selchow

Carl Zeiss Jena

Light Sheet Microscopy for Multiview Imaging of Large Specimens

Host:

Lidia Wrobel, MSc

International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Laboratory of Mitochondrial Biogenesis

Mitochondrial protein import: Mia40 facilitates Tim22 translocation into the inner membrane of mitochondria

Host:

Dr. Magdalena Lebiedzińska

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw

Mitochondrial dysfunction associated oxidative stress

Host: Marta Miączyńska

Prof. Bożena Kamińska

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw

Molecular pathways in cancer-related inflammation - from molecular mechanisms to novel therapuetic targets

Host: Jacek Jaworski & Marta Miączyńska

Bartosz Wilczynski , PhD

Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw

From ChipSeq data to chromatin interactions: A computer scientist's perspective

Host: Jacek Jaworski & Marta Miączyńska

Vladimir P. Korzh, PhD

Agency for Science, Technology & Research, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore

Finding out secrets of the heart… in zebrafish

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuznicki

Aniket Gore, PhD

National Institutes of Health, Program on Genomics of Differentiation, Bethesda, USA

Development of blood and vascular system: Lessons from zebrafish

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuznicki

Agnieszka Kolano, PhD

Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Biologie (CIRB), Centre National de Recherche Scientifique 7241, College de France, Paris, France

Interkinetochore tension - Achilles' heel of female meiosis one (MI) in mammals

Host: Jacek Jaworski & Maciej Żylicz

Dr. Ewelina Knapska

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw

Functional anatomy of neural circuits regulating fear and extinction.

Host: Marta Miączyńska

Tomasz Rygiel, PhD

Department of Immunology, Medical University of Warsaw

Regulation of immune responses by CD200-CD200R axis: a double-edged sword

Host: Marta Miączyńska

Prof. Sabine Rospert

Freiburg University, Germany

Factors surrounding the exit of the ribosomal polypeptide tunnel guide the early steps of protein biogenesis

Host: Dr. hab. Agnieszka Chacińska

Dr. Anna Bartosik

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg

Studying protein turnover with fluorescent timers

Host: Dr. hab. Marta Miączyńska

Fyodor Kondrashov, Ph.D

HHMI INTERNATIONAL EARLY CAREER SCIENTIST Center for Genomic Regulation Barcelona, Spain

"My big fat multiple alignment or episatsis as the primary mode of molecular evolution"

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Alex Bateman, Ph.D

Senior Group Leader, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton. Cambridge. CB10 1SA. UK

"Why biologists should care about Wikipedia"

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Prof. Samuel C Flores

Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden

"A Trajectory of Ribosomal Translocation with Internal Coordinate Flexible Fitting"

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Prof. Elzbieta Glaser

Stockholm University

The mitochondrial peptidasome PreP and Alzheimers disease

Host: Agnieszka Chacińska

Prof. Ryszard Maleszka

Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra

Beyond DNA: how epigenetic mechanisms can generate organismal complexity from a limited number of genes?

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Dr. Vineet Gaur

Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

Stress Associated Proteins: structural and functional insights

Host: Dr. Marcin Nowotny

Agnieszka Bondar, Jacek Bernacki and Karol Tymiński

Molecular Diagnostics & Applied Science , Roche Diagnostics Polska Sp. z o.o.

New approach to cell analysis – xCelligence System, Roche Diagnostics

Host:

Artur Góra, PhD

Loschmidt Laboratories, Department of Experimental Biology and Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Rational approach for tunnels redesign in enzymes

Host: Janusz Bujnicki

Ms. Karolina Majorek

Wladek Minor Laboratory, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Structural and functional characterization of selected GNAT superfamily members using semi-high-throughput screening approach

Host: Janusz Bujnicki

Dr. Hien-Anh Nguyen

Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France

Discovery of a new bacterial protein kinase family: functioning mechanism and cellular roles of YdiB, an archetype from Bacillus subtilis

Host: Dr. Marcin Nowotny

Anna Sokół, MSc

DNA Damage Response Laboratory, Centre for Chromosome Biology, National University of Ireland, Galway

DNA polymerase eta expression modulates nascent DNA strand length and DDR activation in human cells following platinum-induced DNA damage

Host: Dr. Agnieszka Chacińska

Prof. Magda Konarska

Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

Dynamic RNA-RNA interactions at the spliceosome core and their role in splicing fidelity

Host: Marta Miączyńska & Jacek Jaworski

Prof. Paweł Golik

Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Warsaw University

PPR proteins and the evolution of nucleo-mitochondrial interactions in yeasts. Special Lecture Series - Frontiers of Polish Biosciences.

Host: Marta Miączyńska & Jacek Jaworski

Prof. Tomasz Lipniacki

Institute of Fundamental Technological Research PAS, Warsaw

Mathematical modeling of NF-kappaB system and innate immune responses

Host: Dr. Marta Miączyńska