Piotr Szwedziak

Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Architecture of the FtsZ-ring in vivo and in vitro suggests a sliding filament constriction mechanism during bacterial cell division

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Ulrike Topf, PhD

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

Do mitochondria regulate cellular protein homeostasis and aging?

Host:

Prof. Wieslaw I. Gruszecki

Department of Biophysics, Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin

Do plants measure light intensity?

Host: Marcin Nowotny

Dr. Marcin Nowotny

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

Reverse transcriptases - structure and mechanism

Host:

Prof. Kamil R. Kranc

University of Edinburgh, UK

The quest for regulatory pathways of haematopoietic stem cell fate decisions

Host: Agnieszka Chacińska

Prof. Charles R. Cantor

Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, and Sequenome Inc., USA

Towards Predictive Medicine

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska

Katarzyna Radwanska, PhD

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology

The mechanisms for long-term memory formation when synaptic strengthening is impaired

Host: Jacek Jaworski

Małgorzata Figiel, PhD

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

Crystal structure of RNase H3 substrate complex - the complete family picture of RNases H

Host:

Prof. Jarema Malicki

Biomedical Genetics Department of Biomedical Science, the University of Sheffield, UK

Ciliogenesis and cell polarity in the vertebrate embryo

Host: Jacek Jaworski

Prof. Michał Witt

International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw

Genetic testing - a source of ethical and legal dilemmas

Host:

Prof. Nils Axelsen

Ombudsman for Research Integrity at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen

Scientific Integrity and Responsible Conduct of Research - hot topics in the turbulent global scientific world

Host: Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

Cecilia Lanny Winata, PhD

Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Studying early developmental mechanisms using genomics in zebrafish

Host: Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

M. Isabel Dominguez, PhD

Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA, USA

Role of CK2 in Wnt/beta-catenin signaling

Host: Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki & Marta Wiśniewska

Prof. Aleksei Sazanow

Chair of Natural Sciences and Geography, Leningrad State University named after A.S. Pushkin, St Petersburg, Russia

Evolutionary and functional genomics of animals

Host: Host: Prof. Michał Witt

Dr. Christian Koenig

Pacific Biosciences

Single-Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT™) DNA Sequencing: Technology Overview and Recent Applications

Host: Host: Prof. Michał Witt

Prof. Ryszard Maleszka

Research School of Biology The Australian National University Canberra, Australia

The rise of the epigenomes: bullet-train biology or a step forward in bridging the gap between genotype and phenotype?

Host: Matthias Bochtler

Dr. Paul Hurd

The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

ChIPing away at the epigenome

Host: Matthias Bochlter

Maga Rowicka, Ph.D.

Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Institute for Translational Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch

The high-resolution genomic landscape of DNA double-strand breaks in human cells revealed by next-generation sequencing

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Dr. Irinka Castanon

Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Orientation of cell divisions: the physiological role of Anthrax Toxin Receptors

Host: Marta Miączyńska

Prof. Andrei Lupas

Director, Department of Protein Evolution, Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen, Germany

On the origin of folded proteins

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Bennett Van Houten, PhD

University of Pittsburgh

Watching DNA repair: one molecule at a time

Host: Marcin Nowotny

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