Prof. Joseph Peters, PhD

Cornell University, New York, USA

Adaptation and control in a highly successful family to transposons

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

Grzegorz Chojnowski, PhD

European Molecular Biology Laboratory Hamburg, Germany

Automated building of macromolecular models in X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy maps

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Hans Binder

Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Germany

Molecular landscapes of diseases

Host: Leszek Pryszcz, PhD

Miroslav Krepl

Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Simulation studies of protein/ nucleic acid complexes – molecular recognition and structural specificity

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

Prof. Jakub Godlewski, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Non-coding RNA and tumor heterogeneity

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Prof. Jan Rehwinkel

Associate Professor of Innate Immunology Group Leader MRC Human Immunology Unit University of Oxford Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine

Sensing and Restricting: Innate Immune Control of Virus Infection.

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Prof. Leos Shivaya Valasek, PhD

Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Stop codon readthrough inducing tRNAs and their therapeutic potential

Host: Marcin Nowotny, PhD

Yuu Kimata, PhD

Department of Genetics University of Cambridge

Linking Cell Fate to the Cell Cycle: Proteolytic regulation of the centrosome by APC/C-Vihar ensures the oocyte development in Drosophila.

Host: Marcin Nowotny, PhD

Fred Dyda, PhD

Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diabetes, National Institutes of Health

Mechanisms of Replicative DNA Transposition

Host: Marcin Nowotny, PhD

Radhan Ramadass, PhD

Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research Developmental Genetics Lab Bad Nauheim Germany

Four Dimensional Cardiac Imaging in Living Zebrafish Embryos

Host: Rashid Minhas, PhD

Tomasz Jurkowski, PhD

Universität Stuttgart, Institute of Biochemistry, Stuttgart, Germany

Synthetic programming of epigenetic states

Host: Marcin Nowotny, PhD

Edward H. Egelman, Ph.D.

Harrison Distinguished Professor Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics University of Virginia

Introduction to cryo-EM

Host: Marcin Nowotny, Ph.D.

Michał Hetman, M.D., PhD.

Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

Dysregulated biogenesis of neuronal ribosomes: implications for neurodevelopmental pathologies and beyond.

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

Prof. Saulius Klimasauskas

Institute of Biotechnology Vilinius University

DNA methyltransferases: writers, "readers" and erasers of epigenetic marks

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Michał Rażew

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

Structural studies of the yeast mitochondrial degradosome mtEXO

Host: IIMCB

Prof. Wiesława Jarmuszkiewicz

Department of Bioenergetics, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Impact of temperature and training on skeletal muscle mitochondria

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska

Reiner Wimmer, PhD

IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

Stem Cell Models of Human Vascular Diseases

Host: Bartosz Tarkowski

Mary Anne O´Connell, PhD

RNA and Immunity, CEITEC,Brno, Czech Republic

ADARs; where the epitranscriptome meetsinnate immunity.

Host: Cecilia Winata, PhD; Leszek Pryszcz, PhD

Dr. Jacek L. Kolanowski

Department of Molecular Probes and Prodrugs, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS, Poznan, Poland

Small molecule responsive probes for realtime investigation of biochemical analytes in biology

Host: Leszek Pryszcz, Lucyna Budźko

Dr. Michał Komorowski

Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Making sense of signaling complexity

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska

Wojciech Pokrzywa, PhD

Laboratory of Protein Metabolism in Development and Aging IIMCB, Institute for Genetics and CECAD Research Center, University of Cologne

Chaperone-directed ubiquitylation maintains proteostasis at the expense of longevity

Host: IIMCB

Prof. Hilmar Bading

Department of Neurobiology Interdisciplinary Center for Neurosciences Heidelberg University

The NMDA receptor paradox: survival, death,and paths towards novel neuroprotectivetherapies

Host: Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

Prof. Toshio Yanagida

RIKEN & Osaka University

"Single molecule studies of bio-molecular motors"

Host: Krzysztof Skowronek, PhD

Prof. Jacek Jaworski

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

Molecular neurobiology of mTOR -neurogenesis

Host: IIMCB

Katarzyna Kisielewska

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

Interplay between mTOR kinase and the retromer complex in neuronal development

Host: IIMCB

Michał Mikula, PhD

Department of Genetics, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw branch

Repositioning oncology oriented drugs for sepsis treatment

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska

Prof. Marcin Nowotny

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

Cryo-EM - the revolution in structural biology

Host: IIMCB

Kinga Gazda

Laboratory of Neurodegeneration,International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw,Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences

The role of Amyloid Precursor Protein in endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ homeostasis

Host: IIMCB

Prof. Claudine Kieda

Laboratory of Molecular Oncology; innovative therapies (head) Military; Medical Institute (MMI) Warsaw

Alleviating hypoxia in the tumor microenvironment by angiogenesis normalization as adjuvant to anticancer therapies

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska

Prof. Magda Konarska

CENT, University of Warsaw

The less travelled road: the mechanism of the second step of pre-mRNA splicing

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Aleksandra Walczak, PhD

Laboratoire de Physique Théorique Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris

Diversity and predictability in immune repertoires

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuznicki & Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Patrick Shaw Stewart

Douglas Instruments Ltd, Hungerford, UK

How new strategies can improve productivity in crystallization and cryoEM

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

Vladimir Korzh

Laboratory of Neurodegeneration International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw

The empty-headed guide into hollow brains

Host: Vladimir Korzh

Dr. Małgorzata Zakrzewska

Department of Protein Engineering Faculty of Biotechnology University of Wrocław

The double life of FGF1

Host: Prof. Marta Miaczynska

Devrim Kilinc, PhD

Institut Pasteur de Lille, France

Microfluidic Neuron Culture Devices to Study Neural Development and Disease

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuznicki

Francesca Vinchi, PhD

Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, University of Heidelberg and EMBL, Germany LFKRI, New York Blood Centre, New York, USA

Iron restriction strategies ameliorate iron-aggravated atherosclerosis

Host: Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka

Tomasz Rzymski, PhD, MBA

Head of Targeted Therapeutics Platform Selvita S.A., Krakow

Novel therapeutic strategies based on the concept of synthetic lethality

Host: Prof. Marta Miaczynska

Dr. Punit Seth

Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Engineering selectivity into therapeutic oligonucleotides through chemical design

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

Prof. Matthias Bochtler

International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics

The Q-rule for posttranslational modification

Host: IIMCB

Prof. Ichiro Yamashita

Graduate School of Engineering、 Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Japan

Biological Path to Nanodevices

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuznicki

Kris Kobielak, M.D., Ph.D.

Laboratory of Stem Cells, Development and Tissue Regeneration. Centre of New Technologies University of Warsaw

Coexistence of Variety of Skin Stem Cells in Tissue Specific Homeostasis and Regeneration

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Alessandro Costa

The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom

Cryo-EM approaches to understanding the eukaryotic replisome

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

Prof. Eric Westhof

University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France Professor, Director of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, CNRS

The Third Genetic Code

Host: RNA Club Warsaw - Keynote Speaker 2017

Prof. Martina Muckenthaler

Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, EMBL Heidelberg and Heidelberg University, Germany

The role of iron and heme in hemolytic disorders and in the tumor microenvironment

Host: Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka

Lukasz Kielpinski, PhD

Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Denmark

RNase H sequence preferences influence antisense oligonucleotide efficiency and have shaped the HIV-1 genome

Host: Radek Pluta (Do Science!)

Prof. Jonathan Heddle

Bionanoscience and Biochemistry Laboratory, Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University

Caged Biology: Building nanometric containers with biological molecules

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Stanislaw K. Jozwiakowski, PhD

University of Zurich, Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, Zurich, Switzerland

PrimPol – Ancient Guardian of the Genome

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Lucyna Budźko, PhD

Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Activation-induced cytidine deaminase: structural determinants of its activity on modified and non-modified substrates

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Dr. Kristian M. Rother

Best Practices for Debugging, Testing and Maintaining Software

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Prof. Kathrin Thedieck, PhD

University Medical Center Groningen, AV Groningen, The Netherlands & Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

Systems approaches to the mTOR network

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski