Rafal Mostowy, Ph.D.

School of Public Health, Imperial College London

How evolution shapes diversity of polysaccharide capsules in gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Radosław Pluta, PhD

International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw

MobM relaxase of the HUH nucleases family: a novel histidine/metal-dependent DNA nicking/joining mechanism for gene transfer and antibiotic resistance spread

Host: IIMCB

Dr. Zbiginiew Warkocki

Institute for Biochemistry and Biophysics, PAS

Role of terminal uridyltransferases (TUTs) in RNA expression and function in humans

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Prof. Blanche Schwappach

University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany

Targeting proteins to the ER - dissection of COPI-cargo interactions

Host: Prof. Marta Miaczynska & Prof. Agnieszka Chacinska

Nuno Morais, PhD

Group Leader in the Computational Biology Lab, Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM), Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Profiling alternative splicing in evolution and disease

Host: Catarina Almeida

Orsolya Barabas, PhD

Group Leader Structural and Computational Biology Unit EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

How genes jump: structural insights into the mechanisms of DNA transposition

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

Jan Brezovsky, Ph.D

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland

Roles of protein tunnels and channels within a complex framework of the cell: ligand transport pathways unveiled

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

Prof. Andrzej Wierzbicki

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Mechanisms of RNA-directed DNA methylation

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

Ulrike Topf

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

Mitochondria regulate cellular proteostasis

Dr Maria Górna

Structural Biology Group, Biomacromolecular Research Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Biological and Chemical Research Centre

How to end a viral RNA - lessons from the IFIT proteins

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny