Prof. Robert Vacha

CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic

How Proteins or Nanoparticles Can Enter Cells?

Host: Jan Brezovsky

Dr Logan Mulroney

Center for Genomic Science at the Italian Institute of Technology

Detecting RNA modifications from nanopore ionic current signals

Host: Spotlight Talks

Prof. Richard Morimoto

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Proteostasis and the Challenge of Maintaining a Stable Proteome in Aging and Diseases

Host: Wojciech Pokrzywa

dr Anna Bajur

King's College London

CD20-dependent actin remodelling controls initial steps of B cell activation

Host: Spotlight Talks

Dr. Amina Mirsakiyeva

Carl Zeiss SMT

Academia vs Industry: how to choose?

Host: Spotlight Talks

Dr. Mikołaj Słabicki

Broad Institute, MIT & Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

Novel mechanisms of small molecule-induced protein degradation

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska

Dr. Nirmal Sampathkumar

University of Oxford

How to determine stable reference genes to use by qPCR in the absence of RNAseq

Host: Spotlight Talks

Prof. Agnieszka Dobrzyń

Nencki Institute, Warsaw, Poland

Thinking Big – from basic science to biotechnology-driven novel approaches to treat diabetes

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

Paul Tapas

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Vectorial folding of telomere overhang promotes higher accessibility

Host: Spotlight Talks

Prof. Mustafa Sahin

Boston Children's Hospital, HMS, Boston, MA, USA

Neuronal Connectivity in TSC as a Model for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

Anna Karnkowska

The Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Warsaw

The other eukaryotes: lessons learned from the non-model microbial eukaryotes

Host: Spotlight Talks

Dr. Sumantra Chatterjee

NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Disrupted regulatory networks and cellular interactions in Hirschsprung disease: Lessons for complex disorders

Host: Dr. Cecilia L. Winata

Dr. Karolina Szczepanowska

International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines, Poland

Safeguarding a beautiful beast. The quality control and repair of respiratory Complex I

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

Dr. Sanchita Mukherjee

Rigel Bioenviron Solutions Private Limited, India

The happy secret to entrepreneurial journey from academia

Host: Spotlight Talks

Dr. Juan Bonifacino

NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

Unraveling the Function of the Adaptor Complex AP-4 in Protein Sorting and Neurological Disease

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

Dr. Nazim Bouatta

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Predicting protein structures: from AlphaFold2 to single sequence prediction

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Abhishek Sau

Texas A&M University, USA

Mapping Traffic through Nuclear Pores using 3D Super-Resolution Microscopy

Host: Spotlight Talks

Syeda Lubna

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

Computational approaches to understand the effects of substitutions on Influenza viral proteins in the Indian population - leading to altered host-pathogen interactions and viral pathogenicity

Host: Spotlight Talks

Dr. Eva Maria Novoa

Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

Decoding the epitranscriptome at single molecule resolution

Host: Natalia Guminska & Postdoctoral Council

Dr. Christos Gkogkas

Biomedical Research Institute, Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas (FORTH), Ioannina, Greece

Regulation of protein synthesis in brain health and disease

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

Prof. Bożena Kamińska-Kaczmarek

Nencki Institute, PAS, Warsaw, Poland

Employing single-cell omics and nanotechnology to improve therapy of malignant brain tumors

Host: Jacek Jaworski

Dr. Sara Szymkuć

Institute of Organic Chemistry PAS, Warsaw, Poland & Allchemy Inc., Highland, USA

Synthetic connectivity and emergence in the network of prebiotic chemistry

Host: Matthias Bochtler

Dr. Marcin Zagórski

Institute of Theoretical Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

How is patterning precision achieved in developing tissues?

Host: Dr. Cecilia L. Winata

Agnieszka Łukaszewicz

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Germline mutagenesis at recombination hotspots in mice

Host: Spotlight Talks

Prof. Matthias Hentze

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

A new continent of the RNA World

Host: Dr. Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka

Prof. Alexander Drakesmith, Ph.D.

Oxford University

Control of immune responses by iron

Host: Dr. Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka

Anna Malik

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw

The secret lives of VPS10P receptors, or how to unravel the intracellular sorting machinery in glia

Host: Spotlight Talks

Prof. Helen Bateup, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

The multi-faceted roles of TSC-mTOR signaling in neuronal development, function and disease

Host: Magdalena Mlostek & PhD Students Council

Sílvia Llonch

Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

A Walk through Human Egg Biology

Host: Spotlight Talks

Prof. Alfred Vertegaal

Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherland

Signal Transduction by Small Ubiquitin-like Modifiers

Host: Wojciech Pokrzywa, PhD, DSc Habil

Michał Gdula, Ph.D.

Adam Mickiewicz University

How to shut down a whole chromosome? - SmcHD1, epigenetics and 4D genome in X inactivation

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

Agnieszka Pastuła

Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

The Role of Fibroblasts as Niche Cells in Homeostasis and Disease

Host: Spotlight Talks

Prof. Scott Sternson, PhD

HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus & University of California, USA

Molecular insights into neural coding of appetite and other behavioral states

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski & Dr. Bartosz Tarkowski & Dr. Andrii Kopach

Prof. Robert Huber

Structural Biology and its Key Role in the Life Sciences and in Medicine

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Albert Thommen

Francis Crick Institute (London, UK)

Systemic metabolism in normal and abnormal growth: from body size variation to metabolic interactions between tumour and host in liver cancer

Host: Spotlight Talks

Marti Cadena Sandoval

University of Innsbruck

The Complex Signaling of G3BP Proteins: from Stress Granules to Lysosomes

Host: Spotlight Talks

Prof. Jiemin Weng

East China Normal University

Regulation of DNA methylation homeostasis and inheritance in mammalian cells

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski & Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Prof. Amy Buck

University of Edinburgh

RNA in communication: new insights into host-pathogen interactions

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski & Prof. Gracjan Michlewski

Pawel Trzaskoma

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)

Imaging in genetics - what can microscopy tell us about chromatin organization?

Host: Spotlight Talks

Franziska Decker

ETH Zürich

A gelation transition enables the self-organization of bipolar metaphase spindles

Host: Spotlight Talks

Prof. Danny Incarnato

University of Groningen

“Static" and dynamic structures in the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski & Prof. Janusz Bujnicki

Prof. Mirana Ramialison

Monash University

Multi-omics strategies for tackling congenital heart disease

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski & Dr. Cecilia L.Winata, PhD

Stephan Daetwyler

UT Southwestern Medical School

Multi-sample light-sheet imaging of development and disease such as cancer

Host: Spotlight Talks

Prof. Juri Rappsilber

University of Edinburgh and Technische Universität Berlin

In cell integrative structural biology by crosslinking mass spectrometry and cryo-electron tomography

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski & Prof. Gracjan Michlewski

Dr. Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula

Faculty of Biology of the Adam Mickiewicz University

Knowing when to stop: Pol II transcription termination in vertebrates

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

Justyna Zmorzyńska

IIMCB, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology (Jaworski Lab)

Can we model neuropsychiatric disorders in zebrafish?

Host: Spotlight Talks

Dr. Tomasz Kaminski

Faculty of Biology of the University of Warsaw

Single-cell assays in microdroplets

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

Dr. Fernando Moreno Herrero

Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC)

Single-Molecule Biophysics of Protein Machines

Host: Prof. Janusz Bujnicki

Prof. Herwig Baier

Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology

A Changing View of Vision: From Molecules to Behavior in Zebrafish

Host: Prof. Jacek Jaworski

Akanksha Jain

ETH Zürich

4D quantitative light sheet imaging to study tissue morphogenesis: From embryos to organoids

Host: Spotlight Talks