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

Prof. Magdalena Król, PhD

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Physiological Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences

MDC: Macrophage-Drug Conjugate as a Trojan horse approach against cancer

Host: IIMCB

Prof. Katarzyna Turnau

Institute of Environmental Sciences, Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

Intimate relationships between plants, fungi and animals

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

Prof. Karin Krupinska

Botanisches Institut, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Functional implications of WHIRLY1-dependent chromatin modelling in monocot chloroplasts

Host: Prof. Andrzej Wierzbicki

Prof. Israel Sekler

Dept. of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Control and regulation of mitochondrial metabolism and Ca2+ signaling

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

Prof. Magda Konarska

Laboratory of RNA Biology, Centre for New Technologies, Warsaw University

Spliceosome function in the age of cryo-EM structures

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Dr. Stephanie Kermorgant

Department of Tumour Biology, Barts Cancer Institute - a CR-UK Centre of Excellence, Queen Mary University of London, UK

How and why a membrane receptor signals inside cancer cells: example of c-Met

Host: Prof. Marta Miaczynska

Professor Javier F. Caceres

MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM), University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

Biogenesis and turnover of small RNAs in health and disease

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

Dr. Joanna Sulkowska

Centre of New Technology (CENT I), Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Biological Systems Modelling

New type of entanglement in proteins and possible role of knotted topology: Methyl Transfer by Substrate Signaling from a Knotted Protein Fold

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Dr. Frédéric Pontvianne

CNRS, Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, Perpignan, France

Role of the nucleolus in A. thaliana genome organization

Host: Prof. Andrzej Wierzbicki

Dr Jan Kosinski

EMBL Heidelberg

Structure of the human nuclear pore complex by integrative structure determination

Host: Do Science

Bartek Wilczynski, PhD

Computational Biology Group, Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw

Finding regulatory domains and their contacts in Hi-C data

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Ewelina Knapska, PhD, DSc Habil

Head of Neurobiology of Emotions Laboratory, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw

Neural correlates of socially transferred emotions

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Rafał Czajkowski, PhD

Laboratory of Spatial Memory, Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology

Neural correlates of socially transferred emotions

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Anna Sarnowska, PhD

Stem Cell Bioengineering Unit, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre of PAS

Clinical application of freshly isolated adipose derived regenerative cells (ADRC)

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

Dr. Szymon Świeżewski

Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, PAS

Making sense of antisense

Host: Prof. Matthias Bochtler

Prof. Paweł Brzuzan

The University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland

MicroRNAs in microcystin induced liver injury (hepatotoxicity) in fish: from pathways to functions to therapies

Host: Lidia Wolińska-Nizioł

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