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

Host:

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

Dr. Antoni Wiedlocha

Institute for Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Proteomic mapping reveals molecular determinants of FGFR signalling and trafficking

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska

Dr. Dimitri Moreau

Head of ACCESS Geneva, University of Geneva, NCCR Chemical Biology, Switzerland

Automated Microscopy and High Content Screens (Phenotypic Screens) in Academia Labs

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska

Prof. Birgitta Wöhrl

Universitaet Bayreuth, Germany

Foamy Viruses - Structure and Function of the Viral Enzymes

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

Savani Anbalagan, Ph.D

Prof. Gil Levkowitz lab, Dept. of Mol. Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, ISRAEL

Role of astroglia (pituicytes) in the hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system - a major brain-to-blood neuro-endocrine interface

Host: Prof. Agnieszka Chacińska

Santiago Ramón-Maiques

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Madrid, Spain

Structure and function of CAD, a 1.5 MDa anti-tumoral target controlling the synthesis of pyrimidines

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

Prof. Michael Feig

Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

Nucleic Acid Fidelity at the Molecular Level: Two Tales of DNA Repair and Transcription from Computer Simulations

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Albert Willemsen, M.Sc.

Noldus Information Technology bv Wageningen, The Netherlands

New tools in zebrafish research - video tracking and other technologies

Host: Smijin Soman

Prof. Danny Barash

Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Computational riboswitch detection using inverse RNA folding

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Raúl Méndez de la Iglesia

Institute for Research in Biomedicine - IRB Barcelona

The CPEB-family of RNA-binding proteins, mechanisms of action and new functions in cell cycle and cancer

Host: Cecilia Lanny Winata

Prof. Piotr Sicinski

Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Cell cycle machinery in development and in cancer

Host: Do Science

Jose Luis García Pérez, PhD

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

LINE-1 retrotransposition in Fanconi Anemia patients

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny

Dr. Ludger Johannes

Institute Curie, Paris, France

Building endocytic pits with glycosphingolipids and lectins: implication for cell polarity and persistent cell migration

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska

Dr. Nica Borgese

CNR Institute for Neuroscience, Milano, Italy

Getting membrane proteins on and off the shuttle bus between the ER and the Golgi Complex

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska

Prof. Dr. Abel Viejo-Borbolla

Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Germany

Immune and neuromodulation mediated by varicella zoster virus

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

Prof. Toni Gabaldon

Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Universitat Pompeu, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

From evolution to function: exploiting genomic evolution to understand biological processes

Host: Leszek Pryszcz

Michal Pawlak, PhD

Laboratory of Zebrafish Developmental Genomics, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland

The emerging use of zebrafish to model liver injury and repair

Host:

Alicja Koscielny

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

Role of adaptor complex AP2 in formation of dendritic arbors of hippocampal neurons

Host:

Dr Malgorzata Figiel

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

HIV-1 reverse transcriptase: substrate configuration and generation of the polypurine tract

Host:

Jan Zylicz, PhD

Curie Institute, Research Center, Paris, France

Chromatin dynamics and its role in regulating early mouse development

Host: Prof. Marcin Nowotny & Prof. Marta Miączyńska

Dr. Sebastian Glatt

Max Planck Research Group Leader, Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB), Jagiellonian University

Lost in translation - Revisiting the tRNA wobble base position

Host: Marcin Nowotny

Dr. Elizabeth Patton

MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Chemical-Genetics of the Melanocyte Lineage in Development and Melanoma in Zebrafish

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki & Prof. Agnieszka Chacińska

Rita Drumond Mateus, PhD

Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva

Understanding the physics and cell biology of zebrafish reflectors

Host: Lidia Wolińska-Nizioł

Prof. Ian Collinson

Professor of Biochemistry and Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, University of Bristol, UK

An ATP-driven Brownian ratchet mechanism for protein translocation

Host: Prof. Agnieszka Chacińska

Prof. Nana Voitenko & Prof. Pavel Belan

Head of Laboratory of Sensory Signaling, Deputy Director of Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology NASU, Kiev, Ukraine & Head of Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology NASU, Kiev, Ukraine

'AMPA receptor trafficking in persistent pain' & 'New approaches in studies of molecular mechanisms of cellular signaling'

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

Leszek Pryszcz

Laboratory of Zebrafish Developmental Genomics, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw

Hybrid nature of pathogenic fungi

Host:

Paweł Dobrzański

Cephalon, Inc.

The Many Faces of JAK2 Inhibitors

Host: Filip Stefaniak

Dr. Pirta Hotulainen

University of Helsinki, Finland

Actin in neurons: connecting dynamics to function

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

Prof. Dr. András Dinnyés

General Director, BioTalentum Ltd., Gödöllo, Hungary, Szent István University, Gödöllo, Hungary, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Patient specific induced pluripotent stem cells: expectations and potential pitfalls

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

Dr Ewa Paluch

MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, UK

Cell surface mechanics across scales, from molecular processes to cell-scale morphogenesis

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska

Stefan Feske, M.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology New York University School of Medicine New York, USA

CRAC channels in immune regulation of infection and autoimmunity

Host: Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki

Dr. Haley Wyatt

The Crick Institute, UK

Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of SLX4-nuclease complexes in DNA repair

Host: Marcin Nowotny

Dr. Grzegorz Kudla

Human Genetics Unit MRC, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine The University of Edinburgh

Surveying genotype-phenotype landscapes within genes

Host: Marcin Nowotny

Dr Vicki Gold

Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany

In situ analysis of protein transport supercomplexes

Host: Prof. Agnieszka Chacińska

Lidia Wróbel

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

Traffic jam at the mitochondrial gate

Host:

Dr Martin Reijns

Human Genetics Unit MRC, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine The University of Edinburgh

Ribonucleotides in DNA: the good, the bad and the ugly

Host: Marcin Nowotny

Prof. Carla Koehler

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, USA

Modeling mitochondrial diseases in zebrafish

Host: Prof. Agnieszka Chacińska

Dr. Laurentius Holtzer

Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva

The role of Bmp signaling in controlling outgrowth of the zebrafish pectoral fin

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska

Prof. Desirazu Narasimha Rao

Department of Biochemistry Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Helicobacter pylori Restriction Modification systems: Role(s) beyond genome protection

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Prof. Xiaodong Cheng

Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

On the Mechanisms of Generation, Recognition, and Erasure (GRE) of DNA 5mC and Thymine Oxidations

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Dr. Valakunja Nagaraja

Department Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Topoisomerases and topology modulation: structural and functional insights

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Prof. Barry Stoddard

Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA

Engineering proteins and genomes for research and medicine

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Andrzej Kudlicki, Ph. D.

Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX, USA

Can cells count? - transcriptional regulation in development and beyond

Host: Prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki

Dr. Karolina Szczepanowska

CECAD Research Center, University of Cologne, Germany

CLPP protease - an intriguing player in biogenesis of ribosomes in mammalian mitochondria

Host: Prof. Agnieszka Chacińska

Dr. Maciej Maciejczyk

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

SimDNA: A computational method for DNA folding simulation and DNA 3D structure prediction

Host:

Prof. Gong Zhiyuan

Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore

Inducible Transgenic Zebrafish for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: an excellent model for investigation of tumor initiation and microenvironment

Host: Cecilia Lanny Winata

Krzysztof Pyrć, PhD

1) Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology and 2) Laboratory of Virology and ABSL3 Animal Facility, The Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Early steps of viral infection

Host: Prof. Marta Miączyńska