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

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: