At the beginning of July, our lab members participated in the International Conference on Peptide Materials for Biomedicine and Nanotechnology PepMat.

Monika Wojciechowska gave a great talk Hidden in the Fold: Mining Bacteriophage Endolysins for Stapled Antimicrobial Peptide, and our postdoc, Emil Stefańczyk, presented a poster A Step Towards Peptide-Based Antibiofilm Materials, showing the results of his Miniatura research grant.

Congratulations!

From 28 June to 3 July, our PhD Student Piotr Chyży participated in the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, as one of only seven START stipend laureates selected from Poland.

Congratulations!

A Master’s student from the University of Rostock, Steffi, visited our lab for a 2-week scholarship to work on the synthesis of siderophore-PNA conjugates.

Welcome!

On June 30th, a senior researcher in the Laboratory of Biomolecular Machines, Monika Wojciechowska, successfully passed her habilitation colloquium.

Congratulations on this huge achievement!

We are hiring!

We are looking for a PhD Student in chemistry, biology, or biophysics to work on a project focused on antimicrobial peptides. More information about perquisites and requirements is available here.

If you are interested, please send your application to joanna@cent.uw.edu.pl

On March 11th, we were hosting Prof. Chia-en A Chang from the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, who gave a seminar: “Beyond AlphaFold3: From Physical Chemistry Principles to Machine Learned Physics in Molecular Design“

Thank you all for coming!

A Master’s student from the University of Rostock, Tim, visited our lab for a 2-week scholarship to work on the synthesis of siderophore-PNA conjugates.

Welcome!

We are happy to start the collaboration with the Military Institute of Medicine – National Research Institute (WIM-PIB) to work on the project entitled “First hybrid PNA–AAV vectors: combining chemical simplicity with biological intelligence as an innovative platform for the delivery of modified oligonucleotides”. The project has received funding in the UW–WIM-PIB joint research call, supported by the University of Warsaw’s Excellence Initiative – Research University (IDUB).

For more information, see our Projects.

Our Team Leader, Prof. Joanna Trylska, received an OPUS 29 grant for her project “Structural engineering of cell-penetrating peptides into biostable antibacterials to combat drug-resistant pathogens”. You can read more about the project here.

Congratulations!

Emil, our postdoctoral researcher, received a MINIATURA grant for his project focused on the analysis of interactions of antimicrobial peptides with biofilms produced by Acinetobacter baumannii.

Congratulations!

We are seeking a PhD student with an interest in peptide chemistry, biology, or biophysics to work on a project focused on antimicrobial peptides. For more information about the offer, please visit this link.

For further details, please contact: m.wojciechowska@cent.uw.edu.pl

A new master’s student, Wiktoria, has joined our team to work on a project focusing on peptide nucleic acids with antibacterial applications. Welcome!

On July 3–4, 2025, we organized the workshop “PNA and Peptides for Antibacterial Applications”. The event is a part of the project “Advanced Photoluminescent Platform for Bacterial Treatment”, co-funded by the SEED4EU+ program. The project brought together scientists from three European universities: the University of Warsaw, the University of Milan, and Charles University in Prague.

Thank you all for joining us in Warsaw!

On July 14-17 our post-doc Mateusz Wdowiak participated in the FEMS Micro 2025 conference in Milan, where he presented his findings on peptide nucleic acids. Congratulations on his great talk!