Maciej J. is visiting the lab of prof. Cameron Mura at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, USA.

• Filip started his work in Strasbourg in France with prof. Pascal Auffinger at the Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS. His funding is from the Mobility Plus grant.
• Marta Kulik left for a three month visit in RIKEN, Japan in the laboratory of prof. Yuji Sugita.

Anna Górska won the first prize in the sixth edition of the Polish Society for Bioinformatics contest for the best master’s thesis in bioinformatics. Congratulations!

We received funding in the Symfonia call of the National Science Centre. The funding is for interdisciplinary research and we collaborate with dr hab. Dorota Gryko, the PI from the Institute of Organic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences.

• We have moved. The lab is in a nice new building at Banacha 2c. We are on the 4th floor with a nice view over the campus and the city.
• Marcin Równicki is now a PhD Student at the Inter-Faculty Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies in Natural Sciences and Mathematics (MISDoMP). Congratulations!
• Marta Kulik will present her research at the IV EURO WG Conference on Operational Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine in Poznań – Biedrusko.

• Prof. Yuji Sugita, Chief Scientist at RIKEN, Japan visited our lab and gave a talk.
• Six members of our lab will present their research at the “From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology 2014” conference in Gdańsk. Joanna Trylska is an invited speaker, Filip Leonarski will present his research during a CBSB Outstanding Young Researcher talk and Marta Kulik will have a 15 minute long presentation. Others from our group present their research as posters.
• Our group participated in the “Meet the ribosome” symposium, with presentation of prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry) on achievements and future challanges in ribosome structural studies.
• Marta Dudek was awarded funding by National Science Centre in the PRELUDIUM call. Congratulations!

Monika Wojciechowska joined the lab in the OPUS project from the National Science Centre. She will work on peptide nucleic acids. Welcome!

Kasia and Asia P. recieved the scholarships from the Mazovian district to support Mazovian PhD students. Congratulations!

Ksenia Maximova joined our lab as a post-doc in the MemThera project (Norway grants). Welcome in our group.

Filip received a scholarship in the 3rd edition of the Mobility Plus programme by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education for a 2 year research visit to the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Strasbourg, France to work on a more physical, yet efficient representation of magnesium(II) ions for RNA full-atomistic molecular dynamic simulations.