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.

• Kasia’s project entitled “Computational study of physicochemical properties of fragment bacterial ribosome and enzymes in the bounding places of lincosamides using computational modelling methods” has been awarded funding by the National Science Centre in the PRELUDIUM call.
• Agnieszka received scholarship in the 5th edition of contest for scholarships for PhD students and young post-docs in Modern University competition. Congratulations! She has also obtained a scholarship from the program “Development of science – the development of the region – supporting scholarships and support for Mazovia doctoral students” co-funded by the European Union under the European Social Fund.

• Joanna attended the 51st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan  held in Kyoto.
• Julia’s PhD thesis entitled “Comparing physical properties of aminoglycoside antibiotics’ binding sites in RNA and proteins” has been recognized as the best in the fourth PTBI contest for The Best Doctoral Dissertation in Bioinformatics. Congratulations!

• Anna Górska defended her MSc thesis entitled “Inhibition of bacterial translation by Peptide Nucleic Acid oligomers targeting the ribosomal RNA”.
• Marek Havrila (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) come to our Lab for two weeks stay. He is working on a joint project with Joanna P.

Charles McAnany from University of Virginia in Charlottesville visited our Lab and gave a talk for our team.

Christian Solis Calero from the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain) comes to our lab for three months internship.

Joanna, Katrzyna, Filip and Maciej paricipated in The 18th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society, Davos, Switzerland.

• Fabio Trovato from NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy started one month stay in our Lab within the Canaletto programme.
• Congratulations to Maciej for the third place in International FameLab competition! Maciej also received a Special BMW Group Poland Award.

• Filip participated in Workshop on Computer Simulation and Theory of Macromolecules, Hünfeld, Germany.
• Joanna P. attended in 245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, New Orleans, USA.

• Joanna T. participated in 2nd Annual CCP-BioSim Conference, Frontiers of Biomolecular Simulation in Nottingham.
• Marta D., Marta K., Maciej J. and Joanna T. attended the Inter-Mix conference in Pułtusk.
• The project “Targeting neutrophil peripheral membrane proteins: novel therapeutic avenues in chronic inflammatory diseases” was recommended for funding by the National Centre for Research and Development within Polish-Norwegian Research Programme (CORE call).
• Marta K. attended the JCF Fruhjahrssymposium in Berlin. Her poster was recognized as one of the best.