• Our group recieved the OPUS 12 grant from the National Science Centre to study the effects of crowding on enzymatic activities and dynamics of different viral proteases.
• Joanna T., Ksenia, Agnieszka, and Joanna M. participated in Biomolecules and Nanostructures 6 conference in Podlesice, Poland. Ksenia gave an oral presentation, Agnieszka and Joanna M., presented a poster. Agnieszka won a poster prize for the PhD student – congrats! 
• Prof. Michael Feig from Michigan State University is visiting us again for about a month.

Joanna T. presented a poster at the American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition in San Francisco.

Tomek Pieńko presented a poster at the Biophysical Society Meeting in New Orleans and visited the lab of prof. Cameron Mura at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

• Marta K. defended her thesis entitled “Interactions of aminoglycoside antibiotics with ribosomal RNA and riboswitches” and obtained a PhD degree in chemistry. Congratulations!
• Maciej J. started his Etiuda fellowship in Prof. Michael Feig group at the Michigan State University.

Ksenia gave a talk at a conference on the MemThera project held in Cracow and organized by NCBiR and Research Council of Norway within the polish-norwegian research programme.

• Kasia K. defended her thesis and obtained a PhD degree in chemistry. Congratulations!
• Joanna T. received a silver medal from the university Chancellor for the 200th anniversary of the University of Warsaw.

• Prof. Yuji Sugita visited our lab in the last week of September.
• Prof. Michael Feig from Michigan State University will spend one month in our lab. He was awarded the A. von Humboldt fellowship from the Foundation for Polish Science.

Our former visitor, Jaime Ivan Castillo, a high school student from Tijuana, Mexico, gives an interview about his trip to Poland and work in our lab.

• Marta K. presented a poster at the RNA Society Meeting in Kyoto, Japan.
• Maciek J. received the Etiuda fellowship from the National Science Centre. Congratulations! His application was 6th out of 85 received.
• Prof. Chia-en Chang from University of California Riverside, USA, visited our lab.

• Congratulations to Ksenia for gaining funding for her research in an internal competition of the University of Warsaw for young researchers and PhD students.
• Monika presented a poster and Joanna T. gave a talk at a workshop “RNA: Structure, Dynamics, and Function” at Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy.
• Prof. Kathleen Hall from Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA, visited our lab.
• Marta K. attended JCUP VII OpenEye’s meeting in Tokyo, Japan.