• Natalia joined our group as a PhD student in the Opus project. Welcome!
• Jakub and Paulina are the new MSc students in the group. Jakub will work on the HIV-1 protease reactions and Paulina on the modifications of aminoglycoside antibiotics.

• Agnieszka, Joanna M and Marcin participated in 6th Central European Congress of Life Science in Cracow. Agnieszka and Joanna M. presented a poster and Marcin gave a talk.
• Marta Dudek defended her PhD thesis at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS. Congratulations!

• Joanna T. presented the work on vitamin B₁₂ conjugates and L-RNA at the American Chemical Society Meeting in Washington DC.
• There is an article in the Biophysicist in Profile section of the August issue of the newsletter of Biophysical Society about Joanna T. Congratulations!

• Maciej J. defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Faculty of Physics and obtained a Ph.D. degree in physics. Congratulations!
• Joanna T. presented a poster about our recent Biochimie paper at the RNA Society Meeting in Prague.

• 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.