• 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.

Maciej J. will present his project in the final of the FameLab 2013 competition. Congratulations!

Anna Górska was awarded a scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding students.

• Mahmut Kara, PhD student from Technische Universität München, visited our lab and gave a talk.
• Joanna Trylska’s project entitled “Interactions of peptide nucleic acids with biologically relevant RNA motifs” has been  recommended for funding by the National Science Centre in the OPUS call.

• Congratulations to Julia! She defended her PhD thesis entitled “Comparing physical properties of aminoglycoside antibiotics’ binding sites in RNA and  proteins”. Julia has moved to Heidelberg and works in the lab of Prof. Rebecca Wade at HITS.
• Maciej D. was awarded a scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for young outstanding scientists. Congratulations!
• Marcin Równicki joined our Lab to work in the Team project.

• Zofia and Sapna attended Central European Symposium on Antimicrobials and Antimicrobial Resistance CESAR 2012 in Primosten in Croatia. Sapna gave a talk on targeting ribosomal RNA.
• Joanna T. and Joanna P. participated in Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry 2012 conference.

Richard Henchman from the Institute of Biotechnology at Manchester University visted our lab.

• Joanna T. and Julia attended the ISQBP 2012 President’s meeting Challenges in biomolecular modeling – from QM to coarse-graining, taking place in Stokholm, Sweden and gave talks.
• Maciej J. received a special distinction in the fourth edition of the Polish Society for Bioinformatics contest for the best master’s thesis in bioinformatics. Congratulations!
• Filip’s project entitled “Coarse-grained molecular dynamics of RNA thermometers at elevated temperatures” has been awarded funding by the National Science Centre in the PRELUDIUM call. Congratulations!