June 2012

  • 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!

May 2012

  • Joanna T. gave a talk at the Cecam workshop in Lausanne.
  • Joanna P. visited Martin Zacharias Lab at Technische Univeristat Munchen and gave a seminar for his group.
  • Marta D., Marta K. and Maciej J. took part in the 5th Symposium of the Polish Bioinformatics Society in Gdańsk.
  • Marta D. achieved  a special distinction in the Girls of the Future competition organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and Elle magazine.
  • Paweł attended the PRACE Spring School in Cracow.
  • Nathalie Reuter (University of Bergen) visited our group and gave a seminar.

March 2012

  • Joanna T. and Filip participated in 243rd American Chemical Society National Meeting and Expositions, San Diego.
  • Joanna T. visited Universite de Lyon and gave a talk.

January 2012

  • Joanna Sarzyńska from Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań visited our lab and gave a talk.
  • Starting January 1st 2012 our lab has changed affiliation. We are now a part of the Centre of New Technologies of the University of Warsaw.
  • Joanna P. organized the Tripos software training.

December 2011

Joanna T. participated in Protein and RNA Structure Prediction Conference 2011, which took place in Cancun, Mexico.

November 2011

  • Julia received Scopus-Perspektywy Young Research Award 2011 – an award for outstanding young Polish researchers, funded by Elsevier, the international scientific publisher, and Perspektywy Foundation, Polish foundation for education. photo
  • Filip visited NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, our Team project research partner.
  • Julia, Joanna P., Marta D., Filip, Maciej J. and Tomek participated in Multi-Pole Approach to Structural Biology, Warsaw. Joanna T. gave a lecture: Bacterial ribosomal A-site RNA as a molecular target.

October 2011

  • Joanna Panecka’s project has been awarded funding by the National Science Centre. Her proposoal “Computational study of  conformational and thermodynamic properties of human ribosomal A-site and its interactions with aminoglycoside antibiotics” was ranked 4th among 80 submitted in the Life Sciences Biophysical panel (NZ1). Congratulations!
  • Sapna, Julia and Marta D. participated in The Modern Techniques for Drug Design Purposes held in Warsaw. During this conference Joanna T. gave a talk.

August 2011

Our scientific discoveries placed in PLoS Computational Biology were also featured on Polish Press Agency and Ministry of Science and Higher Education websites.