Prof. Michael Feig was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Polish Honorary Research Fellowship by the Foundation for Polish Science to spend three months in our lab and collaborate on a project on thermal stability of RNA and PNA duplexes. His first visit will be this September.

• Joanna T. attended a workshop at the University of Toronto at the Fields Institute. The workshop was a part of thematic programme on MultiScale Scientific Computing.
• Marta Kulik was awarded FY2016 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (Short-Term) for North American and European Researchers.

• Filip Leonarski defended his PhD Thesis titled “Coarse-grained models for molecular dynamics of RNA. Evolutionary algorithm optimization of the potential energy function parameters”. Congratulations!
• Marta Kulik went for a 9 month visit to the laboratory of prof. Yuji Sugita (RIKEN, Japan).

Joanna Trylska gave a lecture at the conference Protein Interactions in Biology at the National University of Ireland in Galway.

Ksenia is visiting the lab of prof. Nathalie Reuter at the University of Bergen in Norway.

Joanna Trylska, Marta Kulik and Maciej Jasiński gave talks at the CECAM workshop Computational Modeling of Gene Expression and its Evolution in Tel Aviv, Israel.

• Nathalie Reuter and Tom Venken from the University of Bergen visited our lab and gave talks.
• Jaime Ivan Castillo from Tijuana in Mexico joined the lab for a one year internship. He will stay one year in Warsaw as a student of the Rotary International exchange program. Welcome!
• Marta Kulik gave a short talk and Marta Dudek presented a poster in Lausanne at the Computational Advances in Drug Discovery conference. Marta Kulik was awarded for the best short talk presentation. Congratulations!
• Ksenia and Monika participated in 23rd Polish Peptide Symposium in Spała. Ksenia gave a lecture and Monika presented a poster.
• Marta Kulik gave a talk in Lublin at the 8th Symposium of the Polish Bioinformatics Society.

• Tomasz Pieńko joined to our group as a PhD Student to work on molecular dynamics simulations in the Symfonia NCN-funded project. Welcome!
• Marta K., Ksenia, Marcin and Monika presented their posters and Joanna T. gave a lecture at EMBO Young Scientists Forum in Warsaw.

Our group attended two conferences. Multi-Pole Approach to Structural Science in Warsaw (Joanna T. was a member of the Scientific Committee) and Biomolecules and Nanostructures 5 in Jaroszowice near Cracow where Maciej and Ksenia gave talks and Marta K. won the poster prize funded by HKL Research, Inc.

• Joanna Panecka defended her PhD thesis at the Department of Physics University of Warsaw. Congratulations!. Since January 2015 Joanna P. is working in Heidelberg, Germany in the laboratory of prof. Rebecca Wade.
• Marta Kulik and Maciej Jasiński presented posters at the RECOMB conference in Warsaw.