10 A niversary of IIMCB
10 A niversary of IIMCB
10 A niversary of IIMCB
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Scientific Meetings and Lectures<br />
• International Symposium: “Molecular approach to the<br />
diagnosis and monitoring <strong>of</strong> blood neoplasia”, 9.01.2008,<br />
Warsaw, Poland, coorganized by <strong>IIMCB</strong><br />
• Spring School <strong>of</strong> Polish Neuroscience Society on:<br />
“Plasticity <strong>of</strong> neuronal connectivity: morphological<br />
background and molecular mechanisms”, 4.06.2008,<br />
Warsaw, Poland, coorganized by <strong>IIMCB</strong><br />
• The First Poland-Taiwan Conference on: „Molecular<br />
Biology & Molecular Neuroscience: Focus on RNA”,<br />
21-27.04.2008, Warsaw-Białowieża-Kraków, Poland,<br />
coorganized by <strong>IIMCB</strong><br />
• III and IV Promemoria Workshops in Warsaw: “1. RNA<br />
interference for neuroscience; 2. Building your career and<br />
your first laboratory”,11-15.05.2008, Warsaw, Poland, <strong>IIMCB</strong><br />
• “Scientific Communication” – practical course for<br />
graduate students for whom English is a second<br />
language given by Pr<strong>of</strong>. Edward Potworowski (Armand-<br />
Frappier Institute, Montreal, Canada), 12-19.05.2008,<br />
Warsaw, Poland, <strong>IIMCB</strong><br />
• <strong>IIMCB</strong> Annual Report Session, 16.05.2008, Rynia, Poland<br />
• The Annual Meeting <strong>of</strong> the ENI-NET European<br />
Neuroscience Institutes Network, 19-21.05.2008, Warsaw,<br />
Poland, coorganized by <strong>IIMCB</strong><br />
• International Annual Symposium (13 th Lab Leader<br />
Competition), 6.06.2008, Warsaw, Poland, <strong>IIMCB</strong><br />
Seminars <strong>of</strong> invited speakers<br />
• Special Lecture Series: Frontiers <strong>of</strong> Polish Biosciences*<br />
Andrzej Dziembowski (Dept. <strong>of</strong> Genetics and<br />
Biotechnology, Warsaw University, Poland, EMBO<br />
Installation Grantee) “The mechanism <strong>of</strong> action <strong>of</strong> the major<br />
eukaryotic exonuclease, the exosome complex”, 28.02.2008<br />
Katarzyna Kotulska (Department <strong>of</strong> Neurology, The<br />
Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland,<br />
Recipient <strong>of</strong> L’Oreal Poland Habilitation Fellowship 2007)<br />
“Experimental approach to peripheral nerve repair”,<br />
27.03.2008<br />
Włodzimierz Krzyżosiak (Institute <strong>of</strong> Bioorganic<br />
Chemistry, Polish Academy <strong>of</strong> Sciences Poznań, Poland,<br />
Laureate <strong>of</strong> FNP Prize 2007) “Silencing triplet repeat<br />
expansion diseases with RNA interference”, <strong>10</strong>.04.2008<br />
Alicja Józkowicz (Faculty <strong>of</strong> Biochemistry, Biophysics and<br />
Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland,<br />
Recipient <strong>of</strong> the Wellcome Trust International Senior<br />
Fellowship) “Heme oxygenase-1 in tumors – is it a false<br />
friend?”, 26.06.2008<br />
Joanna Kufel (Institute <strong>of</strong> Genetics and Biotechnology,<br />
Faculty <strong>of</strong> Biology, Warsaw University, Poland, Recipient <strong>of</strong><br />
the Wellcome Trust International Senior Fellowship) “The<br />
termination tale: mechanisms <strong>of</strong> transcription termination<br />
by RNA polymerases in yeast”, 27.11.2008<br />
• Lab Leader Competition seminars:<br />
Agnieszka Chacińska (Institute <strong>of</strong> Biochemistry and<br />
Molecular Biology, University <strong>of</strong> Freiburg, Germany)<br />
“Versatility and dynamics <strong>of</strong> mitochondrial protein import<br />
machineries”, 6.06.2008<br />
A. Arockia Jeyaprakash (Max-Planck Institute <strong>of</strong><br />
Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany) “Chromosomal<br />
passengers: Structural insights into a journey through<br />
mitosis”, 6.06.2008<br />
Erica Kreimann-Strobl (International Institute <strong>of</strong> Nano<br />
and Molecular Medicine, Dept. <strong>of</strong> Radiology, School <strong>of</strong><br />
Medicine, University <strong>of</strong> Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA)<br />
“The role <strong>of</strong> NHERF1 in the regulation <strong>of</strong> cell adhesion and<br />
transformation”, 6.06.2008<br />
Michał Minczuk (Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Medical<br />
Research Council, Cambridge, UK) “Engineered zinc finger<br />
enzymes for manipulation <strong>of</strong> mammalian mitochondrial<br />
DNA”, 6.06.2008<br />
Werner L. Vos (National University <strong>of</strong> Ireland, Maynooth,<br />
Ireland) “Pharmacological chaperones for membrane<br />
proteins related to Retinitis Pigmentosa - Is there light at the<br />
end <strong>of</strong> the tunnel?”, 6.06.2008<br />
Tomasz Wilanowski (Rotary Bone Marrow Research<br />
Laboratories, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne,<br />
Australia) “The grainyhead Odyssey”, 6.06.2008<br />
• Regular <strong>IIMCB</strong> seminars<br />
Raphael Bauer (Structural Bioinformatics Group, Charite<br />
Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany) “From similarity to<br />
superposition - research and web-services at the Structural<br />
Bioinformatics Group Berlin”, 25.02.2008<br />
Marek Cieplak (Institute <strong>of</strong> Physics, Polish Academy <strong>of</strong><br />
Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) “Genetic interaction networks<br />
from microarray data”, 13.03.2008<br />
Michał Jaźwiński (Dept. <strong>of</strong> Medicine, Tulane University<br />
Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, USA) “Understanding<br />
the role <strong>of</strong> LAGs and LASSes in aging: a case <strong>of</strong> ceramidipity”,<br />
6.05.2008<br />
Rob Ho<strong>of</strong>t (Geneva Research Center, Merck Serono<br />
International S.A., Switzerland) “Drug target discovery<br />
*A new seminar series entitled „Frontiers <strong>of</strong> Polish Bioscience” was coordinated by Dr. Marta Miączyńska and Dr. Jacek Jaworski. These seminars<br />
provided an opportunity to listen to and meet the top Polish scientists in a broad field <strong>of</strong> bioscience who received prestigious awards or grants.<br />
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