We invite you to see the videocast prepared to celebrate 95 anniversary of the Nencki Institute. It was unveiled for the first time (15th November, 2013) during the opening ceremony of the Neurobiology Centre at the Nencki Institute. The movie was prepared by Anna Mirgos.

On December 13, the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, nominated members of the State Ethics Committee for Animal Experimentation for the next, four year cadency. Among others, Prof Krzysztof Turlejski and Dr Anna Passini were nominated. K. Turlejski was later elected as the head of the Committee.

The 2013 Award of the Division of Medical Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, for the scientific achievements for the set of papers entitled “Role of the serotoninergic and glutaminergic systems in control of function regulation in the injured spinal cord and peripheral nerves” was granted to research team: dr hab. Henryk Majczyński and dr Anna M. Cabaj, led by prof. Urszula Sławińska (Laboratory of Neuromuscular Plasticity, Nencki Institute).

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, as the only institution of Polish Academy of Sciences in the field of biological sciences, received the Erasmus University Charter, received the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE) 2014-2020. This certificate is a document issued by the European Commission, authorizing institutions to participate in the Erasmus program. The Erasmus Charter allows the international exchange of PhD students and staff, funded by the European Union.

Among 302 laureates of this year edition of the project implemented by the Mazovia Province authorities, entitled “Scientific potential for the economy of Mazovia – scholarships for PhD students”, there are 17 PhD students from the Nencki Institute:

On 7th of December 2013 XII Scientific Meeting For Teachers was organized by the Nencki Institute, the Centre for Innovative Bioscience Education and the Fundation of BioEducation.. In this event took part about 60 peoples from all over Poland.

The Nencki Institute is present on the FLICKR social network. We will publish photos from scientific meetings organized at the Institute. A shortcut to the portal is on the Nencki Institute main web page.

On November 27, 2013 the Nencki Institute hosted a media workshop entitled TO BE, OR NOT TO BE … IN THE MEDIA, during which well known science journalists attempted to answer questions on how to present our dream lecture, how to write a text on science, and how to present yourself behind a microphone and in front of cameras.

On 19-22 November 2013, under the auspices of the National Ethical Committee, the Nencki Institute (NI) conducted workshops entitled “IXth Training for people taking care of experimental animals”. The organizers of the training session were IN, the Faculty of Biology of the University of Warsaw, and the Polish Society for Laboratory Animal Science (pollasa.sggw.pl).

On November 25, 2013, the International Symposium “Images of the Spinal Cord: from Functionally Identified Neurons to Functional Recovery” was organised by Urszula Sławińska, Larry M. Jordan and Anna Cabaj and held in the new Conference Hall of the Neurobiology Centre of the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw.

On 29 October, 2013 in the conference room of the Neurobiology Center of the Nencki Institute Professor Maciej Nałęcz (International Basic Sciences Program, SESAME Council UNESCO) presented a lecture entitled: The role of UNESCO for the scientific community and society at large. Prior to the lecture Professor Andrzej Dżugaj, President of the Polish Biochemical Society (PTB), awarded Prof Nałęcz with PTB honorary membership. Prof Maciej Nałęcz has also been honoured by Professor Adam Szewczyk with a Diplome D’Honneur for services to the Nencki Institute.

We are happy to announce the Confocal Microscopy Workshop which will take place on 15 and 16 November 2013 as part of the Bio-Imaging Poland First Annual Conference. The workshop is organized by The Laboratory of Imaging Tissue Structure and Function, Neurobiology Center of Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology.

On October 16-18th, 2013, the Nencki Institute hosted the 1st Nencki Institute PhD Student Conference “International PhD Program in Neurobiology”. The conference was chiefly directed towards PhD students at the Nencki Institute, who presented the results of their research projects during the oral and poster sessions. With over 50 oral presentations (including parallel sessions) and a poster session, the conference aimed at facilitating interactions between researchers and provoking stimulating discussion.

The Foundation for Polish Science has selected the beneficiaries of the second INTER competition. The aim of competition is to develop science popularisation skills in young researchers. In the finals each of the researchers have had five minutes to present his or her interdisciplinary project. The competition winners will receive prizes in the amount of 100,000 zlotys, including 20,000 zlotys as an individual stipend and 80,000 zlotys to carry out the winning research project.

Dr Malgorzata Zawadzka from the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology was awarded with the L’Oreal Poland – UNESCO Award for Women in Science, in the 13th edition of this program.

The Ministry of Science and Higher Education announced the results of the VII edition of the competition for scholarships for outstanding young scientists conducting high-quality research and with impressive scientific achievements.

The 17th edition of the Science Festival took place in Warsaw between 20-29 September, 2013. For this year’s edition Nencki researchers prepared an interesting and rich program. Under the YOUTH CLUB series high school students could attend lectures on biology, which greatly helped those students who are taking advanced biology on their high school exam.

The winner of the 5th edition of the Nencki Award is Prof. Bogdan Dreher from the University of Sydney (Australia). Prof. Malgorzata Kossut, the chairmen of Award Council, presented the biography of the laureate. The award was given by Prof. Adam Szewczyk, Nencki Institute Director, during the 1st Nencki Symposium on: Jerzy Konorski contribution to modern neuroscience.

”1st Nencki Symposium on Jerzy Konorski contribution to modern neuroscience” was organized at the Nencki Institute on 19th September 2013 to commemorate outstanding scientific achievements of this world-famous neurobiologist on the 40th anniversary of his death.

In accordance with Art. 28 section 4 item 3) of the Act of 30 April, 2010 on the Polish Academy of Sciences (Dz. U. no 96 item 619) and in view of § 2 section 1 of the Minister of Science and Higher Education Directive of 22 November, 2010 on the competition for the post of director of scientific institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Competition Committee appointed by the Board of Curators of Division Two: Biological and Agricultural Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences opens recruitment for the post of director of the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

September 11-15, 2013 in Opalenica near Poznan and international symposium “The Third Annual Conference of COST Action ECMNET: Brain Extracellular Matrix in Health and Disease” was held.

The 3rd Conference entitled Animals in Scientific Research took place between September 9 and 11, 2013 at the SGGW Campus in Warsaw. It was organized by the Polish Laboratory Animal Science Association.

On September 5, 2013 International conference “Inhibitory Control of Brain Plasticity – Bio-imaging Methods Reveal Brain Physiology” is held in Cracow.. The Conference is sponsored by the European Union FPN-7 grant Bio-Imagine.

A photograph submitted by Łukasz Bożycki, PhD candidate from the Laboratory of Biochemistry of Lipids at the Nencki Institute entitled “Eye of a toad” has been recognized in a prestigious photo competition of nature images organised by the Natural History Museum in London together with the BBC. Łukasz’s photograph has been chosen from among 43 thousand competitors from 96 countries.

On 2 September a new conference hall was opened at the Neurobiology Center of the Nencki Institute. With seats arranged in theatre style, the hall can accommodate 200 people.

The Polish Prime Minister Award in 2103 for the “Research on molecular and cellular basis of memory” contributing to the habilitation was granted to dr hab. Katarzyna Radwańska. Dr Radwańska is a head of the Laboratory of Molecular Basis of Memory in Nencki Institute since January 2013.

Dr. Katarzyna Kalita-Bykowska from the Laboratory of Naurobiology, headed by Prof. Leszek Kaczmarek, is a winner of the PARENT-BRIDGE Programme competition from the Foundation for Polish Science, co-financed from European Union, Regional Development Fund.

On August 1st, 2013, Marcin Ciuk MSc was taken on to be the Head of the Neurobiology Centre (CN) of The Nencki Institute of the Polish Academy of Science. He will be responsible for coordinating CN activities, as well as managing intellectual property and developing the innovative potential of research performed in the R&D facilities of the Centre.
Mr. Ciuk obtained his secondary education in Canada, where he also began his studies, which he then completed at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Warsaw

The National Science Centre published the ranking list of six projects recommended for financing under calls for proposals announced by the NCN on 15 November, 2012. SYMFONIA is a funding opportunity intended for exceptional established researchers wanting to carry out interdisciplinary or cross-domain research in collaboration with teams representing different areas of research.

The National Science Centre published the ranking lists of projects recommended for financing under calls for proposals announced by the NCN on 15 December, 2012. Scientists from the Nencki Institute received financing for the execution of 10 research projects.

Prof. Leszek Kaczmarek has received as the coordinator 4-yr grant from the 7 FP EU, program ITN Marie Curie (Initial Training Network): Extracellular brain proteolysis in neuronal plasticity and neuropsychiatric disorders (EXTRABRAIN). The aim of the project is to train young reserachers: 11 PhD students and 3 postdocs. Nencki Institute wll be joined by 2 PhD students.

During 13-17 June Interdisciplinary Workshop in Neuroscience for gifted school children supported by the Polish National Children’s Fund took place at the Nencki Institute. During the workshop 16 high school students participated in lives of 9 laboratories in the Institute and listened to lectures presenting different aspects of brain sciences. More information (in Polish) on page http://bit.ly/neuro2013wIBD

The 17. Scientific Picnic of the Polish Radio and the Copernicus Science Centre was held on June 15, 2013. This year’s motto was: LIVE. More than 200 scientific institutions from Poland and abroad held various science demonstrations.

On June 7, 2013 the second meeting of the Nencki Alumni Club was held at the Nencki Institute. Prior to the lectures Prof Adam Szewczyk, Director of the Nencki Institute, awarded medals and honorary diplomas to Prof. Barbara Grzelakowska and Dr Zbigniew Przygoda, former Administrative Director of the Nencki Institute.

On 18th and 19th of June 2013, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology will organize the meeting “Confocal Microscopy – Live imagine: Practical course” which will be focused on advanced microscopy techniques /in vivo/.

The Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Association of Polish Nature Photographers Mazovia District would like to announce the opening of post competition exhibition for the Photographer of the Year “Fascinations 2013”. The vernissage will take place on 16 May at 15:00 in the foyer of the Nencki Institute at Pasteura 3 in Warsaw.

OPEN DAY 9th May 2013
Candidates for PhD Studies are invited to discover the Nencki Institute

Łukasz Bożycki, a PhD candidate in the Laboratory of Biochemistry of Lipids in the Nencki Institute Department of Biochemistry was named the 2013 Photographer of the Year by the Polish Nature Photographer’s Union Mazovia District for his photograph entitled "Mother of all evil " in the category: Insects and Arachnids.

The Nencki Institute kindly invites you to a seminar “Drug discovery and development – opportunities for collaboration between companies and research institutes in Poland and worldwide”. The seminar will be given by Stanisław Pikul, PhD and will take place on April 25th at 10 a.m., at the Nencki Institute, hall 2.

The „Flow cytometry workshop: Apoptosis and cell signaling” organized by the Nencki Institute as a part of the BIO-IMAGINE project, with the special session under the patronage of International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC ) will be held at 22/23 April 2013 in Warsaw.

The Nencki Institute cordially invites you to a series of workshops dedicated to the establishment and development of companies in the broad areas of biomedicine and biotechnology.

On 11-12 April 2013 at the Nencki Institute, Laboratory of Confocal Microscopy organized workshop: "Confocal Microscopy – Advanced Techniques for Modern biology”.

An exhibition entitled National Parks in Utah and Arizona (USA) opened on 20 March, 2013 in the Exhibition Hall of the Nencki Institute (Neurobiology Centre).

Every year scholarship holders from the Polish Children’s Fund visit the Nencki Institute.

The World Brain Awareness Week, co-organized by the Nencki Institute, will be held from March 11 through 17 in Warsaw.

Session of the Scientific Council devoted to the 2012 Annual Report took place on March 1st, 2013.

Dr. Ksenia Meyza is a laureate of the 6th edition of the HOMING PLUS Programme of the Foundation for Polish Science. The objective of the project is to investigate the role of extracellular matrix factors in the development of autism spectrum disorder.

The Nencki Institute is the first research institution in Poland to be awarded the prestigious HR Excellence in Research badge, which signifies that the Nencki Institute complies with the guidelines of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers.

International conference “Inhibitory Control of Brain Plasticity – Bio-imaging Methods Reveal Brain Physiology” will be held in Cracow, on September 5-7, 2013. The Conference is sponsored by the European Union FPN-7 grant Bio-Imagine awarded to The Nencki Institute.

With the beginnings of this year at the Nencki Institute was opened CryoBank of Cells, Embryos and Sperm, equipped with automatically filled with liquid nitrogen MVE tanks (two 756-liter tanks and one 381-liter). Total capacity of the tanks covers 72 800 cryo vials 1.2-2ml and 20 240 straws.

For the second time the Nencki Institite organized an international conference on innovation management (www.mi2013.managinginnovation.pl).

The Digital Repository of Scientific Institutes has just published the 500th item from the collection of the Nencki Institute Library. It is the two-volume “Flora Polska” by Jakub Waga published in Warsaw between 1847-1848.

On 15-16 January 2013 workshops on advance fluorescence and confocal microscopy „Recent advances and apllications in confocal and widefield microscopy” took place at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology.

On 9 January, 2013 an exhibition entitled Wildlife Photography opened at the Nencki exhibition hall (Neurobiology Center). This collection consists of 70 works awarded in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competitions between 2002-2012.

The National Science Centre (NCN) published its ranking of leaders in basic research based on 15 competitions announced and settled in 2011and 2012.

Between December 15-16th 2012 an international conference “Visualizing senescent cells in vitro and in vivo” was held in Warsaw. The meeting was in the frame of the “Biogerontological Meetings at the Nencki Institute” and sponsored by the FP7 grant Bio-Imagine (http://bioimagine.nencki.gov.pl/).

On December 1, 2012 the conference CELL BIOLOGY IN THE LAST HALF-CENTURY was organized at the Nencki Institute to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Committee on Cell Biology. 151 persons participated in the conference.

On 3 December, 2012 Alicja Puścian, chairman of the Nencki Student Government Council has been selected to the PAS Student Government Council to represent the Academy’s Division II.

Prof. Leszek Kaczmarek from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology is among the 12 professors from all over Poland nominated for membership in the Council of the National Science Centre. The Council consists of 24 members, half of whom change every two years.

Prof. Leszek Kaczmarek has been elected on November 26th, 2012, in Hamburg, the Vicepresident of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC) for the third consecutive term.

Among 130 laureates of the next edition (2012) of the project implemented by the Mazovia Province authorities entitled Scientific potential for the economy of Mazovia – scholarships for PhD students, was Jarosław Korczyński (Laboratory of Confocal Microscopy, Supervisor prof. Wanda Kłopocka).

The Workshop 3D IMAGING AND MAPPING OF ELEMENTS BY X-RAY MICROANALYSIS IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY was organized on November 7 and 8, 2012 by the Laboratory of Electron Microscopy in the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw.

On 8th of December 2012 XI Scientific Meeting For Teachers was organized by the Nencki Institute and the Centre for Innovative Bioscience Education. In this event took part more than 60 peoples from all over Poland.

Thirteen scientists from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology received founding for their research projects within the proposals from the National Science Centre (edition 15th march, 2012)

On the 14th November 2012, the inauguration of the Marceli Nencki Foundation for Support of Biological Sciences was held at the Nencki Institute. In the meeting participated members of the Board of Founders and Board of Foundation with their President Prof. Lech Wojtczak, Prof. Adam Szewczyk, Director of the Nencki Institute, and other leading scientists and PhD students from the Nencki Institute.

On 9 November, 2012 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Nencki Institute PhD Program a meeting entitled DOC 2012 CONFERENCE took place and was attended by previous Nencki PhD students from the Nencki Alumni Club as well as employees and current Nencki PhD students.

Ten employees of the Nencki Institute were decorated by the Minister of National Education Krystyna Szumilas with the Commission of National Education Medals which are awarded for outstanding contribution to education.

The 2012 Prime Minister’s Award for the Ph.D. dissertation entitled “The role of p66Shc protein in mitochondrial dysfunction associated oxidative stress” was granted to dr Magdalena Lebiedzińska

On behalf of the organizers we cordially invite to participate in the conference „Visualizing senescent cells in vitro and in vivo” which is organized by the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in the framework of FP7 EU THEME REGPOT (Research Potential). The Conference will be hold at the Nencki Institute on 15-16 December, 2012

Professor Jerzy Duszyński has become a member of Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea, AE) which is the European, non-governmental association acting as an Academy.

Co-authors of the paper: Nowicka A, Marchewka A, Jednoróg K, Tacikowski P, Brechmann A. ‘Forgetting of emotional information is hard: an fMRI study of directed forgetting’. Cerebral Cortex, 2011, 21, 539-549 are laureates of this year’s Jerzy Konorski Award, granted annually by Polish Neuroscience Society and Neurobiology Committee PAN for the best research paper in the field of neurobiology.

On October 12, 2012 the inauguration of the 2012/2013 academic year of the PAS Ochota BioCentre PhD Programme was celebrated in the lecture hall of the Nałęcz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering PAS.

On October 8-9, 2012 the 2nd BIO-IMAGINE International Advisory Board meeting took place at the Nencki Institute.

Ministry of Science and Higher Education announced the results of the VII edition of the competition for scholarships for outstanding young scientists conducting high-quality research and enjoying the impressive scientific achievements.

On 8 August 2012 the Board of Directors of the Polish Biochemical Society headed by Prof Ludmiła Żylińska awarded Prof. Sławomir Pikuła with Bronisław Filipowicz Prize for popularizing biochemistry and related fields.

On 9 November, 2012 Director of the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Prof Joana Barańska (coordinator of the Nencki Alumni Club) invite to an open meeting of PhD students entitled “DOC – Conference of 2012” to celebrate the 10th anniversary of establishing the Nencki Institute PhD Program.

During 16th Science Festival LITTLE MAN SCIENCE FESTIVAL, the concomitant event, was organized. Nencki participated in it for the first time.

The 16th edition of the Science Festival took place in Warsaw between 21-30 September, 2012. For this year’s edition Nencki researchers prepared an interesting and rich program.

Nencki Insitute is organizing workshops on patenting with help of European Patent Office.

Professor Jerzy Duszynski was elected to Science and Society Committee of Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) at the FEBS Congress Sevilla 2012.

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences is inviting applications in an open competition for the position of a Group Leader.

Prof. Bozena Kamińska-Kaczmarek, a head of Laboratory of Transcription Regulation received funding under the Maestro 2 grant program from National Science Centre.

The Laboratory of Animal Models has been recently established within the Center of Neurobiology at Nencki Institute in Warsaw. This Laboratory is headed by Dr. Witold Konopka who has extensive expertise in the generation of transgenic animal models.

The second meeting of Euro-BioImaging Poland, an initiative from the Polish Roadmap of Research Infrastructure, took place at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS at the project coordinator’s office in Warsaw on May 31, 2012.

On 13 June, 2012 during a ceremony at the Belvedere Palace, the President of the Republic of Poland Bronisław Komorowski decorated 35 people for outstanding contributions towards democratic transition in Poland.

Nencki Institute has signed an agreement with Bio-Tech Consulting on the cooperation between the Institute and wortal www.biotechnologia.pl. The wortal enables publishing news about Institute and offers of supporting units. On the pages appear vortal information about the Institute and offers lab services.

We inform that we finished second step of implementation C&C

The Nencki Award Committee in 2012 honored Dr. Edward D. Korn from Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA for his outstanding impact on scientific development of the Nencki Institute.

The BRAIN TUMORS 2012 – FROM BIOLOGY TO THERAPY conference was held in May 28-30, 2012 in Warsaw (Poland) at the Aula of The Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Rakowiecka 30. The conference was organized in a frame of the BIOIMAGINE project.

On April 16th a group of high school students from Bydgoszcz visited the Institute. The group of 30 people participated in the workshop prepared by the four laboratories.

9th of May 2012, from 12 PM
Plan of meeting:
• Basic information about the Institute and scientific researches
• Meeting with representant of PhD Council
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Prof. Agnieszka Dobrzyn has been appointed by Prof. Barbara Kudrycka, the Minister of Science and Higher Education, as a member of the jury for the competition “Girls of the Future – in the footsteps of Maria Skłodowska-Curie”, organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and Elle magazine.

MSc Jan Kamiński from the Laboratory of Visual System, headed by Prof. Andrzej Wróbel, is a winner of the START Programme competition from the Foundation for Polish Science.

We are currently recruiting Postdoctoral Associates to undertake bio-imaging projects focused on molecular, cellular, organelle and organism levels.

Leszek Kaczmarek Laboratory of Neurobiology is searching for outstanding 3 PhD student candidates and 3 postdoctoral candidates to carry out the research on MMP-9 driven extrasynaptic proteolysis in physiological and pathological synaptic plasticity.

Dr. Katarzyna Radwańska from the Laboratory of Naurobiology, headed by Prof. Leszek Kaczmarek, is a winner of the PARENT-BRIDGE Programme competition from the Foundation for Polish Science, co-financed from European Union, Regional Development Fund.

Every year scholarship holders from the Polish Children’s Fund visit the Nencki Institute. Between March 8-11 30 peoples participated in the activities organized by 6 labs at the Institute.

The 6th Jobbing Academic Job Fair in which The Nencki Institute participated is ended.

Nencki Institute PAS was the co-organizer of the Brain Awareness Week 2011 held in Warsaw, March 12-16.

Session of the Scientific Council devoted to the 2011 Annual Report took place on February 23, 2012.

On February 1, 2012 the Nencki Institute has signed an agreement with the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management for co-funding an undertaking entitled „Thermo modernization of facilities at the Nencki Experimental Biology Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences” under a program called Green Investment Scheme (GIS).

The Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, is currently seeking highly motivated experienced individual to establish and lead Labs within the recently constructed Neurobiology Centre as a part of the CePT project.

The National Science Centre has published its report for the year 2011. The Nencki Institute ranked 9th among all national institutions applying for grants in all calls announced by the National Science Centre.

A Microscopy Core Facility is established within the Center of Neurobiology at the Nencki Institute.

A Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Core Facility was established within the Center of Neurobiology. The leader of the newly established MRI Core Facility is Dr. Stefan Gazdzinski.

On December 16th, 2011 the First Neuroinformatics Symposium of the Polish INCF Node took place at the Nencki Institute.

Laboratory of Neurobiology of Emotions led by Dr. Ewelina Knapska was established at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology

Four PhD students from the Nencki Institute, Anna Dziewulska from the Laboratory of Cell Signaling and Metabolic Disorders led by prof. Agnieszka Dobrzyń, Michał Mlącki from the Laboratory of Signal Transduction led by Dr. Tomasz Wilanowski, Anna Ćmoch from Laboratory of Lipid Biochemistry led by prof. Sławomir Pikuła and Weronika Dębowska from the Laboratory of Neuroplasticity headed by prof. Małgorzata Kossut, have won the competition for a scholarship under the scheme “Support for research workers in the establishment and conduct of business by organizing workshops” in the Mazovia Region.

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology established the new created Laboratory of Molecular and Medical Biochemistry, led by dr. Paweł Dobrzyń

On December 19, 2011 the “Marceli Nencki Foundation for Supporting Biological Sciences” was established. Its Board consists of Professors Małgorzata Kossut, Jerzy Duszyński, Jacek Kuźnicki, Leszek Kuźnicki, Maciej Nałęcz and Lech Wojtczak.

In December 2011 the new 2012 Nencki Institute booklet came out. It consists of 104 pages, starting with a historical note and subsequently providing current, nicely illustrated information on all Nencki departments and research labs as well as supporting units.

It is our great pleasure to announce that Dr Dorota Włoga from the laboratory of Physiology of Cell Movements at the Nencki Institute was awarded a prestigious reward – European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Installation Grant.

On Friday, December 16 in a beautifully decorated conference hall of the Nencki Institute the annual Christmas party for Nencki senior citizens took place.

A new press service: press.nencki.gov.pl has been added to Nencki webpage. Press materials are placed there regarding current scientific achievements of Nencki employees.

Eight scientists from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology received founding for their research projects within the second call for proposals from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education programme “Iuventus Plus 2011”.

In days from 29 of November to 2nd December 2011 in the Nencki Institute, under patronage of the Country Ethical Commission occurred “VIIIth Schooling for people taking care of experimental animals” organized by Institute of Experimental Biology named after M. Nencki; University of Warsaw’s Department of Biology and Polish Society of Sciences about Laboratory Animals (pollasa.sggw.pl).

On 1st of December 2011 “MAGNETIC RESONANCE USER CLUB” was founded at the Nencki Institute. The aim of “MR USER CLUB” is to support the activities of Brain Imaging Laboratory which is now created within the Neurobiology Center, Nencki Institute.

On 30.11.2011 and 12.01.2011 Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology organized Confocal Microscopy Workshop. The aim of the workshop was to acquainted potential users with operation and equipment capabilities of the facilities located in the Laboratory of Confocal Microscopy.

In November 2011 the 300th issue of The Nencki Weekly has been published. Every Monday since January 3, 2005 The Nencki Weekly has been delivered as a PDF file to Nencki employees.

Between November 30 and December 3, 2011 a conference entitled Mitochondrion 2011, organised by the Nencki Institute, took place in the Creative Work Centre in Wierzba.

On 3th of December 2011 X Scientific Meeting For Teachers was organized by the Nencki Institute and the Centre for Innovative Bioscience Education (formerly The Science Festival School).

On November 18, 2011 an Agreement has been signed between the Institute of Protein Biochemistry (Naple), National Research Council of Italy and the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

The research team let by prof. Katarzyna Kwiatkowska and prof. Andrzej Sobota from the Laboratory of Plasma Membrane receptors was granted with the award for outstanding scientific achievements published in prestigious journals in 2008-2010 on the role of sphingolipids and phosphatidylinositols as signal messengers for immune receptors.

Prof. Leszek Kaczmarek has again been elected on November 22nd the Vicepresident of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC).

A session entitled Starting multiparameter flow cytometry at the Nencki Institute took place on November 14, 2011 at Nencki.

Nencki Institute is a project partner of Academic Entrepreneurship Foundation to award 12 scholarships for Ph.D. students. Twelve Ph.D. students from Mazovia Region will be awarded with annual scholarships amounting 3000 zł/month.

The Nencki Institute started cooperation with the Polish Scientific Publishers PWN on publishing E-books. All electronic books from Nencki will be published at Internet site at www.virtualo.pl. They will be available free of charge from this web site.
First to be published is a book put together by Nencki PhD students entitled Discover Nencki (http://virtualo.pl/odkryj_instytut_nenckiego/ebook/c2i15803/)
All e-books will also be available from the Nencki Institute website in the Education – E-books bookmark.

Dr. Joanna Dzwonek from the Laboratory of Molecular and Systemic Neuromorphology, headed by Prof. Grzegorz Wilczyński, is a winner of the PARENT-BRIDGE Programme competition from the Foundation for Polish Science, co-financed from European Union, Regional Development Fund.

We are happy to announce that the Nencki Institute scientists received funding for 23 research projects for a total of 10 336 000,00 PLN. After the first call for proposals from the National Science Centre (NCN) the Institute is the leader among all scientfic institutions participating in the CePT consortium in the area of life sciences. We congratulate all the successful aplicants who secured funding for their cutting edge scientific research.

Among 128 laureates of the 1st edition of a project implemented by the Mazovia Province authorities entitled Scientific potential for the economy of Mazovia – scholarships for PhD students, there are two PhD candidates from the Nencki Institute:

On October 7, 2011 inauguration of the 2011/2012 academic year of the PAS Ochota BioCentre PhD Programme was celebrated in the lecture hall of the Nałęcz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering PAS.

Prof. Małgorzata Kossut, the head of the Laboratory of Neuroplasticity, Nencki Institute, was elected to the Executive Committee of European Brain and Behaviour Society for the period of 2012-2015.

The winner of the third edition of the Nencki Award is Prof. Elżbieta Jankowska from the Department of Physiology, University of Göteborg (Sweden). The award was given by Prof. Adam Szewczyk, Nencki Institute Director during the 10th International Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society in Łódź.

The 15th Science Festival took place in Warsaw on September 16-25, 2011.

During the opening ceremony of the 2nd Polish Congress of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, which took place in Krakow between September 5 and 9, 2011 the title of Honorary Member of the Polish Cell Biology Society was bestowed on Prof. Leszek Kuźnicki and Prof. Lech Wojtczak from the Nencki Institute PAS.

On September 19 and 20, 2011 the workshop on methods of imaging neuronal activity was held in the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology. The workshop was associated with 10th International Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society 2011.

On September 13, 2011 during a ceremony at the Presidential Palace, on behalf of the President of Poland Bronisław Komorowski, the Head of the Presidential Chancellery Jacek Michałowski awarded Prof. Jerzy Duszyński with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for outstanding scientific achievements.

On September 16, 2011 High School No 3 in Suwałki received the name of Prof. Alfred Lityński, outstanding scientist and long time associate of the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology.

The additional recruitment for PhD studies is closed. After the interview, six new students were enrolled into first year. All in all 23 PhD students will start studying in Nencki Institute from the October.

On August 30-September 3, 2011 the 52nd International Conference on Bioscience of Lipids (ICBL) was held in Warsaw

Nencki Institute was the main supporting institution of VIII Parnas Conference, which was organized by the Polish, Ukrainian and Israel biochemical societies. It took place on August 27-31, 2011 in Warsaw, in the Faculty of Biology of the University of Warsaw.

Michal Mlacki, a PhD student at the Nencki Institute, received two awards at the Second Polish Congress of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, which took place on 5-9 September in Krakow.

The 2nd Polish Congress of Biochemistry and Cell Biology took place in Cracow on 5-9 September.

Bio-Imagine Core Facility Leader recruitment at the Nencki Institute

Laureates of the 1st edition of “Mobility Plus" program organized by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education are dr Gabriela Mochol from the Laboratory of Visual System and dr Dorota Wypych from the Laboratory of Molecular Basis of Cell Motility.

The European Commission recently published the Innovation Union Competiveness Report 2011, containing a profile of each member state, including Poland.

The Nencki Institute started cooperation with the Polish Scientific Publishers PWN on publishing E-books.

Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Prize in 2011 for Outstanding Scientific Achievements was awarded to Professor Leszek Kaczmarek

We are currently recruiting Postdoctoral Associates to undertake bio-imaging projects focused on molecular, cellular, organelle and organism levels.

Weronika Dębowska from the Laboratory of Neuroplasticity, headed by prof. Małgorzata Kossut, is a winner of the VENTURES Programme competition from the Foundation for Polish Science.

PhD thesis of Dominika Malińska entitled „Involvement of mitochondria in generation of reactive oxygen species and regulation of intracellular calcium homeostasis – implications for cytoprotection” was awarded with the Prime Minister Award for PhD thesis defended in 2010.

Dr. Marta Maleszewska from the Laboratory of Transcriptional Regulation, headed by Prof. Bożena Kaminska, is a winner of the HOMING PLUS Programme competition from the Foundation for Polish Science. The objective of the project is to investigate the role of epigenetic mechanisms in differentiation of proinvasive macrophages in gliomas.

On July 1st, 2011 the Nencki Museum opened. This is a project of the Nencki PhD Student Council.

On July 1, 2011 prof. Adam Szewczyk was elected by the Council of FEBS as member of Executive Committee and Congress Councellor for the term of 2012-2014.

On May 30, 2011 a meeting took place at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences attended by representatives of the Polish biological and biomedical community developing and using imaging techniques as one of their main research methods.

The recruitment for PhD studies at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology is closed.

Recently three workshops / seminars have been conducted within Work Package 3 of the BIO-IMAGINE project, given by top European experts in the field of technology transfer and innovation management from EMBL Enterprise Management GmbH, the commercial arm of EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory)

On June 3, 2011 the first meeting of the BIO-IMAGINE (Bio-Imaging in Research Innovation and Education) Steering Committee was held at the Nencki Institute.

A book (in polish) entitled Discover the Nencki Institute, put together by Nencki PhD students was published in June.

A scientific institute, especially one involved in research in the field of natural science, holds particular responsibility to the natural environment. As of June 1 of this year we are implementing the GREEEN INSTITUTE program at the Nencki Institute.

On May 28, 2011 the 15th Scientific Picnic was held at Marszałek Rydz-Śmigły Square in Warsaw. This year’s motto was: FREEDOM. More than 250 institution from Poland and abroad presented their scientific goals and achievements. Like in previous years the Nencki Institute participated in the event; this time with two presentations:

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology is seeking highly motivated experienced individuals to lead its newly forming core facilities:

On 9th of May a scientific cooperation between the Nencki Institute and the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities was established.

The Nencki Institute’s Board of Directors invites everyone to join a new initiative of the Nencki Alumni Club

It is our great pleasure to announce that Dr Ewelina Knapska, from the laboratory of Defensive Conditioned Reflexes at the Nencki Institute, has been awarded at Polish-Swiss Research Programme.

It is our great pleasure to announce that Dr Dorota Włoga, from the laboratory of Physiology of Cell Movements at the Nencki Institute, has been awarded a 7th Framework Programme Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant

The first call for applications for the ten PostDoctoral positions available within the Bio-Imagine Programme has been closed on 20th April, 2011.

On April 18, 2011 an interdisciplinary team has been appointed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education to aid international scientific cooperation.

Between March 7-12 the 2011 World Brain Awareness Week took place in Warsaw, co-organized by the Nencki Institute PAS.

Prof. Jerzy Duszyński’s research team, together with the research groups of Prof. Joan Guinovart and Prof. Adam Godzik have received funding for an „Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)” project

Directors of SISSA and of the Nencki Institute, Prof. Guido Martinelli and Prof. Adam Szewczyk signed an Agreement on Scientific Cooperation and Exchange.

On 28 March 2011 Prof. A. Dobrzyn has been appointed by Prof. Barbara Kudrycka, the Minister of Science and Higher Education, a member of an interdisciplinary team of ‘Mobility Plus’ and ‘Support of international mobility of researchers’ programmes.

Among the 128 laureates of this year’s edition of the START Program, there are three PhD students from the Nencki Institute

Every year scholarship holders from the Polish Children’s Fund visit the Nencki Institute.

On February 23 of this year Minister of Science and Higher Education, Prof. Barbara Kudrycka approved the list of infrastructure projects for the Polish Road Map for Research Infrastructures.

Session of the Scientific Council devoted to the 2010 Annual Report took place on February 25, 2011.

Nencki Institute PAN is the co-organizer of the Brain Awareness Week 2011 to be held in Warsaw, March 7-12. This year it is focused on new treatment methods and new ways of therapy.

On March the 1st, 2011 The Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw established a new Laboratory of Cell Engineering, which will be headed by Dr. Agata Klejman.

On February 23, 2011 the first plenary session of Division II Biological and Agricultural Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences took place in the 2011-2014 term. Division II comprises the former Division II Biological Sciences and Division V Agricultural, Forestry and Veterinary Sciences.

On February 22, 2011 during a session of the Committee on Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Prof. Jolanta Baranska was awarded with the Leon Marchlewski Medal for scientific achievements in 2009.

Since January 2011 the Nencki Institute has a new operational Server Room.

On February 2, 2011 Prof. Maciej Banach, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education visited the Nencki Institute, upon invitation from the Institute Board of Directors.

On January 25, 2011 an Agreement has been signed between the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology (www.ch.pw.edu.pl) and the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland is currently recruiting Postdoctoral Associates to undertake bio-imaging projects focused on molecular, cellular, organelle and organism levels.

The first session of the Scientific Council of the Nencki Institute (term 2011-2014) took place on January 13, 2011

The Nencki Institute mobile website is fully operational as of January 2011

January 1, 2011 was the start date of the BIO-IMAGINE: BIO-IMAGing in research INnovation and Education Project at the Nencki, supported by the EU FP7 Capacities Programme (Research potential).

On January the 1st, 2011 The Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw established a new Laboratory of Neuroiformatics, which will be headed by Prof. Daniel Wójcik

A cellular protein called promyelocytic leukaemia protein (PML) is essential for proper execution of the programmed cell death process and can become a target of new anti-tumour therapy. A paper on the mechanism of cancer formation, co-authored by Polish scientists, was published in the Internet edition of the prestigious Science magazine.

Professor Barbara Kudrycka, the Minister of Science and Higer Education, welcomed newly appointed members of the Council of the National Centre for Science. 24 members of the Council were selected from over 500 candidates. Prof. Leszek Kaczmarek, one of the distinguished experts, will be representing Life Sciences in the Council.

It is a great pleasure for us to announce that Dr Tomasz Wilanowski, the head of the Laboratory of Signal Transduction, who is one of the new group leaders working at the Nencki Institute, was awarded a very prestigious European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Installation Grant.

On 4th of December 2010 IX Scientific Meeting For Teachers was organized by the Nencki Institute and the Centre for Innovative Bioscience Education (formerly The Science Festival School). In this event took part more than 40 persons from all over Poland.

Magdalena Lebiedzińska from Laboratory of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes was awarded with the L’Oreal Poland – UNESCO Award for Women in Science, in the 10th edition of this program

The 2010 Award for outstanding scientific achievements was granted to the research team: Dr. Lukasz Hajdo, Dr. Elzbieta Kocik and Dr. Krzysztof Skowronek, led by Associate Professor D.Sc. Andrzej Kasprzak,

The 2010 Prime Minister’s Award for the Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Involvement of CacyBP/SIP in cytoskeleton reorganization via interaction with novel ligands: tubulin and actin” was granted to dr Gabriela Schneider from the Laboratory of Calcium Binding Proteins
The supervisor of the dissertation is prof. dr hab. Anna Filipek.

On October 16, 2010 a scientific session entitled “Ethology and Behavioural Sciences: from planktonic cladocerans to man” took place at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Warsaw

On September 22-24 an international conference took place in Warsaw entitled „Managing Innovation”. This event was organised by the Medical University of Warsaw in cooperation with the Nencki Institute

On October 11, the Nałecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering hosted an inauguration ceremony of the 2010/2011 Academic Year at the PAS Biocentrum Ochota PhD program

Prof. Jolanta Barańska, Director of the PhD Program at the Nencki Institute has received Honorary Membership in the Ukrainian Biochemical Society.

The 14th Science Festival took place in Warsaw on September 18-26, 2010. For this year’s edition of the Festival Nencki employees, have prepared exceptionally diverse and attractive program.

It is our pleasure to announce that the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology has launched its bi-annual Nencki Newsletter

Professor Ewa J. Godzinska from the Nencki Institute has been awarded the 2010 “Media-friendly Scientist”

Dr. Knapska was awarded the Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for Outstanding Junior Researchers

One of the new laboratory leaders at the Nencki Institute, Dr Tomasz Wilanowski, the head of the Laboratory of Signal Transduction, has been awarded a 7th Framework Programme Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant.

Sixteen young researchers working abroad and foreign post-docs training in Poland were granted scholarships under the “Homing Plus” programme.

Professor Ernesto Carafoli (Italy/Switzerland) was awarded the 2010 Nencki Prize.

On July 17-22, 2010 the 16th European Bioenergetics Conference (EBEC) was held in the Old Library Building at the University of Warsaw www.ebec2010.pl

The Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw established a new Laboratory of Cytometry, which will be headed by Dr. Katarzyna Piwocka.

We are pleased to inform that Dr. Agnieszka Dobrzyn, Head of the Laboratory of Cell Signaling and Metabolic Disorders, is a winner of the TEAM Programme competition. The Programme is designed to support projects carried out by graduate students, PhD students and post-docs of the best research teams in Poland. TEAM is executed by the Foundation for Polish Science from the EU Structural Funds within the Innovative Economy Operational Programme.

We are pleased to announce that since January 2010 two patent applications for inventions created by Nencki scientists have already been submitted through the Nencki Institute Innovation Platform.

International Neuropsychological Society, 2010 Mid-Year Meeting, Krakow, June 30th – July 3rd
The conference was held under honorary patronage of the Rector of the Jagiellonian University with support of the Jagiellonian University, Warsaw University, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology and Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

On June 12, 2010 the 14th Scientific Picnic was held in Warsaw on Marszałek Rydz-Śmigły Square. This year the picnic’s motto was: „The Great MicroWorld”.

The eighteenth edition of the START stipends programme has just finished. Two from the laureates come form the Nencki Institute: – Ksenia Meyza, PhD awarded for the first time, – Katarzyna Jednoróg, MsA awarded for the second time

The Second Polish-Norwegian Neuroinformatics Workshop entitled “How to model neurons and neural systems? Integrating biophysics, morphology, and connectivity” was held at the Nencki Institute on January 14-15, 2010.

The Second Polish-Norwegian Neuroinformatics Workshop entitled “How to model neurons and neural systems? Integrating biophysics, morphology, and connectivity” will take place at Nencki Institute in January 14-15, 2010. Details are available on page
http://www.neuroinf.pl/NIWorkshop2010

Following the last year initiative, the beginning of the academic year 2009/2010 of the Ochota Biocentre PhD Studies was celebrated in the hall of the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering.

The 2010 Brain Awareness Week took place in Warsaw between March 13 and 19, 2010 as part of a global educational campaign called the International Brain Awareness Week. This international event has been organised for the 15th time on the initiative of the International Alliance for Brain Initiatives DANA. Each year, in the third week of March, a multitude of events are held in different countries to popularise knowledge about the brain, its function in health and disability. They introduce the newest scientific achievements in the field of brain research and raise social awareness of the significance of conducting scientific research on the nervous system. For the past 13 years the Brain Awareness Week has been organised in Warsaw annually by the Polish branch of the European Dana Alliance for the Brain (EDAB), the Polish Neuroscience Society and the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences with support from the Committee on Neurobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the editorial office of Polityka, a Polish weekly magazine. As always, this year’s lectures were delivered by invited speakers, distinguished specialists in neurophysiology and psychiatry.

IV. Biogerontological Meeting at the Nencki Institute

The 2009 Award for the scientific achievements for the set of papers published in 2006-2008 and dealing with the “Regulation and role of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9, MMP-9 inphysiological and pathological neuronal plasticity” was granted to research team.

On 5th of December 2009 VIII Scientific Meeting For Teacher was organized by the the Nencki Institute and the Science Festival School. In this event took part more than 60 persons from all over Poland. Meeting was covered by the Honorary Patronage of the Mazovian Chief Education Officer.

Prof. Kris Turlejski, a neurobiologist from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology who until now chaired the First Local Ethics Committee in Warsaw has been nominated by the Minister of Science for the member of the State Ethics Committee and then elected its Chair.

On November 2, 2009 Prof. Adam Szewczyk signed, on behalf of the Nencki Institute, a bilateral Cooperation Agreement concerning execution of the CePT Project: Centre of Preclinical Research and Technology with the Medical University of Warsaw. The Nencki Institute along with the Medical University of Warsaw – the CePT consortium coordinator and the University of Warsaw is one of the main beneficiaries of the CePT project. The value of the Centre for Neurobiology (CN) investment has been estimated at 52 million PLN, which constitutes approx. 15% of the total value of the CePT project (359 million PLN).

Dr Ksenia Meyza, from the group of prof. Jolanta Zagrodzka, was the winner (one of three) of The PNS Young Investigator Awards, during The 9th International Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society, Warsaw 2009, for the lecture entitled: „Electrophysiological correlates of diverse emotional reactivity of Roman High – (RHA/Verh) and Roman Low Avoidance (RLA/Verh) rats”.

The XIII Science Festival took place in Warsaw between September 19 and 27. Each year the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology actively participates in this event.

Ms. Dorota Wypych has received II Price for the presentation entitled “Studies on local dynamics of calcium transients in glioma C6 cells”, presented during the VIIth Parnas Conference, organized by the Polish and Ukrainian Biochemical Societies, that took place in Yalta

On 30th of May 2009 the 13th Scientific Picnic was held on the New Town Square and Podzamcze Areas. This year picnic’s motto was: „SCIENCE AMONG THE STARS”. Like in previous years the Nencki Institute took part in this event and prepared series of presentations under the common title: „EARTHLY BODY, SPIRIT FROM THE STARS”

On 14-15 May at Nencki Institute a hands-on course “Introduction to modeling of nervous system” took place. The course was organized under the auspices of the Polish Society for Neuroscience.

Again, as every year, the Fund’s scholars visited the Nencki Institute and participated in lab activities and research training.

Session of the Scientific Council 7. devoted to the 2008 Annual Report took place on February 27, 2009. Besides the information given by Prof. Adam Szewczyk, Director of the Nencki Institute, there were research reports of Dr. Katarzyna Łukasiuk and Dr. Grzegorz Wilczyński, the winners of the Group Leader 2005 competition.

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We have the pleasure to inform you that two of our colleagues are among the prize-winners of the 2008 Prime Minister Awards for PhD dissertations, postdoctoral dissertations and scientific, scientific and technical, or artistic activity:
Kamila Wolanin for her PhD dissertation entitled “The role of Bcr-Abl oncoprotein in the regulation of the mitotic spindle assembly checkpoint function and polyploidization” – supervised by prof. dr hab. Ewa Sikora
Filip Konopacki for his PhD dissertation “Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), its expression in the stimulated brain and influence on astroglia function” – supervised by prof. dr hab. Leszek Kaczmarek.

The Polish Biochemical Society has granted Prof. Lech Wojtczak and Dr. Krzysztof Zabłocki with Bolesław Skarżyński Award for the best article published in a quarterly journal “Postępy Biochemii” in year 2008. The article is entiled: “Mitochondria in cell life, death and disease”.

On 4th December 2008 in the Mirror Room of the Staszic Palace (the Polish Academy of Sciences) prof. Adam Szewczyk, the Acting Director of the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, inaugurated the 90th Anniversary of the Institute and welcomed honorable guests and employees of the Institute.

On 1-2 December 2008 final stage of the competition for a Head of a Laboratory at the Nencki Institute took place.

It is our pleasure to announce that two of our colleagues have received a support from Foundation for Polish Science (HOMING 2008) for the reintegration of researchers and fostering cooperation with their former host institutions after their stay abroad:
Katarzyna Kalita-Bykowska (University of Louisville, USA)
Ewelina Knapska (University of Michigan, USA)

Again, as every year, we took part in the XII edition of the Science Festival in 2008. Due to the building repairs at the Nencki Institute only 4 lectures were held at the International Centre of Biocybernetics. All of them were very highly appreciated by the audience members. In 2009 we will return to the previous participation formula.

The Scientific Council of the Nencki Institute during its session on May 16th 2008 expressed its opinion on the government project of the reform of science and higher education in Poland. The Council decided to support the pro-reformatory resolution of the Scientific Council of The Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics in Warsaw and the petition of the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology to actively participate in the discussion on the proposed reform.

Conference on “Mechanisms of Cell Motility”, organized by Polish Scientific Network Mobilitas.pl will take place on 25-26 of October 2007 in Ist floor conference room.

Another session of the Scientific Council took place on February 23, 2007.

First session of the Institute Scientific Council (term 2007-2010) took place on January 12 2007.

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The members of the evaluation panel received extensive electronic documentation describing the Institute organisation and scientific activities prior to the visit. The panel listened to the brief presentation of the departments and had constructive discussions. Finally, the panel exchanged their views concerning the day’s events.