The International Institute
of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines
Polish Academy of Sciences
SCIENCE is meant to be shared
Sharing ideas and results of scientific work, frequently unpublished, and subjecting them to constructive criticism by your peers is an inherent part of scientific endeavour. It is of utmost importance in newly established institutes, which still have to develop their identity, such as IMol. Seminars organised in the ISC series will facilitate achieving several goals, e.g.: spreading the news about IMol's scientific activities, opportunities to meet world-class researchers (external speakers will be invited) and helping developing critical thinking skills among junior researchers. We hope that the ISC seminars will be organised on a monthly basis and will be available not only for IMol's employees but also other researchers in the country and abroad.
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IMol Science Club Chairs: Abdelhalim Azzi and Paweł Mikulski
ARCHIVE
June 12th, 2024, 2:00 pm. CET
Lynne Maquat
University of Rochester
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in human health and disease
June 5th, 2024, 2:00 pm. CET
Jan Kosiński
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Visualizing nuclear pore complexes through cryo-electron tomography and structural modeling
May 8th, 2024, 2:00 pm. CET
Michele Vendruscolo
University of Cambridge
Targeting protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases
April 8th, 2024, 2:00 pm. CET
David Tollervey
University of Edinburgh
Lighting Up RNA-protein Interactions
March 27th, 2024, 2:00 pm. CET
Paweł Mikulski
IMol Polish Academy of Sciences, PL
Remember & Forget: the mechanisms of epigenetic transcriptional memory
February 27th, 2024, 2:30 pm. CET
Salvador Aznar Benitah
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)
Regulation of metastasis by fatty acid metabolism
February 14th, 2024, 2 pm. CET
Avi Schroeder
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Brain-Targeted Nanoparticles for Treating Parkinson’s Disease: Principles and Applications
January 22nd, 2024, 2 pm. CET
Irit Sagi
Weizmann Institute of Science
Exploring "ECM remodeling memory for damage”: implications to drug discovery
January 10th, 2024, 2 pm. CET
Justyna Zmorzyńska
IMol Polish Academy of Sciences, PL
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Unveiling the link between mTORC1 hyperactivity and neuropsychiatric disorders
December 13th, 2023, 2 pm. CET
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Oliver Daumke
Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin in Berlin, DE
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Structural insights into crista junction formation
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November 8th, 2023, 2 pm. CET
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Aleksandra Pękowska
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PL
Molecular signature of primate astrocytes reveals pathways and regulatory changes contributing to brain evolution
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October 11th, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Carlo Vascotto
IMol, Polish Academy of Sciences
The mitochondrial form of APE1: more than a DNA repair protein
September 11th, 2023, 3 pm. CET
Alexander Wlodawer
NIH Center for Cancer Research, US
Many secrets of L-asparaginase, the oldest enzyme-based cancer drug
August 25th, 2023, 9:30 am. CET
Peter Sicinski
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, US
Targeting cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) for cancer treatment
June 22nd, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Juan Valcárcel
Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona
Molecular mechanisms of alternative splicing regulation in cancer
April 21st, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Liming Pei
Lab of Cardiac Endocrinology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, US
Regulation of mitochondrial function in health and disease
April 5th, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Kamil Kranc
Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London
Targeting RNA modifications and hypoxia signalling pathways to eliminate cancer stem cells in acute myeloid leukaemia
March 22nd, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Prof. Marina Rodnina
Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
Recoding of genetic information by the ribosome: ribosome frameshifting, stop-codon readthrough and translational bypassing
February 8th, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Nicola de Franceschi
International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines
Polish Academy of Sciences
On the beauty of membranes
January 18th, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Prof. Jan Konvalinka
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Czech Academy of Sciences
How chemistry fight viruses and how viruses fight back - story of viruses, chemistry, virus resistance and IOCB in Prague
December 16th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
Prof. Rene Bernards
Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
Unconventional approaches to the treatment of cancer
November 30th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
Prof. Marcin Nowotny
International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw
Structural basis of transposon end recognition explains central features of Tn7 transposition systems
October 5th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
Prof. Douglas C. Wallace
Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, US
A Mitochondrial Etiology of Common Diseases
June 8th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
Prof. Richard Youle
NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, US
Protein Import Regulation of Mitochondrial Quality Control
May, 18th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
Prof. Rachel Green
HHMI, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
The colliding ribosome as a hub for translational regulation
May 4th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
IN PERSON | CeNT - Lecture Hall, Warsaw, 2c Banacha Str.
Prof. Jim Naismith
Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Intercepting SARS-CoV-2 with nanobodies
April 13th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
Maciej Cieśla
The International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines
Polish Academy of Sciences
Pseudouridine-driven programmes in stem cells and cancer
March 30th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
Richard Randall
University of St Andrews, UK
Fundamental and applied studies on paramyxovirus persistence and defective interfering particles
March 16th, 2022, 2 p.m. CET
Abdelhalim Azzi
International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines
Polish Academy of Sciences
Uncovering the link between the Hippo pathway and circadian clock
February 16th, 2022, 2 p.m. CET
Caroline Dive
Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
Liquid Biopsies in Lung Cancer
December 8st, 2021, 2 p.m. CET
Ramesh Pillai
University of Geneva, Switzerland,
Role of RNA modifications in gene regulation
November 3rd, 2021, 2 p.m. CET
Piotr Gerlach
International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines
Polish Academy of Sciences
Bunyaviral polymerase - replication, transcription and beyond.
October 20th, 2021,
Michal Barski
International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Illuminating HTLV integration and its inhibition at the atomic scale
with cryo-EM.
October 6th, 2021,
Aleksandra Trifunovic
Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Ageing, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Cologne, Germany
Transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial stress response
June 30th, 2021
Wojciech Galej
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble, France
Structural studies of the Integrator complex
June 23rd, 2021
Karolina Szczepanowska
The International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines Polish Academy of Sciences
"Safeguarding a beautiful beast. The quality control of respiratory Complex I"
May 5th, 2021
Piotr Szwedziak
The International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines Polish Academy of Sciences
Amyloid-β oligomer interactions with lipid membranes by cryo-electron tomography.