“Gold Helix” award for poster on the IXth Convention of Polish Human Genetics Association

Poster titled “Schmidtea mediterranea as a model organism to study novel genes potentially involved in primary ciliary dyskinesia pathogenesis” presented by Alicja Rabiasz, Michał Witt, Ewa Ziętkiewicz, was awarded a “Gold Helix” by the Polish Human Genetics Association during IXth Convention of Polish Human Genetics Association in Bydgoszcz.

Dr. Agnieszka Dzikiewicz-Krawczyk among the winners of the fifth FIRST TEAM competition

131 applications were submitted to the fifth FIRST TEAM competition, out of which 13 projects were recommended for financing from the Smart Growth Operational Programme (SG OP). Among them was the project submitted by Dr. Agnieszka Dzikiewicz-Krawczyk, entitled “Functional dissection of IGH regulatory regions in B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma”.

First prize for the poster

First prize for the poster “Targeted next generation sequencing of selected genes in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes” (Kowal E, Kiwerska K, Ustaszewski A, Paczkowska J, Adamska M, Czerwińska- Rybak J, Komarnicki M, Gil L, Jarmuż-Szymczak M), II Ogólnopolskie Sympozjum Nauk Rolniczo-Przyrodniczych, Poznań, 7-8.04.2018.

 

Poster nominated for the International Poster Prize

Poster entitled “FAM107A gene is silenced in laryngeal tumors by combined DNA methylation and deletion”(K. Kiwerska, M. Szaumkessel, J. Paczkowska, M. Bodnar, E. Byzia, E. Kowal, M. Kostrzewska-Poczekaj, J. Janiszewska, K. Bednarek, M. Jarmuz-Szymczak, E. Kalinowicz, M. Wierzbicka, R. Grenman, K. Szyfter, A. Marszalek, M. Giefing) was nominated

The Ludwik Hirszfeld prize for prof. Maciej Kurpisz

Prof. Maciej Kurpisz has been awarded by the decision of Chairman and the Board of Polish Society for Experimental and Clinical Immunology with the Ludwik Hirszfeld medal for his outstanding contribution to development of Immunology in Poland

Award in the contest organized by the Poznań branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Maciej Dabrowski, MSci, was granted a honorable mention in the contest for the best original paper published in 2016, with a PhD student as the leading author. The work entitled  “Aminoglycoside-stimulated readthrough of premature termination codons in selected genes involved in primary ciliary dyskinesia” [Bukowy-Bieryłło Z, Dąbrowski M, Witt M, Zietkiewicz E] was published in RNA Biol, 2016, 13 (10): 1041-1050].