Kamila Kusz-Zamelczyk PhD is the Faculty of Biology at the Adam Mickiewicz University and Doctoral Studies at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS graduate. She obtained the habilitation degree at the Institute of Human Genetics PAS. Her research focuses on genetics of sex determination and development. In particular she investigates the role of RNA binding proteins – NANOS and PUMILIO in the development of human germ cells.

Publications

Genetyczne podstawy kształtowania się płci biologicznej

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W: „O kształtowaniu się płci człowieka. Konferencja popularno-naukowa” Wydane pod red. B. Gawrońskiej-Kozak i J. Wiśniewskiej, Wyd. Oddział PAN w Olsztynie, 2022, ISBN 978-83-942794-6-2

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Events

Date:
2008
Where:
Berlin

XX International Congress of Genetics, “The expression patterns of the NANOS2 and NANOS3 genes and significance in the human reproduction” K.Kusz, L.Tomczyk, A.Spik, A.Latos-Bieleńska, P.Jędrzejczak, L.Pawelczyk, J.Jaruzelska, oral communication “NANOS1 and PUMILIO2 conserved fertility proteins form complexes with GEMIN3 – A factor of microRNA biogenesis, in the human male germ cells” B.Ginter-Matuszewska, K.Kusz, A.Spik, A.Rembiszewska, J.Kupriańczyk, J.Jaruzelska

Date:
2005
Where:
Salt Lake City

55th Annual Meeting of American Society of Human Genetics “Sequence variants of the NANOS3 gene are associated with testis atrophy and a pure sterility phenotype in men” K.Kusz, L.Tomczyk, J.Bierła, A.Latos-Bieleńska, P.Jędrzejczak, L.Pawelczyk and J.Jaruzelska

Date:
2004
Where:
Toronto

54th Annual Meeting of American Society of Human Genetics, Toronto, oral communication: „Dominant mutations in the human homolouge of the Drosophila Nanos morphogen cause a lack of germ cells and pure sterility phenotype in men” K.Kusz, A.Spik, A.Latos-Bieleńska, M.Kotecki, J.Bierła, P.Jędrzejczak, L.Pawelczyk, J.Jaruzelska

Awards

Awarded:
Given by:

Awarded:
dr n. med. Marcin Sajek
dr n. med. Maciej Śmiałek
mgr Erkut Ilaslan
dr hab. n. med. Kamila Kusz-Zamelczyk
prof. dr hab. n. biol. Jadwiga Jaruzelska
mgr inż. Damian Janecki
Publication of the year 2019
Given by: Director of the Institute of Human Genetics PAS

Award of the Director of the Institute of Human Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences for a review entitled „PUM1 and PUM2 exhibit different modes of regulation for SIAH1 That Involve cooperativity with Nanos paralogues" published in the journal Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, which awarded the title PUBLICATION OF THE YEAR 2019.

Awarded: dr hab. n. med. Kamila Kusz-Zamelczyk
Nomination for the Polish Inteligent Development Award 2019
Given by: Centrum for Intelligent Development

Dr hab. Kamila Kusz-Zamelczyk has been nominated for the Polish Intelligent Development Award 2019 in the category: Scientist of the future for the project: " Badania potencjalnej roli białek NANOS w kontroli translacji funkcjonalnie powiązanych ze sobą mRNA, w ludzkich komórkach linii płciowej: poszukiwanie mechanizmu potranskrypcyjnych regulonów u ssaków." The winners of this prestigious award have been for four years organizations and people who in their work show a constant focus on the future, constituting the basis of sustainable economic development of the country.

Awarded:
dr hab. n. med. Kamila Kusz-Zamelczyk
mgr Anna Spik
dr n. med. Marcin Sajek
prof. dr hab. n. biol. Jadwiga Jaruzelska
Award from The Polish Society of Genetics
Given by: Polish Society of Genetics

For the best paper published in 2013 in the field of human genetics, describing studies conducted in a Polish laboratory