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Sharing ideas and results of scientific work, frequently unpublished, and subjecting them to constructive criticism by your peers is an inherent part of scientific endeavour.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.
IMol Science Club Chairs: Abdelhalim Azzi and Paweł Mikulski
- seminars in 2025 and 2026
- past seminars
April 23, 2026, 2:00 p.m. CET
University of Copenhagen
April 21, 2026, 2:00 p.m. CET
University of Geneva
April 9, 2026, 2:00 p.m. CET
Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University
April 2, 2026, 2:00 p.m. CET
University of Cambridge
January 14, 2026, 2:00 p.m. CET
IMol Polish Academy of Science, Poland
December 5, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CET
Institute of Molecular Systems Medicine, Goethe University Frankfurt
November 19, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CET
IMol Polish Academy of Science, Poland
October 15, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CET
University of Montpellier, France
June 6, 2025, 1:30 p.m. CET
Prof. Oleh Khalimonchuk
Regulation of mitochondrial shape and function: From basics to disease
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
April 23, 2025, 3:30 p.m. CET
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
April 23, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CET
Dr. Manajit Hayer-Hartl
Into the Heart of Photosynthesis – Unraveling Rubisco’s Cellular Machineries
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
April 9, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CET
International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IIMCB)
March 26, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CET
IMol Polish Academy of Sciences
March 03, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CET
Prof. Toshiya Endo
How to keep mitochondria in good shape: transport, quality control, and maintenance of mitochondrial proteins, DNA, and RNA
Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
February 12, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CET
IMol Polish Academy of Sciences; IOCB Prague
2024
December 4, 2024, 2:00 pm. CET
Prof. Kathrin Thedieck
New metabolic signals to mTOR: how cancer cells deal with amino acid stress
University Duisburg-Essen
November 20, 2024, 2:00 pm. CET
Prof. Rory Johnson
RIBOncology: developing non-protein-coding RNA therapies for cancer
University College Dublin
October 23, 2024, 2:00 pm. CET
Prof. Reinhard Lührmann
Structural insights into the cascade of snRNP remodeling steps leading to the formation of activated spliceosome
Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
October 17, 2024, 1:00 pm. CET
Group Leaders’ Recruitment
International IMol Mini Symposium
IMol Polish Academy of Sciences, PL
March 27th, 2024, 2:00 pm. CET
Paweł Mikulski
Remember & Forget: the mechanisms of epigenetic transcriptional memory
IMol Polish Academy of Sciences, PL
February 27th, 2024, 2:30 pm. CET
Salvador Aznar Benitah
Regulation of metastasis by fatty acid metabolism
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)
February 14th, 2024, 2 pm. CET
Avi Schroeder
Brain-Targeted Nanoparticles for Treating Parkinson’s Disease: Principles and Applications
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
January 22nd, 2024, 2 pm. CET
Irit Sagi
Exploring “ECM remodeling memory for damage”: implications to drug discovery
Weizmann Institute of Science
January 10th, 2024, 2 pm. CET
Justyna Zmorzyńska
Unveiling the link between mTORC1 hyperactivity and neuropsychiatric disorders
IMol Polish Academy of Sciences, PL
April 8th, 2024, 2:00 pm. CET
David Tollervey
Lighting Up RNA-protein Interactions
University of Edinburgh
2023
December 13th, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Oliver Daumke
Structural insights into crista junction formation
Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin in Berlin, DE
November 8th, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Aleksandra Pękowska
Molecular signature of primate astrocytes reveals pathways and regulatory changes contributing to brain evolution
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PL
October 11th, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Carlo Vascotto
The mitochondrial form of APE1: more than a DNA repair protein
IMol, Polish Academy of Sciences
September 11th, 2023, 3 pm. CET
Alexander Wlodawer
Many secrets of L-asparaginase, the oldest enzyme-based cancer drug
NIH Center for Cancer Research, US
August 25th, 2023, 9:30 am. CET
Peter Sicinski
Targeting cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) for cancer treatment
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, US
June 22nd, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Juan Valcárcel
Molecular mechanisms of alternative splicing regulation in cancer
Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona
April 21st, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Liming Pei
Regulation of mitochondrial function in health and disease
Lab of Cardiac Endocrinology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, US
April 5th, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Kamil Kranc
Targeting RNA modifications and hypoxia signalling pathways to eliminate cancer stem cells in acute myeloid leukaemia
Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London
March 22nd, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Prof. Marina Rodnina
Recoding of genetic information by the ribosome: ribosome frameshifting, stop-codon readthrough and translational bypassing
Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
February 8th, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Nicola de Franceschi
On the beauty of membranes
International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines Polish Academy of Sciences
January 18th, 2023, 2 pm. CET
Prof. Jan Konvalinka
How chemistry fight viruses and how viruses fight back – story of viruses, chemistry, virus resistance and IOCB in Prague
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Czech Academy of Sciences
2022
December 16th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
Prof. Rene Bernards
Unconventional approaches to the treatment of cancer
Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
November 30th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
Prof. Marcin Nowotny
Structural basis of transposon end recognition explains central features of Tn7 transposition systems
International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw
October 5th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
Prof. Douglas C. Wallace
Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, US
June 8th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
Prof. Richard Youle
Protein Import Regulation of Mitochondrial Quality Control
NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, US
May, 18th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
Prof. Rachel Green
The colliding ribosome as a hub for translational regulation
HHMI, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
May 4th, 2022, 2 pm. CET IN PERSON | CeNT – Lecture Hall, Warsaw, 2c Banacha Str.
Prof. Jim Naismith
Intercepting SARS-CoV-2 with nanobodies
Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
April 13th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
Maciej Cieśla
Pseudouridine-driven programmes in stem cells and cancer
The International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines Polish Academy of Sciences
March 30th, 2022, 2 pm. CET
Richard Randall
Fundamental and applied studies on paramyxovirus persistence and defective interfering particles
University of St Andrews, UK
March 16th, 2022, 2 p.m. CET
Abdelhalim Azzi
Uncovering the link between the Hippo pathway and circadian clock
International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines Polish Academy of Sciences
February 16th, 2022, 2 p.m. CET
Caroline Dive
Liquid Biopsies in Lung Cancer
Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
2021
December 8st, 2021, 2 p.m. CET
Ramesh Pillai
Role of RNA modifications in gene regulation
University of Geneva, Switzerland,
November 3rd, 2021, 2 p.m. CET
Piotr Gerlach
Bunyaviral polymerase – replication, transcription and beyond.
International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines Polish Academy of Sciences
October 6th, 2021,
Aleksandra Trifunovic
Transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial stress response
Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Ageing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Germany
June 30th, 2021
Wojciech Galej
Structural studies of the Integrator complex
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble, France
June 23rd, 2021
Karolina Szczepanowska
“Safeguarding a beautiful beast. The quality control of respiratory Complex I”
The International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines Polish Academy of Sciences
May 5th, 2021
Piotr Szwedziak
Amyloid-β oligomer interactions with lipid membranes by cryo-electron tomography.
The International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines Polish Academy of Sciences