The Polish-US Fulbright Commission has completed the selection process for the Fulbright STEM Impact Award 2022–23 and Fulbright Senior Award 2023–24. Amongst the chosen applicants are researchers from the JU Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology and JU Faculty of Philosophy. Thanks to the funding provided by the programme, they will be able to carry out their research projects in the United States.
Prof. Jonathan Heddle, head of a research team working within the framework of the Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB), has received a £4.8 million award as part of the Leverhulme International Professorship at Durham University. Prof. Heddle’s research at Jagiellonian University is in bionanoscience and aims to understand, design and build artificial and natural biological nanomachines, a topic which he aims to build on as a recipient of the award.
An international study involving Dr hab. Szymon Drobniak from the JU Faculty of Biology has shown that parental provisioning has an impact on hatchlings’ brain size, even before they begin to interact with others. These findings are very surprising, as social factors have so far been considered to be the main contributing factor in this regard.
Scientists from the Department of Molecular Biophysics at the Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology (FBBB) and the Max Planck Research Group at Małopolska Centre of Biotechology (MCB) of the Jagiellonian University teamed up to understand photosynthesis in plants at the atomic level.
The latest paper by scientists from the Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology of the Jagiellonian University (JU MCB) describes the first high resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure of Elongator, which sheds light on the role of the Elp456 subcomplex. The study was published this week in Nucleic Acids Research as a Breakthrough Article.
The National Science Centre has published the results of OPUS 22+LAP/Weave competition. The grant winners include Dr Zofia Łapniewska from the Jagiellonian University who will carry out research into environmental protection in politics. The studies are aimed to better understand the impact of the implementation of green transformation policy on the EU states and identification of the areas in which it poses a risk of socio-economic polarisation.
Dominika Rachwał, a student of the Jagiellonian University Medical College, won the Polish edition of the Queen Silvia Nursing Award. She was recognised for her ideas regarding helping patients with dementia combat their illness.
Coevolution of the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes in species subject to hybridization is the title of the project awarded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) with funding for 2023-2024 as part of joint research projects conducted between Poland and Ukraine.
The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange has announced the call for proposals for joint research projects between Poland and Germany. The ranking list includes a project to be carried out at the Jagiellonian University. The Polish part of the research will be supervised by a scientist from the Department of Chemical Physics of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University.
On 21 December 2022 the traditional Christmas meeting of the academic community took place at the Jagiellonian University. The participants included authorities of the Jagiellonian University and other higher education institutions from Kraków and Małopolska region, members of the diplomatic corps, representatives of institutions of art and culture, as well as clergy of various denominations.
Dr Patrycja Kurowska from the JU Faculty of Biology has been awarded in the NAWA PHC Polonium call, which aims to promoter mobility of researchers working in Polish-French teams. They receive funding for travel expenses and accommodation in their destination countries.
Scientists from the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology in collaboration with their colleagues from Wrocław, Barcelona, Vilnius, Montreal and Louisville have completed a detailed study on the PorX protein, which is one of the main cellular regulators of virulence of the bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis. The results of their research were published in Nucleic Acids Research.