Microsymposium summary

Our annual Microsymposium took place on 19-20.01.2021, for the first time online. We had 8 impact talks, 37 flash presentations, and 71 posters with the scientific achievements of our employees. The peak number of connected participants was 182.

Here's a summary from the Director of the Institute, professor Marcin Opałło:

Dear All,

Thank you very much for your active participation in the Microsymposium 2020. Special thanks go to lecturers, people presenting posters, chairmen/chairwomen, and the organizing committee. Special thanks go to the group organizing the remote version of the Microsymposium.

It is my pleasure to announce that the Scientific Committee called upon to accept last year research works of our Institute decided to award the following posters presented on Microsympsium 2020:

• Two photon excited fluorescence of the human eye in vivo, J. Milkiewicz, J. Bogusławski, S. Tomczewski, P. Ciąćka, D. Stachowiak, A. Głuszek, A. Hudzikowski, G. Soboń, Ł. Kornaszewski, M. Wojtkowski
• Inhibition of amyloid β-induced cell membrane permeation and amyloid β aggregation by K162 - potential Alzheimer’s disease treatment, Dusan Mrdenovic, Piotr Zarzycki, Marta Majewska, Izabela S. Pieta, Robert Nowakowski, Wlodzimierz Kutner, Jacek Lipkowski, Piotr Pieta.
• Graphene/DNA nanotech single-molecule biophysics, biosensing & superresolution microscopy with Graphene Energy Transfer (GET) , Izabela Kamińska, Karolina Zielonka, Johann Bohlen, Renukka Yaadav, Patrick Schüler, Mario Raab, Stefan Krause, Philip Tinnefeld
• How Au-Pt nanoparticles evolve?, Ilia Smirnov, Zbigniew Kaszkur.
• Toxicity of selected airborne nitrophenols on eukaryotic cell membrane models, Majewska, M., Khan, F., Pieta, I.S., Wróblewska, A., Szmigielski, R., Pieta, P.
• Conformation-changing enzymes and macromolecular crowding, Tomasz Skóra, Mihail N. Popescu, Svyatoslav Kondrat
• Liquid flow hydrogenation of nitrocyclohexane as an alternative pathway for value added products, Kowalewski E. Krawczyk  M. Słowik, G. Kocik  J . Lisovytskiy  D. Śrębowata A.

Audience award goes to:

Two photon excited fluorescence of the human eye in vivo, J. Milkiewicz, J. Bogusławski, S. Tomczewski, P. Ciąćka, D. Stachowiak, A. Głuszek, A. Hudzikowski, G. Soboń, Ł. Kornaszewski, M. Wojtkowski

Sincere congratulations to the winners.

Marcin Opałło

Director of the Institute