Our phage research team had a great opportunity to take part in the symposium and share our latest research, with two oral presentations and a

It was a great few days filled with science, inspiring discussions, and plenty of opportunities to exchange ideas. Our PhD students and postdocs presented their

Our team recently took part in a Bioprocessing Workshop at the Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry. During the course, we had the

We are delighted to share that Weronika Łuszczewska, who carried out her MSc thesis research in our MRS Lab as part of the FIRST TEAM

Today, many of us from the laboratory joined the “3% for Science” protest, standing together with researchers and academics from across Poland. We believe that

    We are very happy to celebrate the successful PhD defense of Piotr Purzycki, a PhD student in our laboratory, who completed his doctoral

      Last week, we took a little break from the lab and spent some time together at Pixel XL! 🎮 It was a

We are pleased to announce that Grzegorz Grabe, Independent Group Leader focusing on bacterial toxin-antitoxin systems in the MRS Lab, is a co-author of a

Master’s Student Stipend at the Structural Biology Laboratory Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, Poland   The

As the year draws to a close, we came together to celebrate an exceptional year at MRSLab, a year shaped by dedication, collaboration, and meaningful

On 12 December 2025, the reporting session of the Intercollegiate Doctoral School of Biotechnology of the University of Gdańsk and the Medical University of Gdańsk

We are pleased to share that Roksana, a PhD student in MRSLab, has received the Award of the Gdańsk Branch of the Polish Genetics Society

We are pleased to announce that Michał will be the invited speaker at the upcoming IMol Science Club meeting on 3 December 2025. His lecture,

On 21 November 2025, the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology hosted an IFB Seminar given by Dr Patrick Pausch from Vilnius University, Life Sciences Center. The

We are delighted to share that Dr Anna Karłowicz, has been awarded the prestigious EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant. This support will enable her to carry

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We are delighted to announce that Dr Grzegorz Grabe, Independent Group Leader — Bacterial Toxin–Antitoxin Systems in the MRS Lab, has been awarded the prestigious

The Structural Biology Laboratory at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk (IFB UG & MUG), Poland, is

The Structural Biology Laboratory at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk (IFB UG & MUG), Poland, is

As part of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology (IFB) seminar series, we welcomed Dr Dukas Jurėnas from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). His talk,

From 10 to 13 October 2025, Michał  participated in the Fusion Conference on inter-organelle stress communication (IOSCD25) in St. Julian’s, Malta. The meeting gathered researchers

From 24 to 26 September 2025, Michał had the pleasure of participating as an invited speaker at the EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF) in Vilnius,

We are delighted to share that Anna Karłowicz received a Best Poster Award at the 6th BIO Life Science Congress (BIO2025) in Poznań (17–20 September

From 17 to 20 September 2025, members of MRSLab took part in the 6th BIO Life Science Congress (BIO2025) in Poznań, organised by the Polish

We are excited to share that our colleague, Dr Anna Karłowicz, hasbeen awarded funding from the National Science Centre (NCN) within the MINIATURA 9 scheme.

Our MSc students at the 15th Biotechnology Students’ Conference On June 16–17, 2025, the 15th Biotechnology Students’ Conference took place at the Faculty of Biology,

To share the joy of receiving the FIRST TEAM FENG grant from the Foundation for Polish Science, we took a short break from lab work

ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at the Structural Biology Laboratory The Structural Biology Laboratory (https://mrslab.ug.edu.pl/) at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of

We are excited to share that our group leader, Dr hab. Michał R. Szymański, Professor at the University of Gdańsk, has been awarded a prestigious

We are pleased to host Dr hab. Agata Starosta as the speaker at our upcoming Faculty Seminar. Her talk will focus on the dynamic regulation

Exciting News: Our Latest Publication in Nucleic Acids Research! We are thrilled to share that our article, „Mitochondrial exonuclease EXOG supports DNA integrity by the

We are excited to announce that Dr. Grzegorz Grabe, a member of our MRSlab team at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG & MUG, has

ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk The Structural Biology Laboratory

We’re so excited to be part of the very first SOLARIS Cryo-EM School! It’s been an amazing experience so far, full of hands-on learning, interesting

We’re excited to begin this academic year’s IFB Seminars with an engaging lecture by Dr. Hans Spelbrink from Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen. A renowned

MRSLab members are having a fantastic time at the 26th Heart of Europe Bio-Crystallography Meeting (HEC26) in Kraków. This annual academic conference brings together researchers

MRSLab members recently had the pleasure of attending the 3rd Bacteriophage Symposium in Gdańsk, an event that brought together Polish experts in the field of

Members of our laboratory are participating in the 7th DNA Polymerases Meeting taking place in Warsaw. The meeting, held at the Nencki Institute of Experimental

Piotr visited SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre in Krakow to conduct screening of protein complex samples at their CryoEM facility. The visit was particularly exciting

Michał Szymański represented our laboratory at the iNEXT_Discovery Foresight Meeting hosted by SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Kraków. The meeting, organized in collaboration with Instruct-ERIC,

Our team recently embarked on an extraordinary journey that perfectly blended sport, nature, and teamwork – a 50-kilometer bike trip to the Sobieszewo Island. A

We are thrilled to announce that the MRSlab team recently attended the Molecular Biology of Mitochondrial Gene Maintenance and Expression workshop in Józefów, Poland. This

On May 27-28, 2024, the fourteenth edition of the Biotechnology Students’ Conference was held in the building of the Institute of Biotechnology. Students presented the

We are thrilled to announce that Grzegorz Grabe has been awarded an OPUS-26 grant from the Polish National Science Centre! This funding will enable him

We are delighted to announce that Karolina Zdrojewska, our 3rd year Ph.D. student, has been awarded a prestigious stipend in the NAWA Bekker Program. This

Kasia and Julia received the Rector’s scholarship for scientific achievements! They officially joined the MRS lab family in November 2022 while being first-year Master’s Students.

ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk The Structural Biology Laboratory

Postdoctoral Researcher Position at the Structural Biology Laboratory at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk The

On November 17, 2023, we had the pleasure of hosting Professor Dr. Hab. Marcin Nowotny and participating in his highly engaging lecture. Marcin Nowotny graduated

The Inauguration Ceremony of the 2023/2024 Academic Year of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG&MUG was held on October 4.  We are excited to share

As the Krios sessions are approaching, Adela took another trip to CeNT, Warsaw to screen a variety of samples and optimize grid freezing for downstream

Ania and Piotr went to Kraków SOLARIS for Cryo EM screening. We’re thrilled to report that their efforts have yielded promising results in the realm

We would like to share with you the wonderful experience we had during this year’s XXVI Summer School of Molecular Biology and Medicine. Our group

We had an absolute blast at the MRS Lab party, filled with laughter, joy, and heartfelt moments! The occasion was a special one as we

We are delighted to share an exciting update from the recent II Bacteriophage Symposium held at the University of Gdańsk. During this significant event, our

Beata and Piotr’s trip to Kraków for Cryo-EM screening at SOLARIS was a mix of excitement and success, as usual! Collaborative efforts and some promising

Research Specialist position in Structural Biology Laboratory at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk Structural Biology

We are looking for PhD Students to join the Structural Biology Laboratory at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical

We’re excited to share that the MRSLab team recently went on an eagerly anticipated kayaking trip along the beautiful Radunia River. Finally, we made it

In accordance with the decision of the Presidium of the Gdansk Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and then with the decision of the

@MRSzymanskiLab received a new grant for research project under SONATA BIS 12 competition. Project number: 2022/46/E/NZ1/00430. „The structural organization of human mitochondrial replisome”. Amount of

We are excited to share that our recent trip to SOLARIS Cracow for Cryo-EM screening of protein complex samples was very successful! We placed on

    PhD Student positiona at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk We are looking for

Once again, the whole team came together to celebrate the upcoming Holidays and New Year. This time there was also a lot of delicious food

Mitochondria are essential for eukaryotic life due to their critical role in central metabolic pathways. Owing to the close proximity to respiratory chain system, which

The EMBO practical courses on cryo-EM image processing have been organized in India since 2018, which has introduced and provided training to PhD students and

On Friday, December 10, a Reporting Session of PhD students of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical University of

Adela visited Łukasiewicz – PORT (Polski Ośrodek Rozwoju Technologii), Wroclaw, for the purpose of imaging Giant Unilamellar Vesicles (GUV), as part of her project on

In collaboration with Prof. Alicja Wegrzyn’s lab, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, we were awarded an OPUS 23 grant!

Dr. Grzegorz Grabe has been awarded the POLONEZ Bis 2 grant by National Science Centre, Poland. His project entitled Dynamics and evolution of specificity of

On 25.11.22 we had a pleasure to host dr hab. Wojciech Pokrzywa and attended his very interesting lecturee. Wojciech is amolecular biologist heading the Laboratory

This week Adela took a trip to International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw to prpare fresh graphene-oxide cryo-EM grids with the invaluable

On 15-20.11.22 we had a pleasure to host Bartosz Szczesny from the University of Texas Medical Branch at  Galveston, USA. It was a great chance

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the Max Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC) organized a one-week training on methods and applications in Integrative Structural Biology. The

Our PhD student Michal attend XVI School on Synchrotron Radiation organized by SILS and Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste. The first seven editions of the School were

Beata accompanied by Adela, made her first trip to Krakow to SOLARIS centre for the screening with Glacios Cryo Transmission Electron Microscope. They were able

The annual iNEXT-Discovery scientific meeting’s objective was to present the latest discoveries in structural biology, highlighting the development of new technologies and applications used to

Behind the scenes of the most recent trip to Cracow, lays our desire to offer something non-redundant to our research field. Adela and Piotr made

The meeting intended to spotlight the most recent advances in ecology and evolution of microbial viruses, virus structures and function, virus-host interaction, agro-food, veterinary and

MRSLab just joined Twitter! Check it out here: https://twitter.com/MRSzymanskiLab?t=MM7Of38FCsVfCE96MorbhA&s=08

Research Technician Posiotion at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk We are looking for Research Technician to

 PhD Student position at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk  We are looking for PhD Student

In our recent work we showed that EXOG is a multifunctional mitochondrial ribonuclease which facilitates the removal of RNA primer and supports the ligation of

Congratularions to Ania for her recent publication in Nucleic Acid Research (NAR)! Entire MRS Lab went out to celebrate this great accomplishment at a Ukrainian

The course is organized every 2 years and its first edition was held in 2002, it takes place continuously at the European Photon & Neutron

Adela attended EMBO I FEBS Advanced Lecture Course in Grece. This advanced lecture course was the 18th in a series that started in 1987. It accommodated

Adela and Piotr went for another sample screening using Glacios Cryo Transmission Electron Microscope in SOLARIS Kraków. Future of our projects depends on the success

Michał, Ania and Andrzej participated in the EMBO Workshop “Molecular biology of mitochondrial gene maintenance and expression” in Bro, Sweden, where they had the opportunity

Beata has joined MRS lab in May 2022 to work within the MitoRepairsome project. She graduated from the University of Nottingham (the UK) in Molecular

Michal was a part of the RNA, Transcription and Repair Session at the 5th DNA Repair/Replication Structures and Cancer Conference on April 29th where he

Karolina, Marta and Michał M. run about 100 crystals at the MX 14.1 beamline at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie with great

Job offer one (1) Research Technician position in the Structural Biology Group at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical

Karolina, Marta and Michał, our PhD students analyzed about 200 crystals of proteins using XRD2 beamline at Elettra. The XRD2 variable energy beamline (8 to

Adela and Piotr performed another round of Cryo-EM imaging in Solaris, Cracow. These measurments are integral to their doctoral thesis research and require access to

Main goal of this project is to study of the structure and function of mitochondrial membrane channel critical for mitochondrial DNA metabolism. Michał R. Szymański,

Three of our PhD students (Karolina, Marta and Michał) had the opportunity to work (remotely) at the X-ray diffraction beamline (XRD2) at the Elettra synchrotrone

Today all of us (except for Adela who’s enjoying time with her family in Romania) got together to celebrate upcoming holidays and the end of

In 2018,  prof. Szymański became a laureate of the prestigious grant of the European Molecular Biology Organization – EMBO Installation Grants. Today we received great

They worked with the Glacios cryomicroscope at the National Cryo-Em Centre in Solaris National Synchrotron Radiation Centre. Multiple samples were screened (before measurements with the

You can read full text of the „10 years of NCN” publication here.

PhD Student position at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk       We are looking

Karolina is a PhD student supervised jointly with prof. Węgrzyn from the Biology Department. Welcome to our team!

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