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 of translation during Bacillus subtilis sporulation, a process that is both spatially and temporally orchestrated.
Dr Starosta completed her PhD at the Gene Center, Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, in the lab of Prof. Daniel Wilson. She was awarded prestigious fellowships including the AXA Research PostDoc Fellowship and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, focusing on the role of EF-P in translation and regulatory mechanisms governing sporulation in B. subtilis.
As a recipient of the First Team grant from the Foundation for Polish Science and an EMBO Installation Grant, she established her own research group in Lublin, exploring specialized ribosomes and translation regulation. Since 2021, she has been leading her laboratory at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, investigating gene expression control in antibiotic-producing soil bacteria.
Her interdisciplinary expertise bridges biochemistry, structural biology, genetics, microscopy, and next-generation sequencing, with an emphasis on translation, antibiotic resistance, and ribosome-targeting antibiotics. She is also recognized for her active advocacy for science funding in Poland.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from one of Poland’s leading voices in microbial molecular biology!
