On May 31st of this year, the reporting session on the scientific activity of our Institute in 2022 took place. Reporting scientific achievements included a presentation of publications and doctoral theses nominated for the Director’s Award, which were selected by the Advisory Team of the Director of IBCH PAS for Bonuses for Publishing Achievements. After the presentation of nominated achievements, the winning ones were selected through voting and awarded in three categories:

Best experimental publication

“A CAG repeat-targeting artificial miRNA lowers the mutant huntingtin level in the YAC128 model of Huntington’s disease”, A. Kotowska-Zimmer, Ł. Przybył, M. Pewińska, J. Suszyńska-Zajczyk, D. Wronka, M. Figiel, M. Olejniczak*, Molecular Therapy – Nucleic Acids, 28, 702-715

Best review publication

“ATP-binding cassette transporters in nonmodel plants”, J. Banasiak, M. Jasiński*, New Phytologist, 233, 1597-1612 (2022)

Best doctoral thesis

Dr. Magdalena Dąbrowska, title: “Optimization of CRISPR-Cas9 technology in the context of targeting repetitive sequences”, supervisor: dr hab. Marta Olejniczak

Additionally, the reporting session was accompanied by a poster session, where the results of research conducted in 2022 but not yet published were presented. Out of 64 posters, two were selected as the best, and their authors will receive an award in the form of funding from the Institute to attend a selected scientific conference. The winning posters are:

“Surveying the transcriptome of mouse pituitary gland in space and time”
Authors: Ewelina Kałużna, Julian Zacharjasz, Marta Sztachera, Monika Piwecka

“Anti-aging properties of 4-N-furfurylcytosine”
Authors: Paweł Pawelczak, Agnieszka Fedoruk- Wyszomirska, Małgorzata Giel-Pietraszuk, Dorota Gurda-Woźna, Eliza Wyszko