Justyna Osmulska

Astrocytes help understand human brain evolution

05.02.2025

Astrocytes, the guardians of neuronal functions, appear to have a more significant role in brain evolution than previously thought. The team led by Professor Aleksandra Pękowska, head of the Dioscuri Centre for Chromatin Biology and Epigenomics at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw, reveals new genes and mechanisms contributing to this process. The group's work has just been published in Cell Stem Cell. Astrocytes, in contrast to neurons, do not conduct ...

New Group Leaders at the Nencki Institute

28.01.2025

We are happy to announce that two new excellent Group Leaders have been selected to create own laboratories at the Nencki Institute in 2025. The Laureates are Katarzyna Leszczyńska and Paweł ...

SPARK Europe Webinar Series 2025

20.01.2025

“Entrepreneurial Mindset and Business Thinking in Life Science” 5 February 2025 | 4 – 5 pm (CEST) | Webinar In this SPARK Europe Webinar, Dr. Ingo Schroeter will explain why we need more ...

Nencki Foundation Lecture (in polish)

14.01.2025

Wykład Dr Katarzyna Leszczyńska pt.: „Wykorzystywanie układu odpornościowego do zwalczania guzów mózgu u dzieci” odbędzie się 22 stycznia 2025 r. o godz. 16:00 w Sali Konferencyjnej Centrum ...

Nencki Institute Seminar

10.01.2025

Dear All, On Thursday 16.01 in the CN lecture hall we will host Katarzyna Oktaba, PhD (Cinvestav, Mexico). Her lecture will be entitled: " Genome topology in Drosophila". The lecture will take ...