Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology @UAM_Poznan 🇵🇱 🇪🇺
Poznań, Poland
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How do our cells know where to stop transcription? 🧬
In a new Forum article in @TrendsGenetics, researchers from the Kamieniarz-Gdula lab (@STOPlabPI ) review global evidence showing that RNA cleavage & transcription termination don't always move in sync! doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2026.0…
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New paper in @embojournal!
@AgataKStepien, @DPulimamidi & @STOPlabPI reveal that RNA cleavage and transcription termination shift in opposite directions in colorectal cancer cells. Their proximity is linked to gene expression and cancer cell vulnerability! link.springer.com/article/10…
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📢 "Reflecting biological reality: why RNA 3D evaluation needs topology"
👤 Prof. Marta Szachniuk (Poznan University of Technology)
📅 October 16, 2026 | 🕘 9:15 AM
📍 Audytorium Paczoskiego (Faculty of Biology, AMU)
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‼️A new story from our lab!🙌 We show that SNI1, a component of the SMC5/6 complex, acts as a temperature-dependent brake on class II crossovers, helping shape where genetic exchange occurs in Arabidopsis. Huge effort by Alex made it happen🙏
1/2 My very first post on X—and what better occasion than the publication of our paper in @NaturePlants! 🌱
We identify SNI1 as the first plant gene linking temperature to meiotic recombination, generating genetic diversity that may help plants adapt.
nature.com/articles/s41477-0…
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📢 "Identification and engineering of biochemical pathways in medicinally important plants"
👤 Prof. Kashmir Singh (Panjab University, India)
📅 September 28, 2026 | 🕘 12:00 PM
📍 Mala Aula (Faculty of Biology, AMU)
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That's a wrap on PMM 2026 in Poznan! 🌿🧬 Three fantastic days with 90+ plant meiosis researchers from 12 countries.
Special thanks to Keynote Neil Hunter (UC Davis) & lead organizer @SzymanskaLejman! 👏
Congrats to Nicola Gorringe (Best Talk 🏆) & Youngkyung Lee (Best Poster)
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Plant Meiosis Meeting 2026 is over! 🌿🧬
Over 90 people, three days of great science, discussions and new ideas in Poznań.
Huge thanks to Maja @SzymanskaLejman, our organising team, Neil Hunter, all speakers and everyone who joined us!
See you at the next PMM! 🎉
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📢 "Iron-sulfur clusters: An essential protein cofactor with complex biosynthesis and disease relevance"
👤 Prof. Roland Lill (Marburg University, Germany)
📅 September 17, 2026 | 🕘 3:00 PM
📍 Mala Aula (Faculty of Biology, AMU)
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📢 "RNA processing and quality control in health and disease"
👤 Prof. Yongsheng Shi (University of California, USA)
📅 September 4, 2026 | 🕘 9:15 AM
📍 Audytorium Paczoskiego (Faculty of Biology, AMU)
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FAMSA can now be used in a web browser:
refresh-bio.github.io/tools/…
It is compiled to WebAssembly, so all computations run locally on the device - your data never leaves your machine.
Sample timings (workstation, 16 threads) for cys family (56k seqs): 150s (default) or 20s (medoids).
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Our second seminar this week will be on Friday!
📢 "Mechanisms controlling cellular plasticity in liver regeneration during chronic diseases"
👤 Prof. Ludovic Vallier (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany)
📅 July 10, 2026 | 🕘 12:00 PM
📍 Faculty of Biology, AMU
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📢 "Watch your step: antisense oligonucleotides acting outside of genes"
👤 Prof. @grzechnik_pawel (University of Manchester, UK)
📅 July 9, 2026 | 🕘 10:00 AM
📍 Audytorium Paczoskiego (Faculty of Biology, AMU)
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Honored to be among the laureates of the Minister of Science Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists (SMN21). 🎉 My fourth and final eligible attempt — all the sweeter for it. Onward with plant RNA biology. 🌱🔬 @UAM_Poznan @UAM_IBMiB
Minister @MarcinKulasek przyznał 2⃣3⃣0⃣ stypendiów dla wybitnych młodych naukowców!
Wśród stypendystów m. in.: @ela_wator @nmatiaszczyk @jan_k_bazyli @febos41 @AndrzejDzienia @MateuszBajczyk @Kaja_K_ska @martawrob @maciejwyzgol @lszoszk @MaksymFigat
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forumakademickie.pl/minister…
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🧬 New paper in @NatureSMB! Agata Stępień, Martyna Plens-Gałąska & Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula (@STOPlabPI) authored a News & Views piece on transcriptional readthrough, showing how this cellular process links to anti-cancer drugs & new therapies 👏nature.com/articles/s41594-0…
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There is more to transcriptional #readthrough than meets the eye, and it could even provide a therapeutic opportunity in #cancer. Check out our new perspective @NatureSMB inspired by recent work from Neugebauer and Grzechnik labs!
Studying gene ends is becoming even more fascinating❗️ Curious why❓ Read our News & Views "Transcriptional readthrough progresses from incidental byproduct to therapeutic opportunity" inspired by the recent publication from Podszywałow-Bartnicka and Karla Neugebauer @NatureSMB
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📢 "Shuffling the genetic deck: How chromosomes pair and recombine in meiosis"
👤 Prof. Simone Köhler (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)
📅 July 3, 2026 | 🕘 9:15 AM
📍 Audytorium Paczoskiego (Faculty of Biology, AMU)
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⏳ Last days to register for the Plant Meiosis Meeting!
Join us in Poznań for PMM 2026, with invited speakers Neil Hunter, Mathilde Grelon, André Marquez and Kyuha Choi.
Raphaël Mercier, Chris Morgan, Stefan Heckmann and many others also confirmed.
pmm.amu.edu.pl
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New paper in Nucleic Acids Research! Daria Niewiadomska and Krzysztof Sobczak have uncovered new molecular mechanisms in FXPAC (#RareDiseases). The study shows how FMR1 mRNA structure & CGG repeats control toxic FMRpolyG protein stability. Congrats! 👏 academic.oup.com/nar/article…
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📢 " Plasmodiophora brassicae and Arabidopsis thaliana interaction"
👤 Prof. Robert Malinowski (Institute of Plant Genetics, PAS)
📅 June 19, 2026 | 🕘 9:15 AM
📍 Audytorium Paczoskiego (Faculty of Biology, AMU)
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Great news! Two @NCN_PL OPUS grants for Katarzyna Blaszczyk from @MBorowiakLab and Tomasz Bieluszewski @BieluszewskiTM. Congratulations! 👏🎉 #IBMIB #AMU
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