Hubert Doleżyczek, PhD

University Degree:

PhD diploma, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS; MSc degree in biology, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland

Position at ICTER:

Post-doc

Research Areas:

In vivo experiments, brain imaging with Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT),vascular microsurgery in experimental transplantology, electron microscopy techniques, neuronal cell cultures, histological techniques

Hubert began his research career in 2008 at the Mossakowski Medical Research Center in Warsaw, where he acquired skills in experimental microsurgery. From 2011, he continued his research at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where he defended his doctoral dissertation in 2022. During his doctoral studies, he focused on imaging the vascular network and brain tissue changes in mouse models of ischemic stroke and glioblastoma using optical coherence tomography. In 2024, he joined the Ophthalmic Biology Group at ICTER as a Postdoctoral Researcher, where he participates in the development of new methods for in vivo mouse brain imaging and experimental treatments for eye diseases on rodent models.

Joanna Bem, PhD

University Degree:

PhD in Biology degree from the University of Warsaw

Position at ICTER:

Post-doc

Research Areas:

epigenetics, transcriptional regulation and cellular differentiation

Researcher's ORCID Id: 0000-0001-8532-9363

Postdoctoral fellow at the Computational Genomics Group (CGG) led by Dr. Marcin Tabaka, and coordinated by Dr. Lidia Wolińska-Nizioł. Since July 2024, Joanna is involved in the Weave-UNISONO bilateral research project funded by the NCN (National Science Centre) in cooperation with the SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation). In a joint project with Prof. Alfred Zippelius and Dr. Karen Dixon (Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel) she will employ multimodal single cell mapping to elucidate the role that immune system plays in cancer.

Joanna graduated from the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Biology in 2010. There, her fascination with epigenetics and development has started. She obtained her PhD degree at the University of Warsaw in 2018, she was involved in a project investigating the role of miRNAs in stem cells’ differentiation. During a post-doc fellowship at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw she focused specifically on transcriptional regulation, and 3D chromatin structure in terminal neuronal differentiation. Later she joined the International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines, where she was engaged in research on the transcriptional memory. Dr. Joanna Bem is an author or co-author of 6 original papers, 2 reviews publications and also contributed to 2 patents. During her scientific career she led one scientific project founded by NCN and several intramural-microgrants.

During free time, Joanna enjoys gardening and creating ceramic pottery.

Project: Weave-Unisono 2023/05/Y/NZ6/00083.

Kamil Krawczyński, PhD

University Degree:

Master’s degree from the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, PhD degree at the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research PAS (2013)

Position at ICTER:

Research Specialist

Research Areas:

non-coding RNA, neuro-oncology, epigenetics

Scopus Profile: 37037711800
Researcher's ORCID Id: 0000-0001-5336-7525

During his Master’s studies, Kamil Krawczyński completed a 6 months Erasmus Program scholarship at the University of Trieste, Italy. After the doctoral studies, he continued his research career as postdoctoral fellow at the Magee-Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, USA. Later he returned to Poland and worked at Mossakowski Medical Research Institute PAS in Warsaw. His main research focus is non-coding RNA, including microRNA and using diverse molecular biology techniques he has investigated their role in the epigenetic and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression.

He is a co-author of 14 scientific papers. During his scientific career he led 1 scientific project, he was also awarded by the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for outstanding young scientists.

In August 2024, Dr. Krawczyński joined the Computational Genomics Group at ICTER as a research specialist, where he is involved in the realization of the SONATA BIS 12 project aimed at developing methods for multimodal profiling at single cell resolution.

The photo of Dr. Kamil Krawczyński was taken by Dr. Karol Karnowski.

Aleksandra Kornacka-Stackonis, PhD

University Degree:

PhD degree in Biology (2021), Witold Stefanski Institute of Parasitology, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Position at ICTER:

Post-doc

Dr. Kornacka-Stackonis has worked at the Institute of Parasitology Polish Academy of Sciences for most of her career. Her doctoral research mainly focused on detecting parasites in wildlife using both immunological and molecular methods. She has held two projects for young scientists funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. She has been a member of the Polish Parasitological Association since 2013 and authored or co-authored 19 articles from the JCR list, as well as many abstracts.

Since April 2024, she is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computational Genomics group as part of the Sonata bis 12 grant, working on next-generation sequencing (NGS) workflow for single-cell analysis. She is passionate about baking and running.

Mehdi Borjkhani, PhD

University Degree:

PhD, University of Teheran in Iran,  Tehran Polytechnic in Iran

Position at ICTER:

Post-doc

Research Areas:

Neuronal Nets

Postdoctoral fellow, his research activity includes modeling the neuronal nets created from a multitude of different neuronal populations and data analysis.

Piotr Kasprzycki PhD

University Degree:

Doctor of Philosophy – PhD, Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland

Position at ICTER:

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Areas:

Polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography, time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Physical Optics and Biophotonics Group led by Prof. M. Wojtkowski at the Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences. I joined this Group in 2019 after obtaining my Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Warsaw.

I specialize in biomedical imaging, polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography, quantitative micro-elastography, and time-resolved fluorescence measurements. These advanced techniques pave the way for groundbreaking discoveries in medicine.

Vineeta Kaushik, PhD

University Degree:

PhD in Biophysics from the University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Position at ICTER:

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Areas:

Proteins Involved in the Visual Cycle

E-mail: Post-doc

Vineeta Kaushik obtained her PhD in Biophysics from the University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India in 2020. During her doctoral studies she has experienced in biophysical and biochemical characterization of archaeal protein along with specialized in bioinformatics approach. She joined the Integrated Structural Biology lab at ICTER in March 2021 as a Postdoc fellow to work on the structure and functional elucidation of various proteins involved in the visual cycle.

Katarzyna Kordecka,  PhD

University Degree:

PhD, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, University of Agriculture in Cracow

 

Position at ICTER:

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Areas:

Neurophysiology, Neuronal Network Processing, In vivo Electrophysiological Recordings