Category: Students

In 2023 Agnieszka Michalak completed her Bachelor of Engineering degree in biotechnology, specializing in technical biochemistry and molecular biotechnology at the Lodz University of Technology. During the studies, she was involved in two research projects. The first project concerned the isolation, identification, and biochemical characterization of bacterial endophytes in stinging nettle. The second project concerned the bioinformatic characterization of TetR protein structures.

After completing her Bachelor’s she was involved in a project concerning analysis of complex shotgun metagenomes of cyanobacteria in collaboration with the Medical University of Gdańsk. At the International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science in collaboration with the University of Malta, she was involved in research developing antibodies against SARS-Cov-2 and Zika viruses where she was analyzing phage-display NGS data.

Her next milestone was starting Master’s studies in bioinformatics and systems biology at the University of Warsaw where she is focused on machine learning and multi-omics. Her MSch thesis involves the analysis of multi-omics data from Arabidopsis thaliana. In CGG group she is involved in analysis NGS data in Weave-Unisono Project.

Privately she is passionate about history and linguistics.

Katarzyna completed her undergraduate thesis in field of virology at the Warsaw University of LifeSciences (SGGW), where she focused on characterizing cell-mediated immunity in a mixed culture of microglia and astrocytes during SialodacryoadeniNs virus (SDAV) infection.

Currently, she is pursuing her MSc thesis at the Military Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, investigating the protective effects of noble metal nanoparticles on the central nervous system (CNS) during Coronaviridae infection. Additionally, she is a member of the Interdepartmental Student Research Group of Nanobiotechnology (MKNN) at SGGW, contributing to a project focused on neurobiology. At ICTER, she is involved in the SONATINA 8 project, working alongside Natalia Ochocka.

Hussein Nasrallah holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Lebanon, as well as dual Master’s degrees: one in Digital Biology from the University of Pavia, Italy, and another in Educational Management from Lebanon. With a strong background in biological sciences and expertise in computational tools, he specializes in protein-protein interaction prediction. During a six-month internship, he utilized AlphaFold2 to investigate novel interactions between the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi and its vector, Ixodes scapularis (ticks), contributing to a deeper understanding of vector-borne diseases.