Joanna Bem, PhD

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.