26 lutego 2021
We would like to inform you that the University of Warsaw authorities have submitted a request to the Ministry of Education and Science to extend COVID-19 vaccinations to the entire academic community of the University of Warsaw, including administrative staff and other employees at the age of 65-70, doctoral candidates and students.
UW Rector
Źródło: www.en.uw.edu.pl
22 lutego 2021
The Centre of New Technologies invites to a webinar by
Piotr Setny, PhD,
Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw
Title: Structural determinants of influenza virus fusion peptide activity
Date: 26th February 2021 (Friday)
Time: 12:00 pm (Central European Time)
Host: prof. Joanna Trylska
Virtual seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85624784389
Meeting ID: 856 2478 4389
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Abstract:
Membrane fusion is necessary for the entrance of influenza virus into host cell. It is mediated by the hemagglutinin protein, whose N-terminal fragments of only 20-23 amino acids length have long been known to induce fusion on their own and are thus called fusion peptides. Accumulated data suggest that influenza fusion peptides adopt kinked structures whose actual bending angle and orientation within the membrane vary depending on a number of subtle factors. One of them are amino acids mutations, in particular those that lead to fusion deficient phenotype. In spite of ongoing efforts, the details of peptide-lipid interactions and their role in membrane fusion remain elusive, hampering our understanding of this key event in viral life cycle.
Using the combination of extensive all atom, explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations and experimental methods we investigate peptides free energy landscape, lipid order perturbation, and fusion efficacy. We suggest that peptides activity may be directly related to their ability to at least transiently penetrate membrane core, and we demonstrate that this ability is lost as an effect of a known, function-loss W14A mutation. Our findings provide physical interpretation for structure-activity relationships for variants of influenza fusion peptide, thus contributing to understanding of fusion mechanism.
19 lutego 2021
We publish the latest information on the organisation of vaccinations against COVID-19 for academic teachers and others conducting classes.
Please be advised that medical facilities providing COVID-19 vaccinations can inform people whose applications were submitted by the University of Warsaw about their vaccinations dates very promptly. These dates can also include Saturdays and Sundays. The University of Warsaw does not influence a vaccination schedule. When coming to a medical facility to get vaccinated, it is needed to take your ID an initial screening interview questionnaire, completed on the day of vaccination. Please check your e-mail, phone calls and text messages (SMS) regularly.
Magdalena Gaczyńska, UW Vaccination Coordinator
Source: www.en.uw.edu.pl
17 lutego 2021
Prof. Sławomir Żółtek, the University of Warsaw Vice-Rector for Students and Quality of Teaching, will clear up any doubts that might appear regarding the organisation of classes in the coming semester during an online meeting on 22nd February.
On 18th January, the UW Rector issued an ordinance regulating education in the summer semester (starting on 22nd February). The winter semester is coming to an end, followed by the examination session. The organisation of classes in the summer semester still raises many questions.
Prof. Slawomir Żółtek, the Vice-Rector for Students and Quality of Teaching, will strive to explain how education after the winter break will look.
The event which was supposed to take place on 29th January is postponed to 22nd February, 11:00. It will be held on the UW profile on Facebook.
Students can submit their questions by filling in the form which is active until 26th January, at 18:00. Prof. Sławomir Żółtek will answer selected questions during the meeting.
The online meeting will be conducted in Polish. When it is finished, a full transcript of the broadcast in Polish and English will be available. More >>
Source: www.en.uw.edu.pl
16 lutego 2021
Dear Students,
Welcome Point and The Volunteer Centre of The University of Warsaw opens up application for the last places in the Make it visible! – series of online workshops on the topics such as promotion and communication, cross-cultural skills and video making. The grand finale of the project will be a preparation of an official video promoting extracurricular activities among the academic community.
When and where?
We will meet every two weeks on Wednesdays afternoons, starting from March up to May.
If you qualify for the workshops, we will send you a link to the meeting platform.
How to join the project?
There is a two-step application process:
1. First, fill in registration form: https://forms.gle/XPrDwyTXhU8XAc5C9
Deadline: February 21, 2021 11:59pm (23:59, CET)
2. Secondly, we will invite chosen participants for the online interviews in order to get to know each other and present the details of the project.
In case of any questions please contact us via email: welcome.event@uw.edu.pl
Also if you would like to join but you’re busy on Wednesdays, please contact us and let us know when you are available.
More information: http://welcome.uw.edu.pl/make-it-visible-last-free-places/
Best regards,
Welcome Point & Volunteer Centre of the University of Warsaw
15 lutego 2021
We publish a message from the University of Warsaw Rector regarding the registration for COVID-19 vaccinations for academic teachers.
“Dear All,
We are finalising the preparations for the registration for COVID- 19 vaccinations available for academic teachers and others conducting classes at the University of Warsaw.
Due to the Ministry of Education and Science decision, the registration process will begin on 15th February 2021. On Monday, at 8:00 am, academic teachers who meet the criteria, defined by the Ministry of Education and Science, will receive an e-mail with the detailed information on how to register for vaccination.
Other people who conduct classes at UW teaching at the University of Warsaw (including doctoral candidates who are not academic teachers) will be informed about the possibility of registering for vaccination against COVID-19 in a separate announcement.”
UW Rector
Source: www.en.uw.edu.pl
12 lutego 2021
On 12th February, the Ministry of Education and Science has published the latest updates on COVID-19 vaccinations. The University of Warsaw is preparing itself to administer the registration process for academic teachers, and other people who conduct classes, who want to get vaccinated. The register will be open to people born after 31st December 1955.
UW chose its coordinator, Magdalena Gaczyńska (Human Resources Office Deputy Director), responsible for collecting data of those who wish to be vaccinated. Her email address: Magdalena.Gaczynska(at)adm.uw.edu.pl.
We are currently waiting for guidelines from the Ministry of Education and Science regarding the scope of data needed to complete the registration form, which will be made available to public and non-public universities.
The general information provided by the Ministry of Education and Science on 12th February:
- On 15th February (Monday), the National Information Processing Institute of the National Research Institute (OPI PIB) will provide universities with the registration form. People authorised by a university rector will enter the data.
- The data will be passed on to the National Health Fund, and then to vaccination centres.
- Vaccination centres will contact universities to arrange vaccination dates for given groups of teachers collectively from the entire university.
- Rectors will select vaccination places from the list of vaccination centres to be indicated by the Ministry of Education and Science.
- An academic teacher, working for more than one university or collaborating with more than one university, is entitled to register for vaccination only at one university. The ministry recommends choosing the primary workplace.
More information is available on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science.
Source: www.en.uw.edu.pl
11 lutego 2021
We publish a message of the University of Warsaw Chancellor regarding COVID-19 vaccinations for academic teachers.
Dear Sir or Madam,
I kindly inform you that the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of 14 January 2021, Journal of Laws, item 91 (with subsequent changes) is the latest legal act regulating the order of COVID-19 vaccinations, including vaccinations for academic teachers.
Due to this regulation, academic teachers as a group might be vaccinated in Phase 1 of vaccine rollout, after people aged over 60 and school teachers.
Unfortunately, the University of Warsaw has not received any official information on the dates and guidelines for submitting and then registering for vaccinations by now.
We will notify you of any changes regularly. However, we would like to encourage you to follow the official websites of the Ministry of Health.
Yours faithfully,
Jerzy Pieszczurykow
University of Warsaw Chancellor
Source: www.en.uw.edu.pl
08 lutego 2021
The Centre of New Technologies invites to a webinar by
prof. Daniela Pollak,
Professor for Behavioral Biology, Department for Neurophysiolgy and –pharmacology,
Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Title: STAT3 in the serotonergic system modulates emotional reactivity relevant to mood and psychotic disorders
Date: 12th February 2021 (Friday)
Time: 12:00 pm (Central European Time)
Host: Prof. Marta B. Wiśniewska
Virtual seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88177457671
Meeting ID: 881 7745 7671
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Abstract:
Mental illness represents a growing disease burden globally, yet many patients do not seek treatment or do not respond to current treatment options. Finding new strategies to improve the quality of life of those affected remains challenging as our understanding of the pathophysiological processes is still limited.
Recently, the idea has emerged that studying common symptom complexes rather than distinct disease entities may be useful to disentangle underlying neurobiological mechanisms. For instance, increasing evidence suggests that mood disorders such as major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BP), and psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia (SCZ), all of which are characterised to some degree by affective symptoms, may arise as the result of partially overlapping pathophysiological mechanisms.
Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is a ubiquitously expressed transcription factor, activated by a range of immunogenic and non- immunogenic stimuli. In addition to notable roles in cancer and a number of processes relevant to neural function, in rodents STAT3 activity has been linked to behaviours pertinent to mood regulation by several lines of evidence. Here, we investigated whether STAT3 signalling within the serotonergic system, which is deeply involved in the control of affective behaviours, may regulate neurobiological processes contributing to altered phenotypes in behavioural paradigms relevant to mood and psychotic disorders.
Using conditional gene knockout and viral-mediated approaches in mice, we targeted STAT3 expression in the midbrain dorsal raphe (DR), containing the majority of cell bodies of serotonergic neurons in the brain. Mice constitutively lacking STAT3 in serotonergic cells (STAT3 KO) were less reactive in their behavioural responses in paradigms relevant to stress coping and showed a diminished locomotor sensitisation response to d-amphetamine compared to controls, while serotonergic firing activity in the DR was increased in STAT3 KO. Analysis of transcriptional changes in the DR of STAT3 KO revealed a disproportionate presence of genes linked to biological processes highly relevant to neuropsychiatric disorders. Subsequent viral-mediated knockdown of STAT3 in adult mice produced the same behavioural effects as the germline genetic knockout strategy, suggesting that short-term disruption of STAT3 activity in the DR was sufficient to induce the observed behavioural changes.
Taken together, we suggest that DR STAT3, via the transcriptional control of genes and gene networks pertinent to cell excitability and synaptic function, may constitute a molecular link between upstream modulators of STAT3 activity, serotonergic neurotransmission and the control of behaviours relevant to psychopathology.
02 lutego 2021
As of 1st January 2021, the University of Warsaw, as a public university, has been made subject to the Act of 4th October 2018 on Employee Capital Plans (ECP; Pracownicze Plany Kapitałowe, PPK, in the Polish language).
ECP is a voluntary long-term saving programme, developed and co-financed by employees (employees and contractors subject to obligatory social insurance), employers and the state. Payments financed by the employees, the employer, a welcome payment and an annual surcharge from the state, will be transferred to individual private ECP accounts.
ECP is the programme that gathers ECP participants’ savings regularly. After exceeding the age of 60, one can withdraw funds. There are also other objectives of ECP stated in the above mention act.
Pursuant to the Act on Employee Capital Plans, employed persons are persons obligatorily subject to retirement pension and disability pension in the Republic of Poland:
- Persons employed under an employment agreement, nomination, selection, appointment or cooperative employment agreement;
- Natural persons over the age of 18 who perform work under an agency agreement, contract of commission or other agreement for the provision of services to which, according to article 750 of the Act of 23rd April 1964 – Civil Code the provisions on a contract of mandate apply.
A declaration on resignation from making payments into Employee Capital Plans one can submit as of 1st January 2021:
- Persons employed under an employment agreement can submit the declaration to the UW Human Resources Office or by sending an email to ppk.etat@adm.uw.edu.pl;
- Persons employed under a contract of mandate can submit the declaration to the UW Financial Department or send it via email to ppk.zlecenie@adm.uw.edu.pl.
ECP participants who submitted the declaration of resignation can provide their employer with the written application on making payments to the ECP programme at any time.
More information on ECP is available at www.mojeppk.pl.
