Technician positions available
10 lipca 2018We are looking for 1 technician in the chemistry. The project „Towards new methods of extracting thermodynamic properties from X-ray data of model polymorphic systems” is funded by the HOMING programme from the Foundation for Polish Science. Project leader: dr Anna Hoser. Applications should be submitted till 20th of July 2018. More information >> pdf
Lectures Dr Dritan Hasa and Prof. Władek Minor CNBCh 5.07.2018
03 lipca 2018Dear Colleagues and Friends,
On the nearest Thursday (5/07/) will have two excellent lectures at the Centre for Biological and Chemical Research (CNBCh – Aula B) delivered by:
- Dr Dritan Hasa (Leicester, UK)
Expanding the horizon of mechanochemical synthesis of functional (pharmaceutical) solids
and - Prof. Władek Minor (Charlotesville, USA and Department of Chemistry University of Warsaw)
Reproducibility in Biomedical Research
The lectures will start at 10.00 am and will be ca. 40 min. long (+discussion) each.
I take an immense pleasure in inviting you all to these lectures.
Prof. Krzysztof Woźniak
Results of the competition for the PhD positions within OPUS
29 czerwca 2018The recruitment commission announces that none of the candidates for the PhD positions within the NSC grant „Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry in Metal-Organic Frameworks” meets all the necessary criteria and hence a new competition will be announced soon.
Conference on new advances in the chemistry of porphyrinoids
11 czerwca 2018Institute of Organic Chemistry PAS invites to a conference on new advances in the chemistry of porphyrinoids, which will held on the 29th of June 2018 in Institutes assembly hall (Kasprzaka 44/52, Warsaw), start at 08:50.
The conference is free to attend and no registration is required.
Details: www.icho.edu.pl
Open Day! Core Facility for Crystallography and Biophysics UW
28 maja 2018
Dear All,
We are pleased to invite you on May 29 from 13:00 to the Open Day of the newly established Core Facility for Crystallography and Biophysics (CFCB, Center for Biological and Chemical Research, University of Warsaw) co-funded by the TEAM-TECH Core Facility Foundation for Polish Science.
Announcement and brochure with CFCB services is attached. The head of the CFCB is Professor dr hab. Krzysztof Woźniak (http://crystal.chem.uw.edu.pl/wozniak.html http://lbs.chem.uw.edu.pl), deputy head Dr. Jan Kutner (http://crystal.chem.uw.edu.pl/staff/kutner.html).
On this occasion we would like to talk about your important projects and discuss how we could bring new research approaches to them:
– Crystallization of small chemical molecules
– Crystallization of proteins
– Biochemical and biophysical tests
We are open to academic and commercial cooperations.
We invite you to meet and talk to CFCB experts over the coffee, tea and cookies …
https://www.facebook.com/events/368742810284391??ti=ia
Thank you very much and best regards,
Core Facility for Crystallography and Biophysics
2 PhD positions available within an OPUS grant from NSC
21 maja 20182 PhD positions are available within ‚OPUS” grant ‚Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry in MEtal-Organic Frameworks’. Project leader: dr Michał Chmielewski. Deadline for applications: 12.06.2018. For more info see >> pdf
Lectures dr Paweł Śledź 14-15.05.2018
13 maja 2018Dear Members of our Department
This is to inform you that
Dr Paweł Śledź
(University of Zurich),
Will deliver a series of lectures (14-15 May 2018) on:
Structure-based drug discovery
Location: Maria Skłodowska-Curie Lecture Room (Sala Rady Wydziału),
Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, ul. Pasteura 1
Lecture 1. Monday, 14 May 2018, 14:15 – 15:45
Methods of biophysics and structural biology to study molecular recognition.
Lecture 2. Monday, 14 May 2018, 16:15 – 17:45
How protein structure helps with ligand discovery? Principles of fragment-based methods, comparison to HTS.
Lecture 3. Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 14:15 – 15:45
In silico methods in drug discovery – from implicit solvent force fields to artificial intelligence.
Lecture 4. Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 16:15 – 17:45
Case studies of recent success and failure stories. Future outlook – new targets, new discovery models, new methods.
About the lecturer. Paweł Śledź (at present University of Zurich) was the winner of the 50-th Polish Chemistry Olympiad (2004) and Gold Medalist of 35-th International Chemistry Olympiad (Athens, Greece – 2003). He was student of the Interfaculty Individual Studies in Mathematical and Natural Sciences – Warsaw University Individual Program of Studies with the major subject: Chemistry). For some time in the past, Paweł was associated with several in Poland and abroad such as: Prof. M. Mąkosza, Prof. K. Grela, dr hab. W. Dzwolak, Prof. W. Koźmiński, Prof. K. Woźniak, Prof. W. Minor (Charlotesville, USA), Prof. R. Grubss (the Novbel Prize Winner, CalTech, USA). He accomplished his MSc degree under supervision of Profs K. Wozniak and W. Minor defending his thesis on: „ The role of the Surface Lysine Methylation rescue method for protein crystallization”.
He started his research in structural biochemistry in 2006, focusing on solving protein structures using advanced methodologies like NMR and X-Ray diffraction techniques. In 2007 and 2008 he received extensive biological crystallography training at the University of Virginia, working on targets of the Midwest Center for Structural Genomics. As a graduate student at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cambridge (PhD under supervision of Prof. Chris Abell) he focused on the application of the knowledge of protein structures to drug design. Later he worked at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried (Prof. Wolfgang Baumeister’s group, Germany). Currently, he holds a position at the University of Zurich.
Although the lectures of Dr Śledź are intended mostly for the students of the Interfaculty Individual Studies in Mathematical and Natural Sciences, they also could be very interesting for a broader audience. So all people interested are welcomed.
Dr hab. Anna Nowicka and Prof. Krzysztof Woźniak
Master Students’ Poster Session 2018
09 maja 2018We kindly inform you that, as every year, a poster session is organized,during which the students will present the results of their master’s theses conducted in the academic year 2017/2018.
The poster session will be opened on 06.06.2018 (Wednesday) at 12.00 in the Faculty Hall.
Posters should be presented until June 29, 2018.
Every graduate student will personally present the results of his research in the form of a 2-3 minute oral presentation.
The best presentations and posters will be awarded;
all employees of the Faculty of Chemistry will be able to vote for the best poster (award from the academic community).
Session organizers
Dr Katarzyna Pałka
Dr hab. Beata Krasnodębska-Ostręga
Dream Chemistry Award contest
24 kwietnia 2018Application submission for Dream Chemistry Award contest is open. It is a unique contest in which a prize is awarded to a young scientist with a chemistry background for an idea of a scientific project in the field of chemistry or chemistry-related disciplines that she/he dreams to solve.
Eligible candidates are those born in 1981 or later, who obtained their Ph.D. degree in 2011 or later, and are not employed at IChF-PAN or IOCB Prague.
All the interested should contact directly professor Renata Billewicz.
For more information see: http://dreamchemistryaward.org/dca2018.php.
We warmly encourage you to participate!
The Polish scientific consortium PolStorEn
23 marca 2018
The official signing ceremony of the Polish scientific consortium PolStorEn agreement was held on February 21, 2018 in the premises of Ministry of Energy. Formation of the Consortium is an expression of cooperation of three sectors: government, science and business in the face of electromobility challenges. The Polish scientific consortium PolStorEn was founded by 6 following universities: Warsaw University of Technology, Poznan University of Technology, Jagiellonian University, Warsaw University, University of Science and Technology, Gdansk University of Technology and one research institute – Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals. Professor Andrzej Czerwiśki (University of Warsaw Faculty of Chemistry) became a President of the Consortium Council.
The main goal of forming this scientific and industrial Consortium is developing and implementing innovative solutions in the field of energy storage with the use of primarily Polish intellectual and economic capital. The organizational structure of the Consortium assumes participation of scientific centres, investments funds and industrial partners interested in the development and implementation of the designed technological solutions.
The PolStorEn Consortium is an essential element to create in Poland a competitive value chain aiming to produce modern battery cells (among others lithium-ion batteries) and super capacitors. It will form a bridge between science and economy. It will unlock the potential of Polish science so that the achievements of Polish scientists could even better serve the economic and social development of the country (partners of the Consortium are in possession of 56 identified solutions in this field that are protected by 31 patents and 29 patent applications both in Poland and abroad). This perfectly fits into the initiatives taken by polish government both on national and European level.
Representatives of Ministry of Energy Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology, Ministry of Energy and Polish industry took part in the signing ceremony.
The plans for signing the Consortium agreement had been announced a week earlier by Deputy Minister of Energy Michał Kurtyka in Brussels (link youtube).
Source: www.ch.pw.edu.pl