A PhD Student from Max Planck Research Group at MCB – Anna Salerno-Kochan – has been awarded with ETIUDA grant for young scientists who are preparing a doctoral dissertation. The project titled “Structural characterization of Mei-P26 protein – a … Continued

Our team members using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) managed to catch Elongator directly at work. They published their results in Science Advances. All living cells employ ribosomes and transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules to decode mRNA sequences and translate the codon-triplet-encoded information … Continued

The annual RNA meeting is quite a magnificent meeting for the RNA people to gather around and discuss their findings. This great meeting had over 1000 participant this year and took place at the congress ICE center near the city … Continued

On 23rd and 24th of May, the whole Institute enjoyed a two-day seminar in the heart of the Tatry mountains – the town of Zakopane. About 140 participants contributed to 90 poster presentations and 30 talks. The meeting was dedicated … Continued

We finally managed to gather (almost) all of our group members in the one picture! Have a look:

Maria Landrock joins Max Planck Research Group for 2 months to take advantage of the research experience available in our laboratory. We are also very happy to have Maria here, which help us strengthen the collaboration between Jagiellonian and Kassel … Continued

A team of scientists from the Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB) at the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland) has identified a potential link between tRNA modifications and the biosynthesis of selenocysteine, the 21st naturally occurring amino acid. In detail, their article … Continued

An International team of researchers based at the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB) from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, has cracked the atomic structure of an important cellular “bodyguard”. The Elp3 protein helps to properly produce all other cellular … Continued

Igor joined our group as a visiting student to work on reconstitution of murine elongator complex in insect cells.  Igor says about himself: I am a student of BA program in biotechnology at the Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology … Continued

Our 2nd Year Ph.D. Student Raj (Keerthiraju Ethiraju Ravichandran), along with research collaborator Prof. Dr. Raffael Schaffrath and his team members from Kassel, Germany have just published a review article entitled “Roles of Elongator Dependent tRNA Modification Pathways in Neurodegeneration and … Continued