UL: Cooperation

The January issue of Nature Communications published a paper showing how ribosomes (the translational machinery) change their position during the sporulation process in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. The research was carried out by a team of dr hab. Agata Starosta from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in cooperation with scientists from our University’s Faculty of Biotechnology – dr Joanna Hołówka and prof. Jolanta Zakrzewska-Czerwińska.

The staff of the Faculty of Biological Sciences invites you to an open lecture by prof. Tomas Pinos Figueras, entitled: “Molecular insights into McArdle’s disease. Similarities and differences with other glycogen storage diseases and current therapeutic strategies.”

Once again, the UWr Institute of Computer Science will be the organiser of the ICPC Central Europe Regional Contest. From 13 to 15 December, our university will host seventy three-person teams consisting of programming enthusiasts from top universities in Central Europe, who will face complex algorithmic tasks.

During the second plenary meeting of the Biotechnology Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a by-election was held to select three new members/members of the Committee – specialists in biotechnology. The Committee was composed of three members, including prof. dr hab. Jolanta Zakrzewska-Czerwińska, a RDN member and head of the Department of Molecular Microbiology at the Faculty of Biotechnology at the University of Wrocław.

W rankingu GRAS 2024 znalazły sie trzy dyscypliny UWr: psychologia, fizyka i matematyka.

The University of Wrocław is cooperating with the Belarus Free University Foundation to implement the Belarus Free University (WUB) project in 2024-2025. The project is supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and aims to develop a platform offering a European level of online postgraduate education for Belarusian youth, both those who live in the country and those in exile. The Institute of International and Security Studies at the University of Wrocław has a leading role in implementing the project.

Prof. dr hab. Dorota Nowak, dean of the UWr Faculty of Biotechnology, has been elected for another term as a member of the Molecular Cell Biology Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

On Saturday, 14. September, the Falling Walls Lab Wroclaw 2024 will take place in the Oratorium Marianum (Music Hall) of the University of Wroclaw Main Building, as a part of the opening day programme for the Lower Silesia Festival of Science (Dolnośląski Festiwal Nauki – DFN).

From 17-21 June 2024, students from the UWr Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics participated in a summer school on constitutional law in Madrid co-organised by FLAE UWr and the Open Universiteit in the Netherlands, the UK’s The Open University, Germany’s FernUniversität in Hagen and Spain’s Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia Facultad De Derecho.

Last semester, students of the translation specialisation from the Institute of German Studies participated in an international teaching project Literaturübersetzung im deutsch-polnischen Kulturdialog [Literary translation in German-Polish cultural dialogue].

On 11th of May 2024, the 12th charity Bieg Firmowy [eng. Company Run] took place. It was a 5 x 5 kilometers relay. The idea behind the run was to promote a healthy rivalry and physical activity among the employees through running, integration and cooperation within and between companies. Above all, however, it was to contribute to charity for disabled and ill children. The main originator and organiser has been the Everest Foundation.