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The Dioscuri Centre for Modelling of Posttranslational Modifications will be established at the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB) of the Jagiellonian University

The Dioscuri Centre for Modelling of Posttranslational Modifications will be established at the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB) of the Jagiellonian University

The Dioscuri Centre for Modelling of Posttranslational Modifications will be established at the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology. The team will be led by Dr Mateusz Sikora, one of the winners of the 4th International Competition for Dioscuri Centres published by the Max Planck Society and the National Science Centre Poland (NCN).

Dioscuri Centre MCB JU

Dioscuri is a joint program of the German Max Planck Society and the Polish National Science Centre. This program enables outstanding scientists to conduct world-class research at scientific institutions located in Poland in collaboration with German universities and research institutions.
Dr Mateusz Sikora has been selected from among 23 scientists in the fourth round of the Dioscuri Programme and will head the new Dioscuri Centre at MCB JU.
His partner from Germany will be Prof. Dr Gerhard Hummer who leads the Theoretical Biophysics department at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt and with whom Dr Sikora has already been collaborating since 2017.

As Dr Sikora points out: “Polish institutions are an attractive place for leading scientific activity, but there are limited long-term solutions to support young group leaders with ambitious research ideas, which makes it difficult to take full advantage of international experience and facilitate knowledge transfer." He adds, that he chose to apply to the Dioscuri Programme "because it provides this missing element, supporting my stay at one of the best institutes in the field, while giving me the freedom to focus on conducting my research."
Dr Sikora began his scientific career at the Jagiellonian University and received his PhD at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He collaborates with scientists in renowned research institutions across the world such as the Institute of Science and Technology Austria andor the Max Planck Society. Now he returns to his Alma Mater to establish the Dioscuri Centre at MCB.
Using his previous experience in simulating membrane protein complexes, Dr Sikora and his team will build a simulation platform tailored to study the role of post-translational modifications in protein-protein interactions.

"Ongoing work on pandemic control has shown that computer simulations are essential for integrating and interpreting experimental results, but revealed our limited understanding of posttranslational modifications at nanoscale. " - says the computational biophysicist.
The formation of the research team will begin later in 2022, Dioscuri Centre at MCB JU will start on 1st of May 2023.

Więcej informacji:

Trzy nowe Centra Dioscuri powstaną w Krakowie (źródło: NCN)

Three new Dioscuri Centres to be launched in Krakow, Poland (źródło: MPG)

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