Category: News

PSEPB 2025 Conference at Our Faculty

14 09 2025

Our group members were the core organizing team of the PSEPB2025 Conference held at the Faculty of Biology September 9-12, 2025. We hosted over 200 participants from Europe and beyond. ...

PSEPB Main Prize for Our Group

09 09 2025

Łucja Kowalewska received the main prize of the Polish Society of Experimental Plant Biology for the best research article for our New Phytologist paper on grana dynamics. Three members of ...

Artistic Collaboration with Nadia Suvorova

04 09 2025

Łucja Kowalewska collaborated with Swiss designer Nadia Suvorova on an artistic project within the framework of the Poster Safari exhibition - a part of 2025 Zurich Design Days. Łucja delivered ...

Annie Jessop’s Visit from Salzburg University

04 08 2025

Annie Jessop from Salzburg University visited our group and gave an excellent talk on her studies on gyroid structure formation in butterfly wing scales, which are related to the development ...

Radek’s Visit to Bodo Wilts’s Laboratory

25 07 2025

Radek Mazur from our group visited Bodo Wilts's laboratory at Salzburg University using STS COST Action funds to perform preliminary spectroscopic measurements on plants characterized by grana of different regularity ...

New Publication on Thylakoid Membrane Adaptation Strategies

11 07 2025

Our new paper, led by Radek Mazur on photosynthetic apparatus adaptation to low-light conditions in peas and beans, has been published. The study revealed that despite differences in thylakoid membrane ...

Ahoj from Prague! EuroCurvoBioNet Workshop

04 07 2025

Ahoj from Prague! Łucja and Michał participated in the EuroCurvoBioNet COST Action outreach and dissemination workshop. Michał delivered a two-part hands-on workshop on 3D printing techniques, while Łucja together with ...

30th Biophysics Workshop in Kazimierz Dolny

17 06 2025

Łucja and Radek delivered talks at the 30th edition of the Biophysics Workshop in Kazimierz Dolny. This anniversary edition of the wonderful event brings together biophysicists from across Poland for ...

BOB Seminar on Automated Recognition of Membrane Nanostructures

10 06 2025

Tomorrow, Łucja Kowalewska from our group together with Szymon Nowakowski from the University of Warsaw Center for Machine Learning will jointly present a seminar showcasing the results of our collaboration ...

Łucja Received Her Habilitation Diploma

07 06 2025

Last Saturday, a ceremonial habilitation degree conferment took place in the University of Warsaw Library gardens, where Łucja Kowalewska received her commemorative habilitation diploma from the University of Warsaw Rector. ...

New NCN OPUS 28 Grant in Our Group

27 05 2025

Łucja Kowalewska has received an OPUS 28 grant titled "From Nature to Biomimetics: Molecular Mechanisms of Diamond-Type Cubic Membrane Formation in Photosynthetic Lineages," which will be implemented in consortium with ...

GRANA Tool Paper Published in Plant Physiology

24 05 2025

Our reference article describing the AI tool GRANA has been published in the Plant Physiology journal. The publication presents GRANA (Graphical Recognition and Analysis of Nanostructural Assemblies) - a user-friendly ...

Łucja as a Guest on Radio Kampus’ “Kampus Główny” Program

16 05 2025

Łucja Kowalewska appeared as a guest on the "Kampus Główny" program at Radio Kampus, a show dedicated to science popularization. During the conversation, she aimed to engage listeners with cellular ...

Article About Our Research in UW Science Service

13 05 2025

A popular science article about our research has been published in the University of Warsaw Science Service. The publication presents our work on plastid membrane nanomorphology in an accessible way, ...

“Shrink or Expand” Paper Published

27 04 2025

In collaboration with scientists from the University of Copenhagen, we published research resolving decades of conflicting observations about thylakoid membrane dynamics. The study revealed a sophisticated three-phase response pattern (shrinkage, ...