From 18 to 23 August 2024, Emilia had the chance to attend the 75th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in Montréal, Canada. The meeting started with a plenary lecture by Montréal born Nobel Laureate Rudolph A. Marcus – yes, the one from Marcus Theory! – in which he presented his latest research…
On July 18, Elżbieta, Karthika, and Emilia traveled to Gdańsk University of Technology for a knowledge transfer meeting organized by prof. Jacek Ryl and the local student science club RedOX, affiliated with the ECS. During the meeting, Elżbieta presented various methods our group has explored for fabricating electrodes for 3D cell cultures. She received valuable…
Together with 15 other PhD students from our institute Karthika went to the Dornburg Doctoral Seminar hosted by the Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien in Thuringia from 18 to 21 March. Karthika was chosen for an oral presentation and talked about “Low-cost ITO microelectrodes for biosensing using Prussian blue analogues as mediators”. The presentation was well…
On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Emilia was invited to give a talk at the Liceum Ogólnokształcące Sióstr Nazaretanek w Warszawie. Meeting with the students was a great chance to reflect on her journey of becoming a scientist and to debunk the myth that everyone knows who they…
Every January, the IPC PAS organizes a Microsymposium, which serves two primary purposes: to present the past year’s research endeavours and stimulate academic discourse among the institute’s diverse groups, teams, and labs. The speakers, carefully selected from young researchers, both pre-and post-PhD, should have demonstrated excellence through their published work in the preceding year, either…
Dr Nako Nakatsuka from the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, visited the institute on the 26th of October, giving a talk in the Advanced Lecture on Bio-inspired Chemistry series of the Doctoral School. After the talk, she visited a few labs, including ours. This allowed us to exchange ideas, and Dr Nakatsuka was…
At the end of November, Emilia had the chance to visit Prof. Martin Witt and give a talk to the group of Prof. Thomas Humell, both working at the Interdisciplinary Center “Smell & Taste”, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus in Dresden. The institute is a reference centre for the EU on smell and taste.Emilia had…
Emilia was invited to the 11th International Workshop on Surface Modification for Chemical and Biochemical Sensing to give a keynote talk entitled “Simple systems for electrochemical ion sensing”. The conference was held in Łochów, Poland, between the 3rd and 7th of November 2023. Apart from the standard scientific presentations, the conference was rich in tutorial…
On the 11th of October, Emilia organized a debate to discuss different paths of scientists’ development. The main goal was to demonstrate that apart from being a lab head drowned in paperwork or a specialist working with a pipette, a scientist can do other things. Emilia organized a similar event five years ago. At that…
In the previous week (April 17-19) Elzbieta participated in the 3D Cell Culture 2023: Models, Applications & Translation conference organised by DECHEMA (Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in Germany). The conference took place in the Freiburg Concert Hall. The conference focus on advanced and predictive 3D cell culture models – latest trends in development and application…