- 2024-07-21: We welcome our new and first doctoral student: Zainab Kazim!
- 2024-06-25:Congratulations on a successfull defense MSc Weronika Nowak!
- 2024-06-(12–14): Weronika Nowak will present an abstract at the Nano(&)BioMateriały conference in Toruń, Poland.
Doctoral Student w/ Stipend Announcement within NCN OPUS-21 Project
Wydział Nauk Biologicznych i Weterynaryjnych/Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences
Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu/Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Start Date: April 1st 2024
Stipend Level: 5,000 PLN/month (gross/gross [brutto/brutto]: employer taxes, pension, health insurance and income taxes are deducted from this amount
Stipend Duration: 48 months
Project Description: Generation and characterization of synthetic single domain VHH antibodies against nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes. Under the supervision of the project leader: Dr. Ákos Nemecz. More information about the lab and projects may be found at: nemeczlab.umk.pl
Requirements:
- Master of Science in biochemistry, pharmacology, biology, or related field, completed before beginning of doctoral dissertation.
- Experience in a biochemical laboratory
- Good communication skills.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English.
- A cover/motivation letter
- CV
- A list of contact information (name, email, position/institution) for two references included in either the CV or cover letter
- A signed GDPR statement: Found here
- Master of Science in biochemistry, pharmacology, biology, or related field, completed before beginning of doctoral dissertation.
- 2023-12-14: Katarzyna Świstowska won a Grants4NCU individual project entitled: Creating a main immunogenic region template for the α3 and β4 subunits of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
- 2023-12-14: Weronika Nowak (PI) and Katarzyna Świstowska won a Grants4NCU group project entitled: Using an Internal Ribosomal Entry Site sequence to express complex stoichiometries of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
- 2023-06-29: Magda Tylenda (PI), Kamila Grygiel, Marcelina Mikołajczyk et Kuba Woliński won a Grants4NCU group project entitled: α5/α4 orthosteric-site specific nanobodies as a tool for nicotinic acetylcholine receptor investigations.
- 2023-09-(18-20): Weronika Nowak will present an abstract at the Single Domain Antibodies conference in Paris, France.
- 2023-06-29: Weronika Nowak won a SMART3 Internship grant for a 28 day stay at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France entitled: Selection and identification of specific VHHs.
- 2023-06-(14-16): Weronika Nowak will present an abstract at the Nano(&)BioMateriały conference in Toruń, Poland.
- 2023-02-20: dr Dorota Nemecz will present her abstract at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in San Diego. Come check us out @13:45 Exhibit Hall BC Poster#:LB75.
- 2022-12-30: Weronika Nowak won a Grants4NCU individual project entitled: mCherry-linked nAChRs as a tool for fluorescence studies.
- 2022-12-22: Dr. Ákos Nemecz won a Mobility VI grant for a stay at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France
- 2022-10-27: Departmental Seminar by Dr. Ákos Nemecz @10am Room C226
- The Nemecz Lab won one of four positions in the 2022 Emerging Fields competition as part of the collaborative group: Cells as EXperimental platforms and bioFACTories (CExFact) headed by dr hab. Krzysztof Zienkiewicz. Read about it here (in Polish)
- 2022-06-10: As part of the POWER project “Universitas Copernicana Thoruniensis in Futuro - modernization of the Nicolaus Copernicus University as part of the Integrated University Program” Dr. Pierre-Jean Corringer from the Pasteur Institute will give a lecture: “Illuminating the gating transition of pentameric channel-receptors”
On June 10th, 2022, at 11:00 in the Darwin Lecture Hall Flyer - 2021-05-11: Jakub Lewandowski (PI), Weronika Nowak, Kacper Roszak, and Agata Wikarska won a Grants4NCU group project entitled: Generating humanized nAChR templates.
