Prof. Krzysztof Liberek in his office. Photo: Alan Stocki/UG Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Liberek will receive today, December 6, the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science, called the Polish Nobel Prize, due to its prestigious nature. The ceremony will take place in Warsaw and will be broadcast on the FNP channel on…

Elections to the Scientific Committees of the Polish Academy of Sciences, beginning their term in 2024, have concluded. Twenty-three UG scientists were included in the 71 teams that will form numerous opinions, positions, expert opinions, and forecasts over the next four years. In an age of populism and misinformation, the Polish Academy of Sciences…

A prestigious grant within the NSC PRELUDIUM 22 competition has been awarded to Jurand Sobiecki, a Doctoral School of Humanities and Social Sciences participant at the University of Gdańsk. For the next three years, he will carry out, under the scientific supervision of dr hab. Natascha Kosakowska-Berezecka, prof. UG, a project entitled 'The role of…

  11 UG researchers received funding for projects in the OPUS 25 (including one as part of a consortium) and PRELUDIUM 22 competitions, funded by the National Science Centre. In total, financial support for the UG amounted to over PLN 7 million.   OPUS 25 is a competition for research projects intended for scientists at all stages of their scientific…

Pioneering research on 'indestructible' tardigrades is being conducted by an inter-university team of scientists, including, among others, dr Monika Mioduchowska from the UG Faculty of Biology. The group is headed by dr hab. Łukasz Kaczmarek, prof. UAM. A publication prepared by the researchers on the cosmopolitanism of one of the most interesting extremophiles appeared in the journal 'Scientific Reports' from the…

The Baltic Chemistry Conference student-doctoral initiative has been awarded the ProJuvenes student community award in the 'University without Borders' category. The competition is organised annually by the Students' Parliament of the Republic of Poland. The award-winning conference took place on May 27-28, 2023, in an online format and brought…

  Correction of symptoms of Huntington's disease by genistein through FOXO3-mediated autophagy stimulation - this is the title of an article published in the journal Autophagy, whose authors are scientists from the Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, UG: prof. Grzegorz Węgrzyn, dr Karolina Pierzynowska, dr Magdalena Podlacha, dr Lidia…

Over 100 million years, ants have hardly changed, and prehistoric wasps once fed mainly on plants. What else we can learn from inclusions in amber is told by prof. Vincent Perrichot from the University of Rennes (France). The biologist came to the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology as part of the UG Visiting Professors programme…

Russia's invasion of Ukraine surprised not only ordinary citizens but also international relations experts. Prof. Torbjørn Knutsen from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology discusses why the economic approach to interstate relations has failed. The academic visited the UG Institute of Political Science as part of the…

Katarzyna Dziubek in the laboratory; photo: Alan Stocki/UG. Cancer is a complex and devious disease, constantly evolving and trying to trick our immune system. It comes in many varieties, characterised by numerous genetic mutations. A doctoral student at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG and a…