July 2024

We are pleased to announce that professor Ewa Łojkowska was elected Chairwoman of the Biotechnology Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the 2024-2028 term.

The election of the chairwoman took place at the plenary meeting of the Biotechnology Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences on 26 May 2024. Due to appreciation of the scientific achievements in the field of plant biotechnology and her previous work in the Committee, all members of the Biotechnology Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences present at the meeting supported the candidacy of Prof. Ewa Łojkowska as the Chairwoman.

The vocation ceremony took place on June 19, 2024 at the Staszic Palace in Warsaw.

We are extremely pleased to announce that as a result of appreciation of the contribution of employees and doctoral students of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology to the development of phytopathology in Poland, in May 2024, by decision of the Main Board of the Polish Phytopathological Society (PTFit), the PTFit Branch in Gdańsk was established.

The members of the Branch are employees and doctoral students of the Laboratory of Plant Protection and Biotechnology and the Research and Development Laboratory of MWB UG and GUMed, the Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology of the Faculty of Pharmacy of GUMed and the Department of Analytical Chemistry and Chemical Metallurgy of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

20 June 2024, the Management Board of the PTFit Branch in Gdańsk was established. Dr. Agata Motyka-Pomagruk became the chairman of the Branch, and the deputy chairman is Dr. hab. Krzysztof Waleron, the secretary, Dr. Weronika Babińska-Wensierska, and the treasurer, Dr. hab. Wojciech Śledź.

We invite anyone interested to coollaborate 🙂