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We have secured funding for a new project investigating the human mitochondrial epitranscriptome, in collaboration with the Genomics Core Facility at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw. The project aims to identify and characterize widespread chemical modifications present in mitochondrial RNA.

This project will be supported under IDUB "Research Impulses" (Impulsy Badawcze) scheme.

Asia, Navid, and Karolina presented their posters at the 2026 Mechanisms of RNA Decay Meeting, held on June 24–26, 2026, at Harnack House of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany.

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Navid attended the course Analysis and integration of transcriptome and proteome data at EMBL Heidelberg from 3rd to 8th May, 2026. 

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In May 2026, Justyna presented her research on recombinant mitochondrial protein expression in Human cells and the design, expression, and structural analysis of human polynucleotide phosphorylase (hPNPase) at the 13th Symbioza Conference in Warsaw and the 10th Genomica Conference in Kraków in May 2026.

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In November, 2025, Asia and Navid spent a week at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, as guests of Professor Ben Luisi, to learn more about cryo-EM. The visit was funded by First Team FENG FNP grant.  

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From 06th to 10th October, 2025, Karolina was at the EMBL Imaging Centre in Heidelberg, for Autumn school on single particle cryoEM: from sample to 3D reconstruction 

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In this review, we present the current scope of knowledge of hPNPase, including its structure, subcellular localisation, metabolic activity, roles in mtRNA transport, processing and degradation, and its involvement in apoptosis.

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Our group attended the 2nd Polish RNA Biology Conference, held on 24–27 June 2025 in Poznań and presented posters showcasing latest research.

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With support from the FENG First Team 2.2 programme of the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), Poland, and the European Funds for Smart Economy 2021–2027 (FENG), our laboratory has acquired the Jess Simple Western™ system for Automated Western Blot from bio_techne.