Author: bwaclaw

Today is the official start date of the Dioscuri Centre, and my first day as the leader of the centre. Not that I have many people to lead – at the moment, it’s just me, Anna Jasczak (administrative coordinator), and two PhD students who have officially joined today. But I hope the centre will expand by a few postdocs in the next months. There will be also a post for a lab technician, more on this soon.

Bartek Waclaw: I am co-organizing this workshop in Edinburgh, 25/26 March 2021. The workshop had been scheduled for this year but was cancelled due to the coronavirus. Hopefully, this time we will have more luck. We are also looking into other options (a hybrid or an all-online meeting).

Link to the workshop’s website:

https://higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk/workshops/fundamentals-of-growing-active-matter/

Bartek Waclaw: I will participate in the conference “Dynamics of Biological Systems”. This is the first online-only meeting for me, and also the first conference I will be taking part in since the lockdown. I feel very excited about it!

https://indico.cern.ch/event/943962/page/20742-invited-speakers

The Centre is recruiting up to 5 post-doctoral researchers, see the Jobs tab for more details

The Centre will soon start recruiting PhD students. All students will be affiliated with the Warsaw PhD School in Natural and BioMedical Sciences. Applications must be submitted to the PhD school between 25 May 25 and 7 June. Follow this link for more information.

The Centre offers three PhD projects starting in October 2020. Click on the titles below for a short description of each project.

Each position is fully funded by a tax-free scholarship, approx. 1300 EUR/month (5800PLN/month), increased to up to 1600 EUR/month (7200PLN/month) following successful mid-term evaluation.

For informal equiries, contact Bartek Waclaw.

Available projects:

Computer models of intracellular bacterial colonies

Bacterial response to antibiotics in laboratory models of infections

Models of bacterial response to antibiotics