Organisers

Michal is a molecular biologist specializing in genome stability and DNA repair mechanisms, a graduate of the University of Warsaw. He received his PhD from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2002. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Karolinska Nobel Institute in Stockholm, Michal led a research group at the Medical Research Council (MRC)/University of Cambridge in the UK. Between 2019-2020 Michal worked the industry.

Michal research interests focus on biochemistry of DNA repair complexes, mutation fixation in cancers and the relationship between failure of DNA repair mechanisms and disease. Since 2020, after returning to Poland, Michal had been running the Laboratory of Genome Dynamics, from 2021 he was appointed the Director of the Life Sciences and Biotechnology Center and in 2022 the Director of BBMRI.pl national biobanking node at Łukasiewicz – PORT.

Bjorn Sommer is a Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art (London) where he is leading Year One of the Innovation Design Engineering program. He is working on the boundary of Visual/Immersive Analytics and design of ocean-related data, collective behaviour, as well as mesoscopic and molecular data modelling.

He has experience since more than a decade in the development of 3D-stereoscopic applications. He holds a B. Sc. in Media Informatics, an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Media Sciences, and a PhD in Bioinformatics from Bielefeld University. From 2015-2016 he was working as a Research Fellow at Monash University (Melbourne), and from 2016-2019 at the University of Konstanz.

Conference program committee:

Tomasz Kościółek, PhD
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Prof. Małgorzata Kotulska
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

Prof. Dr Ralf Hofestädt
Bielefeld Univeristy, Germany

Prof. Falk Schreiber
University of Konstanz, Germany

Dr. Florentino Fernández Riverola
University of Vigo, Spain

Dr. Uwe Scholz
IPK Gatersleben, Germany

Prof. Dr. Ming Chen
Zhejiang University, China

Prof. emerit. Chanchal Mitra
University of Hyderabad, India