Are birds faithful to their sexual partners? This question has long fascinated researchers and nature lovers. New light on that complex issue may be shed by research conducted by Dr hab. Aneta Arct from the JU Institute of Environmental Sciences, who has studied the relationship between environmental conditions and frequency of extra-pair copulation among birds within the framework of a project funded by the National Science Centre.
On 14 March 2024 the Jagiellonian University was visited by members of the Icelandic diplomatic corps, including Hannes Heimisson, Ambassador of Iceland to Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania, based in Warsaw and the Consul General to Kraków Janusz Kahl. The delegation was received in Collegium Novum by the JU Vice-Rector for International Relations Prof. Dorota Malec and the Dean of the JU Faculty of Philology Prof. Władysław Witalisz.
The journal Nucleic Acids Research, issued since 1974 by the Oxford University Press, has published a paper devoted to the nsp14, nsp10, and nsp16 methylation complex in SARS-CoV-2. The publication is a result of a study carried out by researchers from the JU Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology under the supervision of Prof. Krzysztof Pyrć and Dr Anna Czarna in close collaboration with the Helmholtz Institute in Munich.
The competition Direction: Space, addressed to students and doctoral students, involved designing a research project that could be carried out at the International Space Station. The prize – funding for the development of the project, mentor assistance as well as a study trip to CERN and European Space Agency headquarters – was given to three teams, one of which counts JU Medical College student Michał Piotrowski amongst its members.
In a paper published in the latest issue of the journal Advances in Psychiatry and Neurology, Prof. Przemysław Bąbel from the Jagiellonian University Institute of Psychology and Prof. Paweł Ostaszewski from the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities Institute of Psychology argue that the approach to people on the autism spectrum should strike a balance between considering this disorder a manifestation of developmental differences in people and the validity of reasons for subjecting them to therapy.
On 7 March 2024 the finals of the Coimbra 3-Minute Thesis JU were held at the Jagiellonian University. As part of the competition, PhD students of Coimbra Group member institutions talk about their doctoral research projects during a 3-minute-long presentation in English. The winner, Justyna Srebro, will represent the Jagiellonian University at the 3MT final in Turku, Finland.
On 5 March, the Jagiellonian University was visited by a delegation from the Taipei Representative Office in Warsaw, which included the Taipei Representative Sharon S. N. Wu together with her colleagues Corinna Hu and Małgorzata Bartczak. They were received in Collegium Novum by JU Rector Prof. Jacek Popiel and JU Vice-Rector for International Relations Prof. Dorota Malec.
On 1 March 2024, the official opening ceremony was held in the SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre for the POLYX beamline, used in X-ray microimaging and X-ray microspectroscopy in the energy range 4-15 keV. The beamline enables imaging of 2D and 3D structure, elemental distribution, and chemical phases of the investigated samples. The facility was built jointly by the Jagiellonian University, the AGH University of Science and Technology and the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Dr Mateusz Sikora from the Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology of the Jagiellonian University (JU MCB) has developed a novel approach to predict how sugars form shields around proteins. This new computational approach, GlycoSHIELD, was created as a result of Polish-German collaboration within the framework of the Max Planck Dioscuri programme, in a Dioscuri Centre established in 2023 at the MCB as well as collaboration with the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) in Paris and the Academia Sinica (Taiwan).
On 27 February, a meeting between the Ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines Leah M. Basinang-Ruiz and JU Rector Prof. Jacek Popiel was held in the JU Collegium Novum. The meeting was also attended by the cultural attaché of the Philippine Embassy, Chloe O. Silverio, and the JU Vice-Rector for International Relations, Prof. Dorota Malec.
The Rising Star Awards are conferred by the United European Gastroenterology (UEG) upon the most distinguished young researchers and clinicians. This year’s winners include Prof. Marcin Magierowski from the Chair in Physiology of the Jagiellonian University Medical College.
The book by Prof. Anna G. Piotrowska From Gypsy to Bohemian: A Study of the Musical Rhapsody, published in 2021 by Brepols publishing house as part of the Speculum Musicae series, has won the Alan Walker Book Award. The awarded work attempts to present the overall history of rhapsody and, re-interpreting the origins of the genre, redefine its place in the European culture, not only in the field of music.