XXX Gliwice Scientific Meetings
19–20 November 2026
Scientific program
8:00–9:00
Poster Session of the Student Scientific Society of the Silesian University of Technology
Opening of the Conference
9:00–9:15
9:15–10:00
Prof. Mieczysław Chorąży Memory Lecture 2026
Jan Barciszewski · Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Poznań
From Gliwice to the World: the great world of DNA. Mieczysław Chorąży and the breakthroughs of molecular biology.
10:00–10:45
Joanna Rzeszowska · SUT, Gliwice
The origins of scientific discoveries: biology in Gliwice.
10:45–11:15
Coffee Break
Session II · Heat Shock and cellular response to stress
11:15–13:00
Chairpersons: Dorota Ścieglińska & Wiesława Widłak
Dorota Ścieglińska · IGBZ, Jastrzębiec
Tribute to Professor Zdzisław Krawczyk and Heat Shock Proteins.
Anniina Vihervaara · Royal Institute of Technology, Solna
Kinetics and mechanisms of transcriptional reprogramming during stress and differentiation.
Maxim Shevtsov · Technical University of Munich
The epichaperone matrix: a multiscale network organizing tumor cell stress responses.
Patryk Janus · MSCI, Gliwice
Beyond the heat shock response: non-canonical roles of HSF1 in cell survival and hormonal signaling.
13:00–14:00
Lunch
14:00–16:00
Poster Session + coffee (odd numbers - 14:00-15:00, even numbers – 15:00-16:00)
Session III · Genetic predispositions to cancer and targeted treatment
16:00–18:00
Chairpersons: Marek Rusin & Dorota Butkiewicz
Marek Rusin · MSCI, Gliwice
Genetic predispositions to cancer and targeted treatment – historical intro.
Asta Försti & Kari Hemminki · DKFZ, Heidelberg
Germline genetics of colorectal cancer.
Wojciech Fendler · Medical University, Łódź
Expression patterns of circulating miRNAs associated with DNA repair defects.
Jan Lubiński · Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin
Selenium and arsenic in relation to cancer risk among BRCA1 pathogenic variant carriers.
Magdalena Olbryt · MSCI, Gliwice
Targeted genomic profiling of melanoma using liquid biopsy.
19:00–
Social event
8:00–9:00
Poster Session of the Student Scientific Society of the Silesian University of Technology
Session IV · Radiobiology and DNA damage/repair
9:00–10:40
Chairpersons: Dorota Gabryś & Piotr Widłak
Piotr Widłak · Medical University, Gdańsk
DNA damage and Radiobiology – Gliwice Perspective
Christophe Badie · UKHSA, Oxfordshire
From DNA damage to leukaemia development.
Serge Candeias · CEA, Paris
Influence of radiation parameters on radiation-induced inflammation in different primary human cell lineages.
Dorota Gabryś · MSCI, Gliwice
Radiotherapy-induced modulation of the urinary microbiome in patients with prostate cancer.
10:40–11:00
Coffee Break
Session V · Clinical proteomics
11:00–12:45
Chairpersons: Monika Pietrowska & Piotr Widłak
Piotr Widłak · Medical University, Gdańsk
Clinical Proteomics – Gliwice perspective
Maciej Łałowski · University of Helsinki
Analyzing the dynamics of microglia during development in health and disease: a functional omics approach.
Laura Cole · University of Sheffield
Multi-Modal Mass Spectrometry Imaging to Investigate Drug-Induced Response.
Janusz Rak · McGill University, Montreal
From simplicity of oncogenic mutations to complexity of extracellular vesicle landscapes and their biological effects in cancer.
12:45–13:00
Coffee Break
Session VI · Mathematical modelling of biological processes
13:00–14:45
Chairpersons: Andrzej Świerniak & Marek Kimmel
Marek Kimmel · Rice University, Houston
Houston to Gliwice and back.
Tomasz Lipniacki · IPPT PAN, Warszawa
Dissecting antiviral immune response at the population and single-cell level.
Adam Bobrowski · Technical University, Lublin
Existence and convergence of stochastic processes underlying a thin layer approximation of a coupled bulk-surface PDE.
Marie Doumic · INRIA, Paris
Mathematical modelling of telomere dynamics.
14:45–15:30
Lunch
Session VII · New bioactive compounds and biomaterials
15:30–17:15
Chairpersons: Magdalena Skonieczna & Anna Kasprzycka
Radosław Kitel · Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Discovery and in vitro characterization of CLIP-2, a first-in-class small-molecule covalent inhibitor of PD-L1/PD-1 interaction.
Katarzyna Krukiewicz · SUT, Gliwice
Development of multifunctional biomaterials via electroactive surface engineering to modulate cell–material interactions.
Kristýna Valášková · Tomas Bata University, Zlín
Cell-made scaffolds in tissue engineering: from controlled matrix assembly to mechanistically guided alignment.
Seweryn Gałecki · SUT, Gliwice; UTSW, Dallas
Seeing the unseen: expanding the boundaries of cellular imaging with Cy-ExM
17:15–17:45
Poster Awards, Scholarship Presentation, Closing