Yesterday, all members of the ICRI-BioM were invited by Professor Steinbüchel for lunch. After two years of being with us as the Director of the Center and the Principal Investigator of the Biotechnology group he is returning home. We wish him all the best and thank him for all the work he devoted to the development of the Center.

Lekshmi Gopakumari Satheesh Chandran, Katia Bazaka, Seeram Ramakrishna, Vignesh Kumaravel
Materials Horizons,2023, 10, 292 - 312

Mateusz Pokora, Timo Rheinberger, Frederik R. Wurm, Agata Paneth, Piotr Paneth
Chemosphere 308, 136381 (2022)

Marlena Pięta, Vishal B. Purohit, Joanna Pietrasik and Christopher M. Plummer
Polymer Chemistry, 2023,14, 7-31

This week (October 17 – 19) Professors Roberto Para Saldivar and Elda Melchor-Martinez from Technológico de Monterrey, Mexico, who visited our University, delivered lectures at ICRI-BioM and had extensive meetings with leaders of the research groups that seem to be on an excellent way to scientific collaboration and faculty exchange, and students from Monterrey Tech practices at the Center. We eagerly look forward to the crystallization of these plans.

The group leaders and post-doctoral researchers of ICRI-BioM participated in the 4th Interdisciplinary FNP conference held in Warsaw during 6-7 October 2022. It was a great opportunity to interact and start collaboration with researchers from other MAB centres and FNP programs. The event comprised various oral/poster presentations and panel discussions. The significance of international cooperation, synergies between the teams, start-ups, the European Union’s ERC grants, and future funding programs of FNP were discussed in detail. The administrative problems faced by the researchers were also discussed. In 4 poster sessions more than 160 posters from all the research centres were presented. The important research themes of ICRI-BioM groups were presented as four posters.

P. Ma, C. M. Plummer, W. Luo, J. Pang, Y. Chen, and L. Li
Chem. Sci., 2022,13, 11746-11754

Mahdi Rahimi, Seyed Mostafa Mir, Roghayyeh Baghban, Gholamreza Charmi, Christopher M. Plummer, Vahid Shafiei-Irannejad, Jafar Soleymani, Joanna Pietrasik
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 215, 346-367 (2022)

Vishal B. Purohit, Marlena Pięta, Joanna Pietrasik, Christopher M. Plummer
Polymer Chemistry, 2022, 13, 4858-4878

Tran Thi Minh Thu and Mai Suan Li
J. Chem. Phys. 157, 055101 (2022)