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)

Tran Thi Minh Thu, Rodrigo A. Moreira, Stefan A. L. Weber and Adolfo B. Poma
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23(15), 8505

Recently ICRI-BioM hosted two scientists from the Universitat Jaume I in Castellon, Spain; Professor Vicent Moliner and Dr. Katarzyna Świderek. During their stay the options for collaboration within the broad area of computational predictions of specificity and its alteration of mutated enzymes has been discussed.

Agnieszka Krzemińska, José-Emilio Sánchez-Aparicio, Jean-Didier Maréchal, Agata Paneth, Piotr Paneth
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 23, 7705 (2022)

Fady Abdelmalek , Alexander Steinbüchel, Marian Rofeal
Polymers 2022, 14, 2810

On June 27, 2022, Prof. Steinbüchel and Prof. Paneth visited the main site of Pietrucha Group at Błaszki, where they meet with CEO Jerzy Pietrucha, R&D Director Dr. Jacek Gralewski, and Chief Technologist Dariusz Ejchman M.Sc. Eng. Possible collaborations in the area of designing new biobased products with controlled biodegradation time were initially explored. Hopefully, this meeting will end-up in a fruitfull cooperation.