This Committee was established in 1972 on the initiative of W. Niemierko by Lech Wojtczak and Leszek Kuźnicki from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology. Committee participated in advancing cell and molecular studies in Poland by initiating and financing the chosen topics (till 1989), formulating the long-term perspectives, networking and integrating scientists from the universities, medical universities, institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) and other scientific institutions.

 

The Committee is composed of the members of the Polish Academy of Sciences and elected outstanding scientists of the higher education establishments, research centers of the Polish Academy of Sciences and departmental research units from all over the country.

 

The main field of interest are the problems related to biological research on eukaryotic cells, their organelles and macromolecules, structures, functions as well as developmental and pathological processes.

 

Committee’s Chairpersons since 1972: L. Wojtczak, L. Kuźnicki, J. Kawiak, W. Kilarski, W. Korohoda, M. Zabel i E. Wyroba. The Committee propagates EU framework programs and supports the events promoting the science. Committee cooperates with foreign organizations and represents scientific community in contacts with ministries of Science, National Education, different national agencies and legislators.

 

From 1997 to 2014 Committee suggested several changes in the parliamentary act proposals including those on university and high school education, young scientists support, animal protection act, genetically modified organisms and taxes on scientific journals/books. The initiatives concerning financing of research and academic career were undertaken.

 

Committee organized and co-organized numerous scientific conferences/symposia and some of them are listed below, whereas the recent are illustrated here

 

• Symposia on Cell Membranes – 6 editions (1978 – 1989, 2008)

• International Symposium on Cell Motility – 1978

• VI International Congress of Protozoology – 1981

• National Conferences on Cell Biology – 8 editions since 1983 (Committee initiated and organized five of them)

• Second International School of Cytometry – 1998

• Cytometry in Medical Diagnostics – 6 editions (1998 – 2003, 2005, 2009)

• Symposium: Advances in Cell and Molecular Biology Techniques – 2000  

• Biophysics and Biology of Environmentally Important Membrane- active Compounds - 2001

• Progress in Basic, Applied and Diagnostic Immunocytochemistry – 2001

• Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration and Neuroprotection – 2003

• Symposium: Tumors and Anticancer Therapy during the Conference: From Cytometry to Molecular Biology – 2004

• 16^th Meeting of International Society for Evolutionary Protistology – 2006

• Symposium: Molecular Mechanisms of Interactions of Normal and Malignant Cells with the Environment – 2007

• Membrane Skeleton. Recent Advances and Future Research Directions – 2008

• Symposium: Stem cells – Biological, Biochemical and Biomedical Challenges – 2008

• Membrane Skeleton. Recent Advantages and Future Research Directions – 2008

• Jubilee Symposium on the occasion of 90^th Anniversary of Nencki Institute and 80^th  Birthday of Professor L. Kuźnicki: "Homo is he always sapiens?" A Man from Different Perspectives – 2008

• The Challenges of Contemporary Cell Biology Molecular Genetics, System Biology, Bioinformatics – 2009

• IV. Biogerontological Meeting at the Nencki Institute – From Development to the Ageing of the Organism – 2009

• Symposium: Calcium and Gene Expression in Differentiation – 2010

• From Plasma Membrane to the Nucleus – Signaling Pathways Indispensable for Life – 2010

• Advances in Haematology, Oncology and Cell Therapy – 2011

• Cell Biology in the last half-century - 2012

• Mammalian Embryology Conference Celebrating Pioneering Work of Professor Andrzej K. Tarkowski - 2013
  

   

 

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