Monika Słomińska-Wojewódzka (University of Gdańsk, Poland)

Speaker: Dr Monika Słomińska-Wojewódzka (University of Gdańsk, Poland)

Topic: Substrate specificity of the endoplasmic reticulum chaperone proteins EDEM1 and EDEM2, and their role in the intracellular transport of ricin [abstract in PDF]

Time: 13 March, 2015, 9:00

Venue: Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, Kładki 24, lecture hall B

Category: Invited seminar

Monika Słomińska-Wojewódzka, biographical note

Monika Słomińska-Wojewódzka studied Biotechnology at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdańsk and Medical University of Gdańsk. She obtained her PhD in molecular biology  at the Faculty of Biology, Geography and Oceanology, University of Gdańsk in 2003 working in the field of bacteriophage genetics. In 2003-2005 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway. Her scientific interests focused on the intracellular transport of ricin, a protein toxin. This fellowship was financed by the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO long-term fellowship). Currently, she works at the Laboratory of Cell Signaling at the Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdańsk. The main objectives of her research interests involve investigation of the role of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) chaperone proteins and ER translocons in protein transport to the cytosol and detailed analysis of ricin cytotoxic effect on different cancer cell lines.