Katarzyna Walendzik awarded FNP START scholarship

Katarzyna Walendzik, a PhD student in the Regenerative Biology Group, received a prestigious scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science.

The START program of the Foundation for Polish Science is the oldest scholarship program in Poland for the best young scientists from all fields of science. It supports outstanding young researchers and encourages them to further scientific development. The competition assesses the quality of the candidates’ academic achievements to date.

The „100” of researchers awarded this year were selected from among 1,034 candidates.

The full list of START 2021 winners is available here.

Katarzyna Walendzik is a PhD student at the Department of Biological Functions of Food in the Regenerative Biology Group led by Prof. Barbara Gawrońska-Kozak. In the research carried out as part of her doctoral dissertation, she showed for the first time that the activity of the transcription factor Foxn1 regulates the diet-induced susceptibility to obesity and indicated the molecular basis for the involvement of Foxn1 in the adipogenic potential of skin cells.

Outstanding research results prompted her to further investigate this topic and prepare her own research project entitled „The role of the epidermal transcription factor Foxn1 in the modulation and regulation of intradermal fat cells (dWAT)”, which received funding from the National Science Center in the Preludium 16 competition.

Katarzyna Walendzik is the co-author of 8 publications and 14 conference presentations presented at congresses in Europe and the USA, and a graduate of two international internships at Tulane University School of Medicine, USA and Genome Editing Core, Biocity, Turku, Finland.

The award received by Ms Katarzyna Walendzik is all the more significant since, as mentioned by the FNP awarding Committee, „this year the candidates represented a very high academic level”.

 

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Katarzyna Walendzik stypendystką programu START

Katarzyna Walendzik, doktorantka w Zespole Biologii Regeneracyjnej, otrzymała prestiżowe stypendium Fundacji na rzecz Nauki Polskiej.

Program START Fundacji na rzecz Nauki Polskiej to najstarszy w Polsce program stypendialny dla najlepszych młodych naukowców ze wszystkich dziedzin nauki. Wspiera on wybitnych młodych uczonych i zachęca ich do dalszego rozwoju naukowego.  W konkursie oceniana jest jakość dotychczasowego dorobku naukowego kandydatów.

„Setka” nagrodzonych w tym roku badaczy została wybrana z grona 1034 kandydatów.

Pełna lista laureatów konkursu START 2021

Katarzyna Walendzik jest doktorantką w Zespole Biologicznych Funkcji Żywności w Zespole Biologii Regeneracyjnej prowadzonym przez Prof. Barbarę Gawrońską-Kozak. W badaniach przeprowadzonych w ramach pracy doktorskiej, wykazała po raz pierwszy, że aktywność czynnika transkrypcyjnego Foxn1 reguluje wywołaną dietą podatność na otyłość oraz wskazała molekularne podstawy udziału Foxn1 w potencjale adipogenicznym komórek skóry.

Znakomite wyniki badań skłoniły ją do pogłębienia tematu badań i przygotowania własnego projektu badawczego pt. „Udział naskórkowego czynnika transkrypcyjnego Foxn1 w modulacji oraz regulacji śródskórnych komórek tłuszczowych (dWAT)”, który uzyskał finansowanie NCN w konkursie Preludium 16.

Katarzyna Walendzik jest współautorem 8 publikacji oraz 14 komunikatów konferencyjnych prezentowanych na kongresach w Europie i USA, a także absolwentką dwóch staży zagranicznych odbytych w Tulane University School of Medicine, USA oraz Genome Editing Core, Biocity, Turku, Finlandia.

Uzyskana przez Panią Katarzynę Walendzik nagroda jest tym bardziej znacząca, gdyż jak nadmieniła kapituła FNP przyznająca nagrodę „w bieżącym roku kandydaci reprezentowali bardzo wysoki poziom naukowy”.

 

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Science SOS grafika

“Science SOS” finale

EIT Food #AnnualFoodAgenda action called “Science SOS – let’s talk about food” has just come to an end. Institute of Animal Reproduction an Food Research PAS invited teachers, tutors and organisers of food-related events to book online visits of food scientists and let their audience learn about healthy eating habits. We held 23 interactive visits with around 600 consumers – teachers, pupils, students and agri-food specialists. Thanks to an online format of the events we engaged with groups from various parts of Poland, including RIS regions.

Why is it worth to choose fish from controlled environments? How to handle food to avoid microbiological cross-contamination? What should we do when we have symptoms of gluten intolerance? #AnnualFoodAgenda “Science SOS” offered meetings with microbiologists, food technologists, biotechnologist, ichtiologist and experts in molecular biology. We talked about myths around the quality of fish from breeding tanks and took a closer look at sugars naturally present in fruits and vegetables. The consumers discovered why food producers reach for ancient crops, and why we should not eliminate gluten from our diet without medical consultation. We got an insight into the bacteria causing food poisoning and look at biofilm forming our e.g. our teeth. The topics available included also nutritional programming, the pro-health properties of raspberries and controversies around meat in our diet.

Each interactive meeting was concluded with a Kahoot-aided quiz testing participants’ understanding of the knowledge presented. Satisfaction surveys were also sent out.

As much as 58% and 27% of respondents rated the event as ‘I liked it very much’ and ‘I liked it’, respectively. 80% of the consumers questioned stated gaining new knowledge on heathy eating, with 63% declared efforts to use it in their daily lives. of them Around 64% of people engaged also claimed that initiatives like “Science SOS”, which entail meetings with food researchers, help to boost consumers’ trust in the food system.

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