Jagiellonian University

Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology

Krakow, Old Market Square St.Mary’s Cathedral and The Cloths Hall

Krakow, capital city of Poland till XVIII century

Jagiellonian University

funded in 1364

by Polish kings

of Jagiellonian dynasty

To compare:

• Oxford – 1167

• Cambridge - 1209

• La Sorbonne – 1257

Jagiellonian University in numbers

• ca. 45,000 students (incl. ca. 29,000 resident)

• ca. 2,100 post-graduate students

• 15 Faculties

• 48 disciplines

• 93 specialisations

Collegium Novum, since 1887

have a virtual walk: http://www.kampus.uj.edu.pl/

Established in 2002 – the youngest faculty

Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology

Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology

Biotechnology

Biophysics

Soon.. biochemistry

Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology

Departments

• Dept of Analytical Biochemistry• Dept of Physical Biochemistry• Dept of Cell Biochemistry• Dept of General Biochemistry• Dept of Biophysics• Dept of Cell Biology• Dept of Medical Biotechnology• Dept of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry• Dept of Molecular Genetics• Dept of Immunology• Dept of Microbiology• Dept of Computational Biophysics and Bioinformatics• Division of Cell Biophysics• Division of Molecular Genetics and Virology

Examples of research fields

• Regenerative medicine – wound healing, healing of extensive burns, skin replacements – dr Justyna Drukała, Dept of Cell Biology

• Dept of Physical Biochemistry (our Dept :-) – GPCRs, transcription factors, antidepressants and their mechanism of action

• Mechanism of angiogenesis• Proteomics• Synthesis of monoclonal antibodies• Antimicrobial peptides• Molecular modeling• Molecular architecture of redox complexes• Gene therapy

MYGEN – the Students’ Association

• Active since 1998• Weekly seminars• Has completed two

research projects

Universität Salzburg  Technische Universität Dortmund

Aalborg University Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Aarhus University Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Helsinki University  Universität Leipzig

University of Kuopio Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität – Mainz

Université Catholique de Lyon Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Université de Montpellier 2  Technische Universität München

Université d'Orléans  Göteborgs Universitet

Lunds Universitet University of Manchester

Adnan Menderes Universitesi University of Wales

Ankara University Università degli Studi di Ferrara

Eotvos Lorand University  UNIVERSITAT OSNABRUCK

International cooperation:Socrates/ERASMUS

International cooperation:Bilateral agreements

• The Max Planck Institute for the Advancement of Science, München, Germany

• University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

• Medical College of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA

• Université d’ Orléans, Orléans, France

Biotechnology in English:2 year Master programme

Title ECTS Short description

Molecular engineering of redox chains in bioenergetics 3 lecture 30h

Plant Biotechnology2 6 laboratory practice 60 h

TransgenicPlants 3 seminars 20 hlectures 10 h

Principles and perspectives of gene therapy 3 lectures 30 h

Viral vectors in medical biotechnology 5 laboratory practice 45 h

Applicationsof phage displayed peptide libraries 3 seminars 10 h laboratory practice20 h

Advanced methods in biology at the molecular level 6 laboratory practice 60 h

Monoclonal antibodies practicals 3 laboratory practice 30 h

Molecular principles of bacterial pathogenesis 4 lecture 30 h

Mechanisms of cell trafficking - from leukocyte homing to metastasis

5 lecture 30 h seminars 15 h

Plant Photobiology 3 22 h lecturers/seminars, 8h classes

Biotechnology in EnglishTitle ECTS Short description

Introduction to medical biotechnology 2 lecture 15 h

Agrobactecterium and Rhizobium - molecular biology of plant associated bacteria

2 lecture 15 h

Molecular mechanisms of angiogenesis 4 lecture 15 hlaboratory practice 30 h

Molecular biology of plant growth and development

3 seminars 10 h laboratory practice20 h

Introduction to Photobiology and Photomedicine 2 lecture 15 h

Nuclear receptors in gene regulation and diseases

3 lecture 30 h

Fluorescence and confocal microscopy 5 45h lectures and classes

Selected methods of cell engineering 3 15h lecture and 15h classes

Medical Virology and Epidemiology 3 15h of lectures and 15h ofseminars

Virology:adaptation, evolution, variability 1 10h of lectures

The lectures are aimed at giving the students a broad

overview of newest achievements and

perspectives in medical

biotechnology

Other:

German/Polish LifeScience Meeting

- Jagiellonian University

- Medical University in Poznan- Technische Universität München

Thank you for your attention

Coordinator of international cooperation:

Jerzy Dobrucki

dobrucki@mol.uj.edu.pl