Polish Scientific Network in Boston
connects Polish Scientists in Boston Area
Aim of our network is to expand our scientific horizons and to establish personal and professional connections
We meet once a month for popular scientific lecture prepared by one of the Network Member. The lecture is followed by a vivid discussion in neighboring pub.
Upcoming seminars:
PolSciNetBos Dinner
Required registration:
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524 Massachusetts Avenue, (Central Square) Cambridge, MA 02139
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 8pm
Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak
"Translanguaging, heritage language only, whatever works...:
family language policies in multilingual households in the USA."
Speaker Affiliation:
Maria Grzegorzewska University (Warsaw)
Harvard Graduate School of Education
27th PolSciNetBos Meeting
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 8pm
Location
In collaboration with Polish Club at MIT, we are organizing our seminars @ Stata Center, 32 Vassar St. Cambridge, room MIT 32-144 on MIT campus.
After the talk, we will grab the beer in a local pub, traditionally Meadhall in Cambridge. Please remember to take valid ID.
Previous seminars:
Radek Nowak
"Can a biologist fix a radio?"
Speaker Affiliation:
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
26th PolSciNetBos Meeting
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 8pm
101st Anniversary of Independence of Poland Celebration.
Polish Scientific Network in Boston, Fluid-Screen, Inc. in cooperation with Polish Club at MIT is pleased to invite you to celebrate the 101st Anniversary of Independence of Poland.
The event will take place at Venture Development Center at UMass Boston on
Saturday, November 9th, 2019.
Program
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Refreshments and Networking
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm Film: Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski. Maz Stanu
5:45 pm - 6:15 pm Registration
6:15 pm - 6:30 pm Opening
6.30 pm - 8.30 pm Pierogi
November 9th, 2019
Aleksandra Kolodziejczyk
"Cell cycle kinases in cancer."
Speaker Affiliation:
Sicinski Lab
Department of Cancer Biology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Genetics
Blavatnik Institute
Harvard Medical School
Photo credit: Sierra Oncology
25th PolSciNetBos Meeting
Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 8 pm
Joanna Korecka
"Modeling Parkinson's Disease using patient derived cells."
Speaker Affiliation:
McLean Hospital, Neuroregeneration Research Institute,
PI: Dr. Ole Isacson and Dr. Penny Hallett
24th PolSciNetBos Meeting
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 8 pm
Grzegorz Misiołek
"The Role of Human Factors
in (Military) Equipment Design"
Speaker Affiliation:
23rd PolSciNetBos Meeting
Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at 8pm
Maciek Wielgus
"Imaging a black hole with the Event Horizon Telescope."
Speaker Affiliation:
Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University
Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a global very long baseline interferometry array, capable of performing observations in 1 millimeter wavelength. After over a decade of tests and technical developments, in April 2017 EHT has performed first observations as a mature instrument, with sensitivity, resolution and coverage unparalleled in the history of the millimeter wavelength radioastronomy, for the first time expected to allow for the imaging of the observed sources. Observations of black hole candidates in the centers of Milky Way and M87 were conducted with a nominal resolution better than the diameter of a 'shadow of a black hole' expected from general relativity. The data set was processed and analyzed since then, leading to the announcement of the results in the April of 2019. I will talk about these first results.
22nd PolSciNetBos Meeting
Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 8 pm
Polish Scientific Network in Boston and Polish Club at MIT would like to invite you for a unique event:
Dream Big `Ale` Concrete
Saturday, 8th June 2019
Several elevator pitch talks (~5 minutes) about an interesting scientific topic worth addressing in the decade. No slides, only whiteboard available.
4.00 pm - 4.30 pm Arrival and Registration
4.30 pm - 6.00 pm Elevator Pitch Talks
Monika Weber
“Innovation at Fluid-Screen”
Anna Barnacka
“From Starts to Startups”
Mikołaj Słabicki
“To degrade or not to degrade – novel therapeutic paradigm for drug design.”
Radek Nowak
“Protein dimerization – the next big thing”
Karina Matissek
“Expressed Gene Fusions as Frequent Drivers of Poor Outcomes in Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer”
Jarosław Błasiok
“Machine learning: modern alchemy?”
Janusz Petkowski
“How to find life beyond Earth?”
6.30 pm - 8.30 pm Grill
8.30 pm - 11.30 pm Discussion and Dancing
Dream Big 'Ale' Concrete Organization Team Ania Barnacka, Ania Hupalowska, Karina Matissek, Mikolaj Slabicki, Robert Weber
Poster designer - Anna Hupalowska.
Aleksandra Joanna Ozga
"Harnessing the power of the immune system to fight cancer and chronic infections"
Speaker Affiliation:
Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, MGH and HMS
17th PolSciNetBos Meeting
February 27, 2019 at 8pm
Janusz Petkowski
“On the Origin of Life on Earth and Elswhere"
Speaker Affiliation:
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT
16th PolSciNetBos Meeting
January 30, 2019 at 8 pm
“Condensed Matter Physics - reshaping our reality”
Michał Papaj
“Majorana quasiparticles: future of quantum computing?”
Cyprian Krzysztof Lewandowski
“Searching for fingerprints of electronic interactions in graphene”
Speaker Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
15th PolSciNetBos Meeting
November 28, 2018 at 8 pm
Aldona Fonfara
"Mechanisms of viral oncogenesis in humans."
Speaker Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, Nederlands Kanker Instituut, KWF KankerBestrijding, Tufts Medical Center, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
14th PolSciNetBos Meeting,
October 30, 2018 at 8 pm
Marta Morawska
“The importance of good night sleep.”
Speaker Affiliation:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School University Hospital Zurich/ University of Zurich
11th PolSciNetBos Meeting,
June 28, 2018 at 8 pm
Wiktor Młynarski
"Information processing in living systems."
Speaker Affiliation:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Center for Brains, Minds and Machines
10th PolSciNetBos Meeting
April 25, 2018 at 8 pm
Jonasz Słomka
"From classical to active turbulence: a short story on complex motion of fluids."
Speaker Affiliation:
Physical Applied Mathematics at MIT
8th PolSciNetBos Meeting,
February 28, 2018 at 8 pm
Jarosław Błasiok
"Great ideas in Theoretical Computer Science."
Speaker Affiliation:
Harvard University
5th PolSciNetBos Meeting
January 31, 2018 at 8 pm
Kamil Bojarczuk
"B-cell receptor signaling in the pathogenesis and treatment of lymphoid malignancies."
Speaker Affiliation:
Department of Medical Oncology (Dana Faber Cancer Institute) and Department of Experimental Hematology (Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Warsaw)
6th PolSciNetBos Meeting
November 29, 2017 at 8 pm
Radek Nowak
"The promise of targeted protein degradation - drug development."
Speaker Affiliation:
Dana Faber Cancer Institute
5th PolSciNetBos Meeting
October 25, 2017 at 8pm
Michał Tułodziecki
"Batteries - Progress, Challenges and Perspectives."
4th PolSciNetBos Meeting
June 28, 2017 at 8 pm
Janusz Petkowski
"The diversity of planetary systems in Milky Way galaxy and its implications for search for life outside Earth"
Speaker Affiliation:
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT.
3rd PolSciNetBos Meeting
May 23, 2017 at 8 pm
Gosia Karaś
“Real estate bubbles and how to counteract them.”
Speaker Affiliation:
Harvard Business School and Warsaw School of Economics. PhD student under Leszek Barcelowicz.
2nd PolSciNetBos Meeting
April 19, 2017 at 8 pm
Mikołaj Słabicki
„CRISPR/Cas9 technology bases and the influence on science, every day live and pop-culture.”
Speaker Affiliation:
Broad Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.
1st PolSciNetBos Meeting
March 30, 2017 at 8 pm
Who we are:
Polish Scientific Network was initiated in spring 2017 by Mikołaj and Jonasz.
From autumn 2018 Polish Scientific Network is run by Mikołaj and Piotr.
Mikołaj Słabicki
molecular biologist
Mikołaj Słabicki is a Marie Curie Skłodowska fellow characterizing molecular mechanism of drugs inducing protein degradation. Mikołaj is currently located at Broad Institute and is affiliated with Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.
Piotr Suwara
mathematician
Piotr is a Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics at MIT, working on gauge-theoretic invariants in low-dimensional topology. He also serves as the President of the Polish Club at MIT.
Jonasz Słomka
physicist
Jonasz graduated from Physical Applied Mathematics at MIT in June 2018. In September 2018, he joined StockerLab at ETH Zürich as an ETH Postdoctoral Fellow. Jonasz is a former President of the Polish Club at MIT.
Links:
Polish Scientific Network in Boston
Skupiamy naukowców którzy pochodzą z Polski, albo mają polskie korzenie, a mieszkają i pracują w Bostonie i Cambridge. Członkowie naszej sieci pracują i studiują na MIT, Harvard, Boston University, Broad Institute, Dana Farber, Tufts Medical Center, Brigham and Women ’s Hospital, Boston Children ‘s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital i rożnych firm.
Images provided by the speaker or obtained from flicker under creative commons license.