On September 17th, 2017  on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Nencki Institute, the ART AND SCIENCE Symposium entitled: “Biological imaging: inspirations of the invisible world” took place at the Hydrobiological Station in Mikolajki. It was a pioneering attempt to combine and find a common language between scientist (with rational perception of the world) and the art-painters (with emotional and visual perception of the same problems of the world), and the attempt to find of artistic inspiration based on high-tech imaging of biological structures (cells, tissues, organisms). The organizers of the Symposium, apart from the Nencki Institute PAS were: the Art Department of the University of Rzeszow and the Art Department of the University of Warmia and Mazury. The Polish Biochemical Association, the Polish Union of Artists (Rzeszów district) and Olympus Polska were sponsors of this event. (TJ)… Czytaj dalej

On 5-11 September 2017, an Entomological Workshop “Insects World Around Us” was held at the Hydrobiological Station of the Nencki Institute in Mikolajki. Participants listened to the many interesting lectures: “One hundred years of the Nencki Institute, discovering of the secrets of the insects world“by prof. Ewa J. Godzińska from our Institute, “Dealing with the giant bee – grows and its behavior in Nepal” – by prof. Jerzy Woyke from SGGW, a world-famous bee specialist, and “Insects on moving cages: actors and naturists” by assoc. prof. M. Kozłowski from SGGW. The workshops program also includes field activities (also night), laboratory, photographic, film and computer classes. The event was accompanied by two photo exhibitions: “Microcosm of Ants 3” and “In My Lens“, which could be admired in the building of the old “Akwarialnia“. Czytaj dalej

On September 5th, 2017, an educational meeting “Evening With Insects” was held at the Hydrobiological Station of the Nencki Institute in Mikolajki during which you could listen to the lectures by prof. Ewa J. Godzińska: “One hundred years of the Nencki Institute – discovering of the secrests of the insects world” and by Tomasz Włodarczyk PhD: “Insects Among Us“. Two photo exhibitions also were opened at this evening: by Maciej Nielubowicz’s “Microcosm of Ants 3” and by Zbigniew Salwin’s “In My Lens” (TJ). Czytaj dalej

On August 20th, 2017, in the frame of the meetings entitled “Wildlife Travels” at the Hydrobiological Station in Mikołajki, Maciej Karpowicz, PhD from the University in Bialystok, talked about trips to the world’s coral reefs and the biodiversity of these unique and fabulously colorful marine ecosystems. The lecture was accompanied by a demonstration of diving equipment. Czytaj dalej

On July 27th, 2017, an educational event titled “Brain on Vacations” was held at the Hydrobiological Station of the Nencki Institute in Mikolajki. It was already the third edition, as a continuation of “the Holiday Days of Brain”, organized by the Nencki Institute and the Hydrobiological Station in Mikolajki. The show included the neuroanatomical exhibition “Explore the inside of the brain“, showing the brain from the outside and from the inside, games and tests for children and adults prepared by PhD students and staff of the Nencki Institute. For a few hours we were visited by about 70 people. Czytaj dalej

On June 26, 2017 at the Hydrobiological Station in Mikolajki took place the PhD students reporting session of the Department of Cell Biology of the Nencki Institute (TJ)… Czytaj dalej

On June 20, 2017 at the Hydrobiological Station in Mikolajki took place the reporting session of PhD students of the Neurobiology Center of the Nencki Institute (TJ). Czytaj dalej

On June 16-18, 2017, we hosted at the Station the main contractors of the grant: “Mechanisms that affect the flow of matter and energy from phytoplankton to zooplankton in freshwater ecosystems”, which is conducted at Hydrobiological Station. The meeting was attended by: Jolanta Ejsmont-Karabin (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS), Maciej Karpowicz (University in Bialystok), Zoja Gorelysheva (Republican Center for Radiation Control and Environmental Monitoring of the Republic of Belarus), Varos Petrosyen and Irina Feniova (Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution), Piotr Dawidowicz (Warsaw University), Piotr Ignaciuk, Mikhail Gladyshev (Institute of Biophysics, SB RAS), Ramesh Gulati (Nederlands Institute of Ecology) (TJ)… Czytaj dalej

On June 13-17, 2017, field exercises “Ecophisiology of Water Microorganisms” for students of the Faculty of Biology, Warsaw University, conducted by the Department of Microbial Ecology and Environmental Biotechnology were held on the Hydrobiological Station in Mikolajki (TJ)… Czytaj dalej

On June 12 and 13, 2017, the Hydrobiological Summer Workshops for school was held at the Station. We organized it in Mikołajki twice per year (summer and winter edition) together with the Foundation for the Protection of Great Masurian Lakes from Giżycko. Youth from Gołdap, Giżycko, Węgorzewo and Rydzewo took part in the classes, totaling about 130 people (TJ)… Czytaj dalej