Maria Magdalena Konarska#
Membership Number: | 4569 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 2017 |
Main Country of Residence: | POLAND |
Homepage(s): | http://www.imol.institute |
ORCID: | 0000-0001-9235-1702 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021-date Deputy Director for Science, International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines (IMol), Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2017-2023 deputy director of the International Research Agenda Unit, ReMedy – Regenerative Mechanisms for Health
- 2015-2021 dr hab., prof UW, Centre for New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland
- 2015 - date Professor Emeritus, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- 2000-2015 Evelyn Lipper Professor and Head of Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- 1994-2000 Associate Professor and Head of Laboratory, The Rockefeller University New York, NY, USA
- 1989-1994 Assistant Professor and Head of Laboratory, The Rockefeller University New York, NY, USA
- 1987-1989 Research Associate, Center for Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 1984-1987 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 1979-1983 Ph.D. Student, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Warsaw, Poland
- 1981, 82, 83; (total 9 months) Research Fellow, University of Würzburg, Institute of Biochemistry, Würzburg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- RNA biology
- Spliceosome
- Pre-mRNA splicing
- snRNAs
- Yeast genetics
Honours and Awards
- 2020 The Jakub Karol Parnas Award of the Polish Biochemical Society
- 2017 Member of EMBO
- 2016 Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2013 Member of Academia Net
- 1992 - 1997 The Monique Weill-Caulier Scientist Award
- 1987 - 1994 The Lucille P. Markey Scholar Award
- 1983 - 1986 The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 1985 The Jakub Karol Parnas Award of the Polish Biochemical Society
- 1983 The Polish Academy of Sciences; Scientific Secretary Award
- 1982 The Polish Academy of Sciences; Biological Sciences Section Award