Kacper Stawoski and Kacper Siąkała got funding for participation in the ICAVS12 conference under the SKILLS program of the Department of Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University in the strategic program Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University. Congratulations!

Link to the ICAVS12 conference: https://icavs.org

Link to the SKILLS programe: https://chemia.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/nauka-badania/id.uj/wsparcie-dla-studentow

From 13^th to 26^th May 2023 Ola completed a 2-week internship at Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology Jena (Leibniz-IPHT), Jena, Germany, in Prof. Jurgen Popp group, the partner from NAWA 2023 project. The aim of the internship was to expand their knowledge about nonlinear techniques: coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering (CARS) and fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM). During their stay, they managed to learn about those techniques from the practical side, making cell measurements, which are part of the OPUS15 project's research.

From 24^th to 26^th Professor Jurgen Popp's group was also visited by Krzysztof, who had the opportunity to see their laboratories and discuss the technical aspects of the equipment used by the team.

The internship was financed by the Opus15 Project (UMO-2018/29/B/ST4/00335 to MB) and NAWA (Bilateral exchange program between Poland and Germany 2023 to MB).

Between May 8^th and 12^th, 2023, Ania participated in measurements using SRS of leukemic cells in Prof. Katsumasa Fujita's group at the Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University (Osaka, Japan). The experiments were conducted as part of the Team-Net project.

Link: https://lasie.ap.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/home.html

Ania received funding under the Erasmus project to visit Biospectroscopy and Data Modeling Group at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (As, Norway),  headed by Prof. Achim Kohler. On April 17^th-21^st, Anna received training on using Python programming in spectroscopic data analysis.

Link: https://www.nmbu.no/en/faculty/realtek/research/groups/biospectroscopy

From 24th of February to 10th of March 2023 Ada completed 2 weeks internships at University of Valencia (Spain) under supervision of dr David Perez-Guaita. The aim of the internship was to expand knowledge on multivariate data analysis. The internships were founded by Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University ("ID.UJ") VISIBILITY&MOBILITY MODULE.

Between 13-17.12.2022 Ania and Kasia participated in the IX International Conference on Perspectives in Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICOPVS-2022), which took place in Indore (India) and was organized by the UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research (Indore, India). Kasia gave an invited lecture entitled: ‘Raman-based high-content profiling of drug-induced endothelial cytotoxicity’ and presented a poster entitled ‘Raman spectroscopy in in vitro evaluation of chemoresistance. From leukemia diagnosis to monitoring of chemotherapy treatment’. She was awarded for the ‘Best lecture given by a woman’. Ania also gave an invited lecture entitled: “Is Raman imaging an aid in the diagnosis of leukemia?” and she was awarded for the ‘Best oral presentation’. Congratulations!

Recently Krzysztof's Miniatura project was accpeted for funding (National Science Centre) to support his research. Congratulations!

Kacper was among a limited group of winners who received the prestigious Jagiellonian University Scholarship. In this year's edition of the competition, the Jagiellonian University Scholarship was awarded only to 7 people. In previous years, this scholarship was also awarded to Kuba. Kacper's supervisor is Ania and Kuba's supervisors are Małgosia and Krzysztof. The Jagiellonian University Scholarship is aimed at those who wish to study at Jagiellonian University. The scholarship is awarded for outstanding academic performance and aims to support the development of the brightest representatives of the younger generation. Congratulations!

More:

https://stypendia.uj.edu.pl/pl_PL/aktualnosci/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_y6768Q8EMW3g/141626430/151154674

Biostatistics in the analysis of spectroscopic data of biomedical samples, 21.10.2022, Faculty of Chemistry Jagiellonian University, A-00-1 B

This Friday, October 21, 2022, a workshop will be held, to which we invite, in particular, third-year undergraduate students and first and second-year undergraduate students, active student subjects from the Department of Chemistry and students planning their thesis work in the current academic year!

The purpose of the workshop is to familiarize students with the basic methods of spectroscopic data analysis, their visualization, as well as to learn how to use databases of scientific publications, which is extremely helpful in the preparation of theses. In addition, the workshop will familiarize students with the topics and results of research in biomedical applications of Raman spectroscopy, conducted in the Raman Imaging Group.

The planned program of the workshop includes theoretical as well as practical issues that are intersting and helpful for students pursuing their thesis work.

The workshops will be held in Polish.

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Workshop: Advanced chemometrics in spectra analysis, 3-4.10.2022, Kraków, JU

On 3-4.10.2022, ZOR was pleased to welcome Uladzislau Blazhko, a machine learning and deep learning specialist from the Biospectroscopy and Data Modeling Group at the Faculty of Science and Technology of Norwegian University of life Sciences lead by Professor Achim Kohler. Uladzislau gave lectures and tutorials focused o preprocessing of spectra, machine learning in spectra analysis and deep learning in spectra analysis. It was a great opportunity for us to explore chemometrics.

In July, Ola completed a 2-week internship (17-31.07) at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (Scotland, UK) in the group of prof. Duncan Graham. The aim of the internship was to extend their knowledge about nonlinear techniques (CARS, SRS). During the stay, girls perform cell measurements and image analysis. The internship was financed by the OPUS15 Project (UMO-2018/29/B/ST4/00335).

Patrycja Dawiec, our master student, received an award at the Pomeranian Students' Chemistry Symposium in the category of the best presentation, congratulations!

In January, Ola completed a 2-week internship at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (Scotland) in the group of prof. Duncan Graham. The aim of the internship was to learn the techniques of nonlinear optics (CARS, SRS), cell measurements and image analysis. The internship was financed by the Harmonia Project (UMO-2016/22/M/ST4/00150).