Konorski Award 2023-competition results

The Award Committee composed of: prof. Irena Nalepa – chairperson, prof. Agata Adamczyk, prof. Jan Celichowski, prof. Piotr Popik, prof. Elżbieta Salińska and prof. Waldemar Turski analyzed the submitted works in terms of formal compliance with the Regulations of the Award and assessed their substantive value. The jury selected 3 publications with the highest total score awarded by its members. The jury decided, by a majority of votes, not to award the prize. At the same time, the members of the Chapter unanimously decided to award these three research papers with equivalent honorary distinctions.

Featured works:

· Activation-induced chromatin reorganization in neurons depends on HDAC1 activity, published in Cell Reports 2022, 38:110352 by: Agnieszka Grabowska, Hanna Sas-Nowosielska, Bartosz Wojtas, Dagmara Holm-Kaczmarek, Elzbieta Januszewicz, Yana Yushkevich, Iwona Czaban, Pawel Trzaskoma, Katarzyna Krawczyk, Bartłomiej Gielniewski, Ana Martin-Gonzalez, Robert Kuba Filipkowski, Krzysztof Hubert Olszynski, Tytus Bernaś, Andrzej Antoni Szczepankiewicz, Malgorzata Alicja Sliwinska, Tambudzai Kanhema, Clive R Bramham, Grzegorz Bokota, Dariusz Plewczyński, Grzegorz Marek Wilczynski, Adriana Magalska

· SRF depletion in early life contributes to social interaction deficits in the adulthood, published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2022, 79:278 by: Matylda Roszkowska, Anna Krysiak, Lena Majchrowicz, Karolina Nader, Anna Beroun, Piotr Michaluk, Martyna Pekala , Jacek Jaworski, Ludwika Kondrakiewicz, Alicja Puścian, Ewelina Knapska, Leszek Kaczmarek, Katarzyna Kalita

· The Role of Glia Clocks in the Regulation of Sleep in Drosophila melanogaster published in Journal of Neuroscience 2022, 42:6848–6860 by: Milena Damulewicz, Bartosz Doktór, Zbigniew Baster, Elżbieta Pyza.

Congratulations to the authors of the featured articles!

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