WOJCIECH SIWEK, PhD

Hi, I am a group leader at the International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science, University of Gdańsk (PL). I hold a master's degree in biotechnology from the University of Warsaw (PL) and a PhD in biochemistry from the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (PL). After that, I trained at the Gulbenkian Institute (PT), University of Oxford (UK) and Harvard Medical School (USA). I specialize in biomedical research with a focus on gene regulation and epigenetics. I am fascinated by how cells remember previous environmental states. I am keen to translate this research into the clinic.

My professional core values are excellence and integrity with kindness, respect and an open mind.

get in touch!
email: wojciech.siwek@ug.edu.pl

LinkedIn: Wojciech Siwek

X: @gene_ctrl

RESEARCH

How cells remember?

Proper regulation of gene expression is fundamental for multicellular life. In my research, I am interested in how cells maintain gene expression states. I am exploring a phenomenon present in the innate immune system – transcriptional memory as a model system. Transcriptional memory is a process during which cells exposed to a certain cue (induction) will remember the experience and respond to the second stimulation with the same signal (reinduction) more strongly. I am studying how this process works in human cells.

OUTREACH

Epigenetic Puzzle @ the Biologist's Night, University of Gdansk

"Epigenetics, is our future determined by genes?" Science Cafe @ EXPERYMENT science museum

FUNDING

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101025900