Dear Academia, In accordance with the Decree of the Council of Ministers of March 25, 2022, on the establishment of certain restrictions, orders and prohibitions in connection with the outbreak of an epidemic, the obligation to wear masks at the University of Gdańsk and the regulations concerning proceedings in the event of a decision to send you to isolation or quarantine are abolished. In such cases, you should follow…

'Let's vaccinate to save our own lives and health, not to harm others, to stop the pandemic that is ruining our daily lives, not to allow the virus to create new mutants, to return to normal life,' - said UG virologist Professor Krystyna Bieńkowska-Szewczyk in an interview conducted as part of the University Conversations on Sustainable Development series. University…

About SARS-CoV-2 virus mutations, epidemics and chances for survival. Interview with Prof. Krystyna Bieńkowska Szewczyk, Head of the Department of Molecular Biology of Viruses of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and GUMed   It's summer, we all want to relax after a tough year under the threat of SARS-CoV-2, but another mutation of the virus has emerged - the Indian one. How much more dangerous is it than…

Prof. dr hab. Krystyna Bieńkowska-Szewczyk, virologist from the Department of Molecular Biology of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and GUMed was a guest on Monday's edition of Fakty po Faktach. The topic of the conversation was vaccination against COVID-19. Decision on vaccination: emotions replaced scientific knowledge Prof. Krystyna Bieńkowska-Szewczyk, a…

Scientists from the University of Gdańsk, Jagiellonian University and a scientific-industrial consortium including Producent Stolarki PCV i AL 'BEWI' Bernard Wójcik (project leader) obtained funding for the implementation of a project entitled: 'Development of innovative technology for removing coronaviruses from the air, including SARS-CoV-2 with the use of photocatalytic layers implemented in an air purifier'. The…

To Whom It May Concern, Due to a great interest in the issue of vaccination of the UG administration employees, we would like to inform you that the University of Gdańsk is logistically and infrastructurally prepared to realise the vaccination programme for the administration employees. We are waiting for the possibility to start the vaccination programme and if the governmental side allows us to do so, we will…

Photo: Pixabay University committees of OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza addressed the Minister of Education and Science with a request to "take into account the difficult situation of female academics taking care of children during the pandemic". The situation in which they have found themselves has affected their productivity, while the way in which they are…

To Whom It May Concern, We would like to inform you that we have finished accepting applications from academic teachers and other persons conducting classes with students on the basis of study or training plans, who so far, for various reasons, have not been able to be vaccinated. Should you have any questions or concerns regarding the organisation of the vaccination notification process, please contact the Office of…

Photo: Arek Smykowski - 'Although data on the unemployment rate during COVID-19 may suggest a positive correlation between successive waves of the pandemic and the accompanying partial "shutdown of the economy" and the size of registered unemployment, we should be aware that this may be one of the lower prices we pay for saving human lives and ensuring…

To Whom It May Concern, Thank you for the trust you have placed in us thus far. We work in a dynamically changing environment and therefore the messages we convey are not always clear and precise. We do our best to present you with a message based on facts and our best knowledge. On March 4, 2021, during a press conference, the Head of KPRM, Minister. Michał Dworczyk communicated the extension of the deadline for the…

A high level of depressive symptoms among Mums seeking help after giving birth and an increase in anxiety symptoms - these are the conclusions of research conducted by the Institute of Psychology at the University of Gdańsk as part of the 'Przystanek Mama' postnatal depression prevention programme. The main objective of the programme is to raise awareness of postnatal…

I would like to inform you that the registration of UG employees for vaccination has been completed. I would like to thank the academic community of our University for the high number of participants in the registration process. Those who, for various reasons, were not able to register will be able to do so in the next round, according to the information from MEiN. The lists of registered persons have been forwarded to…

To Whom It May Concern, we are forwarding a corrigendum that we have received from MEiN: Persons who meet the following criteria are eligible to participate in vaccinations: academic teachers or so-called other instructors, born after December 31, 1955, currently employed at the university. We also ask those who have not yet done so to fill in their contact telephone number in the Employee Portal, under Covid-19…

- Without the hubbub of conversations, thudding footsteps, bursts of laughter, nervous whispers, anecdotes, jokes and busyness, i.e. simply without people, this faculty turned out to be just a faculty.' wrote Filip Rudolf, a first-year student of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Gdańsk, in his story. Literary and diaristic attempts concerning the…

In conjunction with the beginning of the national programme for monitoring the variability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Poland, scientists of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology (MWB) of the University of Gdańsk and the Medical University of Gdańsk under the direction of dr Łukasz Rąbalski performed a pilot high-throughput study of the full genome sequences of the…

In conjunction with the beginning of the national programme for monitoring the variability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Poland, scientists of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology (MWB) of the University of Gdańsk and the Medical University of Gdańsk under the direction of dr Łukasz Rąbalski performed a pilot high-throughput study of the full genome sequences of the…

We borrow fewer books and use the reading room less frequently. Instead, we make more use of the new electronic possibilities - such is the noticeable result of the pandemic among the readers of the Main Library of the University of Gdańsk. Traditional contact with volumes has taken on new forms. Book-O-Mats and digitised collections will remain in use forever. The BUG…

The Committee for Spatial Planning of the Country of the Polish Academy of Sciences (KPZK PAN), with the participation of scientists from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Gdańsk, has prepared a document with reflections and suggestions on how to improve the vaccination system from the procedural point of view, especially in terms of spatial accessibility. Unequal…

Photo. Arek Smykowski / UG Dr Wojciech Glac, a neurobiologist and popularizer of science from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Gdańsk, talks about functioning in a prolonged and constantly extended lockdown and how our brain copes in such a situation. 1. The unusual everyday life in which we find ourselves, completely different from the previous…

- At the beginning of lockdown the feeling of novelty connected with turning our lives upside down accompanied us for some time and could be troublesome, but now we have adapted to the situation to such an extent that the novelty is no longer such a great challenge. The problem, however, is the lack of pleasure associated with contact with people and entertainment…

To Whom It May Concern, Based on information received from the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Health, among others, I would like to inform you that: Academic teachers employed at the university have been classified as group 1C. The expected start time of vaccination for this group is March/April 2021. No firm decisions have yet been made on how the university will be able to transfer lists of…

Due to the increased risk of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infection, once again has the Faculty of Biology of the University of Gdańsk supported the previous actions of the university to quickly diagnose infections, by providing highly specialized instrument, the Lightcycler 480 II thermocycler, to the 7-th Navy Hospital Gdansk. Photograph shows highly specialized…

Photograph shows prof. dr hab. Adriana Zaleska-Medynska and dr inż. Paweł Mazierski, shareholders of NANOSCI sp. z o.o company. The University of Gdańsk signed two license agreements with NANOSCI sp. z o.o company – entity established to commercialize inventions developed by the research team led by prof. dr hab. inż. Adriana Zaleska-Medynska from the…

Prof. dr hab. Magdalena Gabig-Cimińska from the UG Department of Medical Biology and Genetics on studying and using SARS-CoV-2 ‘weak spots’ in COVID-19 treatment. Prof. dr hab. Magdalena Gabig-Cimińska from the Department of Medical Biology and Genetics of the UG Faculty of Biology and the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and…

A research paper ‘Geographical and temporal distribution of SARS-CoV-2 clades in the WHO European Region, January to June 2020’ analyzing the genetic variability of the SARS-CoV2 virus during the 6 months of the pandemic in Europe was published in the international journal Eurosurveilance on infectious disease surveillance, epidemiology and control in…

A project by Doctor Łukasz Rąbalski from the University of Gdańsk, SARS-CoV-2 co-infections. COVID-19 co-infections is financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education with an additional subsidy of PLN 985,000 for the University of Gdańsk. Research conducted by Dr Łukasz Rąbalski (Department of Recombinant Vaccines of the Intercollegiate…