Speakers - 2026

Prof. Hanna Janska is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw, Poland, and former Head of the Department of Molecular Cell Biology. She was a member of the Committee on Molecular and Cell Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a board member of the Polish Society of Experimental Plant Biology, and a member of the Board of Curators of Division II (Biological and Agricultural Sciences) of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is internationally recognized for her contributions to plant mitochondrial biology. She has supervised 14 PhD students and currently leads a National Science Centre (NCN)-funded project investigating the relationship between ribosomal protein S10 deficiency and RNA metabolism in Arabidopsis mitochondria. Her research focuses on plant mitochondrial biology, particularly mitochondrial genome organization, gene expression, RNA metabolism, ribosome biogenesis, and the role of non-coding RNAs. Prof. Janska has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in leading international journals, including Nucleic Acids Research, The Plant Cell, and Plant Physiology. Her work has been cited nearly 3,000 times. Her recent 2026 publication, “Dysregulated 3'-end processing of 18S pre-rRNA decreases mtPNPase efficiency in plant mitochondria,” appeared in Nucleic Acids Research