Matylda Izert

Matylda Izert, M.Sc.

PhD student

Summary

Matylda is a PhD student at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, working in the FIRST TEAM project. She joined the laboratory previously for her Bachelor’s degree project in chemistry, at Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Education & Scientific experience

  • Master’s degree in molecular biotechnology at Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warsaw (2018)
  • Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, University of Warsaw (2018)
  • Bachelor’s degree in molecular biotechnology at Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warsaw (2016)
  • Erasmus+ exchange student at Université Paris-Sud (XI), Orsay, France (2015-2016)
  • Summer internship at Laboratory of DNA repair, Institut de Cancérologie Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (2015)

Awards

  • Award for the best theses with commercialization prospects, first prize in Bachelor these category, University of Warsaw Technology Transfer Centre (2020)
  • FEBS YSF Grant (2019)

Publications

  • Izert MA, Klimecka MM, Górna MW. Applications of Bacterial Degrons and Degraders - Toward Targeted Protein Degradation in Bacteria. Front Mol Biosci. 2021;8:669762. Published 2021 May 7. doi:10.3389/fmolb.2021.669762

Scientific interests

  • RNA-binding proteins
  • Protein degradation in bacteria
  • Molecular diagnostics of infectious diseases