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Prof.
Anna Grabowska
The
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAN
3
Pasteur Street
02-093
Warsaw
Poland
http://www.nencki.gov
Tel:
+(48-22) 659-85-71 259
Fax:
+(48-22) 822-53-42
grabow@nencki.gov.pl
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology is the largest research centre in
the field of biological sciences in Poland. The main focus of its research is
neurobiology. An interdisciplinary approach to the mechanism of brain
functioning from molecular to organismal level is one of the most important
factors influencing the impact and quality of research in the Institute which
are performed in five departments: Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology,
Neurophysiology, Cellular Biochemistry, Muscle Biochemistry and Cell Biology.
The Institute`s staff represents: biology, psychology, medicine, pharmacy,
physics, chemistry as well as engineering. The Institute employs 148
researchers, among them 42 professors and associate professors, 54 assistant
professors (post-doctoral fellows), 52 junior researchers. Additionally, 60 PhD
students perform research work. The Nencki Institute has one of the youngest
scientific staff within the Polish Academy of Sciences system.
The staff has proven expertise in wide range of issues in neurobiology
including molecular and cellular mechanisms, neurophysiology and neuropsychology.
The Institute research teams participate in numerous research and
educational projects and initiatives (i.a. UNESCO, NATO, EU countries),
co-operate with the leading EU laboratories mainly in France, Germany and Italy,
UK, Sweden and the Netherlands as well as in USA and Israel. The efforts are
made to develop further existing contacts with the East Central European
Countries and New Independent States, mainly Ukraine and Russia.
The main strength of the neurobiological research in the Nencki Institute
is its interdisciplinarity based on a wide range of disciplines practised in the
Institute including molecular and cellular biology, neurophysiology and
psychology. The scientific efforts are focused on understanding the
neurobiological foundations of various brain dysfunctions including
neurodegenerative diseases with an aim to bridge the gap between neuroscience
and practice.
The Institute is a member institution of the Global Network for Molecular
and Cell Biology (MCBN) within UNESCO and a host of two European Centres of
Excellence: Centre of Excellence for
Studies on Neurodegeneration, supported by a PHARE Sci-Tech II grant, and
the EU Centre of Excellence in
Neurobiology, currently supported by an EC-funded project BRAINS
(Bringing Research Advances In Neurobiology to Society). The activities of
the Centres of Excellence are overseen by international
advisory boards. The main goal of the projects is to fully integrate Nencki
Institute into the European Research Area as a valuable partner in basic and
applied research in neurobiology, serving the economic and social needs of
integrated Europe. Therefore, the primary focus of project activities is on
exchange of scientific expertise, know-how, and technology with a number of the
Centre’s European partners.
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Prof. Anna
Grabowska
Position:
Professor at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, where she
leads the Psychophysiology Group: Professor at the Jagiellonian University,
Institute of Psychology, Krakow.
Address:
Nencki Institute, 3 Pasteur St., 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
Training:
post-doc fellowship at Padua University (Italy) 1983-1984; visiting professor at
Dept. of Psychology, University of Southern California (Los Angeles) 2000.
Local
and international scientific standing: elected
member of the Committee of the European Brain and Behaviour Society – term
1994 – 1997 and 2000-; elected
member of Committee for
Neurobiology of Polish Academy of Sciences; v-ce president of the Scientific
Council of the Nencki Institute; editor Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis;
member of editorial boards of Polish scientific journals: Studia Psychologiczne,
Wiadomości Psychiatryczne; organizer (with S. Clarke and M. Regard) of
international conference “Hemispheric specialisation and compensatory
strategies in brain disorders”, Switzerland, 1999, EBBS meeting, Barcelona
2002.
Publications
1.
Grabowska A., Nowicka A.; Visual-spatial model of cerebral asymmetry: A critical
survey of behavioural and electrophysiologivcal studies. Psychol. Bull. 120:
434-449 (1996)
2.
Ulatowska H., Sadowska M., Kadzielawa D., Kordys J., Rymarczyk K.; Linguistic
and cognitive aspects of proverb processing in aphasia. Aphasiology 14: 227-250
(2000)
3.
Szatkowska I., Grabowska A., Szymanska O.; Evidence for the involvement of the
ventro- medial prefrontal cortex in a short-term storage of visual images.
NeuroReport 12: 1187-1190 (2001)
4.
Grabowska A., Nowicka A., Szymanska O., Szatkowska I.; Subjective contour
illusion: sex- related effect of unilateral brain damage. NeuroReport 12:
2289-2292 (2001)
5.
Nowicka A., Fersten E.; Sex-related differences in interhemispheric transmission
time in the human brain. NeuroReport 12: 4171-4175 (2001)
6.
Bednarek D., Grabowska A.; Luminance and chromatic contrast sensitivity in
dyslexia: The magnocellular deficit hypothesis revisited. NeuroReport
13:2521-2525 (2002)
7.
Kaiser, J., Wronka, E., Barry, J.R., Szczudlik, A. (1999) Evoked cardiac
response components in cognitive processing: differential effects of amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis vol. 59 : 329 –
334 (1999)
8.
Jaśkowski, P., Skalska, B. & Verleger, R. (in press). How
the self controls its "automiatic pilot" when processing subliminal
information. Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience.
9.
Jaśkowski, P., Van der Lubbe, R., Schlotterbeck, E. & Verleger, R.
(2002). Traces left on visual
selective attention by stimuli that are not consciously identified.
Psychological Science 13, 48-54.
10.
Kuniecki M., Urbanik A., Sobiecka B., Kozub J. and Binder M. Central control of
heart rate changes during visual affective processing as revealed by fMRI. Acta
Neurobiologiae Experimentalis 63, 39-49 (2003)
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