Dr. Krzysztof Murzyn
Academic and professional appointments
- Assistant Professor
Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biotechnology, Department of Computational Biophysics and Bioinformatics, Kraków, Poland
from February 2004- Visiting Scientist
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- University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK; Bioinformatics Research Centre; July/August 2008
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA; Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics; from February 2008 to June 2008
- Helsinki University of Technology, Lab. of Computational Engineering, Helsinki, Finland; July 2005
- Research Assistant
Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biotechnology, Department of Biophysics, Kraków, Poland
from February 2002 to January 2004- Ph.D. Student
Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biology and Earth Science, Department of Biophysics, Kraków, Poland
from October 1997 to January 2002- Visiting Scientist
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Biophysique Moleculair, Orleans, France; from March 2000 to August 2000
- M.Sc. Student
Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Chemistry, Kraków, Poland
from October 1992 to June 1997
Research Projects
Student supervision
Master theses
Małgorzata Berg (BF) Magainin-2 amide in a model bacterial membrane (2011)
Jarosław Surkont (BT) Squalamine in a model bacterial membrane (2011)
Aleksandra Kos (B) All-atom model of the inner bacterial membrane. A molecular dynamics simulation study (2010)
Elżbieta Pieniążek (BF) Przewidywanie biologicznej funkcji białka MCPIP1 metodami bioinformatycznymi (2009)
Przemysław Porębski (BT) Structural and comparative analysis of dethiobiotin synthetase from Helicobacter pylori (2009), co-supervisor: Prof. Wladek Minor (University of Virginia, USA)
Janusz Mordarski (BT) Eksploracja danych tekstowych zgromadzonych w bazie danych PubMed (2006)
Honours theses
Konrad Zych (BT) (2009) Analiza porównawcza symulacji dynamiki molekularnej modelowych układów dwuwarstw lipidowych zawierających amid magaininy-2 sparametryzowanych w reprezentacji pełnoatomowej oraz reprezentacji atomu scalonego (2010)
Mikołaj Rzepka (BT) Interfejs oprogramowania aplikacji (API) dla serwisu internetowego WebOfScience (2010)
Andrzej Galiński (BT) BlockBuilder: program do tworzenia definicji cząsteczek i fragmentów cząsteczek na podstawie plików topologii Gromacs RTP (2009)
Recent conference attendance
Teaching
- Programing Python for Bioinformatics, 2013
Awards
Fellowship Award, Foundation of Adam Krzyzanowski, 2006
Team, Jagiellonian University Rector Award, 2004
Jagiellonian University Rector Award, 2003
Fellowship Award, Foundation for Polish Science, 2002
Team, Polish Minister of Education and Sport, 2002
Fellowship Award, Foundation for Polish Science, 2001
Selected Publications
K. Murzyn, T. Róg, W. Blicharski, M. Dutka, J. Pyka, S. Szytuła, W. Froncisz. 2006. Influence of the disulfide bond configuration on the dynamics of the spin label attached to cytochrome c. Proteins 62(4):1088-1100.
K. Murzyn, T. Róg, M. Pasenkiewicz-Gierula. 2005. Phosphatidylethanolamine-phosphatidylglycerol bilayer as a model of the inner bacterial membrane. Biophys J. 88(2):1-14.
T. Róg, K. Murzyn, K. Hinsen G. Kneller. 2003. nMoldyn: a program package for neutron scattering oriented analysis of molecular dynamics simulations. J. Comp. Chem. 24:657-667.
K. Murzyn, M. Pasenkiewicz-Gierula. 2003. Construction of a toroidal model for the magainin pore. J. Mol. Model. 9:217-224
K. Murzyn, T. Róg, G. Jezierski, K. Kitamura, M. Pasenkiewicz-Gierula. 2001. Effects of phospholipid unsaturation on the membrane/water interface: a molecular simulation study. Biophys. J. 81:170-183.