University of Basel

Department
of Chemistry

Research Group Gillingham

Gosia Murawska

 

 

Gosia Murawska, MSc

Department of Chemistry
University of Basel
St. Johanns-Ring 19
CH-4056 Basel
Switzerland

Lab: 306
phone: +41 (0)61 207 09 68
email: m.murawska@clutterunibas.ch

Background

Gosia got her Bachelor's degree from the University of Warsaw, Poland. She then joined the Stratingh Institute from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, for her Master's degree and did her thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Ben L. Feringa. She then did a 5 month practical at NIBR and worked as a research assistant at Berkeley, California. She started her PhD in our group in 2017. Gosia won several grants along her journey.

Research Experience

  • 2017-Present: PhD Student in the area of chemical protein silencing.
  • 2016-2017: Research Assistant at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Joint BioEnergy Institute Feedstocks Division at Berkeley, California, US under the supervision of Dr. Jenny Mortimer.
    Project: Investigating the role of lipid glycosylation in cell wall biosynthesis.
  • 2016: 5 month internship in organic chemistry at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.
    Project: Synthesis of drug precursor and enzyme inhibitors.
  • 2013: 3 month internship at the University of Groningen, NL under the supervision of Dr. W. Szymanski, Prof. D. Janssen.
    Project: Process optimization for a haloalkane dehalogenase-catalyzed kinetic resolution of racemic haloamides.

Education

Master degree in organic chemistry: Stratingh Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Supervisor: Prof. Ben L. Feringa.
Project: Synthesis of overcrowded alkene switch for modification of peptides; Synthesis of a photoswitchable AT-hook useful for photocontrolling DNApeptide binding interactions.

Bachelor degree in chemistry: University of Warsaw, Poland.
Project: isolation and characterization of humic acids of natural and chemical origin.

Grants

  • 2015: Backer Fundation Scholarship, Groningen, Netherlands (2000 €)
  • 2015: Marco Polo Scholarship, Groningen, The Netherlands (1200 €)
  • 2015: Groninger Universiteits Fonds Scholarship, Groningen, The Netherlands (400 €)
  • 2014: Fundusz Stypendialny KIK, Warsaw, Poland (470 €)

Bibliography

Sphingolipid biosynthesis modulates plasmodesmal ultrastructure and phloem unloading
D. Yan, S. R. Yadav, A. Paterlini, W. Nicolas, J. Pettit, L. Brocard, I. Belevich, M. Grison, A. Vatén, L. Karami, S. el-Shawk, J.-Y. Lee, Gosia M. Murawska, J. Mortimer, M. Knoblauch, E. Jokitalo, J. Markham, E. Bayer and Y. Helariutta
Nat. Plants 2019, 5, 604─615. doi:10.1038/s41477-019-0429-5

Comparative Study of Photoswitchable Zinc‐Finger Domain and AT‐Hook Motif for Light‐Controlled Peptide–DNA Binding
Gosia M. Murawska, C. Poloni, N. A. Simeth, W. Szymanski and B. L. Feringa
Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 4965─4973. doi:10.1002/chem.201900090

GONST2 transports GDP-Mannose for sphingolipid glycosylation in the Golgi apparatus of Arabidopsis
B. Jing, T. Ishikawa, N. Soltis, N. Inada, Y. Liang, Gosia M. Murawska, F. Andeberhan, R. Pidatala, X. Yu, E. Baidoo, M. Kawai-Yamada, D. Loque, D. J. Kliebenstein, P. Dupree and J. C. Mortimer
bioRxiv 2018. doi:10.1101/346775

Loss of inositol phosphorylceramide sphingolipid mannosylation induces plant immune responses and reduces cellulose content in Arabidopsis
L. Fang, T. Ishikawa, E. A. Rennie, Gosia M. Murawska, J. Lao, J. Van, A. YL Tsai, E. E. K. Baidoo, J. Xu, J. D. Keasling, M. Kawai-Yamada, T. Demura, H. V. Scheller and J. C. Mortimer
The Plant Cell 2016. doi:10.1105/tpc.16.00186

Computational Library Design for Increasing Haloalkane Dehalogenase Stability
R. J. Floor, H. J. Wijma, D. I. Colpa, A. Ramos-Silva, P. A. Jekel, W. Szymanski, B. L. Feringa, S. J. Marrink and D. B. Janssen
ChemBioChem 2014, 15, 1660─1672. doi:10.1002/cbic.201402128
(Acknowledged for HPLC method development)

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