Team photo

Team members

Team Leader

Leader

Bartosz Bunar

Leader of the team. Coordinated work between wet lab, dry lab and outreach.

Fun facts: I've been playing bridge longer than I've been studying biology.

Dry Lab

Dry Lab Member 1

Michał Stanowski

Dry Lab lead. Coordinated development of riboswitch design software and the website.

Fun facts: I am in the top twenty Polish Geoguessr players, I travel around the world by bike.

Dry Lab Member 2

Anna Szymik

Built the website and wrote scripts used in the software.

Fun facts: speaks fluent French, can’t live without coffee, listens to 80s and 90s music.

Dry Lab Member 3

Stanisław Gołębiewski

Built the educational platform, the website, and the software part for sequencing data analysis.

Fun facts: keeps aquatic frogs and crabs, and has eaten pizza every Wednesday for years — it’s very important.

Wet Lab

Wet Lab Member 1

Daniel Grygorowicz

Wet Lab lead.

Fun facts: loves Swedish cuisine and mushroom foraging.

Wet Lab Member 1

Paulina Goleń

Focused primarily on cell culture.

Fun facts: loves catching arthropods and playing board & RPG games.

Wet Lab Member 1

Wojciech Garstka

Assisted in experiments and wrote scripts.

Fun facts: eats mandarin oranges with no restraint.

Wet Lab Member 1

Wiktoria Szymanek

Worked on Wet Lab experiments and also helped communication between Dry and Wet Lab.

Fun facts: loves birds, especially common wood pigeons.

Wet Lab Member 1

Andrzej Rzepko

Worked in the Wet Lab on our construct.

Fun facts: photographs nature; loves the edelweiss.

Wet Lab Member 1

Dominika Krasoń

Responsible for fundraising, partnerships with companies and NGOs, and the business side of the project.

Fun facts: I love cats with all my heart! I collect antiques.

Wet Lab Member 1

Stanisław Szleszkowski

Constantly annoyed Dominika in lab. Conducted experiments.

Fun fact: I can make black coffee in 11 different ways.

Design & Media

Marketing Member 1

Kacper Koźluk

Handled marketing, social media, and relations with traditional media.

Fun facts: has visited every lighthouse in Poland; photographer.

Marketing Member 1

Helena Kuźmicz

Responsible for social media and public engagement.

Fun facts: I have a tattoo of my dachshund.

Wet Lab Member 1

Bartek Łuszczuk

Led the educational part of the project.

Fun facts: is a bartender; passionate sailor.

Marketing Member 1

Julia Lewicka

Responsible for the visual design of the website.

Fun facts: speed sudoku grandmaster and avid aquarium visitor.