Janusz Petkowski is a biophysicist and molecular biologist currently working as a Postdoctoral researchers at MIT in Prof Sara Seager's group in EAPS. His work involves exploring the chemical space of life, both on Earth and elsewhere, using computational chemical methods. Prior to MIT he was a ETH postdoctoral Fellow at Institute of Biochemistry at ETH-Zuerich, in the lab of prof. Vikram Panse. His researh at ETH explored the mechanisms that drive the assembly and maturation of the eukaryotic ribosome. His work focused on unraveling the dynamic proteomes of pre-ribosomal subunits after nuclear export, and mechanisms that render pre-ribosomal particles translation competent.
Prior to ETH, Janusz obtained his BSc. and MSc. degrees in Biotechnology and Molecular Biology from the University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland). During his PhD studies (2006 - 2012) in the groups of prof. Ian G. Macara and prof. Wladek Minor at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA, USA) he investigated the role of the N-terminal methylation of proteins in mammalian cells, a post-translational modification catalyzed by a NRMT methyltransferases.
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