Paulina Jackowiak

Paulina Jackowiak, Associate Professor, leads the Laboratory of Single Cell Analyses, a core facility at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences. Trained as a molecular biologist, she holds a PhD and a habilitation degree in biochemistry. She gained international research experience as a visiting scientist at Institut Pasteur in Paris, and as an active contributor to the pan-European LifeTime Initiative, supporting the implementation of strategies advancing personalized medicine and integrative multi-omics approaches. She is a member of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry and the Polish Biochemical Society.
Her scientific work is rooted in RNA biology, with an initial focus on viral genomes, and later shifting to RNA-mediated regulation of cellular processes. She currently explores the roles of non-coding RNAs in regeneration, where insights into the transcriptome are essential for understanding how pluripotent stem cells transition to differentiated states.
Her ongoing activities focus on advancing and expanding the core facility, which provides expertise, methodological support, and access to instrumentation for studying biological systems at single-cell resolution. The facility operates across two complementary domains – single-cell omics and flow cytometry – covering the full workflow from experimental design and sample preparation to data acquisition and computational analysis. Her team is involved in several projects and is actively developing novel single-cell methodologies, including targeted technologies for cancer diagnostics.