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17 July 2025
RNA symposium speaker spotlight - Sebastian Glatt
We are excited to announce the first speaker on our RNA Symposium ✨
Participating in the future of tRNA in precision medicine session, Sebastian Glatt will walk us through the “tRNAslation control of eukaryotic gene expression”.
🧬 Get to know him better:
Sebastian Glatt was born in 1981 in Vienna. In 2004, he graduated with a MSc degree in genetics and microbiology from the University of Vienna. This was also where he defended his doctorate (with distinction) three years later. Between 2008 and 2015, he conducted research at the Structural and Computational Biology Unit of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. Since September 2015, he has been in charge of his independent Max Planck Research Group at the Małopolska Center of Biotechnology of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He recently accepted a full professorship at University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria. He is the author of more than 60 publications, including original articles and review articles published in the most prestigious scientific journals such as Nature, Cell, Science Advances, Nature Structural Molecular Biology, Nature Plants, Nature Communications, and EMBO Journal. He has received many prestigious awards and grants, including the ERC Consolidator Grant (2020), the FNP Prize (2024), the Parnas Prize (2023), the NCN Award (2021), the EMBO Installation Grant, the City of Krakow Award (2020, together with his team), three Jagiellonian University Rector’s Awards, as well as grants from the Foundation for Polish Science (FIRST TEAM and TEAM-TECH Core Facility) and the National Science Centre. He is a member of numerous organizations, such as the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), and of several international advisory/evaluation committees. He served as deputy director for science at the Małopolska Center of Biotechnology and has established the National Centre for cryo-EM at the SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre in Krakow. His research focuses on nucleic acid metabolism, gene expression, modification of RNA molecules, and regulation of protein synthesis in cells. His studies combine methods of structural biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, and cell biology.