PhD student Michał Świrski has been awarded a scholarship in the Roots of the Future program

13 05 2025

PhD student Michał Świrski has been awarded a scholarship in the Roots of the Future program by the CRIDO Foundation, which supports science and researchers. Congratulations!

Michał Świrski has been working in Prof. Joanna Kufel’s lab at the Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warsaw since his undergraduate studies. He is currently pursuing a PhD under her supervision, with a thesis titled “Cryptic Translational Events Revealed with Ribosome Profiling and Massive Data Reanalysis.” His work utilizes vast collections of publicly available high-throughput datasets to detect and describe rare translational events. One of the key outcomes of this project is RiboCrypt, a bioinformatics platform that provides interactive visual access to nearly all publicly available ribosome profiling datasets. He is also the author of the conceptual Ribosome Decision Graph model, developed in collaboration with the research groups of Prof. Pavel Baranov (University College Cork) and Prof. Eivind Valen (University of Bergen). He has completed short-term research visits to both institutions and maintains continuous collaboration with them.

His current research plans focus on applying ribosome profiling to characterize ribosome composition and heterogeneity, as well as investigating the translational dynamics of therapeutic transcripts.

Photo: The scholarship was presented to Michal Swirski by Matthew Baran, a partner at CRIDO