We are seeking a PhD student for the position of Research and Technical Staff Member in our group. See the announcement here.
We unravel physical mechanisms of cytoplasm complex dynamics and organization
Our group, a part of the Department of Complex Systems Modeling at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, performs studies at the intersection of statistical physics and cell biology.
Learn more about our research interests →Main Research Interests
1. Protein Mobility in Crowded Wnvironments
Macromolecular crowding causes deviations from Stokesa-Einstein relation: $$D \neq \frac{k_\mathrm{B} T}{6\pi \eta R} .$$ We want to explain why these deviations differ qualitatively between systems crowded with proteins and with polymers.
2. Dynamic Instability of Cytoskeleton
3. Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation
News
Dr. Tomasz Skóra, awardee of the Polish Returns program, joined the Department of Complex Systems Modeling at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw. Here the story of our group begins.
Our Team
Dr. Tomasz Skóra
Principal Investigator
Expert in Molecular Modeling and Statistical Physics. Leader of the Polish Returns project titled "From Coarse Grains to Atoms and Back: A Rigorous Multiscale Modeling Approach to Diffusion Under Macromolecular Crowding".
Tomasz.Skora@fuw.edu.pl | ORCID | Google Scholar | Research Gate
Selected earlier papers of the PI
These papers have been written, when dr. Tomasz Skóra has been working at the University of Utah (Postdoc) and the Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS (PhD).
- Skóra T., Hastings, E. M., Carney, K. R., Fu, H. C., Bidone, T. C., & Sigala, P. A. Chemical propulsion of hemozoin crystal motion in malaria parasites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(44), e2513845122 (2025)
- Skóra T., Wu, J., Beckett, D., Xue, W, Voth, G. A.. & Bidone, T. C. On the Curvature and Relaxation of Microtubule Plus-end Tips. Biophysical Journal (2025)
- Raczyłło, E., Gołowicz, D., Skóra, T., Kazimierczuk, K., & Kondrat, S. Size Sensitivity of Metabolite Diffusion in Macromolecular Crowds. Nano Letters 24, 4801–4809 (2024)
- Skóra, T., Vaghefikia, F., Fitter, J., & Kondrat, S. Macromolecular crowding: how shape and interactions affect diffusion. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 124, 7537–7543 (2020)
Contact Us
Cytoplasm Dynamics & Complexity Group
room 5.22, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
ul. Ludwika Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warszawa
E-mail: Tomasz.Skora@fuw.edu.pl