Sergey Samsonov
Group Leader
Sergey Samsonov graduated in Biophysics at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (Russia) in 2006. He obtained his first PhD in 2009 in Bioinformatics at Dresden University of Technology. In 2010 he obtained his second PhD in Biochemistry at St. Petersburg University. Since then and until 2017 he was a postdoctoral researcher within the project "Transregio 67", where he started to work in the field of modeling GAG containing biomolecular systems. In 2017 he received a joint grant from NCN and EU Commission within POLONEZ Programme to start his own research group at the University of Gdańsk. In 2018 he obtained the title of dr hab. at the University of Tours (France). In 2019, he received two new grants from NCN.
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Jacob Clark
Postdoctoral Researcher
Jacob Clark is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gdansk working to decipher the sulfation code of glycosaminoglycans. In 2019 he completed his BSc in Neuroscience at the University of Leeds (UK). In 2024 he received his PhD in Computational Biophysics from King's College London (UK) under the supervision of Prof Carla Molteni, where he researched the ligand binding mechanisms of glycine receptors. His area of interest is in the application of computational techniques to expand understanding of biomolecules with a specific focus on ligand-protein interactions.
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Annemarie Danielsson
PhD Student
Annemarie is a PhD student at the Laboratory of Molecular Modeling, tasked with the investigation of the specificity of protein-glycosaminoglycan binding using computational approaches. She completed her Bachelor Degree in Bioinformatics at the University of Gdansk and her Master Degree in Bioinformatics in Munich at the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig-Maximilians University; her Master Thesis was focused on the computational analysis of changes in DNA methylation during pregnancy and postpartum.
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Marta Pągielska
PhD Student
Marta is a Bioinformatics student at the University of Gdańsk. Recent field of study contained MD-based comparative analysis of chondroitin sulfate and dermatan sulfate in terms of possible protein binding differences aimed to decipher GAG "sulfation code". Currently Marta is working on developing a web-based database of protein-glycosaminoglycan interactions.
Former Members
- Urszula Uciechowska-Kaczmarzyk (2017–2019), Postdoctoral Researcher
- Krzysztof Bojarski (2017–2021), PhD Student, defended his PhD Thesis on 17.11.2021
- Margrethe Gaardløs (2021–2022), Postdoctoral Researcher
- Joanna Biss (2021–2022), Master Student
- Małgorzata Kogut-Günthel (2020–2023), PhD Student, defended her PhD Thesis on 06.07.2023
- Mateusz Marcisz (2020–2023), PhD Student, defended his PhD Thesis on 28.11.2023
- Martyna Maszota-Zieleniak (2019–2024), Postdoctoral Researcher
- Anila Sebastian (2023–2024), Postdoctoral Researcher
- Łukasz Golon (2023–2024), Postdoctoral Researcher
Visiting Scientists
- Nathalia Pavan (2025), Fahrenheit Scholarship Fellow, PhD student, University of São Paulo
- Guilherme Justiniano Mizumoto (2025), undergraduate student, University of São Paulo
Visiting Members
- Gergely Kohut (2018, 2019), PhD student at Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- Jan Potthoff (2019), Master Student at the Free University of Berlin, Germany