Research
A biophysicist with background in mathematical modelling, scientific programming, and data analysis with more than
a decade of experience as a programmer, researcher, and lecturer in industry and academia. Building data analysis and visualisation pipelines for time series data from time-lapse fluorescent imaging and high-content screening. Experienced in R/Shiny, Python, Mathematica, Matlab, UNIX/command-line, HPC cluster environments. Interested in leveraging the power of modern data analysis to personalised medicine & healthcare.
Popular science
M Dobrzyński,
The era of personalised medicine (in Polish:
Czas medycyny skrojonej na miarę),
Spider's Web (
PDF),
December 2015.
M Dobrzyński,
Solving human brain (in Polish:
Na tropie rozwiązania zagadek ludzkiego mózgu),
Spider's Web (
PDF),
November 2015.
M Dobrzyński,
Healing with computer (in Polish:
Era leczenia przez komputer),
Polityka (
PDF),
June 2012.
Selected scientific publications
Collective cell signaling
M Dobrzyński, B Grädel, PA Gagliardi, O Pertz, et al.,
Quantification of collective signalling in time-lapse microscopy images,
Meth Microsc,
2024;
Data;
Code.
PA Gagliardi, B Grädel, et al., M Dobrzyński,
Automatic detection of spatio-temporal signaling patterns in cell collectives,
J Cell Biol,
2023;
Data;
Code.
P Ender, PA Gagliardi, M Dobrzyński, et al.,
Spatiotemporal control of ERK pulse frequency coordinates fate decisions during mammary acinar morphogenesis,
Dev Cell,
2022;
Data.
PA Gagliardi, M Dobrzyński, M-A Jacques, C Dessauges, RM Hughes, and O Pertz,
Collective ERK/Akt activity waves orchestrate epithelial homeostasis by driving apoptosis-induced survival,
Dev Cell 56(12),
2021;
Data.
Time series analysis
M-A Jacques, M Dobrzyński, PA Gagliardi, R Sznitman, and O Pertz,
CODEX, a neural network approach to explore signaling dynamics landscapes,
Mol Syst Biol 17:e10026,
2021;
Data;
Code.
M Dobrzyński, M-A Jacques, and O Pertz,
Mining single-cell time-series datasets with Time-Course Inspector,
Bioinformatics,
2020;
Code.
Dynamic perturbations
C Dessauges, J Mikelson, M Dobrzyński, et al.,
Optogenetic actuator/biosensor circuits for large-scale interrogation of ERK dynamics identify sources of MAPK signaling robustness,
Mol Syst Biol 18:e10670,
2022.
Y Blum, J Mikelson, M Dobrzyński, et al.,
Temporal perturbation of Erk dynamics reveals network architecture of FGF2-MAPK signaling,
Mol Syst Biol 15:e8947,
2019;
Data.
H Ryu, M Chung, M Dobrzyński et al.,
Frequency modulation of ERK activation dynamics rewires cell fate,
Mol Syst Biol 11:838,
2015.
High-content screening
T Hell, M Dobrzyński, et al.,
Flavonoids from Ericameria nauseosa inhibiting PI3K/AKT pathway in human melanoma cells,
Biomed Pharmacother,
2022.
T Hell, A Rutz, L Dürr, M Dobrzyński, et al.,
Combining activity profiling with advanced annotation to accelerate the discovery of natural products targeting oncogenic signaling in melanoma,
J Nat Prod,
2022.
L Dürr, T Hell, M Dobrzyński, et al.,
High-content screening pipeline for natural products targeting oncogenic signaling in melanoma,
J Nat Prod,
2022;
Code.
Stochasticity in gene expression and signaling
LK Nguyen, M Dobrzyński, D Fey, BK Kholodenko,
Polyubiquitin chain assembly and organization determine the dynamics of protein activation and degradation,
Front Physiol,
2014.
M Dobrzyński et al.,
Nonlinear signalling networks and cell-to-cell variability transform external signals into broadly distributed or bimodal responses,
J R Soc Interface,
2014.
M Dobrzyński, D Fey, and L Nguyen,
Bimodal Protein Distributions in Heterogeneous Oscillating Systems, in
Comp Meth in Syst Biol, 2012.
M Dobrzyński and FJ Bruggeman,
Elongation dynamics shape bursty transcription and translation,
PNAS,
2009.
M Dobrzyński et al.,
Computational methods for diffusion-influenced biochemical reactions,
Bioinformatics,
2007.
Book chapters
BC Daniels, M Dobrzyński, and D Fey,
Parameter Estimation, Sloppiness, and Model Identifiability, in
Quantitative Biology Theory, Computational Methods, and Models, MIT Press,
2018.
A Schwabe, M Dobrzyński, K Rybakova, P Verschure, FJ Bruggeman,
Origins of Stochastic Intracellular Processes and Consequences for Cell-to-Cell Variability and Cellular Survival Strategies, in
Methods in Enzymology, Elsevier,
2011.
M Dobrzyński, P Bernatowicz, M Kloc, JZ Kubiak,
Evolution of Bet-Hedging Mechanisms in Cell Cycle and Embryo Development Stimulated by Weak Linkage of Stochastic Processes, in
Cell Cycle in Development, Springer,
2011.
Theses
PhD thesis,
Molecules in Motion: a theoretical study of noise in gene expression and cell signaling,
PDF (6.5MB), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
2011.
MSc thesis,
Particle-based algorithm for modeling of simple biochemical networks in space and time,
PDF (0.7MB), Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University, Poland,
2003.
About me
Experiment NL - wetenschap in Nederland,
Wiskunde verwangt proefdieren,
PDF (0.6MB)