Agnieszka N. Urbanek

• 2025 - ARUK pumping grant -The role of Aβ trafficking in synaptic function: £5,907,12

• 2025 – travel grant for ADPD 2025 - £600 Guarantors of Brain Travel grant, £600 – SMPH travel fund

• 2024 – ARUK Yorkshire Network for a travel grant, £500

• 2016 – IBCarb travel fund - Challenges and Opportunities for Optimising Protein Glycosylation, Imperial College London - £100.

• 2014/2015, SURE – Sheffield Undergraduate research experience – £500.14 on reagents,

£2000 scholarship for an undergraduate student on the project awarded by the Wellcome Trust

• 2014 - Learned society travel fund–Dynamic Cell, Cambridge 2014 - £350

• 2011 - FEBS Youth Travel Fund for Actin-Based Motility-from Molecules to Model Organisms conference - £620

• 2009, Bristol, the 1-st prize for poster presentation at the Actin conference - £100.

• Emily E. Prescott, Jiapeng Wei, Emma F. Garland, Agnieszka Urbanek, Francesco Capriglia, Willem H. Molenkamp, David P Rhodes, Louise Heywood, Aurelie Schwartzentruber, Elezabeth Stephen, Rachel Hughes, Oliver Bandmann, Mark O. Collins, Sara Linse, Axel Abelein, Jan Johansson, Michele Vendruscolo, J Robin Highly, Tuomas P.J. Knowles, Heather Mortiboys, Suman De, Secondary nucleation of α-Synuclein drives Mitochondria dysfunctions and Lewy body formation in Parkinson’s Disease, Molecular Cell, submitted
• Urbanek A, Garland EF, Prescott EE, King MC, Olerinyova A, Wareing HE, et al., Molecular Determinants of Protein Pathogenicity at the Single-Aggregate Level, Adv Sci (Weinh), 2025, 12, 9, e2410229
• Xia Z, Prescott EE, Urbanek A, Wareing HE, King MC, Olerinyova A, et al., Co-aggregation with Apolipoprotein E modulates the function of Amyloid-beta in Alzheimer's disease, Nat Commun, 2024, 15, 1, 4695
• Rzepnikowska W, Flis K, Kaminska J, Grynberg M, Urbanek A, Ayscough KR, Zoladek T., Amino acid substitution equivalent to human chorea-acanthocytosis I2771R in yeast Vps13 protein affects its binding to phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate, Hum Mol Genet, 2017, 04/15, 26, 8, 1497-1510
• Kaminska J, Rzepnikowska W, Polak A, Flis K, Soczewka P, Bala K, Sienko M, Grynberg M, Kaliszewski P, Urbanek A, Ayscough K, Zoladek T., Phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate regulates response of cells to proteotoxic stress, Int J Biochem Cell Biol, 2016, 10, 79, 494-504
• Ellen G. Allwood, Joe J. Tyler, Agnieszka N. Urbanek, Iwona I. Smaczynska-de Rooij, and Kathryn R. Ayscough., Elucidating Key Motifs Required for Arp2/3-Dependent and Independent Actin Nucleation by Las17/WASP, PLoS One, 2016, 11, 9, e0163177
• Weronika Rzepnikowska, Joanna Kaminska, Agnieszka Urbanek, Iwona Smaczynska de-Rojii, Kathryn Ayscough, Teresa Zoladek., Vps13 protein is involved in endocytic internalization and endosomal trafficking events in yeast, Conference paper, 09/2015, 27th International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology, Levico Terme, Trentino, Italy, 32
• Urbanek AN, et al., Distinct actin and lipid binding sites in Ysc84 are required during early stages of yeast endocytosis, PLoS One, 2015, 08/27, 10, 8, e0136732
• Urbanek AN, et al., Function and interactions of the Ysc84/SH3yl1 family of actin- and lipid-binding proteins, BST, 2015, 43, 1, 111-116
• Urbanek AN, et al., A novel actin-binding motif in Las17/WASP nucleates actin filaments independently of Arp2/3, Curr Biol, 2013, 23, 3, 196-203

• 2025 - NeuroBioUK – poster presentation

• 2025 – ARUK Northern Alliance – oral presentation

• 2025 – ADPD 2025 – poster presentation

• 2023 – NECB-North of England Cell Biology meeting– poster presentation

• 2014, oral presentation, 30 October, University of Manchester, Cell-Matrix interaction centre, an invited speaker

• 2014, poster presentation, 12 September, NECB-North of England Cell Biology meeting, Leeds

• 2014, selected oral presentation, 4-7 September, Cambridge, Dynamic Cell  2013, oral presentation, 06 December, Bristol, UK, Actin conference.

• 2013, oral presentation, CMIAD, University of Sheffield

• 2011, poster presentation, 16 December, Bristol, UK, Actin conference.

• 2011, poster presentation, 29 October–02 November, Stresa-Lake Maggiore, Italy, Actin-Based Motility - From Molecules to Model Organisms.

• 2011, poster presentation, 3-5 April, Edinburgh, UK, Molecular Mechanisms of Exocytosis and Endocytosis

• 2009, poster presentation, 11 December, Bristol, UK, Actin conference

• The University of Sheffield, Membrane trafficking group meetings since 2008

• FHEA – Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

• Project management, including staff, budget and priority setting.

• Complex problem solving, critical thinking and troubleshooting.

•  Skilled in training, managing, supervising and motivating people at different levels

• Mentor at Thesis mentoring programme.

• Science communication, public engagement at primary and secondary school levels, member of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry &Health Research Staff Association (MDHRSA): communication team.

• Mentor at Thesis mentoring programme.