Professor Jerzy Kruk
room: B221 (3.1.25), phone: +48 12 664 63 61
Prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Strzałka, profesor emeritus
room: A222 (4.1.24), phone: +48 48 12 664 65 09, e-mail: kazimierz.strzalka@uj.edu.pl
Prof. dr hab. Leszek Fiedor
room: B224 (3.1.31), phone: +48 12 664 63 58, e-mail:leszek.fiedor@uj.edu.pl
Dr hab. Dariusz Latowski
room: A225 (4.1.27), phone: +48 12 664 65 36, e-mail: dariusz.latowski@uj.edu.pl
Dr hab. Przemysław Malec
room: A221 (4.1.23), phone: +48 12 664 65 20, e-mail:przemyslaw.malec@uj.edu.pl
Dr hab. Beata Myśliwa-Kurdziel
room: B227 (3.1.31), phone: +48 12 664 63 64, e-mail: b.mysliwa-kurdziel@uj.edu.pl
Dr Monika Bojko
room: B225 (3.1.29), phone: +48 12 664 63 68, e-mail: m.bojko@uj.edu.pl
Dr Michał Gabruk
room B222 (3.1.26), phone: +48 12 664 63 72, e-mail: michal.gabruk@uj.edu.pl
Dr Małgorzata Jemioła-Rzemińska
room: B222 (3.1.26), phone: +48 12 664 6537, e-mail: malgorzata.jemiola-rzeminska@uj.edu.pl
Dr Beatrycze Nowicka
room: B226 (3.1.30), phone: +48 12 664 63 66, e-mail: beatrycze.nowicka@uj.edu.pl
Dr Paweł Jedynak
room: A220 (4.1.22), phone: +48 12 664 65 45, e-mail: pawel.jedynak@uj.edu.pl
Dr Kinga Kłodawska
room: A226 (4.1.28), phone: +48 12 664 65 34, e-mail: kinga.klodawska@uj.edu.pl
Dr Magdalena Kędra
room: A223 (4.1.25), phone: +48 12 664 65 19, e-mail: magdalena.keDra@uj.edu.pl
Mgr inż. Anna Kowalczyk
room: A226 (4.1.28), phone: +48 12 664 65 34, e-mail: kowalczyk.kowalczyk@uj.edu.pl
Mgr Dorota Kutrzeba
room: A223 (4.1.25), phone: +48 12 664 65 19, e-mail: dorota.kutrzeba@uj.edu.pl
Mgr Bartosz Pluciński
room: A220 (4.1.22), phone: +48 12 664 65 45, e-mail: bartosz.plucinski@uj.edu.pl
Mgr Weronika Rajwa
room: A230 (4.1.7), phone: +48 12 664 65 64, e-mail: weronika.rajwa@uj.edu.p
Emilia Capała, room: A230 (4.1.7), phone: +48 12 664 65 64
Stanisław Listwan, room: A230 (4.1.7), phone: +48 12 664 65 64
Jan Pukalski, room: A220 (4.1.22), phone: +48 12 664 65 45
Wiktor Tokarek, room: A230 (4.1.7), phone: +48 12 664 65 64
Kamil Trzebuniak, room: A230 (4.1.7), phone: +48 12 664 65 64
Martyna Wasilewska, room: A230 (4.1.7), phone: +48 12 664 65 64
Mateusz Zbyradowski, room: A230 (4.1.7), phone: +48 12 664 65 64
- The xanthophyll cycle of higher plants, green algae and diatoms; analysis of de-epoxidation in thylakoid membranes and in artificial membrane systems
- Protective role of carotenoids – molecular mechanism of epoxy xanthophylls de-epoxidation
- The effect of heavy metals on the germination of seeds, physiology biochemistry and genetics of plants from post-mining areas – in in vitro culture
- Adaptations of plants to anthropogenic heavy metal stress: mechanisms and propagation
- The role of antioxidants in the response to heavy metal stress
- Plants and microorganisms in bioremediation
- Molecular mechanisms of response in autotrophic organisms to abiotic environmental factors (light, temperature, transition metals), including: environmental regulation of chlorophyll and carotenoid biosynthesis pathways, physiological function of oligomerization of photosystem I in cyanobacteria; plant metabolic adaptations to elevated concentrations of metal ions
- Application of autotrophs to phytoremediation and biotransformation of hazardous wastes
- Development of photosynthetic membranes in higher plants; chlorophyll biosynthesis
- Physicochemical properties of biological membranes
- Thermotropic phase transitions of lipids
- Cyanobacterial cell wall metabolism
- Liquid chromatography (HPLC-DAD, FPLC-DAD, HPTLC)
- Gas chromatography (GC-FID)
- PCR
- EPR spectroscopy
- Absorption spectroscopy
- Fluorescence spectroscopy (steady-state and time-resolved methods at room temperature and at 77K, fluorescence anizotropy)
- Electrophoresis
- Isolation of plastid membranes
- Pigment extraction from plant tissue
- Electronic absorption and emission spectroscopy
- Circular dichroism
- Quantum-chemical computation
- Plant and cell culture
- Protein expression and purification using E.coli expression system
- Stable transformation of A. thaliana with Agrobacterium
- Leszek Fiedor: Chlorophylls and carotenoids under pressure – spectroscopy and high pressure in investigation of primary photosynthetic process. (2020-2022) 2019/33/B/NZ1/02418, OPUS 17, National Science Centre (NCN).
- Jerzy Kruk: Modification of plastoquinone :side-chain length as a method of increasing plant photosynthesis efficiency (2016-2019 ) 2015/19/B/NZ9/00422, OPUS10, National Science Centre (NCN)
- Beata Myśliwa-Kurdziel: The role of light-dependent chlorophyll biosynthesis in the regulation of biosynthesis and the assembly of photosynthetic dye-protein-lipid complexes in flowering plants. (2014-2018).2013/10/E/NZ3/00748 SONATA BIS, National Science Centre (NCN).
- Aleku, G. A., Nowicka, B., & Turner, N. J. (2018). Biocatalytic Potential of Enzymes Involved in the Biosynthesis of Isoprenoid Quinones. ChemCatChem, 10, 124-135.
- Bojko, M., Olchawa-Pajor, M., Goss, R., Schaller-Laudel, S., Strzałka, K., & Latowski, D. (2019). Diadinoxanthin de-epoxidation as important factor in the short-term stabilization of diatom photosynthetic membranes exposed to different temperatures. Plant, Cell & Environment, 42, 1270-1286.
- Budziak, I., Karcz, D., Makowski, M., Myśliwa-Kurdziel, B., Kasprzak, K., Matwijczuk, A. & Matwijczuk, A. (2019). Spectroscopic and theoretical investigation into substituent-and aggregation-related dual fluorescence effects in the selected 2-amino-1, 3, 4-thiadiazoles. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 291, e111261.
- Fiedor, L., Dudkowiak, A. & Pilch, M. (2019). The origin of the dark S1 state in carotenoids: a comprehensive model. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 16, e20190191.
- Gabruk, M., Myśliwa-Kurdziel, B. & Kruk, J. (2017). MGDG, PG and SQDG regulate the activity of light-dependent protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase. Biochemical Journal, 474, 1307 – 1320.
- Kłodawska, K., Bujas, A., Turos-Cabal, M., Żbik, P., Fu, P. & Malec, P. (2019). Effect of growth temperature on biosynthesis and accumulation of carotenoids in cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 under diazotrophic conditions. Microbiological Research, 226, 34-40.
- Kłodawska, K., Kovács, L., Vladkova, R., Rzaska, A., Gombos, Z., Laczkó-Dobos, H., & Malec, P. (2019). Trimeric organization of photosystem I is required to maintain the balanced photosynthetic electron flow in cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Photosynthesis Research, in press.
- Kovacs, T., Szalontai, B., Kłodawska, K., Vladkova, R., Malec, P., Gombos, Z., & Laczko-Dobos, H. (2019). Photosystem I oligomerization affects lipid composition in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, 1864, 1384-1395.
- Kowalczyk, A. & Latowski, D. (2018). Role of Plant-Microorganism Interactions in Plant Tolerance to Arsenic. In Mechanisms of Arsenic Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants , 219-237, Springer, Singapore.
- Lang, J., Melnykova, M., Catania, M., Inglot, A., Zyss, A., Mikruta, K., ... & Nalepa, P. (2019). A water-soluble [60] fullerene-derivative stimulates chlorophyll accumulation and has no toxic effect on Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Acta Biochimica Polonica, 66, 257-262.
- Lin, T. Y., Abbassi, N. E. H., Zakrzewski, K., Chramiec-Głąbik, A., Jemioła-Rzemińska, M., Różycki, J., & Glatt, S. (2019). The Elongator subunit Elp3 is a non-canonical tRNA acetyltransferase. Nature Communications, 10, e625.
- Michalik, M., Zbyradowski, M., & Fiedor, L. (2019). Tuning the Photophysical Features of Self-Assembling Photoactive Polypeptides for Light-Harvesting. Materials, 12, e3554.
- Nowicka B. (2019) Target genes for plant productivity improvement, Journal of Biotechnology 298: 21-34.
- Nowicka, B. (2019). Practical aspects of the measurements of non-photochemical chlorophyll fluorescence quenching in green microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using Open FluorCam. Physiologia Plantarum, in press.
- Olchawa-Pajor, M., Bojko, M., Strzałka, W., Strzałka, K., & Latowski, D. (2019). Violaxanthin conversion by recombinant diatom and plant de-epoxidases, expressed in Escherichia coli – comparative analysis. Acta Biochimica Polonica, 66, 249-255.
- Szymańska R., Nowicka B., Trela A., Kruk J. (2019) Vitamin E: structure and forms, in: Molecular Nutrition Vitamins (Ed. V. P. Patel), Academic Press UK, 67-90, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-811907-5.00021-X.
- Trela, A., Silska, G., Chyc, M., Latowski, D., Kruk, J., & Szymańska, R. (2019). Tocochromanols and fatty acid composition in flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) accessions. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 88, e3636.
- Vaňousová, K., Beranová, J., Fišer, R., Jemioła-Rzemińska, M., Lišková, P. M., Cybulski, L., & Konopásek, I. (2018). Membrane fluidization by alcohols inhibits DesK-DesR signalling in Bacillus subtilis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes, 1860, 718-727.
- Photosynthesis under stress conditions – adaptations and protective mechanisms; xanthophyll cycle; formation of the photosynthetic apparatus, light-dependent photosynthetic reactions
- Investigation of primary photosynthetic reactions and interactions between photosynthetic complexes in model systems; physical-chemical properties of thylakoid membranes; modifications of photosynthetic pigments in terms of application in photodynamic therapy; carotenoids and their role in photosynthesis process
- Reconstitution of photosynthetic protein pigment complexes; pro-oxidant properties of carotenoids
- Plant metabolites and their role in medicine; artificial membranes; redox reactions in chloroplasts
- Analysis of chlorophyllide, protochlorophyllide and protochlorophyll photophysical properties in model systems; structures of photoactive complexes protochlorophyllide: oxidoreductase, protochlorophyllide: NADPH – using fluorescence quenching technique
- Effect of selected heavy metals on light-dependent photosynthetic reactions of higher plants on different levels of organization – individual and evolutionary aspects
- Plants and microorganisms in bioremediation of contaminated areas – molecular aspects, practical application
- Fluorescent properties of reduced prenyl quinones and their application in in vitro research
- The role of prenyllipids in plant stress response
- Formation and quenching of ROS in photosynthesis
- Acclimatization of diatoms to environmental changes
- The role of low-molecular weight antioxidants and antioxidant enzymes in the response to heavy metal-induced stress
- Biochemical characterization of selected enzymes involved in peptidoglycan metabolism in cyanobacteria
Knowledge on physiology and biochemistry of plants, molecular biology, physics and chemistry. Fluent English. Laboratory skills.