Staff:
- Head of the Department:
- Professor Iwona Szarejko
- Academic Teachers:
- Professor Małgorzata D. Gaj
- Damian Gruszka, PhD, DSc
- Mirosław Kwaśniewski, PhD, DSc
- Agata Daszkowska-Golec, PhD
- Justyna Guzy-Wróblewska, PhD
- Agnieszka Janiak, PhD
- Marzena Kurowska, PhD
- Marek Marzec, PhD
- Katarzyna Nowak, PhD
- Miriam Szurman-Zubrzycka, PhD
- Anna Wójcik, PhD
- Barbara Wójcikowska, PhD
- Monika Gajecka, MSc
- Technical Staff:
- Beata Chmielewska, PhD
- Małgorzata Nawrot, PhD
- Janusz Jelonek, MSc
- Agnieszka Kiwior-Wesołowska, MSc
- Grażyna Skawińska-Zydroń, MSc
- Justyna Zbieszczyk
Main field of research:
- Identification and determining the role of genes involved in barley in the processes of:
- root system development with the special emphasis on morphogenesis of root hairs
- metabolism of brassinosteroids and strigolactanest
- response to abiotic stresses, especially water deficit
- DNA repair
- Dciphering the role of epigenetic modifications, especially DNA methylation, in the adaptation of plants to environmental stress conditions
- Analysis of genetic and epigenetic mechanisms engaged in plant regeneration in vitro:
- identification of major genes controlling developmental plasticity of plant cells and elucidating their regulation at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level in Arabidopsis
- determination of molecular and cytological processes related to the phenomenon of albinism during androgenesis in barley
Unique resources of the Department:
- TILLING platform in barley (DNA and seed bank of ca. 8000 M2 plants and their progeny derived from chemical mutagenesis of spring cv. ‘Sebastian; protocol for efficient screening for mutations in genes of interest)
- Collection of barley mutants including root hair mutants, semi-dwarf and dwarf forms, mutants with changed response to abiotic stresses, morphological traits etc.
- An automated, flood-and-drain based root phenotyping system for cereals
For students:
- Erasmus +:
- Plant Micropropagation
- Mutagenesis;
- Seminar - Department of Genetics
- PhD studies on Advanced methods in biotechnology and biodiversity:
- Plant functional genomics;
- Plant morphogenesis in vivo and in vitro;
- Practical bioinformatics.