Experience

Jagiellonian University

• Poland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Candidate

  • Oct 2018 - Present

  Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology; Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry



University of Virginia

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Research Graduate Traineeship Program

  • Jul 2017 - May 2018

  DeSimone lab, Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia Health System - using atomic force microscopy (AFM) to study adhesion of eukaryotic cells.This program, now called "BioLAB", is coordinated by the Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission (https://en.fulbright.edu.pl, https://fulbright.edu.pl/biolab/)



Jagiellonian University

• Poland
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Coordinator of a student research project

  • Jul 2016 - Jun 2017

  "Metal diatoms - phytoremediation and the indicative role of Phaeodactylum tricornutum"

• Coordinator of a student research project

  • Jun 2015 - Jul 2016

  "Anti-cancer properties of Phaeodactylum tricornutum secondary metabolites"- leading an 8-people team,- isolation of diatom xanthophylls and assessing their effect on human cancer cells.

• Bachelor thesis research

  • Mar 2014 - Jun 2015

  - EPR spectroscopy - measuring membrane fluidity of prolamellar bodies (PLB) membranes;- Low-temperature fluorescence spectroscopy - studying PLB dispresion;- HPLC - analysing pigment content of the PLB membranes.

• Student Internship

  • Jun 2014 - Jun 2014

  Three-week internship in a group of prof. dr Tadeusz Holak (Group of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery).- bacteria transformation and plasmid isolation;- protein purification (affinity, ion exchange and size exclusion chromatography);- SDS-PAGE electrophoresis.



Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice

• Annual Summer School in Molecular Biophysics and Systems Biology

  • Jul 2016 - Aug 2016

  Monitoring intracellular pH changes in yeast cells.