PhD THESIS TITLE

Modeling the content(plankton vs. particles) of the Spitsbergen coastal waters under different scenarios of environmental changes

CONTACT (PhD)

lena@iopan.pl

RESEARCH PROJECTS

2019: Changes in the structure and functioning of pelagic ecosystems affected by water darkening due to glacier/river runoff in the fjords of European Arctic (CoastDark), NCN research grant OPUS nr 2018/29/B/NZ8/02463

2018: Requirement of conserved folding factors in functioning of many essential proteins, metabolic processes and key virulence factors, NCN research grant OPUS nr 2017/25/B/NZ6/02021

2016: Chemotherapeutic activity of BS-154, novel cytostatic modulating multi-drug resistance of cancer cells, NCBR research grant INNOTECH II nr INNOTECH-K2/IN2/82/183215/NCBR/13

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Szeligowska M. (2018) Marine viruses in the global ecosystem and prevalence of novel chaperonins in the virioplankton. The Book of Articles, National Scientific Conference „Zrozumieć Naukę” II edition, Łódź, ISBN: 978–83– 950109–4–1
  2. Misiak M., Heldt M., Szeligowska M. et al. (2017) Molecular basis for the DNA damage induction and anticancer activity of asymmetrically substituted anthrapyridazone PDZ-7. Oncotarget, 8(62), 105137

CONFERENCES

  1. Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Kubiszyn A., Sagan S., Szeligowska M., Wiktor J., Boehnke R., Trudnowska E. Traditional perceptions of Isfjorden plankton enhanced by optical approach, Svalbard Science Conference 2019 – Svalbard in a pan-Arctic perspective, Oslo, Norway
  2. Szeligowska M., Złoch I., Błaszczyk A., Toruńska-Sitarz A. Can macrophytes from the Baltic Sea be a new source of novel antimicrobial compounds? 17th Students’ Science Conference, Oleśnica, Poland
  3. Szeligowska M., Złoch I., Toruńska-Sitarz A. Can macrophytes from the Baltic Sea be a new source of novel antibacterial compounds? 62nd International Conference for Students of Physics and Natural Sciences, Vilnus, Lithuania
  4. Szeligowska M. Marine viruses in the global ecosystem and prevalence of novel chaperonins in the virioplankton, National Scientific Conference „Zrozumieć Naukę” II edition, Łódź, Poland
  5. Szeligowska M. Bioluminescence of marine organisms, Conference of Faculty of Chemistry, Gdańsk Univeristy of Technology, Czarlina, Poland

SCIENCE EXPERIENCE

Participation in Baltic research cruises (2019)

Summer school ‘Marine ichthyology’, Hel Marine Station, Poland (2017)

INTERESTS

Arctic plankton ecology

Ecological modeling

Sport