Department Head

Department Website

• prof. dr hab. Dagmara Jakimowicz

Staff Members

• prof. dr hab. Jolanta Zakrzewska-Czerwińska
• dr Agnieszka Kois-Ostrowska
• dr Marcin Wolański
• dr Marcin Szafran
• mgr inż. Grażyna Bieniarz

PhD Students

(phone +48 71375 2393, -2640, rooms 3.17, 3.18)

• mgr Martyna Gongerowska
• mgr Tomasz Łebkowski
• mgr Małgorzata Płachetka
• mgr Agnieszka Strzałka
• mgr Damian Trojanowski
• mgr Marta Przewoźnik
• mgr Tomasz Małecki

Research Topics

• Our studies focus on Mycobacterium and Streptomyces, which belong to gram-positive bacteria – Actinomycetales.
• Mycobacteria include pathogens that cause serious diseases including tuberculosis and leprosy.
• Streptomyces are harmless soil bacteria, which produce more than half of our currently available antibiotics.
• Streptomyces are multicellular bacteria with complex life cycle. They grow forming branched mycelium and sporulate.
• The main area of our research is a life cycle of these bacteria. Before bacterial cell division, chromosome must be precisely replicated and segregated reliably to daughter cells. Using molecular and cell biology methods, we are studying – elements involved in regulation of replication and components of chromosome segregation machinery.

Publications