Department Head

Dr hab. Magdalena Wołoszyńska, prof. UWr

Staff Members

• Dr hab. Małgorzata Heidorn-Czarna
• Dr Małgorzata Kwaśniak-Owczarek
• Dr Urszula Kaźmierczak
• Mgr Agata Sado-Guźda

Contact

Dr hab. Magdalena Wołoszyńska, prof. UWr: room 2.10, tel. 71 375 62 49

Research Topics

• Organellar cross-talk: nucleus, mitochondria and chloroplasts
• Regulation of expression of the mitochondrial genome at the level of translation
• Mitochondrial protein quality control system
• The role of mitochondria in plant development and stress response

The projects integrate various approaches of molecular biology, biochemistry, cell biology, as well as systems biology (transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics). We work with plant model organism – Arabidopsis thaliana.

Research projects

• NCN Opus (2024/53/B/NZ3/00722): “Mitochondrial quality control in plants: the relationship between mitophagy and the mitochondrial inner membrane protease FTSH4 in Arabidopsis thaliana” (2025-2028)
  Head of the project: dr hab. Małgorzata Heidorn-Czarna

Our laboratory equipment

• Light Cycler 2.0 (Roche)
• Thermocyclers (Biometra) and gradient thermal cycler (MJ Research PTC–200)
• UV–1800 Spectrophotometer (Shimadzu)
• Centrifuges – Sigma K15 and 3K18
• Ultracentrifuge CP100NX (Hitachi)
• Electroporator (Bio-Rad)
• Deep freezer – 85°C (Snijders Scientific)
• Certoclav LGA
• Clark electrode, Oxytherm (Hansatech)
• Growth environmental Versalink test chambers (Sanyo)
• System for performance 2–D gel electrophoresis based on isoelectric focusing, IEF (Hoefer IEF100, PROTEAN Bio-Rad)
• Delta 2–D software for advanced 2–D gel image analysis (DECODON)
• Gel Doc EZ system for DNA and protein gel imaging (Bio-Rad)
• G:BOX system for high performance fluorescence and chemiluminescence gel imaging (Syngene)

Selected publications