Staff:
- Head of the Department:
- Professor Dorota Kwiatkowska
- Academic Teachers:
- Agata Burian, PhD, DSc
- Jerzy Nakielski, PhD, DSc
- Joanna Szymanowska-Pułka, PhD, DSc
- Dorota Borowska-Wykręt, PhD
- Joanna Elsner, PhD
- Marcin Lipowczan, PhD
- Anna Piekarska-Stachowiak, PhD
- Magdalena Raczyńska-Szajgin, PhD
- Technical Staff:
- Anna Staroń, MSc
- Jerzy Karczewski, MSc
Main field of research:
- growth of plant organs – in vivo estimation and tensorial description;
- analysis of plant cell patterns in situ (confocal microscopy);
- computer modeling and visualization of cellular pattern development (tissue level, organ level – plant meristems);
- mechanical properties of intact plant tissues (measurements with material testing machine, cell wall composition analyzed with Raman imagining techniques);
- the role of cytoskeleton and cell wall in regulation of plant growth and morphogenesis;
- hygroscopic movements of plant organs.
Unique resources of the Department:
- universal material testing machine Synergie 100 (MTS), supported with TestWorks software, used for estimation of tensile and compressive strength of materials;
- non-contact device Videoextensometer ME-40 (Messphysik), enabling measurements of the material displacement in the chosen direction;
- non-contact technique device Digital Image Correlation (DIC), used to measure deformation and strain of plant tissue in 3D;
- transmitted-light polariscope FL200 (GUNT Hamburg) for elastooptic visualization of stress distribution in mechanically stressed sample;
- MorphoGraphX – a software dedicated for 3D reconstruction and plant cell growth and shape analysis.
For students:
- Erasmus +:
- Biophysics
- Mechanisms of plant development
- PhD studies on Advanced methods in biotechnology and biodiversity:
- Biophysical aspect of plant growth and development.