Staff:
- Head of the Department:
- Professor Piotr Świątek
- Academic Teachers:
- Magdalena Rost-Roszkowska, PhD, DSc
- Izabela Poprawa, PhD, DSc
- Weronika Rupik, PhD, DSc
- Karol Małota, PhD
- Anna Urbisz, PhD
- Technical Staff:
- Łukasz Chajec, PhD
- Danuta Urbańska-Jasik, PhD
- Alina Chachulska-Żymełka
Main fields of research:
- development of selected organs (e.g. skin, endocrine glands, gonads) in fish and reptiles;
- ultrastructure of the alimentary canal in selected invertebrates (insects, crustaceans, tardigrades, annelids) with special emphasis on regeneration and degeneration processes;
- gonad structure and gametogenesis in selected invertebrate (insects, clitellate annelids, tardigrades) and vertebrate animals (fish, reptiles).
Unique resources of the Department:
- Transmission electron microscope: Hitachi H500
For students:
- Erasmus +:
- General histology and histological techniques
- Eukaryotic cell ultrastructure and electron microscopy techniques
- PhD studies on Advanced methods in biotechnology and biodiversity:
- Cyto- and histochemical analysis of embryonic animal tissues.