October 2020

We are pleased to announce that Research and Development Laboratory of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of University of Gdańsk and Medical University of Gdańsk, headed by prof. dr hab. Ewa Łojkowska, received on 20th of October 2020 Accreditation Certificate No. AB1760 granted by Polish Center for Accreditation.

The accreditation was obtained thanks to great commitment of the Laboratory employees: Dr. Wojciech Śledź (technical manager), Dr. Natasza Kaczyńska (quality manager), Dr. Agata Motyka-Pomagruk (deputy quality manager) and MSc Weronika Babińska.

The first step in our journey for obtaining PCA accreditation was to receive a certificate confirming our work accordingly to ISO17025 standards in March 2018. The laboratory group was supported by the EU HORIZON 2020 project “Structural Transformation to Attain Responsible BIOSciences” (STARBIOS2) and by Innovation Incubator 2.0 Program.

It is worth noting that we are the first laboratory at the University of Gdańsk to be certified by the Polish Center for Accreditation.

Dr. Agata Motyka-Pomagruk was awarded the Prime Minister’s award for a distinctive doctoral dissertation.

The dissertation “Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of bacteria from Dickeya solani species and development of novel control methods against phytopathogens” was appreciated for identification and description of the full genetic pool of Dickeya solani. This bacterium is the causative agent of very important potato diseases. The outcomes of the presented thesis will find applications in agricultural practice.

The supervisor of the doctoral thesis of Dr. Agata Motyka-Pomagruk was Professor Ewa Łojkowska, the co-supervisor was Professor Alessio Mengoni from the University of Florence and the assistant supervisor was Dr. Eng. Wojciech Śledź.

The dissertation was prepared in cooperation with the group of prof. Alessio Mengoni from the University of Florence and with the research team of Professor Paweł Pohl from Wrocław University of Science and Technology.