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13-17.01.2020 thanks to EU funding (within the Starbios 2 project) we will be conducting practical microbiology workshop for best students from 6 Tricity schools.

An OPUS 17 grant application entitled  ‘Assessment of the antibacterial properties of post-plasma solutions generated with the use of cold atmospheric pressure plasmas against economically important phytopathogens and impact of the obtained liquids on the growth of crops and vegetables’ was awarded with 1,195,340 PLN funding by the National Science Centre in Poland to Dr eng. Wojciech Śledź.

These studies will be conducted in a Research Consortium between University of Gdańsk and the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

A full list of beneficiaries and summaries of the proposed research are available on the website of the National Science Centre.

Professor Ewa Łojkowska has been elected by the employees of the University of Gdańsk conducting research in the field of biological sciences to the Scientific Council of the Biology Discipline at the University of Gdańsk.

The aforementioned body will be responsible for, among others, awarding and evaluating scientific degrees and titles.

On 26 of October 2019, Prof. Ewa Łojkowska participated as a panelist in the conference ‘Women know what they are doing’ that took place in Gdansk. During the panel ‘Women to Women’, chaired by Katarzyna Pawłowska vice-chief of the ‘Wysokie Obcasy’ supplement to Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper, Prof. Ewa Łojkowska shared experience from the academic sector:

– Women constitute only 11 percent of the professors in Poland. Though the situation is better than even several years ago. I work with lots of PhD students that know exactly what they want to do in life, and do not give up family life if they don’t really want to – said Prof. Łojkowska.

Report (in Polish) from this event is available on the ‘Wysokie Obcasy’ official website.

His magnificence, the Rector of the University of Gdansk awarded the members of our research group with the 1st degree Team Award for a series of 5 publications released in 2018 on the genomic characteristics of bacteria from the species Dickeya solani and Pectobacterium parmentieri, as well as development of innovative methods of their eradication.

The awarded team includes: Prof. Ewa Łojkowska, Dr eng. Wojciech Śledź, Dr Agata Motyka-Pomagruk, Dr Sabina Żołędowska, Dr Marta Potrykus and Dr Małgorzata Golanowska.

Head of our Laboratory, Prof. Ewa Łojkowska, participated in preparation of an exhibition of Zbigniew Oksiuta entitled ‘STUDIOLO. Cosmic gardens’ in collaboration with Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia in the frames of Art + Science Meeting series.

The vernissage took place on 09.08.19 at 18.00 in the Laznia 2 building, 5 Strajku Dokerów street in Gdansk Nowy Port.

More information about this event can be found on the official website of the Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia.

The Investment Committee of the Innovation Incubator 2.0 programme granted 30 750,00 PLN for pre-implementation works under the title “Method of preparing plant material and the method of detecting and identifying bacteria from the species Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum, Pectobacterium atrosepticum and bacteria from the genus Dickeya” to the team of Research & Development Laboratory of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology  University of Gdańsk and Medical University of Gdańsk: professor Ewa Łojkowska, MSc Agata Motyka-Pomagruk, MSc Weronika Babińska, Dr eng. Wojciech Śledź.

The Innovation Incubator 2.0 programme is financed by the European Union (financing agreement No. MNiSW / 2019/169 / DIR) under the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020.

Realisation of the project is coordinated by the Technology Transfer Office of the University of Gdańsk.

The obtained RESBIOS project (RESponsible research and innovation grounding practices in BIOSciences) is a continuation of the ongoing STARBIOS2 project that kindly supported Research and Development Laboratory of IFB UG & MUG. The main objective of RESBIOS is to introduce the concept of RRI (Responsible Research and Innovation) into research institutions from the field of biological and related sciences. That activity shall lead to institutional changes in relation to five key areas of RRI (social involvement, education, gender equality, open access and ethics).

The project will last three years and will be realised in a consortium gathering 12 partners from 11 countries, under the coordination of University of Tor Vergata in Rome. The Project’s budget is 1.5 million euro.

Project Manager from Univeristy of Gdańsk is Professor Krzysztof Bielawski – Vice-Rector for Development and Cooperation with Business and Industry.

Professor Ewa Łojkowska was also involved in this project proposal.