I am working with an enigmatic fungus Glomus intrarardices, living only in symbiosis with a variety of plants species around the world. This organism is coenocytic, that means haploid nuclei can move in a mycelium and are genetically different with a high polymorphism within one individual. Moreover there is no known sexual stage in life cycle of G.intraradices and a genetic exchange can occur during the mycelium fusions of two individuals.
I am interested in a role of a multiple genomes in the adaptation of the fungus to a different host plants and changing environment. Genetic exchange and coexistence of different nuclei within a common mycelium can also alter the gene expression and supposedly lead to a recombination events. Therefore to addres this topics I am using a combination of microarray, high throughput sequenceing, in situ labeling and flow cytometry in my research. I have also developed efficient and easy to handle in vitro culturing systems which allows me for a development of many fungal cross lines with a well defined parental lines to observe a faith of nuclei lines within a common cytoplasm of a new individuals.
Academic qualification:
2009-
PhD
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne Switzerland
Supervisor: Prof. Ian R. Sanders
2009
MSc in molecular biology
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Poland.
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Rudawska
“Belowground ectomycorrhizal fungal communities of Larix sibirica Ledeb. in different micro-habitats in Northern Taiga Karst Landscapes of the Western Russian Plain”
2007
BSc in molecular biology
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Poland.
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Rudawska
“The mycorrhizal community in a forest chronosequence of European larch (Larix decidua L.) in Poland”
Scholarchips:
2009
Lifelong Learning Programe – Erasmus Student Placement.
Instytute National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA-Nancy), Interactions Abres/Micro-organismes, France
Supervisor : Marc Buée, Annegret Kohler and Francis Martin
2008
Science Foundation Ireland ,Student Summer School in Molecular Plant-Microbe interactions Laboratory, University College Dublin, Ireland
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Doohan
2007
Stipend for Student Scientific Practice from M.V.Lomonosov University in Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk, Russia