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Team

jadwiga śliwkaDr. Jadwiga Śliwka
j.sliwka@ihar.edu.pl
Project leader
Graduate of the Jagiellonian University, 2001, biology
PhD in agricultural sciences, IHAR, 2005
PhD thesis awarded by Prime Minister of Poland.
Experience in foreign labs:

  • University of North Wales, Bangor, UK
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Koeln, Germany
  • Wageningen University, the Netherlands
  • The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK

Scholarship START of the Foundation for Polish Science In years 2007-2008.
Since 1st of June 2009 I’ve been leading Potato Phytopathology Lab, in IHAR-PIB, Młochów
Scientific interests:

  • Potato and its most important pathogen Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary
  • Potato’s genes for resistance to late blight (identification, mapping, expression regulation and exploitation in breeding with use of marker-assisted selection
  • Durability of resistance in context of P. infestans genetic diversity

Other interests:

  • Arts & crafts
  • Travelling
  • Cooking
  • Gardening

Iga TomczyńskaIga Tomczyńska

A graduate of Department Horticultural Plant Protection at Warsaw University of Life Sciences
In the Project Leader is responsible for mapping of the  resistance to
P. infestans of Sarpo Mira variety.
Professional interests: resistance breeding of potatoes and organic methods of combating plant diseases and pathogens

Hobby additional: floristry, nature, wildlife and landscape photography, collecting varieties of rhizomatous irises.







Marcin ChmielarzMarcin Chmielarz

I was born in 1982 in Kędzierzyn-Koźle. In 2007 I graduated biology on Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń – during studies I was chairman of Microbiology Section of Biology Students Scientific Group and I went on summer practice in microbiology laboratory of Salford University, Manchester. Since July 2009 I work in Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute.
In LIDER program I’m investigating for Rpi-phu1 gene homologs in wild potato species.
My research interests are:
Phytophthora infestans in Poland – population structure and its variability
Interaction between P. infestans  and its host plant
P. infestans viruses

My passion is homebrewing

Emil StefańczykEmil Stefańczyk

I have graduated biotechnology from University of Agriculture in Cracow.
I have spent one semester at Universität für Bodenkultur in Vienna under the Erasmus programme. I have also pursued a traineeship at Norsk institutt for skog og landskap in As, Norway. Since March 2012 I work at Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute.
My main task is to profile a Rpi-phu1 gene expression associated with resistance to Phytophthora infestans.

I am interested in music and travels.