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Agata Kotulska’s engineering and master’s thesis was carried out in the Optics of Fiber Optics Group, and concerned the theoretical and experimental investigation of the properties of transmission parameters of optical fibers.
As a continuation of her scientific work, Ms. Agata Kotulska carried out research in the field of optical spectroscopy, at the Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperatures and Structural Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław.
Ms. Agata Kotulska’s doctoral thesis, whose supervisor was Prof. Artur Bednarkiewicz, concerned the luminescence properties of nanocrystals doped with lanthanide ions. The thematic scope of the conducted research included the characterization of the properties of Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) and Photon Avalanche (PA) phenomena. The goal of Ms. Kotulska’s dissertation was to conduct experiments related to the aforementioned phenomena, including measurements of emission spectra and luminescence lifetimes, as well as the creation of physical models and analysis of the spectroscopic processes studied.
Currently, Dr. Kotulska is employed in the Optical Physics and Biophotonics group (Optical Imaging team) at ICTER as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
In her free time from research, Dr. Agata Kotulska enjoys hiking in the mountains.
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Łukasz Olejnik has worked at Dystrogen Therapeutics Technology Polska in terms of cell therapies and has completed internships abroad at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Austria and Tomas Bata University in Zlín in the Czech Republic.
Łukasz Olejnik is interested in the use of molecular biology in medicine and molecular diagnostics. He started working as a Research Assistant at the Integrated Structural Biology Group in January, 2023.
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Dr. Marta Mikuła-Zdańkowska graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw (Application of Physics in Biology and Medicine, specialist – Ocular Optics and Optometry) and in 2012 started her master’s studies at Warsaw University of Technology (Photonics Engineering).
Her doctoral work was devoted to digital holographic microscopy for optical microobject shape reconstruction. The aim of the research carried out within the framework of her PhD studies was to develop new solutions and measurement methods in holographic microscopy to overcome the basic measurement limitations of this technique.
Dr. Mikuła-Zdańkowska joined the Physical Optics and Biophotonics team at ICTER in December 2022 for a postdoctoral position within the NCN DAINA project. At our centre, she is expanding her knowledge and combining her experience in optometry and photonics by developing the OCT method.
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During her doctoral studies Dr. Ochocka-Lewicka studied the role of immune cells in glioma progression at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw. She was also engaged in commercial projects on TCR immunotherapies.
Dr. Ochocka-Lewicka was a leader of an NCN Preludium grant. She is also a laureate of the FNP START award and a co-author of 8 publications, including papers in Nature Communications and Cell Reports.
At ICTER, she currently works in the Computational Genomics group as a Postdoctoral Fellow; her position is linked to the OPUS 21 grant.
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From 2017 to 2021 Dr. Panas worked as research and teaching assistant at the Division of Radiology Informatics and Statistics at the Medical University of Gdańsk, then from 2021 to 2022 as bioinformatician and data analyst at the Molecular Biology Laboratory at the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research Polish Academy of Sciences in Olsztyn. He is currently working as a Technical Specialist at the Computational Genomics group at ICTER.
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Dr. Sathi Goswami obtained her PhD in biophysical chemistry from Saha Institute of Nuclear
Physics, under the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India in 2018. During her PhD she studied
the interaction of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and their metal complexes with DNA
and proteins through spectroscopic and imaging studies. She also studied the effect of these
drugs and complexes on standard cancer cells HeLa to demonstrate the changes in the epigenetic
level. Then she joined as a postdoctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Maharashtra, India in 2018. In postdoctoral studies her research was focused on the
characterization of drug-protein interaction using different spectroscopy. In September 2022, she
joined Integrated Structural Biology lab at ICTER as a postdoctoral fellow to work on the
structure and functions of various proteins involved in the visual cycle.