Development of innovative approaches to control bacterial plant pathogens and impair the spread of multidrug resistance in the natural environment

Speaker: dr Agata Motyka-Pomagruk - Research and Development Laboratory, Laboratory of Plant Protection and Biotechnology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG&MUG

Talk:  Development of innovative approaches to control bacterial plant pathogens and impair the spread of multidrug resistance in the natural environment

Time: 29.11.2024, 9:00 am

Venue: Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, Abrahama 58, hall 042B

Dr. Agata Motyka-Pomagruk works as an assistant professor and deputy quality manager at the accredited by Polish Centre for Accreditation for compliance with ISO 17025 and certified according to ISO 14001 Research & Development Laboratory of Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology University of Gdańsk and Medical University of Gdańsk. Co-author of 42 scientific publications and 4 book chapters, principal investigator of Preludium 11 (National Science Centre in Poland), executor in other 22 projects, completed research internships at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (Lyon, France), University of Florence (Italy) and Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (As, Norway), co-author of the implementation, 5 national patents and 7 patent applications (including two international ones), scholarship holder of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in the competition for outstanding young scientists (2023), awarded by Prime Minister for outstanding doctoral dissertation (2020), co-author and author of over 84 conference reports, president of Gdańsk Department of Polish Phytopathological Society.

In this seminar, Dr. A. Motyka-Pomagruk will present accomplishments forming her application for habilitation that are focused on three topics: i) increasing knowledge on genomics and phenotypic characteristics of phytopathogenic bacteria from the Pectobacteriaceae family, ii) development of innovative methods for controlling bacterial plant pathogens, based on direct or indirect use of cold atmospheric plasmas and iii) examination of innovative methods of antibiotic degradation using cold atmospheric plasmas in order to limit development and spread of multidrug resistance in the natural environment. Her main research interests involve broadly understood environmental and clinical microbiology, phytopathology, comparative genomics, bioinformatics, statistical analyzes and visualization of biological data, methods of detecting, identifying and eradicating bacterial pathogens.