MicroEcoLab

Ongoing Projects

Discovery and exploitation of psychrotolerant bacteria and novel cold-adapted enzymes in regenerative agriculture

ID: 2023/51/B/NZ9/02910 (OPUS 26)

Agency: National Science Centre, Poland

Period: 2024-2028

PI (UoW): Takao Ishikawa

Other PIs: Tadeusz Kaczorowski (University of Gdansk; Poland)

The role of urban recreational reservoirs in the accumulation, dissemination and horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes

ID: 2022/47/D/NZ9/02213 (SONATA 18)

Agency: National Science Centre, Poland

Period: 2023-2026

PI (UoW): Przemyslaw Decewicz

Phage treatment and wetland technology as intervention strategy to prevent dissemination of antibiotic resistance in surface waters

ID: 2021/03/Y/NZ9/00141 (JPIAMR)

Agency: National Science Centre, Poland; JPIAMR Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA)

Period: 2022-2026

PI (UoW): Lukasz Dziewit

Other PIs: Carles Borrego (Catalan Water Research Institute; Spain), Malgorzata Grzesiuk-Bieniek (Warsaw University of Life Science; Poland), Rob Lavigne (KU Leuven; Belgium), Evelien Adriaenssens (Quadram Institute Bioscience; United Kingdom), David Weissbrodt (Delft University of Technology; Netherlands), Alina Ferdohleb (Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy; Moldova)

Role of extracellular DNA, generated during communal wastes treatment, in dissemination of virulence and antibiotic resistance genes in aquatic ecosystems

ID: 2021/41/B/NZ9/01552 (OPUS 21)

Agency: National Science Centre, Poland

Period: 2022-2026

PI (UoW): Lukasz Dziewit

Other PIs: Tomasz Bajda (AGH University of Krakow; Poland), Malgorzata Grzesiuk-Bieniek (Warsaw University of Life Sciences; Poland)

Outcomes: Skalny et al. (2024) , Gorecki et al. (2024)

Past Projects

Life at the limits: diversity, adaptation strategies and bioprospecting of microbes living in Arctic deep sea habitats

ID: 2019/34/H/NZ2/00584 (GRIEG 1)

Agency: National Science Centre, Poland; Norway Grants, Norway

Period: 2021-2024

PI (UoW): Lukasz Dziewit

Other PIs: Tadeusz Kaczorowski (University of Gdansk; Poland), Ida Helene Steen (University of Bergen; Norway), Wojciech Rypniewski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry; Poland)

Outcomes: Ciuchcinski et al. (2024)

Research platform on antibiotic resistance spread through wastewater treatment plants

ID: 857552 (H2020-EU.4.b.)

Agency: Horizon 2020

Period: 2019-2022

PI (UoW): Lukasz Dziewit

Other PIs: Jan Bartacek (University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague; Czech Republic), David Weissbrodt (Delft University of Technology; Netherlands), Roel Meulepas (European Center of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology; Netherlands), Celia Manaia (Catholic University of Portugal; Portugal), Per Nielsen (Aalborg University; Denmark)

Outcomes: Milobedzka et al. (2022)