Extremophiles

Gelidimonas denitrificans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Gelidimonas diazotrophica sp. nov. psychrophilic bacteria involved in the nitrogen cycle in tundra soils of South Spitsbergen
Jakub Grzesiak, Julia Brzykcy, Peter Young, Elvira Krakowska, Robert Stasiuk, Kamil Krakowski, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Alina Kiedrynska, Renata Matlakowska, Dariusz Bartosik
Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 49: 126730 (2026)
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Taxonomy, function and plasmids of microbial soil communities of Polish salt graduation towers
Karol Ciuchcinski, Agata Bluszcz, Lukasz Dziewit
Scientific Data, 12, 1702 (2025)
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Computational pipeline for sustainable enzyme discovery through (re)use of metagenomic data
Karol Ciuchcinski, Anna-Karina Kaczorowska, Daria Biernacka, Sebastian Dorawa, Tadeusz Kaczorowski, Younginn Park, Karol Piekarski, Michal Stanowski, Takao Ishikawa, Runar Stokke, Ida Helene Steen, Lukasz Dziewit
Journal of Environmental Management, 382, 125381 (2025)
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Landscape of the metaplasmidome of deep-sea hydrothermal vents located at Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridges in the Norwegian–Greenland Sea: ecological insights from comparative analysis of plasmid identification tools
Karol Ciuchcinski, Runar Stokke, Ida H. Steen, Lukasz Dziewit
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 100, fiae124 (2024)
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Revealing the diversity of bacteria and fungi in the active layer of permafrost at Spitsbergen island (Arctic) – Combining classical microbiology and metabarcoding for ecological and bioprospecting exploration.
Mikolaj Dziurzynski, Adrian Gorecki, Julia Pawlowska, Lukasz Istel, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Piotr Golec, Michal Styczynski, Krzysztof Poszytek, Anna Rokowska, Dorota Gorniak, Lukasz Dziewit
Science of the Total Environment, 856, 159072 (2023)
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New strains of psychrotolerant bacteria, a composition, their application and method of soil bioaugmentation
Patent No: Pat.242616 2023 Poland
Michal Styczynski, Klaudia Debiec-Andrzejewska, Lukasz Dziewit
Heterologous production and characterization of a pyomelanin of Antarctic Pseudomonas sp. ANT_H4: A metabolite protecting against UV and free radicals, interacting with iron from minerals and exhibiting priming properties toward plant hairy roots
Michal Styczynski, Agata Rogowska, Christine Nyabayo, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Filip Romaniuk, Cezary Paczkowski, Anna Szakiel, Roderich Suessmuth, Lukasz Dziewit
Microbial Cell Factories, 21, 261 (2022)
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Draft genome sequence of Arctic, heavy metal-resistant Agrococcus sp. strain ARC_14 isolated from active layer of permafrost from Spitsbergen (Norway)
Mikolaj Dziurzynski, Anna Rokowska, Adrian Gorecki, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Anna Szych, Lukasz Dziewit
Microbiology Resource Announcements, 11, e00221-22 (2022)
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Marginal lands and fungi – linking the type of soil contamination with fungal community composition
Alicja Okrasińska, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Maria Majchrowska, Lukasz Dziewit, Anna Muszewska, Somayeh Dolatabadi, Łukasz Kruszewski, Zuzanna Błocka, Julia Pawłowska
Environmental Microbiology, 24: 3809-3825 (2022)
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Application of psychrotolerant Antarctic bacteria and their metabolites as efficient plant growth promoting agents
Michal Styczynski, Gabriel Biegniewski, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Bartosz Rewerski, Klaudia Debiec-Andrzejewska, Lukasz Dziewit
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 10, 772891 (2022)
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