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Laboratory of Biologically Active Compounds

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Research Areas & Expertise

NATURAL SCIENCES » Biological sciences
  • plant in vitro cultures
  • plant transformation
  • molecular biology
  • secondary metabolites extraction
  • phytochemical analyses (HPLC)
  • microbiology
  • antimicrobial susceptibility testing
  • bacterial biofilms
  • nanoparticle synthesis and characterization
  • C. elegans model in toxicity testing

Principal Investigator

Aleksandra Królicka

aleksandra.krolicka@ug.edu.pl

Aleksandra Królicka is Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Biologically Active Compounds at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and the Medical University of Gdansk, Poland. Its research topic focuses on: plant cell tissue, transformation, biologically active compounds, phytopharmaceuticals, synergistic combination of drugs, green synthesis of nanoparticles, drug resistance of bacteria.

Orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5231-283X

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aleksandra-Krolicka-3

Faculty/school/department
Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and the Medical University of Gdansk
PI bio

Aleksandra Królicka is Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Biologically Active Compounds at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and the Medical University of Gdansk, Poland. Its research topic focuses on: plant cell tissue, transformation, biologically active compounds, phytopharmaceuticals, synergistic combination of drugs, green synthesis of nanoparticles, drug resistance of bacteria.

Orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5231-283X

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aleksandra-Krolicka-3

PI name
Aleksandra Królicka
Short description of research profile

Our research is mostly focused on the development of new antimicrobial approaches to address the issue of bacterial infections in agriculture, as well as problem of multi-drug resistance in human and veterinary medicine. Currently we concentrate on the three major research areas:

1. Nanomaterials for treatment and prevention of infectious diseases.

2. Bioactive compound from plant origin.

3. Phage therapy for the control of agriculturally-relevant bacterial pathogens.

Contact person
Aleksandra Królicka
Contact person e-mail
Technology Expertise
  • plant in vitro cultures
  • plant transformation
  • molecular biology
  • secondary metabolites extraction
  • phytochemical analyses (HPLC)
  • microbiology
  • antimicrobial susceptibility testing
  • bacterial biofilms
  • nanoparticle synthesis and characterization
  • C. elegans model in toxicity testing

Makowski W, Królicka A, Nowicka A, Zwyrtková J, Tokarz B, Pecinka A, Banasiuk R, Tokarz KM. (2021). Transformed tissue of Dionaea muscipula J. Ellis as a source of biologically active phenolic compounds with bactericidal properties. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 105(3): 1215-1226 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00253-021-11101-8

 

Krychowiak-Masnicka M, Krauze-Baranowska M, Godlewska S, Kaczynski Z, Bielicka-Giełdoń A, Grzegorczyk N, Narajczyk M, Frackowiak JE, Krolicka A. (2021). Potential of silver nanoparticles in overcoming the intrinsic resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to secondary metabolites from carnivorous plants. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22: 4849. 

https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/9/4849 

Krzyzanowska DM, Maciag T, Siwinska J, Krychowiak M, Jafra S, Czajkowski R. (2019). Compatible Mixture of Bacterial Antagonists Developed to Protect Potato Tubers from Soft Rot Caused by Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp. Plant Dis, 103(6), 1374-1382 

https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10.1094/PDIS-10-18-1866-RE

Czajkowski R, Fikowicz-Krosko J, Maciag T, Rabalski L, Czaplewska P, Jafra S. et al. (2020). Genome-Wide Identification of Dickeya solani Transcriptional Units Up-Regulated in Response to Plant Tissues From a Crop-Host Solanum tuberosum and a Weed-Host Solanum dulcamara. [Original Research]. Front Plant Sci, 11(1368), 580330, doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.580330 

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.580330/full

Czajkowski R (2019). May the Phage be With You? Prophage-Like Elements in the Genomes of Soft Rot Pectobacteriaceae: Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp. [Original Research]. Front Microbiol, 10(138), 138, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.00138. 

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00138/full

number of researchers
3
number of supporting staff
0
number of PhD students
3
Size of the team