University of Gdańsk

Our main concern is to establish the possibility of exchanging ideas between the members of our team and other researchers. We highly appreciate open-mindedness and commitment in solving research problems ,such as: language delay in pre-primary and primary grade children; reading and writing difficulties, as well as  vocabulary gap in schoolchildren; problems of bilingual SLT.

Main research interests:

• nature of language behaviour in various social situations ;

• relationship between language changes and social changes, between language varieties and social groups;

•  types of linguistic behaviour in various communicative situations  depending on age, gender, social roles, profession, etc .;

• communication pragmatics;

• sociolinguistic variables in didactics.

The group's work is focused on multiple, interdisciplinary approaches to investigation of iconotexts - predominantly picturebooks.

The recent research projects of the team have been focused on pharmaceutical application of marine natural products. The group explores the metabolic diversity of cyanobacteria in search for compounds, mainly oligopeptides, of anticancer and antiviral activities. In a wide collaboration with other partners, the possible mechanism of cyanopeptides action, the alternativie methods of production as well as the behaviour under physiological conditions are studied.

The Division is invested in non-invasive methods for seafloor research for classification of seabed types and geodynamics. In addition we carry: sedimentological studies of marine sediments, geomorphological study of the seafloor of various environments (Baltic Sea and Atlantic), geodynamic studies of coastal zone of the Baltic Sea and the dynamics of the Scandinavian ice sheet in Poland and glaciers in modern polar zones.

Cahiers ERTA is a platform for scientific exchange on modern and contemporary French literature. Cahiers ERTA was first designed as a series of “Around…” monographs, published as part of the activities of the scientific research group ERTA (research team in applied theory), founded in 2006 by Ewa Wierzbowska, Tomasz Swoboda and Olga Wronska. Two monographs were published in 2008 and 2011.

The main objective of our research group is to exploit properties of Prokaryotes that thrive in extreme habitats for potential biotech applications. Enzymes being in our focus such as Enzymes such as DNA replication/transcription enzymes, DNA/RNA ligases, nucleases, SSB proteins, helicases, recombinases constitute primary targets to advance the knowledge on genome plasticity, maintenance and evolution.

(i) analysis and environmental fate of residues of pharmaceuticals used in human and veterinary medicine entering the environment, (ii) development of novel analytical solutions for environmental and biomedical research, (iii) profiling of cuticular insect lipids as potential biofungicides, (iv) chemotaxonomic classification of plants based on the profile of secondary metabolites and (v) study of chemical composition disorders of biologically active compounds in patients with metabolic diseases

The main objectives of our research in the field of marine biology and ecology covers mainly:

Our research includes two main fields of interest: research related to the photodynamic inactivation (PDI) of bacterial infections as well as the application of modern tools of molecular biology in the study of stem cells, cancer, metabolic and infectious diseases. PDI is based on the concept that metabolically active cells, like bacteria, fungi accumulate a photosensitizer (PS), a small molecular compound, which is excited by visible light.