Dr hab. Anna Bzducha-Wróbel, prof. SGGW candidate for the award named after Prof. Maria Joanna Radomska

SELECTED SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS OVER THE LAST 5 YEARS:

SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Promotion to university professor (2023)
• Obtaining the academic degree of doctor habilitated (2019)
• Obtaining a scientific scholarship project title: “Structural and emulsifying properties of mannoproteins of Wickerhamomyces anomalus cultivated on brewers’ hops hydrolysate”. Project financed under: Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) Grant (E-COST-GRANT-CA18229-15ef219d); Yeast4Bio COST Action no. CA18229. Place of research implementation: Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Portugal, Implementation date: 22.05-23.06.2023
• Obtaining a research scholarship, project title: “Evaluation of the influence of growth conditions on Candida utilis ATCC 9950 cell wall glycans structural characteristics” – project no. ID 36412. Project financed by: National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic for Support of Mobility of Students, Ph.D. students, University Teachers, Researchers and Artists, of the Government of the Slovak Republic. Place of research: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Department of Glycoconjugates Immunochemistry, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. Completion date: March 14-April 14, 2022
• Obtaining a patent Patent/right number: Pat.232177, Title Method of obtaining a preparation of yeast β(1,3)/(1,6)-glucans. Bzducha-Wróbel Anna, Błażejak Stanisław, Pobiega Katarzyna, Kieliszek Marek, Invention, Protected,. Date of granting the right: 31-05-2019, Publication of the patent/pattern: [WUP 31-05-2019]
• Author or co-author of numerous scientific publications (17 works with a total IF = 70.14, total ministerial points: 1670 points) significant for the discipline of food technology and nutrition, including:
• Bzducha-Wróbel A., Farkaš P., Bieliková S., Čížová A., Sujkowska-Rybkowska M. (2024) How do the carbon and nitrogen sources affect the synthesis of β-(1,3/1,6)-glucan, its structure and the susceptibility of Candida utilis yeast cells to immunolabelling with β-(1,3)-glucan monoclonal antibodies? Microbial Cell Factories, 23 (1), s.1-16, (100 pkt MeiN/MniSW, IF=6,4)
• Bzducha-Wróbel A., Janowicz M., Bryła M., Grzesiuk I. (2024) Adsorption of Zearalenone by Aureobasidium pullulans Autolyzed Biomass Preparation and Its Detoxification Properties in Cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Yeast. Toxins 16(2), 105 (100 pkt MeiN/MniSW, IF=4,2)
• Pycia K., Grzebieniarz W., Nowak N., Juszczak L., Kawecka A., Szuwarzyński M., Mazur T., Bzducha-Wróbel A., Konieczna-Molenda A., Jamróz E. (2024) Application possibilities of triple-layer furcellaran film with hazelnut oil microemulsion for packing cod liver oil. Food Hydrocolloids, 147, Part B, 109428 (140 pkt MeiN/MniSW, IF=10,7)
• Bzducha-Wróbel A., Farkaš P., Chraniuk P., Popielarz D., Synowiec A., Pobiega K., Janowicz M. (2022) Antimicrobial and prebiotic activity of mannoproteins isolated from conventional and nonconventional yeast species—the study on selected microorganisms. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 38(12), 1-14, article no. 256, DOI:10.1007/s11274-022-03448-5 (70 pkt MeiN/MniSW, IF=2,477)
• Binati R.L., Salvetti E., Bzducha-Wróbel A., Bašinskienė L., Čižeikienė D., Bolzonella D., Felis E. (2021) Non-conventional yeasts for food and additives production in a circular economy perspective. FEMS Yeast Research, 21(7), No. foab052, DOI:10.1093/femsyr/foab052 (100 pkt MeiN/MniSW, IF=5.193)
• Anderluh M., Berti F., Bzducha-Wróbel A., et al. (2021) Emerging glyco‐based strategies to steer immune responses. FEBS Journal 288(16): 4746-4772 (100 pkt MeiN/MniSW, IF=4,392)
• Bzducha-Wróbel , Koczoń P., Błażejak St., Kozera J., Kieliszek M. (2020) Valorization of deproteinated potato juice water into β-glucan preparation of C. utilis origin – comparative study of preparations obtained by two isolation methods. Waste and Biomass Valorization 11(7): 3257-3271 (70 pkt MeiN/MniSW, IF=2,851)

ORGANIZATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS:

• recordings of films promoting the Faculty of Food Technology.
• Initiator of the signing by His Magnificence the Rector of 2 letters of intent on cooperation between SGGW and foreign institutions (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemistry – 2022, University of Aveiro, Department of Chemistry, Portugal – 2023), with which I actively cooperate.
• member of the electronic working group operating within the FAO/WHO Committee on Food Hygiene – active participation as an expert on behalf of the Institute of Food Sciences.
• participant in the scientific committee of Food Symposium 3.0, March 20-24, 2023, LSU AgCenter/MENDELU/SGGW – I co-created the session: Innovation in teaching.
• promoting Faculty I of the University as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Food Technology and an academic teacher through lectures delivered at foreign research centers:
• Euroleague for Life Sciences Summer School: „Food-of-the-Future – Nutritional and Technological Aspects”, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel, 02-13.07.2023.;
• ERASMUS+ Programme, Staff Mobility For Teaching, Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Department of Microbiology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Prague, Czech Republic, 06-10.11. 2022).