Researchers of the University of Gdańsk: Dr Anna Aksmann from the Department of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology and Prof. Hanna Mazur-Marzec, head of the Marine Biotechnology Department became the laureates of the Polish Intelligent Development Award 2019 in the ‘Scientist of the Future’ category.

Dr Anna Aksmann was awarded for the projects “The role of ELIPs (early light induced proteins) in the acclimatization of Chlamydomonas cells to anthropogenic pollution of the aquatic environment” and “Synchronous cultures of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a tool in the study of toxicity of anthropogenic pollution”.

Professor Hanna Mazur-Marzec was awarded for the projects “Peptides produced by Baltic cyanobacteria – from identification to choice of the leading compound (from hits to leads H2L)бOligopeptides produced by cyanobacteria – from ecology to biotechnology” and “Small molecule metabolites of the Baltic Sea cyanobacteria as potential inhibitors microRNA function. ”
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