Winter semester 2024/2025
Tuesday: godz. 13.30-14.00 (room no. 282B)

Research area:

1. Cercosporoid fungi - biology, morphological, molecular and biochemical identification, the effect of oxidative stress on the metabolism of Cercospora species.
2. Species richness, taxonomy, biology and ecology of microscopic plant parasitic fungi.
3. Participation and role of parasitic fungi in the structure of natural plant communities, mainly mountain ones.
4. Impact of microscopic phytopathogenic fungi on the development of allergies in humans (NCN OPUS 2019/35/B/NZ6/00472 project).

 Major publications:

1. Sztandera-Tymoczek M., Wdowiak-Wróbel S., Świderska U., Palusińska-Szysz M., Szuster-Ciesielska A. 2023. Potential Proallergenic Activity of Phytopathogenic Erysiphe palczewskii and Erysiphe convolvuli in in vitro Studies. Journal of Inflammation Research, 16: 5039-5060. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.2147/JIR.S425383
2. Świderska U., Rozwałka R., Wołczańska A. 2023. Puccinia scirpi – First finding of the fungus in the uredinial stage and new notes of the aecial and telial stages in Poland. Acta Mycologica 58: 174414. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5586/am/174414
3. Świderska U., Wdowiak-Wróbel S. 2023. First report of Erysiphe corylacearum on Corylus avellana in Poland. Acta Mycologica 58: 177131. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5586/am/177131
4. Mułenko W., Bacigálová K., Kozłowska M., Świderska-Burek U., Wołczańska A., Chmiel M.A. 2020. The Microfungi of the Tatra Mountains and Surrounding Areas. An Annotated Catalogue. W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, pp. 1-484.
5. Świderska-Burek U., Daub M.E., Thomas E., Jaszek M., Pawlik A., Janusz G. 2020. Phytopathogenic cercosporoid fungi - from taxonomy to modern biochemistry and molecular biology. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 21(22): 8555. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21228555
6. Świderska-Burek U. 2020. A taxonomic revision of Zasmidium species occurring in Poland. Phytotaxa 437(4): 237-244. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.437.4.5
7. Pawlik A., Jaszek M., Stefaniuk D., Świderska-Burek U., Mazur A., Wielbo J., Koper P., Żebracki K., Janusz G. 2020. Combined effect of light and nutrients on the micromorphology of the white rot fungus Cerrena unicolor. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 21(5): 1678. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21051678
8. Janusz G., Pawlik A., Świderska-Burek U., Polak J., Sulej J., Jarosz-Wilkołazka A., Paszczyński A. 2020. Laccase properties, physiological functions, and evolution. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 21(3): 966. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21030966
9. Janusz G., Pawlik A., Sulej J., Świderska-Burek U., Jarosz-Wilkołazka A., Paszczyński A. 2017. Lignin degradation: microorganisms, enzymes involved, genomes analysis and evolution. FEMS Microbiology Reviews 41(6): 941−962. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fux049
10. Świderska-Burek U. 2015. Cercosporoid fungi of Poland. Wrocław: Polish Botanical Society; (Monographiae Botanicae, vol. 105), pp. 166. https://doi.org/10.5586/mb.2015.001
11. Piątek M., Lutz M., Ronikier A., Kemler M., Świderska-Burek U. 2012. Microbotryum heliospermae, a new anther smut fungus parasitic on Heliosperma pusillum in the mountains of the European Alpine System. Fungal Biology 116(2): 185−195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2011.10.011
12. Świderska-Burek U., Mułenko W. 2010. Passalora acericola - a rare cercosporoid species found for the first time in Poland. Mycotaxon 113: 351−354.