Professor in IUNG-PIB, over 35 years experience in plant breeding and biotechnology focusing on tissue culture in the plant interspecific hybridization and transfer of virus resistance, obtaining haploids and doubled haploids by androgenesis and plant regeneration, genetic transformation of plants, cytological investigations, specialist on plant diseases, Coordinator of CORESTA Sub-Group Collaborative Study on Virus Diseases and member of CORESTA Scientific Commission. She participated in many international scientific courses, trainings and conferences. Leader of principal investigator in some international and national projects Coordinator of a project on obtaining hop plants free of viruses and latent viroid by meristem tip culture. Supervisor of studies on plant callus culture for production secondary compounds within European project NUTRA-SNACKS. Author or co-author of over 80 scientific publications.

Professor in IUNG-PIB, over 35 years experience in the field of plant breeding as regard resistance to viral and fungal diseases, studies on cytoplasmic male sterility in plants, application of cytological methods in studies on phylogenetic relationship of selected species. Awarded the CORESTA Study Grant for obtaining germplasm resistant to TSWV. Participant of international and national scientific courses, trainings and conferences (USA, Japan, China, South Africa, Germany). Author of many new cultivars resistant to Thielaviopsis basicola. He cooperates with numerous scientific centres in the world in the range of plant breeding and genetics. Assistant editor of Scientific Journal of Food Agriculture and Environment. Member of European Association For Tobacco Research and Experimentation (AERET). Author and co-author of over 150 scientific publications.

Scientist in IUNG-PIB. The head of the Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology. About 25 years experience in breeding of plants resistant to viral and fungal diseases, maintenance of plant biodiversity, studies on molecular markers determining resistance to Peronospora humuli, chemical analyses of selected secondary metabolites (alkaloids, resins and essential oils. Author or co-author of over 30 scientific publications.

Scientist in IUNG-PIB. Over 10 years experience in plant breeding as regard resistance to fungal diseases, diagnosis of fungal, bacterial and viral diseases of plants with biological, microscopic and serological tests, cytological analysis of mitosis, meiosis and pollen viability, application of tissue culture methods in obtaining haploids and doubled haploids, assessment of effectiveness of plant protection agents. Participant of international and national scientific courses, trainings and conferences. Member of European Association For Tobacco Research and Experimentation (AERET). Principal investigator in some national projects. Author or co-author of over 20 scientific publications.

Scientist in IUNG-PIB. About 10 years experience in plant biotechnology, studies of transgenic crops, molecular analyses of transgen presence and estimating number of their copies in transgenic plants (PCR reaction, real- time PCR), tissue culture methods (obtaining secondary metabolites on solidified media and in suspension culture, obtaining haploids and double haploids, eliminating a viroid from hop plants by meristem tip culture), diagnosis of viral diseases with serological and biological tests, cytological analyses of plant material. Participant of international and national scientific courses, trainings (among other things in Experimental Institute of Floriculture, Sanremo, Italy) and conferences. Participant in European project NUTRA-SNACKS concerning in vitro production of plant secondary compounds. Author or co-author of over 10 scientific publications.

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Assistant researcher in IUNG-PIB since 2004. Experience in plant biotechnology and techniques of molecular biology ( RFLP, DNA hybridization, RT PCR) studies on Potato Virus Y (PVY) and resistance to fungal diseases. Participant in project on obtaining hop plants free of viruses and latent viroid by meristem tip culture. Awarded the CORESTA Study Grant for his research project on biological, serological and molecular characterization of PVY strains in the world. Participant of international and national scientific courses, trainings and conferences. Principal investigator in some national projects and in European project NUTRA-SNACKS. Author or co-author of over 6 scientific publications.