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mgr Paweł Hałakuc

Research projects

Ongoing

  • Structure and evolution of mitochondrial genomes in Euglenids, Preludium grant, NCN

Completed

  • Development of procedure for isolation of nucleic acids from euglein mitochondria. Mikrogrant, IDUB UW
  • Analysis of mitochondrial genomes in Colacium species (Euglenida). Grant DSM 2021; Faculty of Biology UW; budget: 10 000 PLN; June 2021 – April 2022
  • Study on the physical organisation of ribosomal RNA encoding genes in Euglena longa (Euglenida). Grant DSM 2019, Faculty of Biology UW; budget: 10 000 PLN; September 2019 – April 2020

Internships

  • Laboratory of Genomics and Diversity of Protists, Institute of Parasitology CAS (supervisor dr. Martin Kolísko), April – June 2018, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Societies memberships and functions

  • International Society of Protistologists (ISOP) – member
  • Head of the Faculty’s PhD Student Council – term of office 2020

Prizes and distinctions

  • Holz-Conner Travel Grant (conference attendance; International Society of Protistologists, ISOP) – May 2019

Conferences

  1. Mikina W., Hałakuc P. Milanowski R.; Manual annotation as a key reference for automatic prediction of nonconventional introns – poster (2021); 1st Annual International Congress on Euglenoids; 8-11 November, Online
  2. Hałakuc P., Semik A., Mikina W., Różycka J., Płecha M., Gumińska N., Karnkowska A., Milanowski R.; Canonical and nonconventional introns in three new Euglena genomes – oral presentation (2021); 1st Annual International Congress on Euglenoids; 8-11 November, Online
  3. Płecha M., Hałakuc P., Jagielska M., Karnkowska A., Milanowski R.; The analysis of whole genome assemblies (WGA) reveals a bizarre structure of euglenids mitochondrial genomes – oral presentation (2021); 1st Annual International Congress on Euglenoids; 8-11 November, Online
  4. Płecha M., Hałakuc P., Jagielska M., Karnkowska A., Milanowski R.; Mitochondrial genomes of Euglena gracilis, E. hiemalis and E. longa obtained from the whole genome assemblies (WGA) – poster (2021); EMBO Young Scientists Forum. 21-22 October, Warsaw, Poland
  5. Hałakuc P., Milanowski R., Karnkowska A.; Microbial eukaryotes as a key to understanding the evolution of mitochondrial genome structure – oral presentation (2021); EMBO Young Scientists Forum. 21-22 October, Warsaw, Poland
  6. Hałakuc P., Płecha M., Różycka J., Milanowski R., Karnkowska A. Nonconventional genomics of Euglena species – oral presentation (2020); 4th EMBO Workshop on Computational and Structural Biology and Chemistry; 28-29.02.2020, Waplewo, Poland
  7. Hałakuc P., Gumińska N., Karnkowska A., Milanowski R.; Exception within exceptions – unusual organization of rRNA genes in Euglena longa – poster (2019); VIII European Congress of Protistology – ISOP joint meeting; 28 July – 2 August, Rome, Italy
  8. Hałakuc P., Novák L. V. F, Treitli S. C., Hampl V., Karnkowska A.; How to find things that are lost – searching for MROs in Preaxostyla – oral presentation (2019); 49th Jirovec’s Protozoological Days, 22.04 – 26.04.2019, Kostelec nad Cernymi Lesy, Czech Republic
  9. Hałakuc P., Karnkowska A., Milanowski R.; Tracing Evolutionary Changes in rRNA Genes in Euglenozoa – oral presentation (2018); 48th Jírovec’s Protozoological Days, 30.04-4.05.18, Kunčice pod Ondřejníkem, Czech Republic

Publications

2023

Novák, Lukáš V. F.; Treitli, Sebastian C.; Pyrih, Jan; Hałakuc, Paweł; Pipaliya, Shweta V.; Vacek, Vojtěch; Brzoň, Ondřej; Soukal, Petr; Eme, Laura; Dacks, Joel B.; Karnkowska, Anna; Eliáš, Marek; Hampl, Vladimír

Genomics of Preaxostyla Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria Journal Article

In: PLOS Genetics, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 1-30, 2023.

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Jagielska, Maria; Hałakuc, Paweł; Płecha, Magdalena; Milanowski, Rafał

Mitochondrial genomes – unity and diversity Journal Article

In: Postępy Biochemii, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 113-121, 2023.

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2022

Hałakuc, Paweł; Karnkowska, Anna; Milanowski, Rafał

Typical structure of rRNA coding genes in diplonemids points to two independent origins of the bizarre rDNA structures of euglenozoans Journal Article

In: BMC Ecology and Evolution, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 59, 2022, ISSN: 2730-7182.

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2021

Treitli, Sebastian Cristian; Peña-Diaz, Priscila; Hałakuc, Paweł; Karnkowska, Anna; Hampl, Vladimír

High quality genome assembly of the amitochondriate eukaryote Monocercomonoides exilis Journal Article

In: Microbial Genomics, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 000745, 2021, ISSN: 2057-5858.

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2018

Gumińska, Natalia; Płecha, Magdalena; Walkiewicz, Halszka; Hałakuc, Paweł; Zakryś, Bożena; Milanowski, Rafał

Culture purification and DNA extraction procedures suitable for next-generation sequencing of euglenids Journal Article

In: Journal of Applied Phycology, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 3541–3549, 2018, ISSN: 1573-5176.

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