mgr inż. Marta Sałek

Scientific interests

Ongoing

NCN OPUS Grant: Freshwater microbial communities in the eutrophication gradient: diversity and interactions of protists and bacteria (MicroDivEr). Principal investigator: Prof. Anna Karnkowska
New Ideas: Establishing the protocol for high-throughput single-cell transcriptomics of microbial eukaryotes. Principal investigator: Prof. Anna Karnkowska
EMBO Installation Grant: Evolution of phototrophy in eukaryotes
Principal investigator: Prof. Anna Karnkowska

Completed

Trans-National Access in EXCITE project: SYMBIOSEM – Unravelling ultrastructural interactions between algal host cells and their endosymbionts. Principal investigator: M. Sc., Eng. Marta Sałek, completed in 2024
Intramural grant for young scientist (PMB): Analysis of biodiversity of eukaryotic microorganisms in dystrophic lakes, adjactent peat bogs and soils. Principal investigator: M. Sc., Eng. Marta Sałek, completed in 2022

July 2023: SymbNET PhD Summer school on host-microbe symbioses, Lisbon, Portugal
October 2022: Internship in FISH microscopy for euglenids, under the supervision of PhD Daria Tashyreva in Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre CAS, Ceske
Budejovice, Czechia
Septemer 2022: International FISH course at University of Vienna, Austria
June-July 2022: EMBO workshop: Advanced electron microscopy for cell biology. Tromsø, Norway
March 2022: Internship in CARD-FISH microscopy, under the supervision of Prof. Katarzyna Piwosz. National Marine Fisheries Research Institute in Gdynia, Department of Fisheries Oceanography and Marine Ecology Gdynia, Poland

June 2022: Second prize for best poster at 51st Jírovec’s Protozoological Days (Svratka, Czech Republic)
July 2022: IDUB microgrant for International FISH course at University of Vienna

Oral presentations

Sałek M., Hollender M., Hałakuc P., Karlicki M., Maciszewski K., Karnkowska A. Finding interaction patterns between protists and eukaryotes based on single cell microbiome approach: obtaining good quality data for computational analyses; Meeting of the EMBO Young Investigator Network on computational methods in ecology and evolutionary biology of microbes, Chęciny, Poland; 7-9.07.2022
Sałek M., Chwalińska M., Hollender M., Hałakuc P., Karlicki M., Smacchia V., Karnkowska A. “Abundance and diversity of protistan-prokaryotic interactions in freshwater lakes of the Masurian Lakeland based on single cell microbiome study”; EMBO ecology and evolution biology of microbes meeting, Chęciny, Polska; 5-7.10.2023 r.

Posters

Sałek M., Chwalińska M., Hollender M., Smacchia V., Karnkowska A. “Abundance and diversity of protistan-prokaryotic interactions in freshwater lakes of the Masurian Lakeland”; SAME17 – Symposium of Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Tartu, Estonia; 21-24.08.2023
Hollender M., Sałek M., Karlicki M., Karnkowska A. “Endosymbiont for each protist – protocol for prokaryotic endosymbionts identification from protists’ single cell”; International Society for Evolutionary Protistology virtual meeting (ISEP23), online event; 19-20.01.2023
Sałek M., Hollender M., Hałakuc P., Karlicki M., Maciszewski K., Karnkowska A. “Finding interaction patterns between protists and prokaryotes based on a single cell microbiome analysis”; 51st Jírovec’s Protozoological Days, Svratka, Czech Republic; 20-24.06.2022
Sałek M., Karnkowska A. “Endosymbiotic interactions of microbial eukaryotes in the environment – where and how to find them?”; EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum in Warsaw 2021, Poland; 21-22.10.2021
Sałek M., Khomutovska N., Sandzewicz M., Łach Ł., Suska-Malawska M., Jasser I. “Occurrence of toxigenic genus Phormidium (Cyanobacteria) in microbial mats and biological soil crusts of the hot and cold desert (California and Pamir)”; Ecology in a Changing World. PhD Student Conference, Warsaw, Poland; 23-25.03 2019