mgr inż. Marta Sałek
Scientific interests 
- Ecology of freshwater ecosystems
- Interspecies interactions (protista – procaryota)
- Microscope techniques
Projects
Ongoing
- NCN OPUS Grant: Freshwater microbial communities in the eutrophication gradient: diversity and interactions of protists and bacteria (MicroDivEr). Principal investigator: Prof. Anna Karnkowska
Completed
- Intramural grant for young scientist (PMB): Analysis of biodiversity of eukaryotic microorganisms in dystrophic lakes, adjactent peat bogs and soils. Principant investigator: M. Sc., Eng Marta Sałek
Internships and workshops
- EMBO workshop: Advanced electron microscopy for cell biology. Tromsø, Norway (June-July 2022)
- Internship in CARD-FISH microscopy, under supervision of Prof. Katarzyna Piwosz. National Marine Fisheries Research Institute in Gdynia, Department of Fisheries Oceanography and Marine Ecology Gdynia, Poland (March 2022)
Awards and distinctions
- Second prize for best poster at 51st Jírovec’s Protozoological Days (Svratka, Czech Republic, June 2022)
- IDUB microgrant for International FISH course at University of Vienna (July 2022)
Memberships
- International Society of Protistologists (ISOP)
Conferences
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 r.
Posters
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; 23-25 March 2019, Warsaw