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