{"id":4491,"date":"2025-05-19T13:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.piwet.pulawy.pl\/department-of-research-support\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:02:23","slug":"department-of-research-support","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.piwet.pulawy.pl\/en\/department-of-research-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Research Support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Head: Magdalena Wasiak, PhD<\/strong>email: magdalena.wasiak@piwet.pulawy.pl<\/a> tel: 81 889 3128<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Deputy Head: Ma\u0142gorzata Olejnik, PhD, ScD<\/strong>email: malgorzata.olejnik@piwet.pulawy.pl<\/a> tel: 692 996 254<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Secretariatemail: monika.karwatowicz@piwet.pulawy.pl<\/a> tel: 81 889 3238<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Research Teams<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Pathology<\/strong>Leader: Anna Kycko, DVM, PhDemail: anna.kycko@piwet.pulawy.pl<\/a> tel: 81 889 3083<\/a>Research profile of the team:– The Pathology Team, as part of the National Reference Laboratories, is responsible for conducting research on 3 disease units: bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie in sheep and goats, ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma– research on the characteristics of histopathological and immunohistochemical changes in viral and bacterial diseases. Research on the diagnosis and pathogenesis of neoplastic diseases of viral etiology– investigation of the immunogenic properties of selected peptides of viral origin– imaging of the morphology of tissues of animal origin and changes caused by bacteria and fungi using scanning electron microscopy <\/p>\n\n

Omics AnalysesLeader: Aleksandra Giza, MScemail: aleksandra.giza@piwet.pulawy.pl<\/a> tel: 81 889 3427<\/a>Research profile of the team:– Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)– direct and targeted metagenomics, including metataxonomics; bioinformatic analysis of high-throughput sequencing results for epidemiological and scientific purposes– gene expression analysis using microarray technology– identification of microorganisms using mass spectrometry– proteomics– tissue imaging using mass spectrometry.<\/p>\n\n

Epidemiology and Risk Assessment<\/strong>Leader: Magdalena Wasiak, PhDemail: magdalena.wasiak@piwet.pulawy.pl<\/a> tel: 81 889 3128<\/a>Research profile of the team:– analysis of research results (including those collected in the Central Database CELAB-CBD) regarding the occurrence of infectious animal diseases in Poland and contamination of food of animal origin and feed,– risk assessment of selected infectious animal diseases using statistical methods, geographic information systems, and mathematical modeling– cooperation with other units of PIWet-PIB in preparing risk assessment reports, opinions, and expert evaluations for public administration authorities– cooperation with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in developing, submitting, and validating data on African swine fever testing in Poland– reference activities in the field of collecting and processing data on laboratory test results <\/p>\n\n

Calibration Laboratory<\/strong>Leader: Beata Szaniawska, MEngemail: beata.prochniak@piwet.pulawy.pl<\/a> tel: 81 889 3227<\/a>Activity profile of the team:– internal calibration of single-channel and multi-channel piston pipettes in the range from 1 \u03bcl to 10,000 \u03bcl– internal calibration of dispensers in the range from 5 \u03bcl to 100,000 \u03bcl– temperature distribution testing and CO2 concentration measurements in laboratory thermostatic equipment. <\/p>\n\n

Media Laboratory<\/strong> Leader: Katarzyna Pilaszekemail: katarzyna.pilaszek@piwet.pulawy.pl<\/a> tel: 81 889 3009<\/a>Activity profile of the team: – production and quality control of media, fluids, and reagents for the Institute’s scientific departments. Media and fluids are prepared in accordance with the PN-EN ISO 11133:2014-07+A2:2020-10 standard “Microbiology of food, animal feed and water \u2013 preparation, production, storage and performance testing of culture media.”– production of media for Veterinary Hygiene Stations and other external laboratories (media for isolation of Brucella bacteria, media for serological identification of Salmonella strains, and for testing Paenibacillus spp.).– production and control of laboratory water of purity grade II (resistivity 10 – 15 M\u03a9cm) and purity grade I (resistivity 18.2 M\u03a9cm).– preparation of laboratory glassware for PCL2 laboratories– substantive support for diagnostic laboratories in the production and quality control of microbiological media <\/p>\n\n

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Head: Magdalena Wasiak, PhDemail: magdalena.wasiak@piwet.pulawy.pl tel: 81 889 3128 Deputy Head: Ma\u0142gorzata Olejnik, PhD, ScDemail: malgorzata.olejnik@piwet.pulawy.pl tel: 692 996 254 Secretariatemail: monika.karwatowicz@piwet.pulawy.pl tel: 81 889 3238 Research Teams PathologyLeader: Anna Kycko, DVM, PhDemail: anna.kycko@piwet.pulawy.pl tel: 81 889 3083Research profile of the team:– The Pathology Team, as part of the National Reference Laboratories, is responsible for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4491","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Marta Antas","author_link":"https:\/\/www.piwet.pulawy.pl\/en\/author\/mantas\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":" Optional<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Head: Magdalena Wasiak, PhDemail: magdalena.wasiak@piwet.pulawy.pl tel: 81 889 3128 Deputy Head: Ma\u0142gorzata Olejnik, PhD, ScDemail: malgorzata.olejnik@piwet.pulawy.pl tel: 692 996 254 Secretariatemail: monika.karwatowicz@piwet.pulawy.pl tel: 81 889 3238 Research Teams PathologyLeader: Anna Kycko, DVM, PhDemail: anna.kycko@piwet.pulawy.pl tel: 81 889 3083Research profile of the team:– The Pathology Team, as part of the National Reference Laboratories, is responsible for…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piwet.pulawy.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piwet.pulawy.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piwet.pulawy.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piwet.pulawy.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piwet.pulawy.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.piwet.pulawy.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4493,"href":"https:\/\/www.piwet.pulawy.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4491\/revisions\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piwet.pulawy.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}