RESEARCH

Main scientific fields of interest

• xenobiotics and metabolism (phytoestrogens, resveratrol)

• in ovo effect of synbiotics and probiotics

• metabolism of adipose tissue, liver

• endocrine pancreas, insulinresistance, diabetes mellitus, obesity

• neuropeptides and regulation of feeding behavior and obesity

• pathophysiology of obesity and diabetes

analyses we perform

• Basic biochemical and physiological parameters in blood & tissues

• rate of lipolysis and lipogenesis, glucose uptake, apoptosis, necrosis, glycogenolysis, glycogenogenesis, glucose oxidation, lipid oxidation,

• Enzymes activity

• Quantitative and qualitative analysis of hormones and their receptors (RIA, EIA, RRA)

• Gen expression analysis (mRNA, protein)

• PCR; Real Time-PCR; Western blot; immunofluorescence; immunohistochemistry;

• Gene silencing, primary cell cultures, and cell lines

Research MODELS

• Homo sapiens

• Rattus norvegicus

• Mus musculus

• Oryctolagus cuniculus

• Sus scrofa

• Bos taurus

• Gallus gallus

• other

Our Partners

On Faculty

• Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding

• Department of Animal Nutrition

• Department of Animal Breeding and Product Quality Assessment

• Department of Zoology

at University :

• Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition

in Poznaniu:

• Poznan University of Medical Sciences

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

in our country:

• University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz (UTP)

• The University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (UWM)

• University of Agriculture in Krakow

Abroad:

• Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Germany

• School of Medicine, University of Padova, Italy

• Univeristy of Southampton, UK