dr Anna Timoszyk

Office: Campus A-8 Office 509
Phone: +48683287335
Email: a.timoszyk@wnb.uz.zgora.pl

Affiliation:

• Department of Biotechnology
• Laboratory of Biotechnology

Research interests

1. Lipid nanostructures – new forms of drugs (liposomes):

• creating of modern drug forms and methods of their formation
• methods for the targeted delivery of liposome drugs
• the use of liposomal drugs in anti-cancer therapy

2. Application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods to describe the structure, type of interactions and dynamics of model biological membranes.

3. Modeling of biological processes:

• mathematical models of bacterial survival
• mathematical models for targeted drug delivery

4. Biological synthesis and characterization of gold nanoparticles:

• searching for microorganisms, plant extracts and natural substances that synthesize gold nanoparticles
• characteristics of the optical properties; shape, size and stability of obtained gold nanoparticles (UV-vis, fluorescence and IR spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering (DLS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM))
• functionalization of gold nanoparticles
• biological activity of gold nanoparticles

Affiliations

1995 – 1996 Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Technical Education, Pedagogical University of Zielona Góra, Poland, trainee assistant

1996 – 2006 Department of Biotechnology, Laboratory of Biophysics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Zielona Góra, Poland, assistant researcher

2006 – 2019 Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Zielona Góra, Poland, assistant profesor

2019 – present Department of Biotechnology, Laboratory of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Zielona Góra, Poland, assistant profesor

Education

Education

1996    M.Sc, Physics
Thesis topic: Correlation functions for selected models of molecular reorientation.

2006    Ph.D, Physical Sciences
Dissertation topic: The influence of poly(2,8-(N-acetylneuraminic acid)) on model membranes studied by 1D and 2D Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.

Internships:

1997 – 1998 Research internship at the Department of Physics and Biophysics, Agricultural University of Wrocław, Poland.

1998 – 1999 Research internship at the NMR Laboratory of the University of Technology in Wrocław, Poland.

2001 – 2002 Research internship at the Laboratory of Structural Chemistry of Nucleic Acids in the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań, Poland.

2002 – 2005 Research internship at the NMR Laboratory of CBMiM PAN in Łódź, Poland.

University involvement

(Polski)

Courses taught

• Nanobiotechnology