dr Anna Timoszyk

Office:
Campus A-8 Office 509
Phone:
+48683287335
Email:
a.timoszyk@wnb.uz.zgora.pl
Affiliation:
Academic position: Assistant professorResearch 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)
1995 – 1996 Asystent stażysta (Wydział Matematyki, Fizyki i Wychowania Technicznego, WSP im. T. Kotarbińskiego w Zielonej Górze)
1996 – 2006 Asystent (w latach 1996 – 2000 jw., od 2001 roku w Instytucie Biotechnologii i Ochrony Środowiska na Uniwersytecie Zielonogórskim)
2006 – 2018 Adiunkt (Pracownia Biofizyki, Katedra Biotechnologii, Wydział Nauk Biologicznych, Uniwersytet Zielonogórski)
2008 – 2011 Wykładowca w Wyższej Lubuskiej Szkole Zdrowia Publicznego w Zielonej Górze
od 2019 Adiunkt (Pracownia Biotechnologii, Katedra Biotechnologii, Wydział Nauk Biologicznych, Uniwersytet Zielonogórski)
Courses taught
- Nanobiotechnology