Energetics of life: molecular bases of energy transduction in mitochondria, evolution of mitochondrial transport systems.
Regulation of gene expression: splicing of AT-AC introns in plants, role of absicisic acid in signal transduction in plants, molecular mechanisms leading to the plant tolerance to drought stress, nucleus-cytoplasm transport in plants, human RNA methyltranspherases, organellar heredity in bryophytes.
Mechanism of plant tolerance to heavy metal stress factor, oxidative stress, regulation of antyoxidative enzyme activity, action of poliamine and glutathione during aluminium and lead stress, function of phytochelatine detoxicative system, regulation of gene expression of gamma ECS, GS and PCS during lead stress in plants of the brassica and legume family, phytoremediation of heavy metals.
Plant genome bioinformatics: comparative analysis of functional and structural elements in plant genomes, development and application of tools and in silico storage structures for management of large biological data collections' phylogenetic analysis of gene family evolution and identification of new gene expression regulatory mechanisms.
Structure, expression and characterization of organellar nucleic acids, plant cell biology: structural integrity of plant cells, cell wall-cytoskeleton continuum, cell wall proteomics, extracellular signaling machinery, reactive oxygen species and NO in plants.
Insulin-like Growth Factor I (IGF-I) and its role in infections of female reproductive organs by human papilloma virus HPV16, antiviral activity of plant glycoproteins.
Experimental plant embryology and in vitro culture of cells, tissues and organs of cultivated plants.
Cytological, cytochemical and cytophysiological aspects of the influence of antropogenous factors on the plant cells.
Experimental plant anatomy and morphology.
Plant cell responses to heavy metals and other abiotic stresses.
Plants for energetic purposes.
Hormonal and environmental regulation of plant growth and development: the role of cytokinin in the regulation of protein synthesis, physiology and biochemistry of seed development and germination, functional significance of chloroplast proteases, changes in expression of plant genes in response to elevated irradiance, regulation of plant nitrogen metabolism.
Structure and function of cells and organs of invertebrates including the aspect of life cycle, functional organisation of cell membranes.
Insect neuropeptides and their functions, physiological and biochemical aspects of animal development, mechanism of insect resistance to pesticides, genetic aspects of heart diseases, physiological and behavioral aspects of food intake regulation.
Taxonomy of the Aeromonadaceae, application of nucleic acid methods to species identification and typing, genetic determination of virulence, apoptosis induction of eucaryotic cells by bacteria.
Genetic variability in natural and seminatural plant populations, biosystematics of Bryophytes, Pinus sp., Carex sp., chromosome variation in plant populations, biometric studies of morphological and anatomical characters in plant populations
Bioacoustics, evolution of acoustic communication in animals, trade offs between design and function(s) of acoustic signals, organization of song variation in birds, evolutionary ecology, ecology of communities, biology and ecology of shrikes (Lannidae), habitat selection in birds, long-term changes of life history traits, statistics in ecology.
Birds and the landscape: population studies of selected bird species, comparative biology and ecology of closely related bird species living in sympatry and the same species occurring in distant geographical regions, inter- and intrapopulation variability in avian egg size.
Genetic variability, experimental taxonomy and biogeography of liverworts.
Tropical botany: flora and vegetation of Tropical Africa.
Biological, ecological and trophic evolution of lakes, rivers (streams), old riverbeds, midfield and mid-forest ponds, sandpits and gravel-pits, reservoirs of recreational use including natural and man-made such as dam reservoirs, domestic and urban ponds.
Morphology, taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology and zoogeography of Arachnida, especially of selected mite taxa: Oribatida, Uropodina, Eriophyoidea, Gamasida and Heterostigmata.
Host-parasite relationships between parasitic mites and birds, reconstructing the feather mite phylogeny using both morphological and nucleotide sequence data.
Mite faunas of particular habitat types, protected areas or selected regions of Poland,
mite faunas of various geographical regions of the world, particularly those in the Southern hemisphere (Neotropic, Ethiopian, Australasian, Oriental, Pacific) and Nearctic: origin, centers of speciation and the rate of evolution of individual genera and species in various regions of the world and estimation of the minimum age of certain species and their evolutionary rate.
Ecology of soilfauna: the rate and direction of change in the species composition and mite community structures under the pressure of human activity.
Anatomy and ecology of selected mollusc groups.
Morphological, taxonomical and ecological studies on insects (Ephemeroptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera), parasitic insects, and small terrestrial mammals and bats.
Structure and transformation of vegetation landscape, geobotanical foundations of land-use planning and of protection of natural environment.
Ecology, taxonomy, chorology and protection of fungi, macromycetes in plant communities - share and function.
Taxonomy, biology and chorology of vascular plants, population biology of invasive plants.
Anthropogenic changes in vegetation: vegetation and weed communities of plough-lands and vegetation of special grounds; floristic and ecological studies of urbanized grounds; distribution of vascular plants in Northwestern Poland.
Variability and taxonomy of pollen, aeropalynologic monitoring.
Bioindication: ecological interpretation of floristic composition and search for indices of anthropogenic changes of vegetation.
Bryology: taxonomy, phytogeography and ecology of mosses in Central Europe, geographical distribution of mosses in Poland.
Evaluation of Great Poland's natural environment in aspect of biodiversity protection in the European Union.
Protection of water ecosystems; improvement and maintenance of their tropic status and biological diversity; rules for regeneration of endangered reservoirs, relations between abiotic and biotic factors in water ecosystems.
Hydrobiological studies on lakes.
Mathematical models of physical growth, growth patterns of infants and children born preterm and/or small for gestational age, monitoring physical growth and development, epidemiological auxology, biological, social and cultural aspects of ageing, anthropology applied to the analysis of congenital and acquired diseases, application of physical and chemical techniques to the assessment of biological age
Methodology of human growth and development in quantitative traits: saltatory growth in infancy, reference standards of growth in quantitative traits, genetic and environmental factors of growth patterns, aging and modeling of human growth: longitudinal study.
Environment and prehistoric human populations: biocultural adaptive mechanisms, state and dynamics of prehistoric and historic human groups, biological and cultural changes in Central Europe of Paleolithic and post-Paleolithic populations, aging processes, paleopathology, paleonutrition, stress in prehistoric and historic populations.
Biology and ecology of prehistoric, historic and contemporary human populations: development of bones, variability of morphological characters, criteria for sex and age estimates, biology of local human groups in prehistoric times, genetic and cultural sources of variability of human morphology; sexual dimorphism and sexual selection.
Human evolution.
