Interested

• microbiology
• biotechnology
• organic chemistry
• bacterial life cycle
• oric
• chemical physics
• chromosome organization
• binary and nonbinary division
• initiation of chromosome replication
• choreography of chromosome replication

Scientific discipline

• biotechnology
• medical sciences

Latest publications

• Genetic engineering in combination with semi‐synthesis leads to a new route for gram‐scale production of the immunosuppressive natural product brasilicardin A.
• Chromosome structure and DNA replication dynamics during the life cycle of the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus
• Cholesterol-dependent transcriptome remodeling reveals new insight into the contribution of cholesterol to Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis.
• Watching DNA replication inhibitors in action: exploiting time-lapse microfluidic microscopy as a tool for target-drug interaction studies in Mycobacterium.
• Thiosemicarbazide derivatives decrease the ATPase activity of Staphylococcus aureus topoisomerase IV, inhibit Mycobacterial growth, and affect replication in Mycobacterium smegmatis.
• Binary or nonbinary fission? Reproductive mode of a predatory bacterium depends on prey size
• Mycobacterial IHF is a highly dynamic nucleoid-associated protein that assists HupB in organizing chromatin
• Lsr2, a nucleoid-associated protein influencing mycobacterial cell cycle.
• Lsr2 and its novel paralogue mediate the adjustment of mycobacterium smegmatis to unfavorable environmental conditions.
• AfsK-mediated site-specific phosphorylation regulates DnaA initiator protein activity in Streptomyces coelicolor
• Competition between DivIVA and the nucleoid for ParA binding promotes segrosome separation and modulates mycobacterial cell elongation.
• AdpA positively regulates morphological differentiation and chloramphenicol biosynthesis in Streptomyces venezuelae.
• Dynamics of chromosome replication and its relationship to predatory attack lifestyles in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus.
• Functional disassociation between the protein domains of MSMEG_4305 of Mycolicibacterium smegmatis (Mycobacterium smegmatis) in vivo.
• Nucleoid associated proteins: the small organizers that help to cope with stress.
• Live-cell imaging of the life cycle of bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus using time-lapse fluorescence microscopy.
• A novel LysR‐type regulator negatively affects biosynthesis of the immunosuppressant brasilicardin.
• Molekularne podstawy organizacji chromatyny bakteryjnej.
• Streptomycete origin of chromosomal replication with two putative unwinding elements.
• Multifork chromosome replication in slow-growing bacteria.