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Name
Working Address
Agnieszka Górska
Nicolaus Copernicus University
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Informatics
Institute of Physics
Department of Biophysics and Medical Physics
Grudziądzka 5
87-100 Toruń
Poland
Telephone
E-mail
+48 56 611 32 18
[email protected], [email protected]
Education and Research Activity
Since October 2007
PhD student in the field of physics
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
PhD project title: “Interactions of DNA with charged surfaces”
Advisors:
prof. dr hab A.Balter (Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University,
Toruń, Poland)
prof. dr.rer.nat. B.Klösgen (Institute of Physics and Chemistry,
Univ. of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)
September 2008 - April
2009
Research project in collaboration with Beate Klösgen and Małgorzata
Hermanowska (PhD student at SDU) “Interactions of DNA with interfaces – an
investigation by atomic force microscopy and fluorescence microscopy”
Institute of Physics and Chemistry and MEMPHYS – Center for Biomembrane
Physics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
2007
Master in Science degree in Medical Physics
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
MSc’s thesis title: "Surface Enhanced Resonance Raman Spectroscopy as an
analytical tool"
2005
Bachelor in Science degree in Medical Physics and Computer Applications
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
BSc’s thesis title: “Analysis of digital images of fundus oculi”
Scholarships
May – November 2009
Scholarship for PHD students, given by Marshal of Kujawsko-Pomorskie
Voivodeship, co-financed by the European Union from the European Social Fund
and the Polish Government Budget within the Integrated Operational Program
for Regional Development
September 2008 – April
2009
European Union Erasmus Training Program Scholarship (8 months)
Meetings (participation and contributions)
May 2009
4th Annual Biophysics PhD Meeting, Holbæk, Denmark
Poster: “Attempts to comfort biomimetic membranes on a support. Membrane
deposition reported by use of confocal microscopy” A. Górska, M. Hermanowska,
A. Balter , B. Klösgen
Talk: “Attempts to comfort biomimetic membranes on a support. AFM study on
a new support” A. Górska, M. Hermanowska, A. Balter , B. Klösgen
IV International SPIE Students' Chapters Meeting, Toruń, Poland
“AFM characterization of a new support for membrane studies”
A. Górska, M. Hermanowska, A. Balter , B. Klösgen
CURRICULUM VITAE
December 2008
MEMPHYS’ Day, MEMPHYS, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Talk: “DNA – lipid layer interactions - an investigation by AFM”, A. Górska,
M. Hermanowska, B. Klösgen
November 2008
Science exchange meeting of the Division of Physical Chemistry 1 from the
University of Lund and MEMPHYS – Center for Biomembrane Physics at the
University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
October 2008
First Mini-Symposium on Nucleic Acid Chemistry organized by Nucleic Acid
Center, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
May 2008
XXIIth IEEE-SPIE Joint Symposium on Photonics, Web Engineering, Electronics
and Astronomy and High Energy Physics Experiments, Wilga, Poland
Talk: “AFM imaging of DNA immobilized on mica” A. Górska
First Symposium of The Photonics Society of Poland
Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
March 2008
Raman Spectroscopy Workshop
Institute of Physics, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech
Republic
November 2007
Saxon Biotechnology Day, Dresden, Germany
March 2006
Oncological Radiotherapy Workshop, Great Poland Cancer Center, Poznań,
Poland
Courses
February - April 2009
Cross-institutional PhD-course on Molecular Biophysics in Denmark and Sweden,
organized by The Danish Graduate School of Molecular Biophysics (10 ECTS)
Talk: “Application of ellipsometry in gene delivery studies”
Technical abilities
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Layer-by-layer deposition of polymer multilayered films
Lipid vesicle preparation
Supported lipid bilayers deposition (vesicle fusion, spin-coating)
Atomic force microscopy imaging in air and liquid
UV/VIS and Raman spectroscopy
Fluorescence microscopy (epi- and confocal)
Thermodynamics of phase transitions (melting of DNA)
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Toruń SPIE Student Chapter
The Photonics Society of Poland
Memberships