Current study topics

• Cyanobacteria vs. climate pressures


• Biosecurity in the fieldwork of hydrobiologist


• Interactions between cyanobacteria and cladocerans

Research projects

• 2023 - 2026

  The grant BiodivERsA+Call 2021, project no. 2022/04/Y/NZ8/00092 Vanishing habitats: conservation priorities for glacier-related biodiversity threatened by climate change (Investigator)

• 2021 - 2024

  The grant SONATA from National Science Centre in Poland, project no. 2020/39/D/NZ8/02436 Fates of the bloom-forming filamentous cyanobacteria in the face of prognosed climate change (Principal investigator)

• 03.2021 - 11.2021

  The Bekker Scholarship Programme - 3rd edition from Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange NAWA, project no. PPN/BEK/2020/1/00241 Identification of cyanotoxins and toxicity assessment of different strains of filamentous cyanobacteria isolated from eutrophic waters of Poland and from glaciers of Svalbard archipelago and Greenland (Principal investigator)

• 2016 - 2017

  The grant ETIUDA from National Science Centre in Poland, project no. 2016/20/T/NZ8/00303 The significance of cyanobacterial filament morphology in a defence against grazing and competition for food resources (Principal investigator)

• 2013 - 2016

  The grant PRELUDIUM from National Science Centre in Poland, project no. 2012/07/N/NZ8/00166 Morphological changes in filamentous cyanobacteria induced by Daphnia - their role in defence against grazing and competition for food resources (Principal investigator).

Chosen publications

2024

• Rybak A., Dziuba M., Pełechata A., Rybak M., Akter S., Czerepska A., Dulić T., Gąbka M., Hindáková A., Jurczak T., Kendir S., Mankiewicz-Boczek J., Meriluoto J., Wejnerowski Ł. 2024. Characterization of cyanobacterial mats from artificial hot spring in Uniejów (Poland) and the potential use of their biomass. Algal Research 82:103646.


• Wejnerowski Ł., Dulić T., Akter S., Font-Nájera, A., Rybak M., Kamiński O., Czerepska A., Dziuba M.K., Jurczak T., Meriluoto J., Mankiewicz-Boczek J., Kokociński M. 2024. Community structure and toxicity potential of cyanobacteria during summer and winter in a temperate-zone lake susceptible to phytoplankton blooms. Toxins 16: 357.


• Rybak M., Rosińska J., Wejnerowski Ł., Rodrigo M.A., Joniak T. 2024. Submerged macrophyte self-recovery potential behind restoration treatments: sources of failure. Frontiers in Plant Science 15: 1421448.



2023

• Wejnerowski Ł., Poniecka E., Buda J., Klimaszyk P., Piasecka A., Dziuba M.K., Mugnai G., Takeuchi N., Zawierucha K. 2023. Empirical testing of cryoconite granulation: Role of cyanobacteria in the formation of key biogenic structure darkening glaciers in polar regions. Journal of Phycology 59: 939-949.



2022

• Wejnerowski Ł., Aykut T.O., Pełechata A., Rybak M., Dulić T., Meriluoto J., Dziuba M.K. 2022. Plankton hitch-hikers on naturalists’ instruments as silent intruders of aquatic ecosystems: current risks and possible prevention. NeoBiota 73: 193-219.


• Cerbin S., Pérez, G., Rybak, M., Wejnerowski, Ł., Konowalczyk, A., Helmsing, N., Naus-Wiezer, S., Meima-Franke, M., Pytlak, Ł., Raaijmakers, C., Nowak, N., Bodelier, P.L.E. 2022. Methane-derived carbon as a driver for cyanobacterial growth. Frontiers in Microbiology 13: 837198.


• Rozwalak P., Podkowa P., Buda J., Niedzielski P., Kawecki S., Ambrosini R., Azzoni R.S., Baccolo G., Ceballos J.L., Cook J., Di Mauro B., Ficetola G.F., Franzetti A., Ignatiuk D., Klimaszyk P., Łokas E., Ono M., Parnikoza I., Pietryka M., Pittino F., Poniecka E., Porazinska D.L., Richter D., Schmidt S.K., Sommers P., Souza-Kasprzyk J., Stibal M., Szczuciński W., Uetake J., Wejnerowski Ł., Yde J.C., Takeuchi N., Zawierucha K. 2022. Cryoconite – From minerals and organic matter to bioengineered sediments on glacier’s surfaces. Science of the Total Environment 807: 150874.



2021

• Falfushynska H., Horyn O., Osypenko I., Rzymski P., Wejnerowski Ł., Dziuba M.K., Sokolova I.M. 2021. Multibiomarker-based assessment of toxicity of central European strains of filamentous cyanobacteria Aphanizomenon gracile and Raphidiopsis raciborskii to zebrafish Danio rerio. Water Research 194: 116923.


• Dziuba M.K., Kuczynski L., Wejnerowski Ł., Cerbin S., Wolinska J. 2021. Countergradient variation concealed adaptive responses to temperature increase in Daphnia from heated lakes. Limnology and Oceanography 66: 1268-1280.



2020

• Dziuba M.K., Herdegen-Radwan M., Pluta E., Wejnerowski Ł., Szczuciński W., Cerbin S. 2020. Temperature increase altered Daphnia community structure in artificially heated lakes: a potential scenario for a warmer future. Scientific Reports 10: 13956.


• Wejnerowski Ł., Falfushynska H., Horyn P., Osypenko I., Kokociński M., Meriluoto J., Jurczak T., Poniedziałek B., Pniewski F., Rzymski P. 2020. In Vitro Toxicological Screening of Stable and Senescing Cultures of Aphanizomenon, Planktothrix, and Raphidiopsis. Toxins 12: 400.


• Wejnerowski Ł., Sikora-Koperska A., Dawidowicz P. 2020. Temperature elevation reduces the sensitivity of invasive cladoceran Daphnia lumholtzi to filamentous cyanobacterium Raphidiopsis raciborskii. Freshwater Biology 65: 935-946.



2018

• Wejnerowski Ł., Rzymski P., Kokociński M., Meriluoto J. 2018. The structure and toxicity of winter cyanobacterial bloom in a eutrophic lake of the temperate zone. Ecotoxicology 27: 752-760 .


• Wejnerowski Ł., Cerbin S., Wojciechowicz M., Jurczak T., Glama M., Meriluoto J., Dziuba M. 2018. Effects of Daphnia exudates and sodium octyl sulphates on filament morphology and cell wall thickness of Aphanizomenon gracile (Nostocales), Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (Nostocales) and Planktothrix agardhii (Oscillatoriales). European Journal of Phycology 53:280-289.



2017

• Wejnerowski Ł., Cerbin S., Dziuba M. 2017. Setae thickening in Daphnia magna alleviates the food stress caused by the filamentous cyanobacteria. Aquatic Ecology 51: 485-498.


• Wejnerowski Ł., Wojciechowicz M.K., Glama M., Olechnowicz J., Dziuba M., Cerbin S. 2017. Solitary terminal cells of Aphanizomenon gracile (Cyanobacteria, Nostocales) can divide and renew trichomes. Phycological Research 65: 248-255.


• Ntalli N., Michaelakis A., Eloh K., Papachristos D.P., Wejnerowski Ł., Caboni P., Cerbin S. 2017. Biocidal effect of (E)-anethole on the cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon gracile Lemmermann. Journal of Applied Phycology 29: 1297-1305.


• Dziuba M.K., Cerbin S., Wejnerowski Ł. 2017. Is bigger better? A possibility for adaptation of Daphnia to filamentous cyanobacteria in the face of global warming. Hydrobiologia 798: 105-118.



2016

• Wejnerowski Ł., Cerbin S., Wojciechowicz M.K., Dziuba M.K. 2016. Differences in cell wall of thin and thick filaments of cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon gracile SAG 31.79 and their implications for different resistance to Daphnia grazing. Journal of Limnology 75: 634-643.



2015

• Wejnerowski Ł., Cerbin S., Dziuba M.K. 2015. Thicker filaments of Aphanizomenon gracile are more harmful to Daphnia than thinner Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii. Zoological Studies 54: 2.



2013

• Cerbin S., Wejnerowski Ł., Dziuba M.K. 2013. Aphanizomenon gracile increases in width in the presence of Daphnia. A defence mechanism against grazing? Journal of Limnology 72: 505-511.


• Dziuba M.K., Cerbin S., Wejnerowski Ł. 2013. Cladocera and Copepoda of the Shallow Eutrophic Lake in Natura 2000 Area in Western Poland. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 45: 653-659.

CV

• 2018 – to date

  Assistant Professor at the Department of Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology at AMU

• 2018

  PhD in ecology (Faculty of Biology at AMU)

• 2012

  MSc in biology (Faculty of Biology at AMU)

• 2010

  BSc in biology (Faculty of Biology at AMU)

Scientific internships

• 03/2021 – 11/2021

  Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. “Toxicological screening of cyanobacterial cultures using HPLC methods and biotests with Daphnia”.

• 02/2017 – 04/2017

  Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. “Advanced chromatographic (HPLC-DAD, HPLC-FL, LC-MS-MS) analyses for cyanobacterial toxins”.

• 01/2015 – 03/2015

  Department of Hydrobiology, University of Warsaw, Poland. “The study of the effect of temperature and filamentous cyanobacteria on life history of small- and large-bodied Daphnia species”.

• 01/2014 – 03/2014

  Department of Algology in Třeboň, Institute of Botany of the ASCR, Research Division Třeboň, Czech Republic. “Isolation of cyanobacteria from natural ecosystems and their cultivation in labororatory”.

Supervision of Master Theses

• Olena Nahimova (2024) Relation between toxicity in bloom-forming cyanobacteria and antibiotic resistance genes as a public health hazard.

Supervision of Bachelor Theses

• Anna Czerepska (2022) Comparison of the effectiveness of Daphnia magna and Daphnia pulicaria biotests in the assessment of cyanobacterial bloom toxicity.

Supervision of Erasmus Student Projects

• Radka Sedláčková (2023) Comparison of the gliding activity between chosen benthic filamentous cyanobacteria isolated from hot springs and polar environments.


• Aysu Kendir (2019) Thermal tolerance of filamentous cyanobacteria from geothermal habitats.


• Maria Barondi (2019) Isolation, purification, and cultivation of cyanobacteria from glaciers of Greenland and Svalbard.


• Tümer Orhun Aykut (2019/2020) Isolation, purification, and cultivation of filamentous cyanobacteria of the genus Aphanizomenon (Nostocales).


• Özleyiş Yağmur Binay (2018) The effect of Daphnia chemical stimuli on the growth of filamentous cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon gracile.


• Ilay Turgut (2018) The growth of cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon gracile at different concentrations of ammonium.