Phd Students at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań: Department of Bioenergetics (Professor Hanna Kmita) and Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology (Professor UAM Łukasz Kaczmarek). The PhD student will join the research group which consists of two senior researchers, one young researcher, four PhD students and a few regular students. The group works on different aspects of tardigrade physiology, ecology and taxonomy using a broad spectrum of research techniques including different kinds of microscopy as well as cellular and molecular biology tools. The group organizes regular indoor and outdoor seminars.

Possible areas of research:

(1) Anhydrobiosis as an anti-aging strategy: testing of the „Sleeping Beauty” hypothesis;

(2) Dry up and survive – anhydrobiotic abilities of different tardigrade species;

(3) Cellular markers of tardigrade successful anhydrobiosis;

(3) Integrative taxonomy of tardigrades;

(4) Ecology and zoogeography of tardigrades