Faculty of Biology AMU

Journal Club

The Club

The schedules

The discussion forum

The Chat

The librarian

Questions for the meeting you will see after logging.

You are logged in as [log out]

Tips only for Institute of Experimental Biology: download

ALL POSITIONS

INSTITUTE OF
ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY

INSTITUTE OF
EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

INSTITUTE OF HUMAN BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

INSTITUTE OF
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

NON-REGULAR
STUDENTS

Time schedule	Coordinator	Group	Location	Paper	Article	Presenter	Critiques	Forum
Until now, the classes were held:
2020-02-27	Zbigniew Adamski	JC 1	Sala Rady Wydziału	Humans at high altitude: hypoxia and fetal growth
2020-02-27	Zbigniew Adamski	JC 1	Sala Rady Wydziału	Importance of plasticity and local adaptation for coping with changing salinity in coastal areas: a test case with barnacles in the Baltic Sea.
2020-02-27	Zbigniew Adamski	JC 1	Sala Rady Wydziału	Model Organisms in the Study of Development and Disease
2020-02-27	Zbigniew Adamski	JC 1	Sala Rady Wydziału	Politics meets Science: The case of neonicotinoid insecticides in Europe.
2020-02-27	Zbigniew Adamski	JC 1	Sala Rady Wydziału	A view on drug resistance in cancer
2020-02-27	Zbigniew Adamski	JC 1	Sala Rady Wydziału	From discoveries in ageing research to therapeutics for healthy ageing.
2020-02-27	Zbigniew Adamski	JC 1	Sala Rady Wydziału	Wasp uses venom cocktail to manipulate the behavior of its cockroach prey
2020-03-05	Wojciech Magowski		A1	The Study of Species in the Era of Biodiversity: A Tale of Stupidity. Research policies ensuing from the Convention on Biological Diversity made huge funds available to study biodiversity. These were mostly dedicated to projects aimed at providing services to taxonomy via information and technology, or to develop "modern", i.e., molecular, approaches to taxonomy.		Trzópek Magdalena Maria, Łaniecki Ronald	Fenrych Marianna Jadwiga- Radwańska Anna Klara-
2020-03-05	Wojciech Magowski		A1	New Species in the Old World: Europe as a Frontier in Biodiversity Exploration, a Test Bed for 21st Century Taxonomy The number of described species on the planet is about 1.9 million, with ca. 17,000 new species described annually, mostly from the tropics. However, taxonomy is usually described as a science in crisis, lacking manpower and funding, a politically acknowledged problem known as the Taxonomic Impediment.		Szewczyk Magdalena Wiesława, Gostyńska Julia	Sęk Oliwia Wiktoria- Stawrakakis Krzysztof-
2020-03-05	Zbigniew Adamski	JC 1	Sala Rady Wydziału	Electronic-Cigarette and Combustible Tobacco Cigarettes. How dangerous is the e-cigarette to vapers compared to smoking conventional tobacco cigarettes?		Dybciak Adam Czesław, Getya Liliya	Panfil Weronika Sylwia-
2020-03-05	Robert Nawrot	JC 1	L	Aus der Apotheke der Natur Proszę o kontakt ws terminu zajęć na maila rnawrot@amu.edu.pl		Buchali Angelika, Kaźmierczak Kinga	Szcześniak Izabela Natalia- Drążek Katarzyna-
2020-03-05	Zbigniew Adamski	JC 1	Sala Rady Wydziału	Adaptation Strategies of Farm Animals to Water Shortage in Desert Areas.		Pluskota Mateusz	Tomczak Julia-
2020-03-05	Marta Krenz-Niedbała	JC 1	A1	Beyond food: The multiple pathways for inclusion of materials into ancient dental calculus. Interest in human dental calculus (mineralized dental plaque) has increased sharply in the past few years. The majority of recent research has focused on the retrieval of plant microfossils embedded in its matrix and interpretation of these finds as largely the result of deliberate consumption of plant-derived food. However, dental calculus is in fact a "depositional environment" as material can enter the mouth from a range of sources, including non-dietary ones. The paper shows the human behaviors and activities besides eating that can generate a flux of particles into the human mouth, the broad range of additional cultural and environmental information that can be obtained through the analysis and contextualisation of this material, and the implications of the additional pathways by which material can become embedded in dental calculus.
2020-03-05	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	Owalna	Microplastic pollution, a threat to marine ecosystem and human health: a short review		Kozera Zofia Anna	Błaszczyk Mateusz- Kubisiak Kamil- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Sikora Magdalena Maria-	check
2020-03-05	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	Owalna	When will the Amazon hit a tipping point? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00508-4		Konowalczyk Adam	Zwolenkiewicz Sara- Michałek Patryk- Kosiba Karolina- Sikora Magdalena Maria- Lichocki Mikołaj- Kuncewicz Jakub- Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Kubisiak Kamil- Błaszczyk Mateusz-	check
2020-03-12	Z	JC 1	Sala Rady Wydziału	1. The Circadian Clock and Human Health 2. Light Me up? Why, When, and How Much Light We Need.		Giermakowski Kacper, Lurc Mikołaj, Panfil Weronika Sylwia	Szczepańska Weronika Aniela-
2020-03-12	Marta Krenz-Niedbała	JC 1	A1	The therapeutic role of long non-coding RNAs in human diseases: A focus on the recent insights into autophagy. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) contribute to the development and progression of many human diseases. Autophagy is a key catabolic process which helps to maintain the cellular homeostasis through the decay of damaged or unwanted proteins and dysfunctional cytoplasmic organelles. The impairment of the autophagy process has been described in numerous diseases. LncRNAs have been shown to have a significant function in the regulation of important biological processes such as autophagy. The relationship between lncRNAs and autophagy has been shown to be involved in the progression and possibly in the prevention of many diseases. Here, recent findings on the regulatory roles of lncRNAs in the cell autophagy pathway, as well as their relevance to different diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cerebral ischemic stroke and cancer are highlighted.
2020-03-12	Zbigniew Adamski	JC 1	Sala Rady Wydziału	Stem cells: past, present, and future.		Czak Sandra, Tomczak Julia	Dybciak Adam Czesław-
2020-03-12	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	Owalna	Evidence for evolution in response to natural selectionin a contemporary human population		Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena	Błaszczyk Mateusz- Kubisiak Kamil- Konowalczyk Adam- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Kozera Zofia Anna- Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Kuncewicz Jakub- Lichocki Mikołaj- Sikora Magdalena Maria- Kosiba Karolina- Michałek Patryk- Zwolenkiewicz Sara-
2020-03-19	Zbigniew Adamski	JC 1	Sala Rady Wydziału	Effects of Mental Fatigue on Brain Activity and Cognitive Performance: A Magnetoencephalography Study		Szczepańska Weronika Aniela	Szablikowska Wiktoria Magdalena-
2020-03-19	Zbigniew Adamski	JC 1	Sala Rady Wydziału	The Effects of Moderate Physical Exercise on Adult Cognition: A Systematic Review		Dziki Marta, Mirek Justyna Wiktoria	Stankowski Wojciech Szymon-
2020-03-19	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	Owalna	The dark side of light.		Michałek Patryk	Sikora Magdalena Maria- Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Zwolenkiewicz Sara- Kubisiak Kamil- Błaszczyk Mateusz-	check
2020-03-19	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	at home	Drought stress adaptation: metabolic adjustment and regulation of gene expression		Lichocki Mikołaj	Błaszczyk Mateusz- Kubisiak Kamil- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Konowalczyk Adam- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Kozera Zofia Anna- Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Kuncewicz Jakub- Sikora Magdalena Maria- Kosiba Karolina- Michałek Patryk- Zwolenkiewicz Sara-	check
2020-03-19	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	Owalna	Adaptive changes in sexual signalling in response to urbanization		Błaszczyk Mateusz	Sikora Magdalena Maria- Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Zwolenkiewicz Sara- Kubisiak Kamil- Konowalczyk Adam- Lichocki Mikołaj- Michałek Patryk- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Kuncewicz Jakub- Kozera Zofia Anna-	check
2020-03-26	Zbigniew Adamski	JC 1	Sala Rady Wydziału	1. Effects of Neonicotinoid Pesticide Exposure on Human Health: A Systematic Review. 2. Alternatives to neonicotinoids.		Szablikowska Wiktoria Magdalena, Stankowski Wojciech Szymon	Giermakowski Kacper- Getya Liliya-
2020-03-26	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	at home	How and why environmental noise impacts animals: an integrative, mechanistic review		Sikora Magdalena Maria	Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Zwolenkiewicz Sara- Kubisiak Kamil- Błaszczyk Mateusz- Konowalczyk Adam- Lichocki Mikołaj- Michałek Patryk- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Kuncewicz Jakub-	check
2020-03-28	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	at home	The impact of artificial light at night on nocturnal insects: A review and synthesis		Koszczoł Agnieszka	Sikora Magdalena Maria- Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Zwolenkiewicz Sara- Kubisiak Kamil- Błaszczyk Mateusz- Konowalczyk Adam- Lichocki Mikołaj- Michałek Patryk- Kuncewicz Jakub-	check
2020-03-31	Wojciech Magowski		VH	Travelling through time and space on wings of beetles: A tripartite insect-fungi-nematode association Here we report a previously undescribed symbiotic association involving spruce beetles, Dendroctonus rufipennis Kirby, several species of fungi, and a nematode, Ektaphelenchus obtusus Massey. The nematodes and fungi occur within special pocket-like structures, hereafter termed "nematangia", on the insects' hind wings		Fenrych Marianna Jadwiga, Jakubiak Paulina	Trzópek Magdalena Maria- Łaniecki Ronald-	check
2020-04-02	Wojciech Magowski		A1	Bacterial Protection of Beetle-Fungus Mutualism Southern pine beetles, Dendroctonus frontalis, engage in a beneficial symbiosis with the fungus, Entomocorticium sp. A, which provides nourishment for their developing larvae. Adult beetles carry, Entomocorticium sp. A in a specialized storage compartment called a mycangium.		Stawrakakis Krzysztof, Sęk Oliwia Wiktoria	Kowalczyk Cyprian Piotr- Gostyńska Julia-
2020-04-05	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	at home	MECHANISMS AND CONSEQUENCES OF SOMATIC MOSAICISM IN HUMANS		Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna	Sikora Magdalena Maria- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Zwolenkiewicz Sara- Kubisiak Kamil- Błaszczyk Mateusz- Konowalczyk Adam- Lichocki Mikołaj- Michałek Patryk- Kosiba Karolina- Kuncewicz Jakub- Koszczoł Agnieszka-
2020-04-05	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	at home	Effect of drought stress on anatomical structure and chloroplast ultrastructure in leaves of sugarcane		Kubisiak Kamil	Kozera Zofia Anna- Kosiba Karolina- Kuncewicz Jakub- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Michałek Patryk- Konowalczyk Adam- Lichocki Mikołaj-
2020-04-06	Wojciech Magowski		A1	Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular, morphological and palaeontological perspectives Deuterostomes are a monophyletic group of animals that include the vertebrates, invertebrate chordates, ambulacrarians and xenoturbellids. Fossil representatives from most major deuterostome groups, including some phylum-level crown groups, are found in the Lower Cambrian, suggesting that evolutionary divergence occurred in the Late Precambrian, in agreement with some molecular clock estimates.		Lisiecki Mateusz Cezary, Zielińska Martyna Anna	Szewczyk Magdalena Wiesława- Jakubiak Paulina-
2020-04-08	Wojciech Magowski		A1	The first metazoa living in permanently anoxic conditions This is the first evidence of a metazoan life cycle that is spent entirely in permanently anoxic sediments. The discovery of these life forms opens new perspectives for the study of metazoan life in habitats lacking molecular oxygen.		Radwańska Anna Klara, Szymaniak Adam	Zielińska Martyna Anna- Kowalczyk Cyprian Piotr-
2020-04-09	Arnold Bernaciak			1) Circular Economy and its Limitations 2) The Sustainable Development Index: Measuring the Ecological Efficiency of Human Development in the Anthropocene ad.1) Please focus on explaining the term circular economy, indicating the importance of circular economy for sustainable development and indicating its limitations. ad.2) Please explain what is HDI and SDI, what are differences between them and what are top 10 ranks of countries for both indexes.				check
2020-04-09	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	at home	Taking a tree?s perspective on forest fragmentation genetics		Kosiba Karolina	Sikora Magdalena Maria- Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Kubisiak Kamil- Błaszczyk Mateusz-	check
2020-04-09	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	at home	Genetic Adaptation in New York City Rats		Zwolenkiewicz Sara	Sikora Magdalena Maria- Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Kubisiak Kamil- Błaszczyk Mateusz- Konowalczyk Adam- Lichocki Mikołaj- Michałek Patryk- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Kuncewicz Jakub- Kosiba Karolina- Kozera Zofia Anna-	check
2020-04-16	Arnold Bernaciak			1. Sustainable University: What Can be the Matter? 2. Tension in the Sustainability of Higher Education - the Case of Finnish Universities				check
2020-04-16	Magdalena Kosińska			Catch-up growth and catch-up fat in children born small for gestational age Infants born small for gestational age are at increased risk of perinatal morbidity, persistent short stature and metabolic alterations in later life. Approximately 70%-90% of them show catch-up growth. In the presented report, the published literature and the currently popular research area of SGA were reviewed. I would like to create 5 groups and presentation of "groups" subjects [in accordance with rules provided by prof. M. Krenz] assigned to subsequent "reviewers", taking into account posted questions and issues. [Uprzejmie proszę o utworzenie 6 grup i przedstawienie "grupami" zagadnień z uwzględnieniem zamieszczonych pytań przypisanych kolejnym "reviewers".
2020-04-16	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	Owalna	A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China.		Kuncewicz Jakub	Błaszczyk Mateusz- Kubisiak Kamil- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Konowalczyk Adam- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Kozera Zofia Anna- Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Lichocki Mikołaj- Sikora Magdalena Maria- Kosiba Karolina- Michałek Patryk- Zwolenkiewicz Sara-
2020-04-19	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	at home	The origin and early evolution of plants on land		Błaszczyk Mateusz	Sikora Magdalena Maria- Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Zwolenkiewicz Sara- Kubisiak Kamil- Konowalczyk Adam- Lichocki Mikołaj- Michałek Patryk- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Kuncewicz Jakub- Kosiba Karolina- Kozera Zofia Anna-	check
2020-04-23	Arnold Bernaciak			1. Venice: the Problem of Overtourism and the Impact of Cruises 2. Overtourism: Between the Right to Travel and Residents' Rights ad.2) Please focus on the sections 3 and 4.
2020-04-23	Magdalena Kosińska			Fetal programming D. Barker first popularized the concept of fetal origins of adult disease. Since its inception, fetal programming has received considerable attention. According to this hypothesis number of organ structures and associated functions undergo programming during embryonic and fetal life, which determines the set point of physiological and metabolic responses that carry into adulthood. Stimulus at a period of intrauterine development can result in developmental adaptations (structural, physiological and metabolic changes). Presented article provides evidence linking cardiovascular, metabolic and endocrine diseases to fetal undernutrition, an overview of previous studies in this area and current advances in understanding the mechanism and the role of the placenta in fetal programming.
2020-04-23	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	at home	Explainer: How CRISPR works https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/explainer-how-crispr-works		Kosiba Karolina	Sikora Magdalena Maria- Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Zwolenkiewicz Sara- Kubisiak Kamil- Błaszczyk Mateusz- Konowalczyk Adam- Lichocki Mikołaj- Michałek Patryk- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Kuncewicz Jakub- Kozera Zofia Anna-	check
2020-04-23	Iwona Melosik	JC 2	at home	Model organisms used in molecular biology or medical research		Kozera Zofia Anna	Kuncewicz Jakub- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Michałek Patryk- Lichocki Mikołaj- Konowalczyk Adam- Błaszczyk Mateusz-	check
2020-04-24
2020-04-30	Magdalena Kosińska			Endocrine disorders and female infertility Female infertility occurs in about 37% of all infertile couples and ovulatory disorders account for more than half of these. The ovaries are in continuous interaction with the other endocrine organs. Please pay attention to the endocrine causes of infertility and skip treatment information and clinical aproaches. Please divide into the 6 groups and present listed causes of infertility.
2020-04-30	Joanna Deckert	JC 2		1. Plant Chromatin Catches the Sun 2. Plant and Animal Innate Immunity Complexes: Fighting Different Enemies with Similar Weapons		Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena, Koszczoł Agnieszka	Adamska Natalia- Andrzejczak Sandra Natalia-
2020-05-07	Katarzyna Kaszycka	JC 1	at home	Incongruity between Affinity Patterns Based on Mandibular and Lower Dental Dimensions following the Transition to Agriculture in the Near East, Anatolia and Europe How the dawn of farming ruined our teeth: Hunter-gatherers had almost no malocclusion and dental crowding, and the condition first became common among the world's earliest farmers some 12,000 years ago in Southwest Asia, according to findings published (04 Feb 2015) in the journal PLOS ONE.		Wilczyńska Kinga
2020-05-07	Joanna Deckert	JC 2		1. Nobel Prizes for Research in Plant Science: Past, Present and Future 2. Peptide signal alerts plants to drought		Sikora Magdalena Maria, Michałek Patryk	Błaszczyk Mateusz- Kubisiak Kamil- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Konowalczyk Adam- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Kozera Zofia Anna- Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Kuncewicz Jakub- Lichocki Mikołaj- Kosiba Karolina- Zwolenkiewicz Sara- Kosiba Karolina- Zwolenkiewicz Sara-	check
2020-05-14	Katarzyna Kaszycka	JC 1	at home	Linear Enamel Hypoplasia and Age-at-Death at Medieval (11th-16th Centuries) St. Gregory's Priory and Cemetery, Canterbury, UK http://www.justyna-miszkiewicz.com/uploads/4/1/4/2/4142992/miszkiewicz_2012.pdf		Andrzejczak Sandra Natalia
2020-05-14	Joanna Deckert	JC 2		1. DNA Methylation: Toward Crop Disease Resistance Improment 2. A Return to the Wild: Root Exudates and Food Security		Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna, Lichocki Mikołaj	Błaszczyk Mateusz- Kubisiak Kamil- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Konowalczyk Adam- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Kozera Zofia Anna- Kuncewicz Jakub- Sikora Magdalena Maria- Michałek Patryk- Kosiba Karolina- Zwolenkiewicz Sara-
2020-05-21	Katarzyna Kaszycka	JC 1	at home	Fluctuating Asymmetry and Stress in a Medieval Nubian Population https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajpa.20549		Gratkowska Marta Małgorzata
2020-05-21	Kokociński Mikołaj	JC 1	e-learning	Freshwater diatom transfer to clothing: Spatial and temporal influences on trace evidence in forensic reconstructions		Kowalczyk Cyprian Piotr
2020-05-21	Joanna Deckert	JC 2		1. Similar and Yet Different: Oxigen Sensing in Animals and Plants 2. Drought Resistance by Engineering Plant Tissue-Specific Responses		Konowalczyk Adam, Kuncewicz Jakub	Błaszczyk Mateusz- Kubisiak Kamil- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Kozera Zofia Anna- Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Lichocki Mikołaj- Sikora Magdalena Maria- Michałek Patryk- Kosiba Karolina- Zwolenkiewicz Sara-
2020-05-28	Kokociński Mikołaj	JC 1	e-learning	Drought impacts on the water quality of freshwater systems; review and integration
2020-05-28	Joanna Deckert	JC 2		The Plant DNA Damage Response: Signaling Pathways Leading to Growth Inhibition and Putative Role in Response to Stress Conditions		Kubisiak Kamil	Błaszczyk Mateusz- Bigos Aleksandra Magdalena- Konowalczyk Adam- Koszczoł Agnieszka- Kozera Zofia Anna- Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna- Kuncewicz Jakub- Lichocki Mikołaj- Sikora Magdalena Maria- Michałek Patryk- Kosiba Karolina- Zwolenkiewicz Sara-
2020-06-02	Kokociński Mikołaj	JC 1		Hot and toxic: Temperature regulates microcystin release from cyanobacteria
2020-06-04	Joanna Deckert	JC 2		Flowering Plants in the Anthropocene: A Political Agenda		Zwolenkiewicz Sara	Kozioł Justyna Zuzanna-
2020-06-13	Katarzyna A. Kaszycka		e-learning	Shedding new light on an old mystery: Early photographs of the Taung Child
2020-06-18	Maciej Nowak	JC 1		Modeling potential tree belt functions in rural landscapes using a new GIS tool The increasing human pressure on the environment requires effective protection activities. One way to stop the degradation of natural resources is the presence of woody vegetation networks, mainly linear in character, called linear woody features, greenways or tree belts. These objects, thanks to the many natural and economic functions they serve, enable the realization of sustainable development policy. To properly design a greenway network, the natural conditions and degree of environmental degradation in a given area must first be evaluated. Based on these data, it is possible to determine appropriate afforestation needs. To evaluate the ability of a given area to meet the requirements of greenway functions, we propose a new computer modeling system - a tree belt modeling (TBM). TBM defines the availability of tree belt functions in the planned network and is one of preparation stages in the design of an optimal greenway structure. In this work, to analyze the studied area potential, application of a cadastral dataset was proposed. Thanks to this approach, the obtained results may be related to specific plot borders, which is optimal for greenway construction. To automatize the process of analysis, the TBM was implemented into an ArcGIS toolbox. The result of using this toolbox is a tree belt functions geodatabase. This database contains information about the available functions in the analyzed lines that are potential sites for afforestation. This solution, both at the methodological and technological levels, may significantly increase the effectiveness of greenway planning and thus contribute to more effective activities for sustainable development.		Sęk Oliwia Wiktoria, Gostyńska Julia, Trzópek Magdalena Maria	Łaniecki Ronald- Szymaniak Adam-
2020-06-24	Maciej Nowak	JC 1		Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in environmental biology: A review Acquiring information about the environment is a key step during each study in the field of environmental biology at different levels, from an individual, species to community and biome. However, obtaining information about the environment is frequently difficult due to, for example, the phenological timing, spatial distribution of a species or limited accessibility of particular area for the field survey. Moreover, remote sensing technology, which enables the observation of the Earth's surface and is currently very common in environmental research, has many limitations such as, insufficient spatial, spectral and temporal resolution, and a high cost of data acquisition. Since the 1990s, researchers are exploring the potential of different types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for monitoring Earth's surface. The present study reviews recent scientific literature dealing with the use of UAV in environmental biology. Among numerous papers, short communications and conference abstracts we selected 110 original studies of how UAVs can be used in environmental biology and which organisms can be studied in this manner. Most of these studies concerned the use of UAV to measure the vegetation parameters such as crown height, volume, number of individuals (14) and to quantify the spatio-temporal dynamics of vegetation changes (12). UAVs were also frequently applied to count birds and mammals, especially those living in the water. Generally, the analytical part of the present study was divided into following chapters: (1) detecting, assessing and predicting threats on vegetation, (2) measuring the biophysical parameters of plants/vegetation, (3) quantifying the dynamics of changes in plants and habitats, (4) population and behaviour studies of animals. At the end, we also synthesised all the information showing, among others, the advances in environmental biology due to UAV application. Considering that 33% of studies found and included in this review was published in 2017 and 2018, it is expected that the number and variety of applications of UAVs in environmental biology will increase in the future.		Lisiecki Mateusz Cezary, Kowalczyk Cyprian Piotr	Radwańska Anna Klara- Zielińska Martyna Anna-
2020-06-25	Maciej Nowak	JC 1		Lidar-Derived Tree Crown Parameters: Are They New Variables Explaining Local Birch (Betula sp.) Pollen Concentrations? Birch trees are abundant in central and northern Europe and are dominant trees in broadleaved forests. Birches are pioneer trees that produce large quantities of allergenic pollen efficiently dispersed by wind. The pollen load level depends on the sizes and locations of pollen sources, which are important for pollen forecasting models; however, very limited work has been done on this topic in comparison to research on anthropogenic air pollutants. Therefore, we used highly accurate aerial laser scanning (Light Detection and Ranging?LiDAR) data to estimate the size and location of birch pollen sources in 3-dimensional space and to determine their influence on the pollen concentration in Poznań, Poland. LiDAR data were acquired in May 2012. LiDAR point clouds were clipped to birch individuals (mapped in 2012?2014 and in 2019), normalised, filtered, and individual tree crowns higher than 5 m were delineated. Then, the crown surface and volume were calculated and aggregated according to wind direction up to 2 km from the pollen trap. Consistent with LIDAR data, hourly airborne pollen measurements (performed using a Hirst-type, 7-day volumetric trap), wind speed and direction data were obtained in April 2012. We delineated 18,740 birch trees, with an average density of 14.9/0.01 km2, in the study area. The total birch crown surface in the 500?1500 m buffer from the pollen trap was significantly correlated with the pollen concentration aggregated by the wind direction (r = 0.728, p = 0.04). The individual tree crown delineation performed well (r2 ? 0.89), but overestimations were observed at high birch densities (> 30 trees/plot). We showed that trees outside forests substantially contribute to the total pollen pool. We suggest that including the vertical dimension and the trees outside the forest in pollen source maps have the potential to improve the quality of pollen forecasting models.		Jakubiak Paulina, Stawrakakis Krzysztof	Fenrych Marianna Jadwiga- Szewczyk Magdalena Wiesława-
2021-05-29	Katarzyna A. Kaszycka		e-learning	Great Transitions: The Origin of Humans Which traits distinguish humans from other primates? When and where did these traits evolve? Discover the latest findings on hominid evolution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjr0R0jgct4