Urszula Miecielica
Professional Experience
Publication Writer
XPE Pharma & Science - Wavre - Belgium(Full-time - Since November 2011)
- Writing of scientific publication
- Writing of abstracts for scientific presentations
- Preparation of posters and presentations for scientific conferences
Voluntary work
University of Wroclaw - Wroclaw - Poland(Volunteer Work - 2004 - 2005)
- Laboratory work
Socrates/Erasmus stage
Institut des Sciences de la Vie, Universite catholique de Louvain - Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium(Student Project - February 2004 - June 2004)
- Working in the laboratory team
- Project: studying the role of aquaporins in water transport in maize
- Plant cellular biology, genetics, physiological assays
Master's Degree: Construction of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains as a host for heterologous expression of the ABCA1 gene and phenotypic analysis of transformants
University of Wroclaw - Wroclaw - Poland(Student Project - 2002 - 2004)
- Master studies project: heterologous expression of mouse and human ABC transporters in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisie
- Laboratory experience: Molecular biology, microbiology, genetics
- Theoretical courses: Genetics and genomics
- Writing of master's thesis
- Oral presentation of results
Skills
Comunication skills
- Writing of Ph.D. thesis (English)
- Writing of several scientific reports (English)
- Writing of scientific articles: first co-author and second author (English)
- Poster and oral presentations on international scientific conferences (English)
Scientific skills
- Molecular biology: DNA/RNA preparation, genetic constructs, PCR, transformation methods
- Microbiology: bacteria, yeast
- Cellular biology: plant (maize mesophyll cells, in vitro cell suspention culture), animal (Xenopus laevis oocytes)
- Plant biology: maize hydroponic culture, physiological assays
- Biochemical approaches: SDS-PAGE, Western blotting, Antibody purification, Immuno-precipitation, Mass-spectrometry analysis
- Microscopy: epi-fluorescent and confocal microscopy
- Radioactivity: 32P in vitro phosphorylation assay
Computer Skills
- Office software (basic knowledge): MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Graphic software (basic knowledge): Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator,
- Scientific software (basic knowledge): sequence allignement (BLAST, ClustalW), image analysis (ImageJ), microscopy (ZEN), phylogeny (TreeView)
Education
Ph.D.
Institut des Sciences de la Vie, Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (2005 - 2011)
- Ph.D. studies: Agronomy and Bioengineering
DEA
Institut des Sciences de la Vie, Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (2005 - 2007)
- DEA in Agronomy and Bioengineering
Master's Degree
University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland (2002 - 2004)
- Master studies (2 years), specialization: genetics
Bachelor's Degree
University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland (1999 - 2002)
- Bachelor studies (3 years), specialization: microbiology