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Curriculum Vitae Alicja Lidia Boron
Born: 30 August, 1959 in Czestochowa, Poland
Female, marital status: married, two children
Address: Department of Zoology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-712 Olsztyn, Poland Education Professor (full prof.) of biological sciences in the field of biology 2007; cytogenetics animals, zoology; Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology (formerly Faculty of Biology), University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn An associate professor (dr hab) 2001 of biological sciences in the field of biology 2001; Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Wroclaw. Dissertation "The diversity of chromosomal fish of the genus Cobitis (Pisces, Cobitidae) occurring in Poland", Ed. UWM. 1-74. PhD in agricultural sciences in 1992, in the field of inland fisheries; Department of Water Protection and Inland Fisheries, AR in Olsztyn. Doctor's dissertation titled: "The spined loach - Cobitis taenia Linnaeus, 1758, (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae) from the Zegrzynski Dam Reservoir" MSc. inland fisheries, 1984; Department of Water Protection and Inland Fisheries, University of Agriculture and Technology in Olsztyn. The Master’s dissertation titled: “Food and growth of Gobio gobio (L.) in the Wloclawski Dam Reservoir". Represented field of Science, discipline and specialization: Professional career, scientific position Professor (an ordinary prof. position), University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, from 2012 Vice-Dean for Science, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, UWM Olsztyn, from 2007 – 2012 Professor, Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences; employment for a specified period from 1.10.2007 to 31.12.2010. Head of the Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, UWM Olsztyn, since 2002. Associate prof. UWM in Olsztyn, 2002 - 2012, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Zoology. Adjunct 1992 – 2001, University of Agriculture and Technology, Department of Water Protection and Inland Fisheries, Department of Zoology. Assistant 1987 - 1992; University of Agriculture and Technology, Department of Water Protection and Inland Fisheries, Department of Zoology. Scientific award: 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012 Rector of the Warmia and Mazury University’s Reward. Scholarships and collaborations · 1990 (one month) in Institute Severcova in Moscow (dr K. Vasil'eva, dr V. Vasil'ev). · 1993 (three months, postdoc fellow in the Department of Zoology and Anthropology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal (Prof. Maria J. Collares-Pereira). · 1991, 1992, 1999 (three weeks) in Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetic, Libechov, Czech Republic (dr P. Rab). · 1999 (one week) Ecophysiology Unit, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Belgium, lectures on cytogenetic characterization of Teleostei (within Socrates). · 2001 (one week) School of Biological Sciences, University of Anglia, Norwich, mutual genetic studies of the Cobitis species from the populations distributed in Poland and England. · 2002 (two weeks) Museum national d’histoire naturelle, Département de Systematique et Evolution, Service de Systematique moleculaire, Paris (France), take part in mutual molecular cytogenetic studies of the Cobitis species. · 2005 (two months) FY 2005 JSPS, Invitation Fellowship Program for Research in Japan ID No. S-05135, Hokkaido University; cooperation within the problems of polyploid cytogenetics, origin and reproduction (Prof. Katsutoshi Arai, prof. Syuiti Abe) Since 2005 – 2008 taking part in mutual taxonomical and systematic studies within the International Cypriniformes Tree of Life project coordinated by dr Richard L. Mayden. Research issues and scientific interests Chromosome structure, function and evolution. The use of morphological characteristics, cytogenetic (obtained by conventional and molecular) and selected aspects of the biology in the fish systematics Natural polyploidy among the Animals; speciation by hybridization and polyploidization Occurrence, origin, morphology, mechanisms of reproduction, cytogenetics and genetics, and biology of naturally occurred and experimentally induced hybrids and polyploids of fish Distribution, systematics and biology of the Teleostei taxa. The scientific achievements – publications The total number of 188 published papers, including 57 original creative works, including 47 papers published in the Journal Citation Reports, and 10 published in other journals. Monographs - 8, including two in English, chapters in the monographs – 45. Conference reports - 72, including 51 presented in the international conferences, 10 of which were published in the Web of Science. Textbooks for students (6) titled "Systematic Zoology" and "Fish Taxonomy", and the natural expert opinions (6). List of publications (most of them) in the journals JCR Boroń A. 1992. Karyotype study of diploid and triploid Cobitis taenia (Pisces, Cobitidae) from Vistula river basin. Cytobios 72: 201-206. Boroń A. 1994. Use of erythrocyte measurements to detect natural triploids of spined loach Cobitis taenia (L.). Cytobios, 78: 197-202. Boroń A. 1994. Karyotypes of diploid and triploid silver crucian carp Carassius auratus gibelio (Bloch). Cytobios 80: 117-124. Boroń A. 1995. Chromosome banding studies of Noemacheilus barbatulus (Linnaeus, 1758) from Poland. Caryologia, 48: 239-246. Boroń A. 1995. Chromosome banding studies of spined loach Cobitis taenia (L.), Cytobios 81: 97-102. Boroń A., Jankun M., Kusznierz J. 1997. Chromosome study of swamp minnow Eupallasella percnurus Dybowski (1916) from Poland. Caryologia. 50(1): 85-90. Jankun M., A. Boroń, L. Kirtiklis, A. Kirchhofer, P. Woźnicki, M. Luczynski 1998. Cytogenetic and biochemical studies on European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus L.) from Switzerland. Arch. Hydrobiol. Spec. Issues Advanc. Limnol., 50: 363-369. Boroń A., Z. Danilkiewicz 1998. Diploid-polyploid complex of spined loach Cobitis taenia sensu stricto and Cobitis sp. from the Bug River, Poland (Pisces, Cobitidae). Cytobios 96: 13-22. Boroń A., J. Kotusz 1999. A preliminary report and karyotype of a new Cobitis species in the ichthyofauna of Poland. Cytobios 98: 59-64. Woźnicki P., M. Jankun, Kucharczyk D., Boroń A., Luczynski M. 1999. Cytogenetic characterization of sea trout (Salmo trutta) from Poland. Copeia (2): 501-505. Boroń A. 1999. Banded karyotype of spined loach Cobitis taenia and triploid Cobitis from Poland. Genetica (3): 293-300. Boroń A., Kotusz J. 2000. The preliminary data on diploid-polyploid complexes of the genus Cobitis in the Odra River basin, Poland (Pisces, Cobitidae). Folia Zool. 49 (Suppl. 1): 79-84. Boroń A. 2000. Cytogenetic characterization of the loaches of the genera Sabanejewia, Misgurnus and Barbatula (Pisces, Cobitidae). Folia Zool. 49 (Suppl. 1): 37-44. Boroń A., E. Pimpicka 2000. Fecundity of spined loach, Cobitis taenia from the Zegrzyński Reservoir, Poland (Osteichthyes, Cobitidae). Folia Zool. 49 (Suppl. 1): 135-140. Boroń A. 2001. Comparative chromosomal studies on two minnow fish, Phoxinus phoxinus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Eupallasella perenurus Pallas, 1814; an associated cytogenetic-taxonomic considerations. Genetica, No. 1-3, Vol. 111: 387-395. Boroń A. 2003. Replication banding patterns in the spined loach, Cobitis taenia L. Genetica 119: 51-55. Boroń A., M. Culling, A. Pułym 2003. Cytogenetic characteristics of the fish genus Cobitis from England. Folia biol. Suppl. 51: 13-16. Szlachciak J., A. Boroń 2003. The numerical taxonomic study of some species from the genus Cobitis (Pisces, Cobitidae) based on their cytogenetic features. Folia biol. Suppl. 51: 7-12. Woźnicki P., Boroń A., 2003. Banding chromosome patterns of zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas) from the heated Konin lakes system (Poland). Caryologia, 56, 4: 427- 430. Boron A. 2003. Karyotypes and cytogenetic diversity of the genus Cobitis (Pisces, Cobitidae) in Poland: a review. Cytogenetic evidence for a hybrid origin of some Cobitis triploids. Folia biol. Suppl. 51:49-54. Boroń A., Woźnicki P., Skuza L., Zieliński R. 2004. Cytogenetics of two morphotypes of Dreissena polymorpha (Bivalvia, Mollusca) from Miedwie Lake, Poland. Folia biol. 52: 33-38. Ocalewicz K., Jankun M., Boroń A. 2004. Karyotypic characterization of bream, Abramis brama (Pisces, Cyprinidae). Folia Zool. 53(3): 329-334. Boroń A., Ozouf-Costaz C., Jean-Pierre Coutanceau, K. Woroniecka 2006. Gene mapping of 28Sand 5S rDNA sites in the spined loach Cobitis taenia (Pisces, Cobitidae) using fluorescence in situ hybridization. Genetica, 128: 71-79. Culling, M.A., K. Janko, A. Boroń, V.P. Vasil’ev, I.M. Côté & G.M. Hewitt, 2006. European colonization by the spined loach (Cobitis taenia) from Ponto-Caspian refugia based on mitochondrial DNA variation. Molecular Ecology 15: 173 - 190. Juchno D., Boroń A. 2006. Comparative histology of the testes of the spined loach Cobitis taenia L. and natural allotetraplids of Cobitis (Pisces, Cobitidae). Hydrobiologia 573: 45-53. Juchno D., Boroń A., Gołaszewski J. 2007. Comparative morphology and histology of the ovaries of the spined loach Cobitis taenia L. and natural allopolyploids of Cobitis (Cobitidae). Journal of Fish Biology 2007, 70:1392-1411. Morishima K., Nakamura-Shiokawa Y., Bando E., Li Y-J., Boron A., Khan Md.M.R., Arai Katsutoshi 2008. Cryptic clonal lineages and genetic diversity in the loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Teleostei: Cobitidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA analyses. Genetica 132: 159-171. Boroń A., Jeleń I., Juchno D., Przybylski M., Borzechowska E. 2008. Age and growth of karyologically identified spined loach Cobitis taenia Linnaeus, 1758 (Teleostei, Cobitidae) from a diploid population. Folia Zool., 57(1-2): 155-161. Jelen I., Boroń A., Szlachciak J., Juchno D. 2008. Morphology of the karyologically identified spined loach Cobitis taenia Linnaeus, 1758 (Teleostei, Cobitidae) from a diploid population. Folia Zool., 57(1-2): 131-138. Boroń A., Porycka K., Ito D., Abe S., Kirtiklis L. 2009. Comparative molecular cytogenetic analysis of three Leuciscus species (Pisces, Cyprinidae) using chromosome banding and FISH with rDNA. Genetica, 135: 199-201. Juchno D., Lackowska B., Boroń A., Kilarski W. 2010. DNA content of hepatocyte and erythrocyte nuclei of the spined loach (Cobitis taenia L.) and its polyploid forms; Fish Physiology and Biochemistry; 36: 523-529. Juchno D., Boroń A. 2010. Fecundity of the spined loach, Cobitis taenia (Pisces, Cobitidae) and natural allopolyploids of Cobitis from a diploid-polyploid population. Folia Zool. 59(1): 35 – 43. Kirtiklis L, Porycka K., Boroń A., Coutanceau J-P., Dettai A. 2010. Use of the chromosomal co-location of the minor 5S and the major 28S rDNA as a cytogenetic marker within the genus Leuciscus (Pisces, Cyprinidae); Folia biologica (Kraków), 58(3-4), 245-249. Kirtiklis L., Boron A., Ptasznik P., Luskova V., Lusk S.; 2011,Molecular differentiation of three loach species (Pisces, Cobitidae) based on the nuclear 5S rDNA marker. Folia biologica (Kraków); 59(3-4): 09-13; DOI: 10.3409/fb59_3-4.141-145. Maciak S., Janko K. Kotusz J. Choleva L. Boroń A. Juchno D. Kujawa R. Kozłowski J., Konarzewski M., 2011. Standard metabolic rate (SMR) is inversely related to erythrocyte and genome size in allopolyploid fish of the Cobitis taenia hybrid complex; Functional Ecology; 25, 1072-1078. Boroń A., Szlachciak J., Juchno D., Grabowska A., Jagusztyn B., Porycka K., 2011. Karyotype, morphology, and reproduction ability of the Prussian carp Carassius gibelio (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae) from unisexual and bisexual populations in Poland, Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria; 41 (1), 19-28. MABEE P.M., GREY E., ARRATIA G., BOGUTSKAYA N., BOROŃ A., COBURN M.M., CONWAY K.W., HE S., NASEKA A., RIOS N., SIMONS A., SZLACHCIAK J., WANG X., 2011. Gill arch and hyoid arch diversity and cypriniform phylogeny; Zootaxa 2877, 1-40. Juchno D., A. Boroń 2012. Reproduction and fecundity of the golden loach, Sabanejewia baltica Witkowski, 1994 from Bug River in Poland. Reproductive Biology 12 (1): 73-79. Kirtiklis L., Grzymkowska M., Boroń A. 2013. Characterization of three species from the subfamily Leuciscinae (Pisces, Cyprinidae) using nuclear ITS-1 rDNA spacer. Folia biologica (Kraków). 61(1-2), 53-57. DOI: 10.3409/fb61_1-2.53 Kirtiklis L., Grabowska A.I., Bazyłyna E., Orzechowska A., Skórczyńska M., Boroń A. 2014. Gene mapping of 28S rDNA sites in allotriploid Cobitis females (Pisces: Cobitidae) from a diploid-polyploid population. Biologia 69 (4): 536-540 Kirtiklis L., Ocalewicz K., Wiechowska M., Boroń A., Hliwa P. 2014. Molecular cytogenetic study of the European bitterling Rhodeus amarus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Acheilognathinae). Genetica 142(2): 141-148. Juchno D., Jabłońska O., Boroń A., Kujawa R., Leska A., Grabowska A., Nynca A., Świgońska S., Król M., Spóz A., Laskowska N., Lao M. 2014. Ploidy-dependent survival of progeny arising from crosses between natural allotriploid Cobitis females and diploid C. taenia males (Pisces, Cobitidae) Genetica 142(4): 351-359. Spoz A., Boron A., Porycka K., Karolewska M., Ito D., Abe S., Kirtiklis L., Juchno D., Karpińska I.U. 2014. Molecular cytogenetics of the crucian carp Carassius carassius (Linnaeus, 1758) (Pisces; Cyprinidae) using chromosome banding and double-colour FISH with rDNA. Comparative Cytogenetics 8(3): 233–248 (2014), doi: 10.3897/Comp Cytogen.v8i3.7718 Monographs (four out of eight) Brylińska M., Boroń A. 2004. The common bream Abramis brama L. Wyd. UWM. Dissertations and Monographs. 91: 1-108. Brylińska M., J. Szlachciak, A. Boroń. 2006. The white bream Abramis bjoerkna (Leuciscinae, Cyprinidae). Wyd. UWM. Dissertations and onographs, 115: 1-79. PLISSN 1509-3018. Diversity and taxonomy of animals. Characteristic and systematics of animals. 2013. Red. A. BOROŃ, J. SZLACHCIAK. Mantis Olsztyn, ISBN 978-83-62860-24-1, Vol. I., p. 200. (in Polish). Diversity and taxonomy of animals. A field guide to identify selected national animal taxa. 2013. A. BOROŃ, J. SZLACHCIAK. Mantis Olsztyn, ISBN978-83-62860-25-8, Vol. II, p. 147. (in Polish). Boroń A., Juchno D., Szlachciak J. 2014. Jawless vertebrates (Petromyzontida). In: Fauna of Poland - characteristics and checklist of species. Volume IV. Vertebrates (Bogdanowicz W., Chudzicka E., Pilipiuk I. & Skibińska E., eds). Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, p. 9-22. (in Polish with English summary). Boroń A., Juchno D., Szlachciak J. 2014. Ray finned fishes (Actinopterygii). In: Fauna of Poland - characteristics and checklist of species. Volume IV. Vertebrates (Bogdanowicz W., Chudzicka E., Pilipiuk I. & Skibińska E., eds). Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, ISBN 978-83-88147-14-2. p. 23-164. (in Polish with English summary). Bibliometric indicators: h-index = 11 the number of citations = 372 total IF of publications = 44.177 Scientific achievements The using of cytogenetic features in the systematics of animals, especially fish from the order Cypriniformes; the description of the karyotypes and chromosomes banding patterns as well as selected molecular cytogenetic features of the species from the following genera: Phoxinus, Eupallasella, Leuciscus, Carassius, Sabanejewia, Misgurnus, Barbatula and Tinca, and others Comprehensive comparative cytogenetic studies of selected taxa of Cobitisfrom populations distributed in Poland, and identification and description for the first time a new species in the polish fauna – the danubian loach Cobitis elongatoides Bacescu & Maier, 1969, and several hybrid polyploid forms (biotypes) of Cobitis loaches Confirmation the dominance triploid hybrid females in most Cobitis populations in Poland and documenting that this dominance may be resulted from both the mode of reproduction and some features of their biology (longer spawning time and lifespan etc.) Demonstrating, based on cytogenetic features that both C. taenia and C. elongatoides took part in the formation of most of polyploid hybrids Cobitis occurring in Poland, and confirmation that two rounds of hybridization processes leading to the formation of Cobitis polyploids Evidenced the diversity of the number and location of 28S rDNA and 5S rDNA in the chromosomes of many Cobitis and other diploid and polyploid Cypriniformes taxa Documenting that the triploid Cobitis females from diploid-polyploid populations and diploid C. taenia males at least in an experimental conditions give triploid as well as tetraploid offspring Documenting experimentally that oocytes produced by triploid hybrid Cobitis females may develop gynogenetically, but about 66% of them may be fertilized giving rise to tetraploid individuals. International cooperation Cytogenetic/genetic and reproductive studies of polyploid taxa of Teleostei, including cytological mechanisms of the meiotic process - cooperation with Professor Katsutoshi Arai, Chair of Aquaculture and Genomics, Division of Marine Life Science, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, and with Professor Syuiti Abe, Division of Marine Life Science, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan. The processes for the formation of clonal sex fish are conducted in cooperation with a team of Karel Janko of the Czech Academy of Sciences, recently in the framework of the project "Roads to unisexuality: mechanisms initiating parthenogenesis in fish" (2014-2015), Polish-Czech Executive Programme under the Agreement between the Government of the Polish Republic and the Government of the Czech Republic on cooperation in the field of science and technology of 13 January 2000. Research in national cooperation The reproductive potential of diploid and tetraploid males of Cobitis are conducted in collaboration with the researchers from the Institute of Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Olsztyn and from the Jagiellonian University Key publications and projects The vast majority of the publications apply to classical and molecular cytogenetics and reproductive biology, including reproduction mode of diploid and polyploid taxa of Cypriniformes, and in the last years the experimental techniques of reproduction; inducing hybridization and the reproduction process of allopolyploid hybrids. Use biotechnologies in aquaculture aims to increase production efficiency, product quality, increase resistance to disease and adverse environmental conditions, but also increasingly being used to protect endangered species (e.g., loach C. taenia) and maintain the biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems Research projects (the last two listed below) relate to biotechnology - the reproduction processes of fish; inducing reproduction of naturally occurring triploid females, leading to gynogenetic (triploid) and sexual (tetraploid) progeny of Cobitis loaches. Scientific achievements for a large formation and functioning of polyploid organisms, model to know the functioning of individuals, tissues and cells of the multiple genome also excellent for treatment of biotechnology (gynogenesis, polyploidization), which recently successfully include in both of the following grants; "Reproduction of natural triploid Cobitis (Pisces, Cobitidae) in mixed diploid-polyploid populations" N N303 068834 Higher Education; 2008-2012. "The potential reproductive of diploid and tetraploid male Cobitis fish (Pisces, Cobitidae)", 2012-2015. no. 173069 NCN. Other experience in some of the so far conducted projects The international grants awarded in the Framework Programs of the European Union and other international funders for the period 2009-2013; Project of the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Warmia and Mazury no POKL.04.01.01-00-178/09-00, titled "Expanding and improving the educational offer directed to people outside the university, and improving the quality of teaching and academic competence" within the Human Capital Operational Programme co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund; 2009-2011. (educational project, head of the project) Coordinator of the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, UWM in Olsztyn and co-author of the project titled: Centrum nutri-bio -chemical University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Priority Axis Modern Economy, 1.3. Supporting innovation. Project No.: POPW.01.03.00-28-020/09 co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund under the Operational Programed Development of Eastern Polish 2007-2013; Component II. Laboratory Equipment for Research and Conservation of Biodiversity; from 2009 to 2010. Participation in international research consortia and international scientific networks the period 2009-2013 and other "Roads to unisexuality: mechanisms initiating parthenogenesis in fish" (2014-2015), Polish-Czech Executive Programme in the framework of the Agreement between the Government of the Polish Republic and the Government of the Czech Republic on cooperation in the field of science and technology of 13 January 2000. Training of younger researchers Supervisor (4) and reviewer of doctor’s theses (13) Supervisor (52) and reviewer of master's theses (35) Experience in reviewing: in the proceedings for the title professor - 5 candidates in the proceedings for habilitation - 6 candidates 2012-present Member of the Panel of Experts of the National Center for Science More than 100 papers submitted to: Genetica, Folia biologica, Folia Zoologica, Journal of Applying Genetics, Journal of Fish Biology, Reproductive Biology, Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, Annales Zoologici, Aquaculture International, Comparative Cytogenetics, Cytometry, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Hereditas, et al. Activities in national and international organizations and scientific journals Membership in organizations and societies and their functions: Member of the Morphology and Embryology, Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2010) Polish Hydrobiological Society (2002-present); Member of the Board (2004-2006) Polish Zoological Society (1998-present); member International Chromosome and Genome Society - since 2011. European Society of Ichthyologists (SEI) - since 2004 Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals: Folia biologica (Krakow) - member of the editorial board - from 2010 Comparative Cytogenetics – subject editor (fish cytogenetics) - since 2011 Journal of Applied Genetics - a member of the editorial board - since 2009 Zoologica Poloniae - a member of the editorial board - from 2010 Awards and distinctions 2013 - Medal of the National Education Commission
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