Department of Biotechnology and Food Sciences K-51
Head of the unit:
Prof. Beata Gutarowska, PhD, DSc
Potential promoters:
Prof. Beata Gutarowska, PhD, DSc
Prof. Dorota Kręgiel, PhD, DSc
Joanna Berłowska, PhD, DSc, TUL Prof.
Sebastian Borowski, PhD, DSc, TUL Prof. Piotr
Dziugan, PhD, DSc, TUL Prof.
Adriana Nowak, PhD, DSc, TUL Prof.
Krzysztof Ziemiński, PhD, DSc, TUL Prof.
Justyna Szulc, PhD
Contact person:
Prof. Beata Gutarowska, PhD, DSc, tel.: 48-42-631-34-89, beata.gutarowska@p.lodz.pl
Scope of activities:
- Industrial and environmental applications of microorganisms.
- Processing of waste from the agri-food industry and energy in biological, chemical and thermal processes.
- Environmental biofilms.
- Biopreparations in agriculture and the environment with pro-ecological and/or pro-health activity, e.g. ecological preparations for animals, preparations for removing odours.
- Renewable energy sources.
- Ecotoxicological studies.
Present activities:
- Production of methane and hydrogen from organic waste.
- Microalgae and activated sludge biomass for the treatment of wastewater and post-digestion effluents.
- Wastewater treatment and post-fermentation leachate.
- Industrial application of yeast.
- The application of ozone in biotechnology.
- Microorganisms as biocontrol factors.
- Assessment of harmful biological factors in work environments.
- Biodeterioration analysis of technical materials, including historic ones.
- Circular economy.
- Biological and chemical methods of biogas purification
Future activities:
- Optimization of the sporulation process for industrial purposes.
- Assessment of biodeterioration mechanisms based on new instrumental methods.
- Algae - a source of valuable chemicals, a biodeterioration factor.
- Analysis of metabolites of microorganisms of industrial importance with the application of MALDI-TOF MS.
Publications/patents, awards, projects:
- Development of an innovative pulp drying process using waste heat and obtaining functional feed components as a part of the circular economy of sugar plants."Agrotech" POIR.01.01.01-00-2140/20.
- Borowski S., Boniecki P., Kubacki P., Czyżowska A. (2018) Food waste co-digestion with slaughterhouse waste and sewage sludge: digestate conditioning and supernatant quality. Waste Management 74, 158–167.
- Nowicka-Krawczyk P., Komar M., Gutarowska B. (2022) Towards understanding the link between the deterioration of building materials and the nature of aerophytic green algae. Sci. Tot. Environ. 8021, 149856.
Keywords:
chemical and environmental engineering, biopreparations in agriculture, environmental application of microorganisms, energy and environmental engineering, feed preparations, starter cultures
List of internship proposal in this research team:
- Metabolic activity of environmental yeast isolates cultured at low temperature.
- Innovative feed components
- Construction of a database of mass spectra to identify microorganisms of industrial importance.
- Mechanisms of biodeterioration of technical materials and new methods of protection.
- Application of microalgae for the treatment of post-digestion effluents and production of the 3-rd generation biofuels.
The portfolio of research groups was created as part of the Programme "STER" – Internationalisation of doctoral schools” as part of the realization of the project “Curriculum for advanced doctoral education & taining – CADET Academy of Lodz University of Technology”.