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Marcin MATUSZCZAK
Last name : MATUSZCZAK
First name : Marcin
Entrance year : 2025
Occupation : Research Scientist
Company : Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute – National Research Institute (IHAR-PIB)
Phone : +48 61 8464226
Email : [hidden for users not logged in]
Website : https://ihar.edu.pl/en/institute/structure/poznan
Birthdate : 1970/06/17
Address : Department of Oilseed Crops, Strzeszyńska 36, 60-479 POZNAŃ / Poland
Main fields of interest :
  • Seeds, genetics
  • Plant physiology
Professional experience : * 1994 - 1995 PhD student at the tRNA Biochemistry Laboratory at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań (reverse transcriptase; HIV virus), ** 1996 - 2010 assistant at the Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, Department of Genetics and Breeding of Oilseed Crops in Poznań (rapeseed genome mapping; RAPD, SCAR and AFLP markers; QTLs; fatty acids, fat and glucosinolate content), *** 1996 six-weeks internship at INRA (Station d’Amelioration des Plantes, Le Rheu, France) (rapeseed; RAPD markers; MAPMAKER and PHYLIP software), *** 1997 - 1998 half-year internship at NIAR (Tsukuba, Japan) (rice; AFLP markers; bc-3 gene), *** 2004 five-weeks internship at INRA (Unité de Recherche INRA-Agrocampus Rennes, Amélioration des Plantes et Biotechnologies Végétales, Le Rheu, France) (rapeseed genome mapping; AFLP and SSR markers), *** 2006 six-weeks internship at INRA (INRA-Agrocampus, Centre de Recherches de Rennes, Unité Mixte de Recherche Amélioration des Plantes et Biotechnologies Végétales, Le Rheu, France) (rapeseed genome mapping; QTLs; genome mapping programs; high-oleic mutants), *** 2011 - present - assistant professor at the Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute – National Research Institute, Department of Oilseed Crops in Poznań (rapeseed genome mapping; SSR genotyping; CAPS markers for desaturase genes in rapeseed and linseed; SNP genotyping; sequencing and bioinformatic data analysis; GWAS; glucosinolates).
Education : 1989 - 1994 Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 1994 M.Sc in biotechnology (Master's thesis: “Isolation and purification of DNA from baculovirus from Spodoptera exigua”), 2010 Ph.D. in agricultural sciences in the field of agronomy - specialization: molecular genetics, genomics of oilseed plants (The subject of the dissertation: “Localization of QTLs on the genetic map of winter rapeseed (Brassica napus L.)”.), additional trainings on fragment analysis and sequencing (1996), RT-PCR (1997), biometrics and statistics (2010) and bioinformatics (2023, 2024)
Selected publications : Matuszczak, M., Spasibionek, S., Gacek, K. et al. Cleaved amplified polymorphic sequences (CAPS) marker for identification of two mutant alleles of the rapeseed BnaA.FAD2 gene. Mol Biol Rep 47, 7607–7621 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-020-05828-2 Spasibionek, S., Mikołajczyk, K., Ćwiek-Kupczyńska, H., Piętka, T., Krótka, K., Matuszczak, M. et al. Marker assisted selection of new high oleic and low linolenic winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) inbred lines revealing good agricultural value. PLoS ONE 15(6), e0233959. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233959 Starzycka-Korbas, E., Weber, Z., Matuszczak, M. et al. The diversity of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary isolates from western Poland. J Plant Pathol 103, 185–195 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42161-020-00705-0 Gacek, K., Bayer, P.E., Anderson, R., Severn-Ellis, A.A., Wolko, J., Łopatyńska, A., Matuszczak, M., Bocianowski, J.; Edwards, D., Batley, J. QTL Genetic Mapping Study for Traits Affecting Meal Quality in Winter Oilseed Rape (Brassica Napus L.). Genes 12, 1235 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12081235 Walkowiak, M., Matuszczak, M., Spasibionek, S., Liersch, A., Mikołajczyk, K. Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic Sequences (CAPS) Markers for Characterization of the LuFAD3A Gene from Various Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) Cultivars. Agronomy 12, 1432 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12061432 Spasibionek, S., Mikołajczyk, K., Matuszczak, M. et al. HO-CR and HOLL-CR: new forms of winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) with altered fatty acid composition and resistance to selected pathotypes of Plasmodiophora brassicae (clubroot). J Appl Genetics 65, 439–452 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13353-024-00867-y Liersch, A., Bocianowski, J., Spasibionek, S., Wielebski, F., Szała, L., Cegielska-Taras T., Sosnowska, K., Matuszczak, M. et al. Evaluation of the stability of quantitative traits of winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) by AMMI analysis. Euphytica 220, 130 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-024-03375-6
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