Agata Chmurzynska, professor
Head of Department, Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Poznan University of Life Sciences
agata.chmurzynska@up.poznan.pl
Phone +48 61 846 61 81
EDUCATION
2021 Full professor of medical and health sciences, Poznan University of Medical Sciences
2012 Habilitation in agricultural sciences, majoring in human nutrition from Warsaw University of Life Sciences
Thesis title: Research on the influence of prenatal and postnatal nutritional factors on methionine and lipid metabolism in the rat
2006 Ph.D. in biology, majoring in genetics from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Thesis title: Polymorphism and comparative analysis of CREB, A-FABP and H-FABP genes involved in lipid metabolism in mammals
2002–2006 Ph.D. studies at the Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Poznań University of Life Sciences
1997–2002 M.Sc. in biotechnology, majoring in molecular diagnostics from Poznań University of Life Sciences
RESEARCH SUMMARY
Past research: a link between DNA polymorphism and phenotypic variation in various animals; diagnostics of sex-determination abnormalities; comparative genomics; molecular modeling; phylogeny; fetal programming of one-carbon and lipid metabolism; nutritional and genetic determinants of of one-carbon and lipid metabolism; molecular biomarkers of dietary interventions.
Current research interests: fetal programming, genetic and nutritional determination of one-carbon and lipid metabolism, determination of body mass, personalized nutrition