prof. dr hab. inż. Renata Ciereszko
University of Warmia and Mazury (UWM) in Olsztyn
Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology
Professor Renata Ciereszko works as a professor at the Department of Animal Anatomy and Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Warmia and Mazury (UWM) in Olsztyn. She obtained her master’s degree in 1981, doctoral and postdoctoral degrees in 1990 and 2004, respectively, and received her professorship in 2014. Professor Ciereszko represents biological sciences (discipline: biology; scientific speciality: animal physiology, reproductive endocrinology, molecular biology). Her research interests include hormonal regulation of female reproduction, prolactin and phytoestrogens mechanism of action in the porcine ovary, the role of aromatic hydrocarbon receptors in the regulation of ovarian function, the mechanism of action and degradation of 2,3,7,8-tetrachloro-dibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and, more recently, the mechanism of the protective effect of tamoxifen in the ovaries of rats undergoing chemotherapy. She perfected her research skills during foreign and domestic scientific internships. From 1992 to 1996, she worked as a visiting professor at the Department of Animal Sciences and the School of Natural Resources at Ohio State University (OSU, Columbus, USA). In later years, she completed several shorter internships at OSU, USA (1997), Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA (2003, 2004), at the Agriculture University of Nitra, Slovakia (2011) and at the Jagiellonian University (2003, 2011). Prof. Renata Ciereszko’s scientific achievements include 80 original articles and several review papers and book chapters. She was the manager/supervisor of 11 grants financed by the State Committee for Scientific Research, the Ministry and the National Science Centre, as well as was the co-author and executor of Polish and foreign grants (USA). She has also worked in several expert teams of the Life Sciences (NZ) panel of the National Science Centre (NZ4, NZ5, Sonatina, Miniatura, Permanent Team).
For 15 years, Prof. Ciereszko was, consecutively, the managing editor and editor-in-chief of Reproductive Biology, currently she is a member of the editorial board of this journal. She was also the secretary and president of the Olsztyn branch of the Polish Physiological Society (PTF), a member of the Committee on Reproductive Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Local Ethics Committee in Olsztyn. Presently, she is a member of the PTF, the Society of Reproductive Biology (TBR) and the Olsztyn Scientific Forum. For 14 years, she has been the head of the Laboratory of Molecular Diagnostics (faculty inter-departmental laboratory), she is also the head of the animal welfare team at her home faculty. In addition to Rector’s awards for scientific, teaching and organisational activities, she also received three Ministerial awards, including one for her habilitation thesis. Prof. R. Ciereszko has been awarded, among others, the UWM Gold Laurel and the TBR Medal, and she is a member of the Chapter of this Medal. She is an active academic teacher. Currently, she conducts diploma seminars and lectures/classes in "Animal Physiology", "Signal Transduction" and "Experimental methodology". She was the supervisor of 7 doctoral theses and 47 master’s, bachelor’s and engineer’s theses.