Hi! I’m Gosia
Gosia is short for Malgorzata. I come from Poland and live now in The Netherlands. I work at ICL Specialty Fertilizers with a mission of improving crop yields in a sustainable way by using microbes. I focus on natural microbiome and improvement of nutrient use efficiency in plants.
My hobbies are:
- Travels – Since I was a child, I have always been thrilled by the thought of travelling to distant countries. Nowadays I discover cultures, cuisines and habits during my holiday trips, but also by living abroad (France, the Netherlands).
- Designing toys for children – Once I got inspired by the picture of a doll house in a magazine and now I make them myself. I invented other kinds of buildings that could be used as toys for children and help develop their creativity and imagination.
- Cooking – I find cooking to be a very similar task to work in a laboratory. By sticking strictly to the recipe you will always create a delicious dish, but sometimes by changing a bit the original protocol you can make a major breakthrough.
Publications
- 2018 Comparison of Highly and Weakly Virulent Dickeya solani Strains, With a View on the Pangenome and Panregulon of This Species
- 2017 The uniform structure of O-polysaccharides isolated from Dickeya solani strains of different origin
- 2016 A review on Dickeya solani, a new pathogenic bacterium causing loss in potato yield in Europe
- 2016 The effect of temperature on phenotypic features and the maceration ability of Dickeya solani strains isolated in Finland, Israel and Poland.
- 2015 Biodiversity of Dickeya spp. isolated from potato plants and water sources in temperate climate
- 2015 Draft genome sequence of a highly virulent strain of the plant pathogen Dickeya solani, IFB0099
- 2014 Regulators Involved in Dickeya solani Virulence, Genetic Conservation, and Functional Variability
- 2014 Simultaneous detection of major blackleg and soft rot bacterial pathogens in potato by multiplex polymerase chain reaction
- 2013 A new clade of Dickeya spp. plays a major role in potato blackleg in North Finland
- 2012 Combined effect of the antagonistic potential of selected Pseudomonas spp. strains and the synthetic peptide “CAMEL” on Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae and P. syringae pv. morsprunorum
- 2012 Rhizosphere bacteria as potential biocontrol agents against soft rot caused by various Pectobacterium and Dickeya spp. strains
Books Read
Thrillers
- Henning Mankell
- Morderca bez twarzy
- Psy z Rygi
- Biała lwica
- Mężczyzna, który się uśmiechał
- Fałszywy trop
- Piąta kobieta
- O krok
- Zapora
- Piramida
- Stieg Larsson
- Mężczyźni, którzy nienawidzą kobiet
- Dziewczyna, która igrała z ogniem
- Zamek z piasku, który runął
- Mężczyźni, którzy nienawidzą kobiet
- Camilla Lackberg
- Ksiezniczka z lodu
- Kaznodzieja
- Kamieniarz
- Ofiara losu
- Niemiecki bekart
- Latarnik
- Pogromca lwow
- Czarownica
- Paula Hawkins
- Dziewczyna z pociagu
Biographies
- Andrea Wulf
- The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
- Sylvie Simmons
- Serge Gainsbourg
Entertainment
- Lucinda Riley
- Siedem Siostr
- Siostra Burzy
- Siostra Cienia
- Siostra Perly
- Siostra Ksiezyca
- Dziewczyna na klifie
- Tajemnice zamku
- Dom Orchidei
- Róża północy
- Sekret listu
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Cien wiatru
- Gra Aniola
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Sto lat samotności
- Miłość w czasach zarazy
Science Fiction
- Douglas Adams
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Red Mars
Countries visited
- Poland
- France
- Netherlands
- Canada
- India
- Curacao
- Switzerland
- Italy
- Spain
- Portugal
- Sweden
- Denmark
- Ukraine
- Austria
- Israel
- Norway
- Hungary
- Germany
- Belgium
- England
- Scotland
- Kenia
- Croatia
- Monaco
- Slovenia
- Slovakia
- Czech Republic