Funding and Collaborations

Our projects:

PROJECT 1

Funder: National Science Centre of Poland

Call: OPUS 18

Title: Oil producing diacylglycerol acyltransferases encoded by the genome of oleaginous microalga Nannochloropsis oceanica – functional analysis and biotechnological applications

Duration: 30.09.2020-29.09.2024

Funding: 1 842 000 PLN

Project Leader: dr hab. Krzysztof Zienkiewicz, prof. UMK

PROJECT 2

Funder: National Science Centre of Poland

Call: OPUS 19

Title: Identification and charateristics of mechanisms governing triacylglycerol homeostasis in oleaginous microalgae and land plants

Duration: 01.07.2021-30.06.2025

Funding: 2 088 240 PLN

Project Leader: dr hab. Krzysztof Zienkiewicz, prof. UMK

Our Collaborators:

Prof. Zhi-Yan (Rock) Du    [ResearchGate]     [Google Scholar]     [Home page]

Department of Molecular Biosciences & BioEngineering,

University of Hawaii at Manoa

USA

Prof. Christoph Benning      [Google Scholar]     [Home page]

Plant Biology Laboratories

Michigan State University

East Lansing

USA