Current study topics

• Competitive interactions between filamentous algae - macrophytes - cyanobacteria
• Interactions of plastics with microalgae

Research projects

• 2021 - present

  PhD project "The role of polyphenolic substances in shaping the competition mechanism at the level of filamentous algae - vascular plants (pleustophytes) - microalgae (cyanobacteria) in the surface layer of bodies of water"

• 01.2024 - 02.2024

  Executor in the project no. 871081 AQUACOSM-plus: Network of Leading Ecosystem Scale Experimental AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Rivers, Lakes, Estuaries and Oceans in Europe and beyond "Periphyton Responses in Mediterranean Inland Waters to Eutrophication and Salinization"

• 2022 - 2024

  Co-coordinator in the Fresh Project 4.0 project "Life in plastic, it’s fantastic: unravelling the microalgal community of plastisphere across European lentic systems (PhytoPlastic)"

Papers

2024

• Nava V., Dar J. Y., De Santis V., Fehlinger L., Pasqualini J., Adekolurejo O. A., Burri B., Cabrerizo M. J., Chonova T., Cour M., Dory F., Drost A. M., Figler A., Gionchetta G., Halabowski D., Harvey D. R., Manzanares-Vázquez V., Misteli B., Mori-Bazzano L., Moser V., Rotta F., Schmid-Paech B., Touchet C. M. and Gostyńska J. 2024. Zooming in the plastisphere: the ecological interface for phytoplankton–plastic interactions in aquatic ecosystems. Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.



2022

• Gostyńska J., Pankiewicz R., Romanowska-Duda Z., Messyasz B. 2022. Overview of allelopathic potential of Lemna minor L. obtained from a shallow eutrophic lake. Molecules 27: 3428.

CV

• 2021 – present

  Doctoral School of Natural Sciences in the Discipline of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, supervisor: prof. UAM dr hab. Beata Messyasz

• 2019 - 2021

  MSc student at the Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, thesis title: "Patterns of distribution of the dioecious species of stonewort (Chara tomentosa L.) in the depth gradient of the lake", supervisor: prof. UAM dr hab. Maciej Gąbka

• 2016 – 2019

  BSc student at the Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, thesis title: "Spatial structure and relationships between species of aquatic vegetation in a trophically stable, although subjected to anthropogenic pressure, shallow-water lake (Jarosławieckie Lake, WPN)", supervisor: prof. UAM dr hab. Mariusz Pełechaty

Research internships

• 13.11.2022 – 27.11.2022

  Laboratory of Algology and Microbial Ecology, Nature Research Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Other

• 10.07.2023 – 19.07.2023

  Course participant The Summer School Integrating Biology and Earth Sciences In Studies Of Arctic (IGLOO)