The Institute today

Basic data about the personnel and facilities

Scientific personnel

The IPG PAS employs more than 120 persons, including 17 full professors and assoc. professors, 15 doctors and 24 young researchers.

IPG PAS is entitled to award Ph.D. degrees. In the last five years there were 9 successful defences of Ph.D. thesis and 17 degrees of M.Sc. Twelve persons became associated professors and 2 became full professors.

The permanent staff of the Institute is also comprised of experienced scientific personnel, engineer personnel and technical assistants. Most of these persons have university degrees or appropriate technical experience.

Buildings

The IPG-PAS consists of three buildings. The management of the Institute, ten laboratories, the seminar hall, the editing office, library and the warehouse are located in two main buildings. All the laboratories are connected with the internal computer network (Intranet) that is linked to the Internet.

The third building hosts the administrative and accounting service and the workshops necessary for basic repairs and the maintenance of the Institute. There is also a separate building with the cold-room used for the vernalisation of winter plants. All buildings are monitored 24 hours a day.

Laboratory equipment

Laboratories are equipped with all the basic facilities for the conducted research. This basic equipment includes microscopes, computers, hoods and laminar flow hoods, refrigerators and freezers, table centrifuges, electrophoresis sets, pH-meters, analytical balances, shakers, sterilizers, etc.

The Institute has also some special facilities for common use, such as cold rooms and dark rooms, controlled environment chambers, an isotope laboratory and the equipment for water purification.

Main research equipment of the Institute includes: vacuum ultracentrifuges, spectrophotometers, instruments for the HPLC chromatography system with a diode array detector, equipment for capillary electrophoresis, 2 DNA sequencers, a scintillation meter, 3 deep freezers (-80°C), 10 thermocyclers, the electrotransfer system, 2 gel documentation systems and an automatic micromalting system.

Editing office

The IPG PAS issues the Journal of Applied Genetics, the Newsletter on Plant Biotechnology and Breeding for Resistance, and conference proceedings. The Journal of Applied Genetics (JAG) was officially classified (by SCSR) as a top quality journal in Poland (grade "A"). The journal is issued quarterly. Its Editorial Board is composed of 40 scientists, including 19 foreigners. The research articles are published in English by both Polish and foreign authors on all areas of genetics. JAG is sent to 68 libraries all over the world. Some of the JAG articles are available on internet

Glasshouses

Glasshouse experiments are performed in 2 complexes of glasshouses, with the total area of 3400 m2. All but one glasshouse are equipped with tables or trolleys; one glasshouse is reserved for planting plants directly into the soil. The glasshouses are equipped with systems for the control of lighting and temperature. The lighting and air conditioning in the newest glasshouse with 6 chambers is computer controlled. Seasonal experiments may also be performed in plastic tunnels.

Experimental fields

Small field experiments used for studies requiring daily observations are placed on the premises of the IPG. All the other field experiments are performed in the experimental field (25 ha) in Cerekwica, located ca. 20 km from the Institute.
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