Projects funded by the NCN

The evolution and function of the tiniest bacterial genomes in the context of obligatory symbiosis collapse

Call: MAESTRO 17 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr hab. Piotr Łukasik

Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Biotechnological potential of detritrivorous insects microbiomes: identification and functional analysis of yeast

Call: OPUS 29 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Justyna Magdalena Ruchała

Uniwersytet Rzeszowski

Bioavaiability of doxycycline and its effect on the development of the mealworm (Tenebrio molitor)

Call: OPUS 29 , Panel: NZ4

Principal investigator: prof. Jerzy Jan Jaroszewski

Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

From pests to polymers: transforming entomological waste from forest protection activities into chitosan

Call: PRELUDIUM 24 , Panel: ST10

Principal investigator: Eugeniusz Piotr Świstuń

Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie

Interspecies microbiota transplantation as a tool to facilitate the degradation of synthetic plastic by insect larvae

Call: OPUS 29 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: prof. Sławomir Ciesielski

Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

How does urbanization affect pollinator insect assemblages and their species andgenetic diversity in cities?

Call: SONATA 20 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr Łukasz Dariusz Dylewski

Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu

Does biochar affect gut microbiota and sustainability of black soldier fly development?

Call: OPUS 28 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr Piotr Bulak

Instytut Agrofizyki im. Bohdana Dobrzańskiego PAN

Geoarchaeology of agriculture - unraveling prehistoric anthropogenic environmental change in the loess zone in Silesia

Call: SONATA 20 , Panel: HS3

Principal investigator: dr Mateusz Krupski

Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu

Impact of Novel Synthesized Eco-friendly Hydrogel Composites from Insect Breeding Waste on Soil Hydraulics, Stability an...

Call: WEAVE-UNISONO , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Katarzyna Szewczuk-Karpisz

Instytut Agrofizyki im. Bohdana Dobrzańskiego PAN

The use of non-conventional, non-thermal pretreatment methods and their combinations to shape the physical properties, c...

Call: PRELUDIUM 23 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: Radosław Jacek Bogusz

Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie

Origin, diversification and evolution of the family Fanniidae (Diptera)

Call: OPUS 26 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr Andrzej Grzywacz

Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Wydział Nauk Biologicznych i Weterynaryjnych

Changes in the neuroendocrine system of beetles induced by natural products - towards development of new tools for insec...

Call: OPUS 26 , Panel: NZ3

Principal investigator: dr hab. Paweł Marciniak

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Biologii

Genetic basis of animal adaptation to indoor human habitats; Insights from cockroach genomes

Call: SONATA BIS 13 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr Guillem Ylla Bou

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Biochemii, Biofizyki i Biotechnologii

The landscape of pulsating aquatic insect swarms and their predators

Call: OPUS 25 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr hab. Ireneusz Józef Ruczyński

Instytut Biologii Ssaków PAN

Critical transition between resilience's and disturbances in the upper forest limits ecosystems during the last 2000 yea...

Call: OPUS 25 , Panel: ST10

Principal investigator: dr hab. Michał Mirosław Słowiński

Instytut Geografii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania im. S. Leszczyckiego PAN

Does the usage of Sakhalin amber inclusion bridge the information gap about the Eocene stage of the biological and morph...

Call: PRELUDIUM 22 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: Bartosz Ogłaza

UNIWERSYTET ŚLĄSKI, Wydział Nauk Przyrodniczych

Farming edible insects as sustainable animal-source production and packaging systems: novel technologies from improved f...

Call: JPI HDHL Call 2023 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr Jan Jakub Lubawy

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Biologii

Evolutionary origin of predetermined germ plasm in insects - is the germ plasm a descendant of the posterior pole ooplas...

Call: OPUS 24 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: prof. Szczepan Maria Biliński

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Biologii

Phylogeny of whiteflies (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodoidea) based on themorphology of fossil and modern insects.

Call: OPUS 24 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr hab. Jowita Katarzyna Drohojowska

UNIWERSYTET ŚLĄSKI, Wydział Nauk Przyrodniczych

Hydrolysates of insect proteins in the formation of microcapsules with phytosterols

Call: PRELUDIUM BIS 4 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Marcin Andrzej Kurek

Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie, Instytut Nauk o Żywieniu Człowieka

Impact of phytohormone levels and virus-encoded factors on the fitness of insect vectors of viruses, virus transmission ...

Call: OPUS 22 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Aleksandra Julia Obrępalska-Stęplowska

Instytut Ochrony Roślin - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy

Micro-allies during mega-crisis? The role of the microbiome in insect community responses to climate change

Call: OPUS 22 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr hab. Piotr Łukasik

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Biologii

Identification of low molecular weight compounds and peptides with high biological activity present in maggot secretions...

Call: SONATA 17 , Panel: NZ7

Principal investigator: dr Katarzyna Joanna Papaj

Politechnika Śląska, Centrum Biotechnologii

Byzantine cultural entomology: Transformation of the Ancient Heritage (5th-15th centuries).

Call: PRELUDIUM BIS 3 , Panel: HS2

Principal investigator: prof. Przemysław Tadeusz Marciniak

UNIWERSYTET ŚLĄSKI, Wydział Humanistyczny

Volatilome emitted by strawberry roots as a factor influencing the feeding behaviour of Melolontha melolontha larvae

Call: SONATA 17 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr Ewa Maria Furmańczyk

Instytut Ogrodnictwa

Do heatwave conditions associated with global warming affect pollinators' fitness parameters and pollination efficiency?

Call: OPUS 21 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr hab. Dawid Moroń

Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt PAN

Thermogenesis, feeding matrix and parental care in carrion beetle Necrodes littoralis L. (Silphidae): spatio-temporal pa...

Call: OPUS 21 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr hab. Szymon Matuszewski

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Prawa i Administracji

Influence of insect nuropeptides on bioelectric properties and signal transduction of insect and mammalian excitable cel...

Call: OPUS 21 , Panel: NZ3

Principal investigator: dr hab. Paweł Marciniak

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Biologii

In the search of new insecticides: immunomodulatory role of tachykinin-related peptides and their potential usage in pes...

Call: OPUS 21 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr Arkadiusz Urbański

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Biologii

Alternative ex vivo model of the hypotalamic-pituitary system – comparison with classic in vivo experiment. Phoenixin pa...

Call: OPUS 21 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Anna Katarzyna Wójcik-Gładysz

Instytut Fizjologii i Żywienia Zwierząt im. Jana Kielanowskiego PAN

The patterns, processes, and drivers of insect microbiome variability

Call: OPUS 21 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr hab. Anna Magdalena Michalik

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Biologii

Lab-grown steak and insect burgers – who will eat the food of the future? Acceptance of meat substitutes depending on mo...

Call: OPUS 20 , Panel: HS4

Principal investigator: prof. Dominika Agnieszka Maison

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Psychologii

Could insect cuticle compounds be helpful in the fight against mycoses?

Call: PRELUDIUM BIS 2 , Panel: NZ6

Principal investigator: prof. Mieczysława Irena Boguś

Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN

The role of Hermetia illucens larvae fat in poultry nutrition - from the nutritive value to the health status of broiler...

Call: OPUS 20 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: prof. Damian Tomasz Józefiak

Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu, Wydział Medycyny Weterynaryjnej i Nauk o Zwierzętach

Changes of O-acetylation degree of non-cellulosic polysaccharides during fruit development and ripening and its influenc...

Call: PRELUDIUM BIS 2 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Monika Ewa Szymańska-Chargot

Instytut Agrofizyki im. Bohdana Dobrzańskiego PAN

Fatou theorems for harmonic functions and mappings and their generalizations

Call: PRELUDIUM BIS 2 , Panel: ST1

Principal investigator: dr hab. Tomasz Adamowicz

Instytut Matematyczny Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Growth performance, chemical composition and valorisation of residues of yellow mealworm fed with pretreated lignocellul...

Call: OPUS 20 (LAP) , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Michał Zenon Krzyżaniak

Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie, Wydział Kształtowania Środowiska i Rolnictwa

Study on genetic, epigenetic, transcriptomic and proteomic mechanisms modulating sheep resistance to small ruminant lent...

Call: OPUS 20 (LAP) , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Ewa Joanna Grochowska

Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Collegium Medicum im. Ludwika Rydygiera w Bydgoszczy

Air pollutants in road side environment of big cities: Microplastic, particulate matter, heavy metals phytoremediation a...

Call: SONATA 16 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Robert Popek

Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie, Instytut Nauk Ogrodniczych

The influence of environmental and climate conditions in Eocene Europe on contemporary fauna of nematoceran Diptera.

Call: OPUS 19 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: prof. Wiesław Krzemiński

Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt PAN

Geoarchaeology of buried soils. Transformations of soilscapes in the Silesian loess zone as indicators of prehistoric la...

Call: SONATINA 4 , Panel: HS3

Principal investigator: dr Mateusz Krupski

Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu

The phenomenon of entomediation of troublesome waste in the context of circular economy

Call: SONATA 15 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr Piotr Bulak

Instytut Agrofizyki im. Bohdana Dobrzańskiego PAN

Role of the insect neuroendocrine system in response to cold stress

Call: SONATA 15 , Panel: NZ4

Principal investigator: dr Jan Jakub Lubawy

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Biologii

The role of 43RF-amide in modulation of gonadotrophic axis secretory activity in sheep.

Call: PRELUDIUM 17 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: Bartosz Jarosław Przybył

Instytut Fizjologii i Żywienia Zwierząt im. Jana Kielanowskiego PAN

Keeping track of solitary red mason bees flight performance using miniaturized system of radio frequency identification ...

Call: PRELUDIUM 17 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: Aleksandra Splitt

Instytut Ochrony Przyrody PAN

Deceiving through acoustics: do moths sound like bees or wasps they morphologically resemble to trick predators?

Call: SONATINA 3 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr Marta Agnieszka Skowron Volponi

Uniwersytet w Białymstoku, Wydział Biologii

Developmental heaven, purgatory and hell: how do they shape cognition? Studying the effects of the thermal environment o...

Call: SONATINA 3 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr Krzysztof Miler

Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt PAN

Nutrition as critical link between Biodiversity and Bee health

Call: UNISONO , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr Michał Filipiak

Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Adaptations and ongoing co-evolution: the case of source and reintroduced populations of obligatory myrmecophilous butte...

Call: OPUS 16 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr hab. Magdalena Witek

Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN

Precessional magnetization switching in ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)N layers using sub-nanosecond short electric pulses

Call: OPUS 16 , Panel: ST3

Principal investigator: prof. Maciej Sawicki

Instytut Fizyki PAN