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Andrzej Tkacz. Works in the area(s) of Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences with emphasis on Microbiology.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Andrzej Tkacz

Citation names

  • Tkacz, Andrzej

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
BD11-0703-469A

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Polish (Mother tongue)
English
Education
Degree Classification
2008/09/01 - 2014/01/31
Concluded
 PhD (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Molecular Microbiology
John Innes Centre Department of Molecular Microbiology, United Kingdom

University of East Anglia Faculty of Science, United Kingdom
"Plant genotype, immunity and soil composition control the rhizosphere microbiome" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2003/10/01 - 2008/10/01
Concluded
 Geology and Biological Sciences (Magister)
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Poland
2007 - 2008
Concluded
 Geology (Erasmus 1 year programme) (Magister)
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/07/17 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2023/02/01 - 2023/06/30 Science and Technology Management GreenCoLab, Portugal
GreenCoLab, Portugal
2014/01/13 - 2014/02/01 Postdoc (Research) University of Oxford Department of Plant Sciences, United Kingdom
2012 - 2013 Research Assistant (Research) John Innes Centre, United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/02/01 - 2023/02/01 Lecturer (University Teacher) University of Oxford Department of Plant Sciences, United Kingdom
University of Oxford Department of Plant Sciences, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019 - 2022 Role of the SYM pathway in selecting the root microbiota
BB/R017859/1
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Ongoing
2016 - 2019 India-UK Nitrogen Fixation Centre (IUNFC) – Newton Fund
BB/N013387/1
Post-doc Fellow
2016 - 2017 The effect of early-life prebiotic feeding on adult rat hippocampal function, central and peripheral metabolomics and microbial metagenomics
BB/N010035/1
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Concluded
2016/01 - 2016/09 Personalized agriculture further development
02John Oldacre Foundation
Post-doc Fellow
2015/01/01 - 2016/01/01 BBSRC lux biosensors, Soil-plant-microbe interactions
BB/K001868/2
Post-doc Fellow
Concluded
2014/01/01 - 2015/01/01 Personalized agriculture
01 John Oldacre Foundation
Post-doc Fellow
Concluded
2008/09/01 - 2014/01/31 Plant genotype, immunity and soil composition control the rhizosphere microbiome
01Zuckerman
PhD Student Fellow
John Innes Centre, United Kingdom
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/04/01 - Current AQUASERV – RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES
10.3030/101131121
Invited Scientist Fellow
Ongoing
2023/07/17 - Current FAIR EArth Sciences & Environment services
10.3030/101058785
Invited Scientist Fellow
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
 Conseil de l'Union Europeenne
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Tkacz, Andrzej. "SYNTHETIC SPIKES METHOD FOR PLANT MICROBIOTA ABSOLUTE QUANTITATION". Paper presented in Old Herborn University conference, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Tkacz, Andrzej; Ledermann, Raphael; Martyn, Anna; Schornack, Sebastian; Oldroyd, Giles E. D.; Poole, Philip S.. "Nodulation and nitrogen fixation in Medicago truncatula strongly alters the abundance of its root microbiota and subtly affects its structure". Environmental Microbiology 24 11 (2022): 5524-5533. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16164.
    10.1111/1462-2920.16164
  2. Keyes, Sam; van Veelen, Arjen; McKay Fletcher, Dan; Scotson, Callum; Koebernick, Nico; Petroselli, Chiara; Williams, Katherine; et al. "Multimodal correlative imaging and modelling of phosphorus uptake from soil by hyphae of mycorrhizal fungi". New Phytologist 234 2 (2022): 688-703. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.17980.
    10.1111/nph.17980
  3. Crang, Nick; Borah, Khushboo; James, Euan K.; Jorrín, Beatriz; Green, Patrick; Tkacz, Andrzej; East, Alison K.; Poole, Philip S.. "Role and Regulation of Poly-3-Hydroxybutyrate in Nitrogen Fixation in Azorhizobium caulinodans". Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions® 34 12 (2021): 1390-1398. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/mpmi-06-21-0138-r.
    10.1094/mpmi-06-21-0138-r
  4. Spitzer, Sonia O.; Tkacz, Andrzej; Savignac, Helene M.; Cooper, Matthew; Giallourou, Natasa; Mann, Edward O.; Bannerman, David M.; et al. "Postnatal prebiotic supplementation in rats affects adult anxious behaviour, hippocampus, electrophysiology, metabolomics, and gut microbiota". iScience 24 10 (2021): 103113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.103113.
    10.1016/j.isci.2021.103113
  5. Jorrin, Beatriz; Maluk, Marta; Atoliya, Nagvanti; Kumar, Shiv Charan; Chalasani, Danteswari; Tkacz, Andrzej; Singh, Prachi; et al. "Genomic Diversity of Pigeon Pea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.) Endosymbionts in India and Selection of Potential Strains for Use as Agricultural Inoculants". Frontiers in Plant Science 12 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.680981.
    10.3389/fpls.2021.680981
  6. Chalasani, Danteswari; Basu, Anirban; Pullabhotla, Sarma V. S. R. N.; Jorrin, Beatriz; Neal, Andrew L.; Poole, Philip S.; Podile, Appa Rao; Tkacz, Andrzej. "Poor Competitiveness of Bradyrhizobium in Pigeon Pea Root Colonization in Indian Soils". mBio 12 4 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00423-21.
    10.1128/mbio.00423-21
  7. Westhoek, Annet; Clark, Laura J.; Culbert, Michael; Dalchau, Neil; Griffiths, Megan; Jorrin, Beatriz; Karunakaran, Ramakrishnan; et al. "Conditional sanctioning in a legume– Rhizobium mutualism". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 19 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2025760118.
    Published • 10.1073/pnas.2025760118
  8. Tkacz, Andrzej; Poole, Philip. "The plant microbiome: The dark and dirty secrets of plant growth". PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10167.
    10.1002/ppp3.10167
  9. Haskett, Timothy L.; Tkacz, Andrzej; Poole, Philip S.. "Engineering rhizobacteria for sustainable agriculture". The ISME Journal (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00835-4.
    10.1038/s41396-020-00835-4
  10. Tkacz, Andrzej; Bestion, Eloïne; Bo, Zhiyan; Hortala, Marion; Poole, Philip S.. "Influence of Plant Fraction, Soil, and Plant Species on Microbiota: a Multikingdom Comparison". mBio 11 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mbio.02785-19.
    10.1128/mbio.02785-19
  11. Tkacz, Andrzej; Pini, Francesco; Turner, Thomas R.; Bestion, Eloïne; Simmonds, James; Howell, Phil; Greenland, Andy; et al. "Agricultural Selection of Wheat Has Been Shaped by Plant-Microbe Interactions". Frontiers in Microbiology 11 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00132.
    10.3389/fmicb.2020.00132
  12. Carrasco, Jaime; Tello, Maria Luisa; de Toro, Maria; Tkacz, Andrzej; Poole, Philip; Pérez-Clavijo, Margarita; Preston, Gail. "Casing microbiome dynamics during button mushroom cultivation: implications for dry and wet bubble diseases". Microbiology 165 6 (2019): 611-624. http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.000792.
    10.1099/mic.0.000792
  13. Tkacz, Andrzej; Hortala, Marion; Poole, Philip S.. "Absolute quantitation of microbiota abundance in environmental samples". Microbiome 6 1 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0491-7.
    10.1186/s40168-018-0491-7
  14. Sánchez-Cañizares, Carmen; Jorrín, Beatriz; Poole, Philip S; Tkacz, Andrzej. "Understanding the holobiont: the interdependence of plants and their microbiome". Current Opinion in Microbiology 38 (2017): 188-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2017.07.001.
    10.1016/j.mib.2017.07.001
  15. French, Katherine E.; Tkacz, Andrzej; Turnbull, Lindsay A.. "Conversion of grassland to arable decreases microbial diversity and alters community composition". Applied Soil Ecology 110 (2017): 43-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.10.015.
    10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.10.015
  16. Tkacz, Andrzej; Cheema, Jitender; Chandra, Govind; Grant, Alastair; Poole, Philip S. "Stability and succession of the rhizosphere microbiota depends upon plant type and soil composition". The ISME Journal 9 11 (2015): 2349-2359. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2015.41.
    10.1038/ismej.2015.41
  17. Tkacz, A.; Poole, P.. "Role of root microbiota in plant productivity". Journal of Experimental Botany 66 8 (2015): 2167-2175. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erv157.
    10.1093/jxb/erv157
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Tkacz, Andrzej. "Plant genotype, immunity and soil composition control the rhizosphere microbiome". PhD, 2014.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020 Quantifying the plant microbiome OxBacNet
University of Oxford (Oxford)
2019 SYNTHETIC SPIKES METHOD FOR PLANT MICROBIOTAABSOLUTE QUANTITATION". Old Herborn University
Old Herborn University (Frankfurt)
2018/08/15 Absolute quantitation of microbial abundance in environmental samples 13th European Nitrogen Fixation Conference
ENFC (Stockholm)
2016/11/03 Selection for plant growth promoting rhizobacteria by plant model species Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in Soil Microbiology
SGM (Loughborough)
2016/06/29 Ancestral wheat genome regulates microbial community SfAM conference
SfAM (Edinburgh)
2016 Effects of ploidy and domestication on wheat rhizosphere community composition 2nd Plant microbiome symposium
Emrbapa, Brazil (Jaguariuna)
2015/06/20 Detection of plant pathogens Rhizosphere 4
(Amsterdam)
2015/03/06 Detection of plant pathogens Researcher Links workshop in Thailand for early-career UK scientists
Newton, BBSRC
2014/10/06 Plant influence on rhizobiome succession BASF Symposium on Unlocking Yield Potential in Soil
BASF (Frankfurt)
2012/05/18 Plant influence on microbial rhizosphere community succession New Phytologist
(Rhodes, Greece)
2011/09/26 Plant influence on microbial rhizosphere community successtion Rhizosphere 3
(Perth, WA)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2018 - 2018 Quantitation of plant microbiota
Co-supervisor of Anna Martyn
University of Oxford Department of Plant Sciences, United Kingdom
2017 - 2017 Medicago microbiome project and microbe-microbe competition under plant control
Co-supervisor of Eloine Bestion and Zhiyan Bo
 Erasmus student and 2nd year Oxford Undergraduate student project (compulsory 8 weeks project) (Master)
University of Oxford Department of Plant Sciences, United Kingdom
2016 - 2016 Plant microbiome selection
Co-supervisor of Marion Hortala
University of Oxford Department of Plant Sciences, United Kingdom
2015 - 2015 Tail PCR using next-generation sequencing
Co-supervisor of James Wheeler
University of Oxford Department of Plant Sciences, United Kingdom

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2015 - Current Yearly stand presentation for public. We bring plants and bacterial cultures and talk with general public about science
Festival
 Plant fascination day
University of Oxford Department of Plant Sciences, United Kingdom
2008 - 2008 i-Teams challenge. Commercialisation of a real scientific research - fast growing algae for biofuel
Workshop
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024/06/01 - Current ELIXIR - Systems-biology member
2024/06/01 - Current ELIXIR.pt member
2010/01/01 - Current Society for General Microbiology

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2018 - Current Metagenomic bioinformatics Kedhar Reddy, Danteswari Chalasani and Nanditha Krishnan
Distinctions

Award

2012 John Innes Centre grant for research continuation Oct 2012-March 2013
2008 Baron Zuckerman foundation scholarship
University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
2004 Scientific scholarship for top 10% results
Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Poland