Mikolaj Chmielarz

Systemförvaltare, Department of Plant Biology

Presentation

I am an IT-Coordinator for the Department of Plant Biology. I Manage all of the Data storage for the department, procure Computer equipment and provide day to day support. I also manage labs of Mats andgren, Volkmar Passoth, Peter Bozkhov and Simon Stael in the Department of Molecular Sciences. 

Research

2023

Enhanced glycerol assimilation and lipid production in Rhodotorula toruloides CBS14 upon addition of hemicellulose primarily correlates with early transcription of energy-metabolism-related genes.

Oleaginous yeasts for biochemicals, biofuels and food from lignocellulose‐hydrolysate and crude glycerol.

2021

Chromosome-level genome assembly and transcriptome-based annotation of the oleaginous yeast Rhodotorula toruloides CBS 14

Microbial lipid production from crude glycerol and hemicellulosic hydrolysate with oleaginous yeasts

2019

FT-NIR: a tool for rapid intracellular lipid quantification in oleaginous yeasts

Educational credentials

  1. 2025 - present: Systems Manager, IT-Coordinator VBSG 
    2024 - 2025: Research Engineer / IT-Coordinator VBSG
    2022 - 2024: Research Engineer 
    2017 - 2021: PhD in Biology with specialisation in Biotechnology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    2014 - 2016: MSc in Applied Biotechnology, Uppsala University

2009-2011: BEng in Biotechnology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences