Anna Zadernowska

Anna Zadernowska is a Professor at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, affiliated with the Department of Industrial and Food Microbiology. Her research focuses on food microbiology, antibiotic resistance, and food safety, particularly investigating how stress factors during food preservation affect microbial pathogenicity and gene transfer.

• ORCID: 0000-0002-6273-1031
• Supervises 4 doctoral students (3 scheduled to defend in 2023)
• ResearchGate: Profile

Her publications (39 in WoS, 44 in Scopus) emphasize microbial stress responses, antibiotic resistance in Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus spp., and the impacts of high-pressure processing. She has secured funding for doctoral projects and works in a department with adequate infrastructure for molecular microbiology research.

Selected Research Trends: Recent work examines:

• Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance under stress conditions
• Virulence gene modulation in foodborne pathogens
• Horizontal transfer of resistance genes in food matrices
• Non-thermal processing effects on microbial physiology
• Genomic characterization of foodborne pathogens
• Meta-analyses of bacterial contamination in aquatic and dairy foods

Grant & Infrastructure: She has secured funding for food safety research and works in a laboratory with validated systems for microbial detection (e.g., mini VIDAS, FISH techniques) and stress response analysis.