Talk Title: UPLC-MS/MS and MALDI mass spectrometry and imaging techniques in the study of pro-resolving oxylipins in animal models of Parkinson’s disease.
Department of Biological Sciences
The University of Alabama
Lukasz Ciesla obtained his PhD at the Medical University of Lublin, Poland, in 2011. After defending his dissertation, he worked 18 months at the Department of Plant Biochemistry and Crop Quality, Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation in Poland. From 2012–2014 he worked in Foundation for Polish Science project “Multidisciplinary development of drugs acting on selected neuronal receptors”. He was a laureate of the Foundation for Polish Science program SKILLS-Mentoring, mentor: Prof. Christian Zidorn, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Between 2014 and 2017 he worked as a visiting fellow at the National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, USA.
Currently Lukasz is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alabama. His research program focuses on understanding the role of dietary phytochemicals in the prevention and treatment of chronic noncommunicable diseases. His team at the University of Alabama also develops novel approaches in the discovery of biologically active compounds present in complex natural matrices, such as plant, bacterial and fungal extracts.