Professor Adam Latała
Founder of the Scientific Team, Laboratory of Marine Plant Ecophysiology (PERM) at the Department of Marine Ecosystems Functioning, Institute of Oceanography, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, University of Gdańsk.Phone (+48, 58) 5236894, fax (+48, 58) 5236678, e-mail: oceal@univ.gda.pl or adam.latala@ug.edu.pl
Scientific team website address in Polish: http://perm.ug.gda.pl/, in English: http://perm-en.ug.gda.pl/
Organizer of the Baltic Algae Culture Collection (CCBA) at the Institute of Oceanography of the University of Gdańsk.Internet addresses about the collection:
in Polish: http://perm.ug.gda.pl/mod/resource/view.php?id=80,
in English: http://perm-en.ug.gda.pl/mod/resource/view.php?id=41
The Baltic Algae Culture Collection (CCBA) is registered under number 914 in the World Federation of Culture Collections (WFCC) and listed in the World Data Center for Microorganisms (WDCM), URL: http://www.wfcc.info/ccinfo/collection/by_id/914
The current resources of the Collection include over 100 Baltic strains from the following taxonomic groups: cyanobacteria, green algae, diatoms and plant flagellates.
Ecophysiology and ecotoxicology of cyanobacteria and planktonic and benthic algae.
Laboratory cultivation of cyanobacteria and Baltic algae, also in bioreactors, in order to learn about the influence of environmental factors such as light, temperature, salinity and xenobiotics on photosynthesis, chlorophyll PAM fluorescence, respiration, photoaclimatization mechanisms, as well as growth and production of biomass containing unique organic compounds.
1972 - based on the defended thesis in the field of plant physiology at the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. "Studies on photo-induced changes in membrane potential in Funaria hygrometrica moss leaf cells".
PhD 1982 - on the basis of a doctoral dissertation in the field of biological oceanography, defended at the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the University of Gdańsk. "Characteristics of photosynthetic activity of vegetation in the Gulf of Gdańsk", supervised by Prof. Włodzimierz Starzecki, head of the Department of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow.
Dr hab. 2000 - on the basis of the postdoctoral dissertation in the field of Earth sciences in the field of oceanology, defended at the Faculty of Biology, Geography and Oceanology of the University of Gdańsk, "The influence of exogenous factors on the rate of sea algae production processes".
Professor of the University of Gdańsk - 2003,
Internships abroad: Rostock University, Germany (1984, 1985); Marine Station IFREMER in Séte, France (1993, 1994); Laboratory Shimadzu in Duisburg, Germany (1993); Marine Station Endoume, Univ. of Marseille (1995); Marine Station IFREMER in La Tremblade, France (1997, 1998, 1999).
Adam Latała; 1975 - Investigations of the Changes in the Trans-membrane Potential of the Leaf Cell of the Moss Funaria hygrometrica, under the Influence of Light - Bulletin de L'Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Série des sciences biologiques, 23(10), 717-723. PDF
Adam Latała; 1978 - Zawartość chlorofilu w wodach Zalewu Wiślanego - Studia i Materiały Oceanologiczne, 21, 81-94. PDF
Adam Latała, Małgorzata Wójcik; 1979 - Wpływ wybranych węglowodorów aromatycznych na fotosyntezę i oddychanie zielenicy Enteromorpha sp. - Zeszyty Naukowe Wydziału BiNoZ UG, Oceanografia, 6, 79-84. PDF
Adam Latała,Jolanta Dąbrowska; 1980 - Krótkoterminowe zmiany zawartości chlorofilu a w wodach Zatoki Puckiej - Zeszyty Naukowe Wydziału BiNoZ UG, Oceanografia, 7, 91-97. PDF
Adam Latała; 1982 - Zawartość chlorofilu w wodach powierzchniowych zachodniej części Zatoki Gdańskiej - Studia i Materiały Oceanologiczne, 39, 15-33. PDF, PDF-cd
Adam Latała, Marcin Pliński; 1985 - The effect of selected dispersants on growth of Chlorella vulgaris Beijernick and Scenedesmus quadricauda (Turpin) Brébisson - Oceanologia, 22, 35-40. PDF
Adam Latała; 1985 - Zawartość chlorofilu w wodach powierzchniowych Zatoki Gdańskiej właściwej w roku 1981 - Studia i Materiały Oceanologiczne, 46, 11-22. PDF
Ireneusz Florczyk, Adam Latała; 1989 - The phytobenthos of the Hornsund fiord, SW Spitsbergen - Polar Research, 7, 29-41. PDF
Adam Latała; 1990 - Photosynthesis and respiration of some marine benthic algae from Spitsbergen - Polar Research, 8(2), 303-307. PDF
Adam Latała; 1991 - Effects of salinity, temperature and light on the growth and morphology of green planktonic algae - Oceanologia, 31, 119-138. PDF
Adam Latała; 1991 - Photosynthesis and respiration of plants from the Gulf of Gdańsk - Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 21, 85-100. PDF
Adam Latała, Nadim Hamoud, Marcin Pliński; 1991 - Growth dynamics and morphology of plankton green algae from brackish waters under the influence of salinity, temperature and light - Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 21, 101-116. PDF
Grażyna Kowalewska, Maria Łatocka, Adam Latała; 1992 - Formation of the copper-chlorophyll complexes in cells of phytoplankton from the Baltic Sea - Pol. Arch. Hydrobiol., 39(1), 41-49. PDF
Adam Latała; 1993 - The chlorophyll a contents in the surface waters of the Gulf of Gdańsk - Studia i Materiały Oceanologiczne, 64, 187-195. PDF
Adam Latała, Ireneusz Florczyk; 1993 - The effect of light and temperature interactions on the growth of planktonic green algae - Studia i Materiały Oceanologiczne, 64, 173-186. PDF
Adam Latała; 1994 - Photosynthetic light-response curves in marine algae from coastal waters at different biogeographical regions - W: Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Sea, A comparative ecological approach of coastal environments and paralic ecosystems, Guelorget O., Lafebvre A. (eds.), Montpellier, 171-178. PDF
Adam Latała; 1995 - Photosynthetic light-response curves in marine benthic plants from the Thau Lagoon. W: Mathis P. (ed.), Photosynthesis: from Light to Biosphere, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Vol. V, 849-852. PDF
Lucyna Falkowska, Adam Latała; 1995 - Short-term variations in the concentrations of suspended particles, chlorophyll a and nutrients in the surface seawater layers of the Gdańsk Deep - Oceanologia, 37(2), 249-284. PDF
Adam Latała; 1996 - Concentration and distribution of chlorophyll a in the Gdańsk Bay - Proceedings of the 13th Symposium of the Baltic Marine Biologists, 42-52. PDF
Marc Verlaque, Adam Latała; 1996 - Sur une espèce japonaise de Chondrus (Gigartinaceae, Rhodophyta) accidentellement introduite dans l’é tang de Thau (France, Méditerranée) - Cryptogamie, Algol., 17(3), 153-164. PDF
Adam Latała; 1997 - Photosynthetic light requirements of the Arctic macroalgae from Spitsbergen. Wydawnictwo UMCS, Lublin, 189-202. PDF
Katarzyna Bradtke, Adam Latała, Piotr Czabański; 1997 - Temporal and spatial variations in particles concentration and their sizes distributions in the Gulf of Gdańsk - Oceanological Studies, 2-3, 39-59. PDF
Maria Królska, Adam Latała, Małgorzata Michalska, Jacek Nowacki, Zdzisław Sobol; 1997 - Escherichia coli survival in the water from the Gulf of Gdańsk under laboratory conditions - Oceanological Studies, no 4, 133-143. PDF
Adam Latała, Waldemar Surosz; 1998 - The effect of salinity on toxic influence of heavy metals towards planktonic green algae. Biologia, Bratislava , 53 (4), 547-555 (1998). PDF
Adam Krężel, Adam Latała; 1999 - Chlorophyll A content in the surface layer of the Gulf of Gdańsk in the AVHRR images – Oceanological Studies, 28(3-4) 3-15. PDF
Adam Latała; 1999 - A simple volumetric method for primary production measurements in sediments. In: Garab G. (ed.) Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Vol. V, 849-852 (1999). PDF
Adam Latała, Waldemar Surosz; 1999 - Growth of four planktonic algae from brackish water in the presence of heavy metals. - Pol. Arch. Hydrobiol., 46(2), 131-154. PDF, PFD-cd
Philippe Goulletquer, Maciej Wołowicz, Adam Latała, Philippe Geairon, Arnaud Huvet, Pierre Boudry; 1999 – Comparative analysis of oxygen consumption rates between cupped oyster spat of Crassostrea gigas of French, Spanish and Taiwanese origins – Aquat. Living Resour. 12 (4), 271-277 (1999). PDF
Adam Krężel, Adam Latała; 1999 - Chlorophyll A content in the surface layer of the Gulf of Gdańsk in the AVHRR images – Oceanological Studies, 28(3-4) 3-15.
Adam Latała, Sabina Misiewicz; 2000 - Effects of light, temperature and salinity on the growth and chlorophyll-a content of Baltic cyanobacterium Phormidium amphibium – Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Algological Studies 100, 157-180. PDF
Katarzyna Bradtke, Adam Latała; 2003 - Particle size distributions in the Gulf of Gdansk . In: H. Dahlin, B. Dybern, S. Petersson (eds) ICES Cooperative Research Report, No 257, ISSN 1017-6195, pp. 107-113. PDF
Adam Latała; 2003 - Autecological characteristic of some algal strains from Culture Collection of Baltic Algae (CCBA). In: N. Lima, D. Smith (eds) Biological Resource Centers and the Use of Microbes, Micoteca da Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, ISBN: 972-97916-3-5, pp. 323-345. PDF
Sabina Jodłowska, Adam Latała; 2003 - Simultaneous separation of chlorophylls and carotenoids by RP-HPLC in some algae and cyanobacteria from the Southern Baltic - Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies 32(2), 81-89. PDF
Philippe Goulletquer, Maciej Wołowicz, Adam Latała, Craig Brown, Simon Cragg; 2004 - Application of a micro-respirometric volumetric method to respiratory measurements of larvae of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas - Aquat. Living Resour. 17, 195-200. PDF
Adam Latała, Piotr Stepnowski, Marcin Nędzi, Wojciech Mrozik; 2005 - Marine toxicity assessment of imidazolium ionic liquids: Acute effects on the Baltic algae Oocystis submarina and Cyclotella meneghiniana - Aquatic Toxicology, 73, 91-98. PDF
Radosław Żbikowski, Piotr Szefer, Adam Latała; 2006 – Distribution and relationships between selected chemical elements in green alga Enteromorpha sp. from the southern Baltic – Environmental Pollution, 143, 435-448. PDF
Adam Latała, Sabina Jodłowska, Filip Pniewski; 2006 - Culture Collection of Baltic Algae (CCBA) and characteristic of some strains by factorial experiment approach – Archiv für Hydrobiologie 165, Algological Studies 122, 137-154. PDF
Radosław Żbikowski, Piotr Szefer, Adam Latała; 2007 – Comparison of green algae Cladophora sp. and Enteromorpha sp. as potential biomonitors of chemical elements in the southern Baltic – Science of the Total Environment, 387, 320-332. PDF
Adam Latała , Marcin Nędzi, Piotr Stepnowski; 2009 - Toxicity of imidazolium and pyridinium based ionic liquids towards algae. Chlorella vulgaris, Oocystis submarina (green algae) and Cyclotella meneghiniana, Skeletonema marinoi (diatoms) – Green Chemistry, 11, 580-588. PDF
Adam Latała , Marcin Nędzi, Piotr Stepnowski; 2009 - Toxicity of imidazolium and pyridinium based ionic liquids towards algae. Bacillaria paxillifer (a microphytobenthic diatom) and Geitlerinema amphibium (a microphytobenthic blue green alga) - Green Chemistry, 11, 1371-1376. PDF
Adam Latała , Marcin Nędzi, Piotr Stepnowski; 2009 - Acute toxicity assessment of perfluorinated carboxylic acids towards the Baltic microalgae - Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, 28, 167–171. PDF
Adam Latała , Marcin Nędzi, Piotr Stepnowski; 2010 - Toxicity of imidazolium ionic liquids towards algae. Influence of salinity variations - Green Chemistry, 12, 60-64. PDF
Sabina Jodłowska, Adam Latała; 2010 - Photoacclimation strategies in the toxic cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) – Phycologia, 49(3), 203-211. PDF
Filip F. Pniewski, Thomas Friedl, Adam Latała; 2010 - Identification of diatom isolates from the Gulf of Gdańsk: testing of species identifications using morphology, 18S rDNA sequencing and DNA barcodes of strains from the Culture Collection of Baltic Algae (CCBA) - Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies - 39(3), 3-20. PDF
Małgorzata Chobot, Marta Brucka, Adam Latała; 2010 - The toxic effect of ionic liquid BMIMCl on the rate of photosynthesis and chlorophyll fluorescence in selected strains of Baltic microalgae. In: K. Olańczuk-Neyman, H. Mazur-Marzec (eds) Monografie Komitetu Inżynierii Środowiska PAN nr 64, Microorganisms in the environment and environmental engineering from ecology to technology, Printing House Perfecta, Lublin, pp. 45-56. PDF
Sabina Jodłowska, Sylwia Sliwińska, Adam Latała; 2010 - The influence of irradiance on the growth and photosynthetic pigments of three Baltic picocyanobacterial strains of Synechococcus. In: K. Olańczuk-Neyman, H. Mazur-Marzec (eds) Monografie Komitetu Inżynierii Środowiska PAN nr 64, Microorganisms in the environment and environmental engineering from ecology to technology, Printing House Perfecta, Lublin, pp. 85-92. PDF
Sylwia Sliwińska, Sabina Jodłowska, Adam Latała; 2011 - Ekofizjologiczne i allelopatyczne właściwości pikoplanktonowej sinicy Synechococcus sp. - Acta Geographica Silesiana, 1, 63-66, ISSN 1897-5100. PDF
Sabina Jodłowska, Adam Latała; 2011 - The comparison of spectrophotometric method and high-performance liquid chromatography in photosynthetic pigments analysis - OnLine J. Biol. Sci., 11(2), 63-69. DOI: 10.3844/ojbsci.2011.63.69. PDF
Sabina Jodłowska, Adam Latała; 2012 - Mechanisms of Photoacclimation on Photosynthesis Level in Cyanobacteria. In: Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour (ed) - Advances in Photosynthesis - Fundamental Aspects, pp. 97-108, InTech Publishing, Rijeka, ISBN 978-953-307-928-8. PDF
Sylwia Śliwińska, Adam Latała; 2012 - Allelopathic effects of cyanobacterial filtrates on Baltic diatoms - Contemporary Trends in Geoscience, Vol. 1, 103-107, numer ISSN 2084-5707, DOI: 10.2478/ctg-2012-0016. PDF
Szymon Talbierz, Natalia Kujawska, Adam Latała; 2012 - Opatentowany fotobioreaktor do produkcji nowych leków i nutraceutyków wytwarzanych na bazie mikroalg (Patented photobioreactor to commercial production of new drugs and nutraceuticals from microalgae) - Przegląd Lekarski, 69(10), 1031-1034. PDF
Aleksandra Zgrundo, Paulina Lemke, Filip Pniewski, Elen Cox, Adam Latała; 2013 - Morphological and phylogenetic studies on Fistulifera saprophila (Lange-Bertalot & Bonik) Lange-Bertalot - Diatom Research, 28(4), 431-443. DOI: 10.1080/0269249X.2013.833136. IF=0.750, LP=20. PDF
Marcin Nędzi, Adam Latała, Joanna Nichthauser, Piotr Stepnowski; 2013 - Bioaccumulation of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ionic liquid in a simple marine trophic chain - Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies, 42(2), 149-154. PDF
Sabina Jodłowska, Adam Latała; 2013 - Combined effects of light and temperature on growth, photosynthesis and pigment content in the mat-forming cyanobacterium Geitlerinema amphibium (Cyanobacteria, Oscillatoriales) – Photosynthetica, 51(2), 202-214. DOI:10.1007/s11099-013-0019-0. PDF
Śliwińska S., Parusel T., Adam Latała, 2013 - Human impact on the allelopathic effects of cyanobacteria and microalgae in the Baltic Sea - a review - Acta Geographica Silesiana, 13, WNoZ UŚ, Sosnowiec 2013, 87-92, numer ISSN 1897-5100. PDF
Adam Latała, Maciej Wołowicz, Marcelina Ziółkowska, 2014 - Fisiologia de organismos marinhos (Fizjologia Organizmów Morskich), Wydawnictwo Akademii Morskiej w Gdyni, Gdynia, Polonia, 2014, ISBN 978-83-7421-237-3.
Sylwia Śliwińska, Maria Skauradszun, Elżbieta Niemirycz, Adam Latała, 2014 - The production and release of allelopathic compounds by Baltic cyanobacteria - Journal of International Scientific Publications: Ecology and Safety, Vol. 8, 583-589, numer ISSN 1314-7234 (Online). PDF
Filip Pniewski, Paulina Biskup, Iwona Bubak, Pierre Richard, Adam Latała, Gerard Blanchard. 2015 - Photo-regulation in microphytobenthos from intertidal mudflats and non-tidal coastal shallows - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 152, 153-161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2014.11.022. PDF
Grzegorz Zajfert, Jarosław Tęgowski, Adam Sokołowski, Adam Latała, Natalia Gorska. 2015 - Realizacja projektu naukowego w zakresie podmorskiej sekwestracji CO2 w południowej części Morza Bałtyckiego - Bezpieczeństwo Pracy i Ochrona Środowiska w Górnictwie, 11(255), 3-8. PDF
Sylwia Śliwińska-Wilczewska, Filip Pniewski, Adam Latała, 2016 - Allelopathic interactions between Synechococcus sp. and Nodularia spumigena under different light conditions - Allelopathy Journal, 37(2), 241-252, numer ISSN: 0971-4693 (Print) 0973-5046 (Online). PDF
Sylwia Śliwińska-Wilczewska, Filip Pniewski, Adam Latała, 2016 - Allelopathic activity of the picocyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. under varied light, temperature and salinity conditions - International Review of Hydrobiology, 101, 1-9, numer ISSN: 1522-2632 (Online). PDF
Filip Pniewski, Pierre Richard, Adam Latała, Gerard Blanchard, 2017 - Non-photochemical quenching in epipsammic and epipelic microalgal assemblages from two marine ecosystems - Continental Shelf Research, 136, 74-82. PDF
Sylwia Śliwińska-Wilczewska, Jakub Maculewicz, Aldo Barreiro Felpeto, Vitor Vasconcelos, Adam Latała, 2017 - Allelopathic activity of the picocyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. on filamentous cyanobacteria - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 496, 16–21. PDF
Sylwia Śliwińska-Wilczewska, Jakub Maculewicz, Julia Tuszer, Kinga Dobosz, Dagmara Kalusa, Adam Latała, 2017 - First record of allelopathic activity of the picocyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. on a natural plankton community - Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology, 17, 227–234. PDF
Filip Pniewski, Pierre Richard, Adam Latała, Gerard Blanchard, 2018 - Long- and short-term photoacclimation in epipsammon from non-tidal coastal shallows compared to epipelon from intertidal mudflat - Journal of Sea Research, 136, 1-9. PDF
Natalia Gorska, Ewa Kowalska-Duda, Filip Pniewski, Adam Latała, 2018 - On diel variability of marine sediment backscattering properties caused by microphytobenthos photosynthesis: Impact of environmental factors - Journal of Marine Systems, 182, 1-11. PDF
Marek Klin, Filip Pniewski, Adam Latała, 2018 - Characteristics of the growth rate and lipid production in fourteen strains of Baltic green microalgae - Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies, 47(1), 10-18. PDF
Sylwia Śliwińska-Wilczewska, Jakub Maculewicz, Aldo Barreiro Felpeto, Adam Latała, 2018 - Allelopathic and bloom-forming picocyanobacteria in a changing world - Toxins 10, 48. PDF
Sylwia Śliwińska-Wilczewska, Aldo Barreiro Felpeto, Jakub Maculewicz, Amanda Sobczyk, Vitor Vasconcelos, Adam Latała, 2018 - Allelopathic activity of the picocyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. on unicellular eukaryote planktonic microalgae - Marine and Freshwater Research 69(9), 1472–1479. PDF
Sylwia Śliwińska-Wilczewska, Adam Latała, 2018 - Allelopathic activity of the bloom-forming picocyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. on the coexisting microalgae: the role of eutrophication - International Review of Hydrobiology, 103(3-4), 37–47. PDF
Sylwia Śliwińska-Wilczewska, Agata Cieszyńska, Jakub Maculewicz, Adam Latała, 2018 - Ecophysiological characteristics of red, green and brown strains of the Baltic picocyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. – a laboratory study - Biogeosciences, 15, 6257–6276. PDF
Marek Klin, Zuzanna Kowalska, Filip Pniewski, Adam Latała, 2018 - First record of the freshwater green alga Scotinosphaera austriaca from the Baltic Sea - Plant and Fungal Systematics, 63(2), 65-67. PDF
Sylwia Śliwińska-Wilczewska, Agata Cieszyńska, Marta Konik, Adam Latała. 2019. Environmental drivers of bloom-forming cyanobacteria in the Baltic Sea: effects of salinity, temperature, and irradiance. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 219, 139–150. PDF
Zuzanna Kowalska, Filip Pniewski, Adam Latała. 2019. Kody kreskowe DNA – możliwości i zastosowanie. Kosmos, 68(4), 651-657. PDF
Zuzanna Kowalska, Filip Pniewski, Adam Latała. 2019. DNA barcoding – A new device in phycologist’s toolbox. Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology, 19, 417-427. PDF
Sylwia Śliwińska-Wilczewska, Gracjana Budzałek, Zuzanna Kowalska, Marek Klin, Adam Latała. 2020. Baltic macroalgae as a potential source for commercial applications – review. Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Naturae, 5, 220-237. PDF
Marek Klin, Filip Pniewski, Adam Latała. 2020. Growth phase-dependent biochemical composition of green microalgae: theoretical considerations for biogas production. Bioresource Technology, 303, 122875. PDF
Gracjana Budzałek, Sylwia Śliwińska-Wilczewska, Marek Klin, Kinga Wiśniewska, Adam Latała, Józef Maria Wiktor. 2021. Changes in growth, photosynthesis performance, pigments, and toxin contents of bloom-forming cyanobacteria after exposure to macroalgal allelochemicals. Toxins, 13, 589. PDF
Membership in scientific societies: Polish Botanical Society; Polish Phycological Society; Polish Hydrobiological Society, Maritime Branch; Problem Committee No. 120 on "Water quality - microbiological and biological tests" within the Polish Committee for Standardization; European Phycological Society (EPS); Federation of European Phycological Societies (FEPS).