Position: Research assistant
Room: 1.22
Research Interests
- Developmental biology of phytohagous mites
- Coevolution of phytophagous mites and their hosts
Current Projects
- Informed dispersal based on using chemical cues in phytophagous mites (National Science Centre grant no. 2019/35/N/NZ8/03377, PI)
- A bidirectional selection experiment to test the evolution of specialization and dispersal in invasive wheat curl mite, Aceria tosichella (National Science Centre grant no. 2016/21/B/NZ8/00788, 2017-2020, Co-Investigator)
- Genetics of host specificity of the wheat curl mite complex (USDI-BLM and USDA-ARS agreement no 60-2060-7-001, Co-Investigator)
- Host specialization-generalization trade-offs in an invasive wheat curl mite, Aceria tosichella (National Science Centre grant no. 2017/27/N/NZ8/00305, Co-Investigator)
- The effect of temperature on development and morphology of an invasive wheat curl mite, Aceria tosichella (BSc project)
Career History
- 2020: Msc degree in biology (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
- 2018: BSc degree in biology (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Internships
- 2018: Department of Applied Entomology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW (short-term internship)
Honors & awards
- 2017: Rector of AMU Scholarship -awarded to the best students
- 2018: Rector of AMU Scholarship -awarded to the best students
- 2018: Ministry of Science and Higher Education Scholarship – awarded to the best students
- 2019: Rector of AMU Scholarship -awarded to the best students
- 2019: Marshal of the Wielkopolska Region Scholarship – awarded to the best students
- 2019: Third prize for the best oral presentation at the XXXVI Acarological Symposium (Tryszczyn, Poland)
2023
Laska A., Rector B., Przychodzka A., Majer A., Zalewska K., Kuczyński L., Skoracka A., Do mites eat and run? A systematic review of feeding and dispersal strategies, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2023; zlac094, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac094
2022
Laska, A., Przychodzka, A., Puchalska, E., Lewandowski, M., Karpicka-Ignatowska, K., Skoracka A., 2022. Mechanisms of dispersal and colonisation in a wind-borne cereal pest, the haplodiploid wheat curl mite. Scientific Reports 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04525-9
2021
Laska, A., Magalhaes, S., Lewandowski, M., Puchalska, E., Karpicka-Ignatowska, K., Przychodzka, A., Meagher, S., Kuczyński, L., Skoracka, A. 2021. A sink host allows a specialist herbivore to persist in a seasonal source. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288(1958):20211604. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1604
Karpicka-Ignatowska, K., Laska, A., Rector, B., Skoracka, A., Kuczyński, L. 2021. Temperature-dependent development and survival of an invasive genotype of wheat curl mite, Aceria tosichella. Experimental and Applied Acarology 83(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-021-00602-w
2020
Kuczyński, L., Radwańska, A., Karpicka-Ignatowska, K., Laska, A., Lewandowski, M., Rector, B.G., Majer, A., Raubic, J., Skoracka, A. 2020. A comprehensive and cost-effective approach for investigating passive dispersal in minute invertebrates with case studies of phytophagous eriophyid mites. Experimental and Applied Acarology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-020-00532-z
2019
Karpicka-Ignatowska, K., Laska, A., Kuczyński, L., Rector, B.G., Lewandowski ,M., Puchalska, E., Skoracka, A. 2019. A novel experimental approach for studying life-history traits of phytophagous arthropods utilizing an artificial culture medium. Scientific Reports 9, 20327. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56801-4
Karpicka-Ignatowska, K., Radwańska, A., Stefańska, M., Majer, A., Laska, A. 2019. Pollen and what else? Brief introduction to aerial dispersal of eriophyoid mites. International Aerobiology Newsletter 84, 6.
Radwańska, A., Karpicka-Ignatowska, K., Laska, A. 2019. Economic importance, ecology and dispersal mechanisms of phytophagous mite Aceria tosichella. In: Janiszewska M. (ed.). Issues of environmental sciences – review and research. Science Publisher TYGIEL, Lublin 2019: 313-321.
2018
Laska, A., Majer, A., Szydło, W., Karpicka-Ignatowska, K., Hornyák, M., Labrzycka, A., Skoracka, A. 2018. Cryptic diversity within grass-associated Abacarus species complex (Acariformes: Eriophyidae), with the description of a new species, Abacarus plumiger n. sp., Experimental and Applied Acarology 76, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-018-0291-6
2019
XXXVI Acarological Symposium in Tryszczyn, oral presentation “A new look on host specialization in eriophyid mite Aceria tosichella (Acariformes: Eriophyidae)”
Vth International Conference on Research and Education in Poznań, oral presentation “Cryptic diversity within Abacarus genus (Acariformes: Eriophyidae)”
Vth International Conference on Research and Education in Poznań, poster presentation “A new look on host specialization in plant-feeding mite Aceria tosichella (Acariformes: Eriophyidae)”
XI Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference TYGIEL in Lublin, oral presentation “Cryptic diversity within Abacarus genus (Acariformes: Eriophyidae)”
2018
1st BioMove Symposium in Potsdam, Germany, poster presentation “How to study dispersal in small invertebrates”
XV International Congress of Acarology in Antalya, Turkey, oral presentation “Temperature effects on developmental time and body size in the invasive mite Aceria tosichella (Eriophyoidea)”
XV International Congress of Acarology in Antalya, Turkey, poster presentation “Testing the interplay between specialization and dispersal in the invasive wheat curl mite, Aceria tosichella (Acariformes: Eriophyidae)”
XXVIII Scientific Presentation Workshops OAK in Zakrzów, poster presentation “Cryptic species in Abacarus genus (Acariformes: Eriophyoidea)”
VIII Copernican Science Students Symposium, oral presentation “Hidden diversity in Abacarus genus (Acariformes: Eriophyoidea)”
2017
V Polish Evolutionary Conference in Toruń, Poland, poster presentation „How to test the evolution of specialization and dispersal: the case study of the invasive wheat curl mite, Aceria tosichella”
XI Copernican International Young Scientists Conference in Toruń, Poland, oral presentation „The effect of temperature on developmental time and body size in invasive mite, Aceria tosichella”
XXXV Acarological Symposium in Osieck, Poland, oral presentation on relationship between temperature and developmental time and morphology in invasive mites Aceria tosichella
IVth International Conference on Research and Education in Poznań, poster presentation „ Is body size important? Seasonal changes in morphology in grass-feeding Abacarus mites – preliminary research”
2016
III Symposium of Young Scientists in Poznań, poster presentation describing the effect of various wind speeds on pre-dispersal behaviours in Ceciodophyes hendersoni
External Activities
- member of Acarological Polish Society
