Jan Marek Wójcik | Mammal Research Institute

Education and scientific degrees

Professor: 2004
Habilitation Thesis: 1999, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków
PhD: 1989, Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Kraków
Msc: 1981, Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Kraków

Research profile

The main research interests of J. M. Wójcik include population genetics and evolution of mammals. His ongoing research projects are focused on DNA diversity and phylogeography of some species of mammals.

International experience

2008 - 3-month research visit to the Department of Biology, University of York, UK
1990-1991 - 8-month post-doctoral fellowship of the British Council to the Department of Zoology, Oxford University, UK
1988 - 1-month training and research visit to Institute d'Ecologie, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland
1987 - 1-month training and research visit to Museo National de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain

Research projects

2013-2016: Phylogeography and population genomics of the red fox, Vulpes vulpes: Project leader. Project financed by the National Science Centre, Poland
2011-2014: Phylogeography and genetic diversity of two species of voles (Microtus) in Poland: Project leader. Project financed by the Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education
2008-2010: Genetic (DNA barcoding) i microhistological analysis of European bison diet and its impact on tree stands of Białowieża Forest: Project executor. Project financed by the Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education
2007-2010: Polymorphism of MHC genes in the European bison Bison bonasus: mechanisms of its maintenance and adaptive significance: Project executor. Project financed by the Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education
2006-2009: Hybrid male sterility in house mice (Mus musculus): Project leader. Project financed by the Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education
1992-1995: Genetic diversity in populations of the common shrew (Sorex araneus L.): Project leader. Project financed by the State Committee for Scientific Research

Additional functions

Member of the Committee on Environmental and Evolutionary Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2016)
Member of the Committee on Evolutionary and Theoretical Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2007-2015)
Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Białowieża National Park (since 2007)
Member of the Committee on Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1999-2004)
Member of the International Sorex araneus Cytogenetics Committee (since 1990, chairman 1999-2002)

Membership and Awards

1999 - Award of the Department of Biological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (for the scientific book: "Evolution of Shrews" J.M. Wójcik & M. Wolsan, eds - Mammal Research Institute, Białowieża: 1- 458.)
1994 - Award of the Department of Biological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (for the publication: "Chromosome races of the common shrew Sorex araneus in Poland: a model of karyotype evolution" - Acta Theriologica 38: 315-338.)