General Assembly of the Polish Academy of Sciences nominated new members of the Academy. This elite group in the Division of Biological and Agricultural Sciences comprises two distinguished scientists from the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research in Olsztyn.

Prof. Adam Zięcik, long-term director of the Institute and PAS vice-president in 2013-15, was designated Ordinary Member of the Academy. Prof. Zięcik is a laureate of many awards and distinctions for his significant achievements for the Polish science, e.g. the Order of Polonia Restituta and Honorary Medal of the Polish Physiological Society. His research activity focuses on the physiology and endocrinology of animal reproduction, with the results being published in most prestigious journals worldwide.

Prof. Andrzej Ciereszko, head of Institute’s Gamete and Embryo Biology Department, was designated Corresponding Member of the Academy. Prof. Ciereszko specializes in the field of livestock biology and biotechnology of reproduction. His research team identified semen proteins of fish recognized as most important in Polish breeding. Prof. Ciereszko is also a co-author of an international patent procedure for the method of cryopreservation of salmonid fish semen, and its implementation into breeding programmes.

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