Dr. Adam Miodek

       e-mail: adam.miodek@ob.pan.pl

Research interests
Developmental anatomy of woody plants; the mechanism of radial growth of woody plants; the mechanism of intrusive growth of vascular cambium initials (in the stacked cambium and non-stacked cambium), wood fibers and vascular members; the growth and differentiation process of stem cells of wood and phloem; the formation of the distribution pattern of vascular members and the adaptation of trees with different types of wood vascularity to environmental conditions.

Education
2010 - Master's degree (major in biology), Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, University of Opole. Master's thesis entitled. "Mechanism of radial growth of deciduous trees on the example of. Fraxinus excelsior".
2018 - PhD in biological sciences (area of natural sciences, field of biological sciences, discipline of biology), Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, University of Opole. Doctoral thesis entitled. "Mechanism of growth of initial cells of the cambium, vascular members and wood fibers on the example of selected species of deciduous trees".

Selected publications

  1. Adam Miodek, Aldona Paulina Miodek, Pawel Kojs. 2025. does axial growth of wood fibres disturb the circular trunk symmetry in Robinia pseudoacacia? The Botanical Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12229-024-09312-5 (IF =2,800; MnSW=100).
  2. Adam Miodek, Aldona Paulina Miodek, Pawel Kojs. 2025. Interplay between vessel element development and frequency of cambial cell divisions in broadleaved trees. Trees - Structure and Function, 39: 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-024-02590-x (IF=2,100; MNiSW=100).
  3. Pawel Kojs, Adam Miodek, Aldona Paulina Miodek, Wiesław Włoch. 2023. Vascular cambium - between the hammer and the anvil: a tensile stress hypothesis on the mechanism of radial growth of broadleaved trees. Forests, 14(4): 823. https://doi.org/10.3390/f14040823 (IF=2,400; MNiSW=100).
  4. Adam Miodek, Aldona Gizinska, Pawel Kojs. 2023. Contribution of intrusive and symplastic growths in wood fiber tip development. Trees - Structure and Function, 37: 497-509. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-022-02370-5 (IF=2,300; MNiSW=100).
  5. Adam Miodek, Aldona Gizinska, Wieslaw Włoch, Pawel Kojs. 2022. intrusive growth of initials does not affect cambial circumference in Robinia pseudoacacia. Scientific Reports, 12: 7428. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11272-y (IF=4,600; MNiSW=140).
  6. Adam Miodek, Aldona Gizinska, Wieslaw Włoch, Pawel Kojs. 2021. what do we know about growth of vessel elements of secondary xylem in woody plants? Biological Reviews, 96: 2911-2924. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12785 (IF=14,350; MNiSW=200).
  7. Aldona Gizinska, Adam Miodek, Pawel Kojs. 2021. rays hamper intrusive growth of vessel elements. Trees - Structure and Function, 35: 749-760. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-020-02071-x (IF=2,529; MNiSW=100).
  8. Adam Miodek, Wiesław Włoch, Muhammad Iqbal, Aldona Gizińska, Paweł Kojs. 2021. Controversy over the mode of growth of cambial cylinder. The Botanical Review, 87: 243-257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12229-020-09237-9 (IF= 4.581; MNiSW=100).
  9. Adam Miodek, Aldona Gizinska, Marcin Klisz, Tomasz Wojda, Krzysztof Ukalski, Pawel Kojs. 2020. direct exposure to solar radiation causes radial growth eccentricity at the beginning of the growing season in Robinia pseudoacacia. IAWA Journal, 41(1): 61-84. https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-00002106 (IF=2,308; MNiSW=70).
  10. Marcin Klisz, Adam Miodek, Pawel Kojs, Holger Gärtner. 2018. long slide holders for microscope stages. IAWA Journal, 39(4): 489-496. https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-20170213 (IF=3,182; MNiSW=25).

Scientific projects

1.09.2024 - 30.11.2024 - Contractor in the continuation of the scientific project entitled. "Quantitative analysis of the effect of the proximity of tree rays on the growth range of members of rowan breccia vessels." conducted by the Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden - CZRB in Powsin.

5.06.2023 - 30.11.2023 - Contractor in the scientific project entitled "Quantitative analysis of the effect of the vicinity of tree rays on the growth range of members of rowan breccia vessels." conducted by the Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden - CZRB in Powsin.

4.09.2017 - 31.01.2018 - Contractor in the scientific project entitled "Bryophytes, lichens and epiphytic fungi occurring on trees Sorbus torminalis in the Górażdże region" conducted by the Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden - CZRB in Powsin.

4.08.2016 - 30.11.2016 - Contractor in a scientific project on anatomical-dendroecological-dendrochronological studies on borings Picea abies (L.) H.Karst. conducted by the Forest Research Institute and the Silesian Botanical Garden.

1.05.2015 - 30.09.2015 - contractor in the scientific project entitled "Determination of successive phases of acacia robinia xylogenesis in the cross-section of the growing season, including the growth phase before leaf development, and determination of the effect of temperature on the initiation of earlywood growth on the southern (sunny) side of the trunk" conducted by the Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden - CZRB in Powsin and the Forest Research Institute.

Scientific internships

16.07.2015 - 5.08.2015 - An internship at the Silesian Botanical Garden.

27.08.2013 - 10.09.2013 - Internship at the Independent Plant Structure Laboratory of the Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden - CZRB in Powsin.

International cooperation
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL - Collaboration on the design of a stabilizing adapter for long slides obtained with the core-microtome.

Domestic cooperation
Forest Research Institute IBL - Collaboration to study the effect of solar radiation on the dynamics of xylogenesis in trees of the species Robinia pseudoacacia L.

University of Agriculture in Krakow - Cooperation in the analysis of wood from relic specimens Pinus sylvestris L. growing in the territory of the Pieniny National Park (Sokolica).

Awards and prizes
For scientific activity in 2013-2016 pro-quality scholarship, in the academic years from 2013/2014 to 2015/2016 scholarship for the best doctoral students, in the academic year 2015/2016 doctoral scholarship.

In 2018, the dissertation was awarded by the Council of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology of the University of Opole.

Membership in scientific societies
IAWA - International Association of Wood Anatomists.

Didactics

Delivering lectures on physiology i developmental anatomy of plants  For the company Japanese Bonsai Gardens.

Conducting classes (lectures, laboratories) in subjects Dendrology, Cell biology, Plant physiology, Physiology of woody plants At the University of Opole.

Organizational activities

Secretary of the Organizing Committee of the 2nd scientific conference "Methods of radial growth analysis of trees in dendrochronological studies", October 15, 2013, Mikolow.

Popularization activities

  1. He delivered a paper entitled "From Theobroma cacao to chocolate" during the Plant Day of the Opole University Science Festival, May 27, 2013.
  2. Conducting a workshop entitled. "The fascinating life of a cell" during the Biologist's Night, January 10, 2014.
  3. Conducting laboratory classes entitled. "To see the invisible" during the Opole Science Festival, May 30, 2014.
  4. Lecture entitled "Microscopy Closer to Us" during the Opole Science Festival, May 30, 2014.
  5. Conducting field classes with Botany For high school students, June 16, 2014.
  6. Conducting laboratory classes with Plant physiology For high school students, December 1, 2014.
  7. Conduct educational workshops on the subject Cell biology For high school students, December 9, 2014.
  8. Conducting a workshop entitled. "Secrets of the micro-world of plants" during the Biologist's Night, January 9, 2015.
  9. Conducting laboratory classes with Plant biology For high school students, February 16, 2015.
  10. Co-authored a chapter in a monograph on the Sokolica pine tree: Adam Miodek, Aldona Gizinska, Pawel Kojs. 2021. anatomical analysis of the wood of the relict Scots pine from Sokolica. In: Bodziarczyk Jan (Ed.), Pieniny - Nature and Man MONOGRAPHIES XVII: 147-172. Publishing House of the Agricultural University in Cracow, Cracow (MNiSW=20).