Researcher
Agnieszka Łątka
- Disciplines:Biomechanical engineering, Industrial biotechnology, Biomaterials engineering, Environmental engineering and biotechnology, Biological system engineering, Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering, Other (bio)medical engineering
Affiliations
- Department of Diagnostic Sciences (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2019 → 30 Sep 2020 - Department of Biotechnology (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2018 → Today - Department of Applied biosciences (Department)
Member
From29 Sep 2016 → 31 Dec 2017
Projects
1 - 3 of 3
- Horizontal and vertical evolution of receptor-binding proteins in mono- and bivalent Klebsiella bacteriophagesFrom1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO senior postdoctoral fellowship
- The organization and evolution of receptor binding proteins in Klebsiella phages by exploiting novel tools in synthetic biologyFrom1 Oct 2020 → 30 Sep 2023Funding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- The role of capsular exopolysaccharide depolymerases as host determinant for Klebsiella pneumoniae phages, and their enzymatic properties.From1 Oct 2016 → 30 Sep 2020Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
Publications
1 - 9 of 9
- Phage tailspike modularity and horizontal gene transfer reveals specificity towards E. coli O-antigen serogroups(2023)
Authors: Célia Pas, Agnieszka Łątka, Lars Fieseler, Yves Briers
- Foundation of the Belgian Society for Viruses of Microbes and meeting report of its inaugural symposium(2023)
Authors: Agnieszka Łątka, Abram Aertsen, Dimitri Boeckaerts, Bob Blasdel, Pieter-Jan Ceyssens, Abel Garcia-Pino, Annika Gillis, Rob Lavigne, Gipsi Lima-Mendez, Jelle Matthijnssens, et al.
- The specific capsule depolymerase of phage PMK34 sensitizes Acinetobacter baumannii to serum killing(2022)
Authors: Karim Abdelkader, Diana Gutierrez Fernandez, Agnieszka Łątka, Dimitri Boeckaerts, Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa, Bjorn Criel, Hans Gerstmans, Amal Safaan, Ahmed S. Khairalla, Yasser Gaber, et al.
- Modeling the architecture of depolymerase-containing receptor binding proteins in Klebsiella phages(2019)
Authors: Agnieszka Łątka, Petr G Leiman, Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa, Yves Briers
- Characterization and in vitro engineering of exopolysaccharide (EPS) depolymerases originated from Klebsiella phages(2019)
Authors: Agnieszka Łątka
- Phage life cycles behind bacterial biodiversity(2017)
Authors: Tomasz Olszak, Agnieszka Łątka, Bartosz Roszniowski, Miguel A Valvano, Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa
Pages: 3987 - 4001 - The O-specific polysaccharide lyase from the phage LKA1 tailspike reduces Pseudomonas virulence(2017)
Authors: Tomasz Olszak, Mikhail M Shneider, Agnieszka Łątka, Barbara Maciejewska, Christopher Browning, Lada V Sycheva, Anneleen Cornelissen, Katarzyna Danis-Wlodarczyk, Sofya N Senchenkova, Alexander S Shashkov, et al.
- Capsule-targeting depolymerase, derived from Klebsiella KP36 phage, as a tool for the development of anti-virulent strategy(2016)
Authors: Grazyna Majkowska-Skrobek, Agnieszka Łątka, Rita Berisio, Barbara Maciejewska, Flavia Squeglia, Maria Romano, Rob Lavigne, Carsten Struve, Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa
- A suggested new bacteriophage genus, 'Kp34likevirus', within the Autographivirinae subfamily of Podoviridae(2015)
Authors: Harald Eriksson, Barbara Maciejewska, Agnieszka Łątka, Grazyna Majkowska-Skrobek, Marios Hellstrand, Öjar Melefors, Jin-Town Wang, Andrew Kropinski, Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa, Anders Nilsson
Pages: 1804 - 1822