Zuzanna Pietras

I am a PhD student from group of Maria Sunnerhagen at Linkoping University. My focus will be studies of multimodular protein complexes using a combination of neutron and x-ray scattering with biophysical methods. I got a bachelor degree in Biomedical Science from Edinburgh Napier University. During my undergraduate studies I was working at P12 bioSAXS beamline at PETRA III under supervision of Dr. Dmitri Svergun.

University: Linköping University
Thesis title: Small angle scattering as a tool to study protein structure and interactions

Publications

Small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering of MexR and its complex with DNA supports a conformational selection binding model. F. Caporaletti, Z. Pietras, V. Morad, L-G. Mårtensson, F. Gabel, B. Wallander, A. Martel, M. Sunnerhagen. Biophysical Journal (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2022.11.2949

Intranasal Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Immunization with Lipid Adjuvants Provides Systemic and Mucosal Immune Response against SARS-CoV-2 S1 Spike and Nucleocapsid Protein. A. Sengupta, M. Azharuddin, M.E. Cardona, C. Devito, E. von Castelmur, A. Wehlin, Z. Pietras, M. Sunnerhagen, R. Selegård, D. Aili, A. Alamer, J. Hinkula, N. Al-Otaibi. Vaccines (2022) https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10040504

Production and characterisation of modularly deuterated UBE2D1–Ub conjugate by small angle neutron and X-ray scattering. Z. Pietras, A.P. Duff, V. Morad, K. Wood, C.M. Jeffries, M. Sunnerhagen. European Biophysics Journal (2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-022-01620-1

Strong foraging preferences for Ribes alpinum (Saxifragales: Grossulariaceae) in the polyphagous caterpillars of Buff‐tip moth Phalera bucephala (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae). Morimoto, J, Pietras, Z. Ecol Evol. 2020; 10: 13583-13592. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6981

Natural history of model organisms: The secret (group) life of Drosophila melanogaster larvae and why it matters to developmental ecology. Morimoto, J, Pietras, Z. Ecol Evol. 2020; 10: 13593-13601. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7003

The basics of small-angle neutron scattering (SANS for new users of structural biology). Cy M. Jeffries, Zuzanna Pietras and Dmitri I. Svergun. EPJ Web Conf., 236 (2020) 0300. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023603001