Anna focuses mainly on the role and mechanism of functioning of High Light Inducible Proteins (Hlips) in the cyanobacterial cells. Hlips are highly conserved one-transmembrane-helix proteins binding chlorophyll and carotenoids, and they are thought to be the ancestors of all Light Harvesting Complexes (LHCs) responsible for light harvesting in plants and algae. In cyanobacteria, however, Hlips are playing a different role – they are not involved in light energy capturing but in photoprotection, which is determined by the bonding of the pigments in an energy dissipating configuration (Knoppová et al. 2014; Staleva et al. 2015; Niedzwiedzki et al. 2016). In her thesis, Anna examined how the Hlips control associations between chlorophyll synthase and the Photosystem II (PSII) biogenesis factor Ycf39, and how this promotes the delivery of chlorophyll to the key PSII subunit D1 upon high-light-induced chlorophyll deficiency (Wysocka et al. 2025).

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• 2026, PhD degree in Integrative Biology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, CR
• 2019 - 2026, Ph.D. studies, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice and Institute of Microbiology CAS, Centre Algatech, Třeboň, CR; supervisor: Prof. Roman Sobotka
• 2019 - MSc degree in Biotechnology, University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland